It means BF will be releasing canonical material relating to all the Doctors, material that won't get ignored by the show any time soon.
Nope. It means Big Finish will be releasing stories that the TV show can and will ignore if they have the slightest desire. They won't let some random audio company dictate what they do with their own character.
Well, she is from Pease Pottage, West Sussex.
As per
The Wrong Doctors, a story where the Trial Six and the Blue Coat Six meet.
Well, since there is no episode called
The Wrong Doctors, and the 6th Doctor never wore a blue coat in canon, we still have no canon explanation for Mel.
Do whatever you want. The fact of the matter is, BF set the record straight, by maintaining Mel is his future, last companion before regenerating. They've not shown them how they met yet, but even so, their relationship is certainly expanded in a meaningful way that it matters.
If we go by canon, Six dropped future Mel off to future Six, and went on with his travels. But not before accidentally bumping into his blue-coat future self (which is before future Mel's DOctor's time, of course).
Big Finish gave their version of events, which is no more canon than a random fan's theories. Mel wasn't dropped off by anyone, and she only knows one 6th Doctor, since there is no blue coated sixth doctor.
Otherwise, you're right. Part of the fun with BF is that fill in the blanks in many of these cases, which is very satisfying.
Well, I'm sure they're fine for people's head canon, even though they aren't actually filling in blanks, since they're not canon.
Thats not even remotely similar a situation. These aren't professional enterprises that officially and by law use BBC's licence. They're fan-films, by their very definition. BF is a business venture, not a gathering of fanboys who have nothing to do in their free time.
Big Finish is just a group who managed to get the BBC to sell them the license to release some pointless, non canon, stories. Kind of like how there are many, many non canon comics and books, especially during the time the show was gone. Being an licensed product doesn't automaticallymake you canon.
You're just being stubborn for the sake of it. Even if you ignore BF, its certain they had several travels together before Six's regeneration.
They quite possibly had more adventures. But, until the show itself tells us, we have no way of knowing.
Did you actually listen to a single Sixth Doctor audio? How the heck did you get that idea? He's still opinionated and verbose as ever, he's just not an asshole. He progressed in his characterization, just like 23 did just that for him.
Of course I've never listened to a fake 6th Doctor story. I've listened to two stories. One involved a Doctor I'm not really attached to, so it couldn't really make me angry, and the other I only listened to because the idea of Nicholas Courtney narrating sounded cool. They turned out ok, but I listened to them specifically because I knew that, even if they were terrible, I could ignore them without getting more than annoyed. I'd never listen to a fake 6th story. Its guaranteed to make me angry, especially with the stupid coat and how he's portrayed. There is no BF story with the real 6th Doctor, and its all non canon anyway.
Jerks? Colin Baker dictated and agreed to Six's development. You're not giving him any credit at all. And the blue coat wasn't on for a long time - he's largely wearing that stupid rainbow coat of his nowadays anyway.
I'm pretty sure they just pay him, and as long as they don't do something he actively hates he'll go along with it. I doubt he's any more involved than that.
I mean, I guess selling out and ruining the 6th Doctor was the only way to make him more acceptable to the people who hated his era, but as a fan of the real version, its the big reason I've gone from just ignoring and not caring about BF to borderline hating them.
Thats just about the stupidest reason I've ever read.
So, instead of finding out whether these claims are right, you'll just pout and pout? Man, you're no fun.
So, I can either make myself very angry by listening to the destruction of my favorite Doctor, or I can avoid wasting my time and completely losing my temper. Hm, I wonder what I should do...
I guess you should be angry, because they are canon. Colin Baker, who isn't shy from admitting he still likes the majority of his TV stories, is very proud of his work with BF, and the development that Old Sixie had received.
Colin Baker doesn't get to decide what is canon, either. I'm glad he's happy and getting paying work, and as a consequence kind of giving the middle finger to the BBC for firing him from the role in the first place. But, nothing he's done counts as canon, regardless of whether he likes it or not.
As far as the Sixth Doctor goes, Big Finish really did work on him the way Baker wanted to have been, and given him stories that are worthy of his time and effort. And I'm not kidding - you are missing out. Just pick up the Last Adventure set, and you won't regret it.
I already have Colin Baker's last adventure as The Doctor. Its called
The Ultimate Foe, and I got it in the Trial of a Timelord DVD box set. I haven't missed everything, I've seen every canon Sixth Doctor story already.
From an in-universe perspective, those adventures had already occured, the audience experienced them, and know perfectly well to what that Doctor is referring to. You're just stubborn because you hate BF for the stupidest reason possible.
The 8th Doctor has had one adventure, with Grace Holloway on Earth in 1999, and a final death scene on Karn. He has had no other canon adventures or companions. All we know is that he knew people with some BF names, and nothing else.
Because it really is so simple: Moffat meant to reference those very characters from Big Finish, and did just that. Thus, for NuWho, at least the adventures of the Eighth Doctor as per BF occurred for sure.
Denial is not a river in Egypt, you know.
You're the one in a huge amount of denial. Making a reference to BF doesn't make it canon, it makes the line an easter egg for the few BF fans watching.
