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Big Finish: The Time War

Nightowl1701

Nightowl1701

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Our favorite audio drama company is going full bore into filling in the biggest missing chapter of the Doctor's life, even after the War Doctor's tragic loss. They just announced today that Sir Derek Jacobi is returning as 'The War Master' in four stories that detail the events that lead to him shaving off the naff beard at last and assuming the role of 'Professor Yana.'

They're also doing another season of Gallifrey with Lalla Ward and Louise Jameson, detailing the events of the War's actual outbreak (and presumably Romana's regeneration into Juliet Landau), and an Eighth Doctor boxset with Paul McGann that follows his early refusal to fight in the War and leads up to his fiery end on Karn.

Talk about an embarrassment of riches... :D
 
I had heard about the extension of The Eighth Doctor's Time War series from one box set to four, but I hadn't heard the rest of this news!

It's a damn shame Jacobi didn't get the chance to reunite with his I, Claudius co-star but this is very exciting news nonetheless. I would say this is a hell of a coup for Big Finish but they've previously featured him in the Unbound story Deadline.

I know I'm in the minority, but I'm always excited about another season of Gallifrey. I hope Sophie Aldred is also returning.
 
I too thought that the Jacobi incarnation was exclusively a Time War-free incarnation? That MacQueen's resurrected Master was going to eventually die in the Time War and be reborn into an amnesiac kid or something?
 
I welcome Jacobi's return to Doctor Who. That said...

I also assumed that Jacobi's Master either didn't fight in the Time War or he did so as a very young man. I thought that was clear from Series 3.

In Titan Comics' Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor, they show that the Time War-era Master traveled with the War Doctor as his companion/partner, and that Master was a boy who looked to be about twelve. The implication there, I thought, was that the events of the story flung him to the end of time and then he hid himself by using the fob watch, growing old as the years passed.
 
Emperor-Tiberius said:
I too thought that the Jacobi incarnation was exclusively a Time War-free incarnation? That MacQueen's resurrected Master was going to eventually die in the Time War and be reborn into an amnesiac kid or something?
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Yana said he was found as a child with the fobwatch :shrug:

Maybe two consecutive incarnations as Jacobi?

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Allyn Gibson said:
It's possible that, just as John Smith had memories of his parents and childhood after using the fobwatch, the Master had false memories of his own childhood, like being found as a child with a broken fobwatch.
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That's what I've assumed since "Utopia."
 
Nightowl1701 said:
They're also doing another season of Gallifrey with Lalla Ward and Louise Jameson, detailing the events of the War's actual outbreak (and presumably Romana's regeneration into Juliet Landau)...
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How much continuity is there in Gallifrey? With the first three series out of my price range, I've pretty much ignored it because I didn't know if I could start in the middle.
 
ATimson said:
How much continuity is there in Gallifrey? With the first three series out of my price range, I've pretty much ignored it because I didn't know if I could start in the middle.
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The first three series are pretty tightly knit. After that, you can probably jump in at any point. Series IV follows the cliffhanger from Series III but the story is radically different and self-contained. After that, Series V and VI are closely connected to each other but largely self-contained from the rest of the series (aside from a conceit developed in Series IV). Series VII and VIII are pretty much standalone stories but with connections with the previous series.

That being said, I would recommend starting from the beginning because of the relationship that develops between Leela and Romana (as well as their relationships with Narvin and Braxiatel).

Are the box sets still not available digitally?
 
I only know that they did the bit that ties to Genesis of the Daleks. Which I would think is now a mistake, retroactively, as it would've been a GREAT plot device to have used in the Hurt box sets.

That might also be time to mention that, given the overal lacklustre results that the John Hurt box sets were (literally, without John Hurt in them, who would bother but the most die-hard BF fan?), I'm not sure I'm at all excited about the Jacobi, or even the McGann Time War box sets. Why four in the latter case, anyway?
 
Probably because both Dark Eyes and Doom Coalition were also four. That's the new standard for The Eighth Doctor, unfortunately. I believe Briggs (or maybe David Richardson) said recently there are no plans of ever returning him to the Main Range.
 
I just feel like there's a limit to how much you can use a character before he outlives his purpose or before his characterization arc is complete. In many respects, there's not a whole lot of room for that Doctor between Doom Coalition and Time War. Heck, even in DC he's not much different than he was in Dark Eyes. In many respect, the Eighth Doctor peaked at the end of his New ED Adventures run
 
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