I want more Frobisher in Big Finish. I actually sent them a DM wishing there were other stories with Frobisher. Maybe even adapting some of the comic strips he originated from, and they replied back saying they're not sure if they have the rights to do it.
@@Jedi_Spartan Stephen Moffat making Big finish canon was the point where the enormous gravitational pull caused by the sheer mass of his profound cranium finally drew the company and all its output towards its orbit
The only thing I remember about "Red" is McCoy in Part 4 going "R-R-R-R-R-R-RED! R-R-R-R-R-R-RED! R-R-R-R-R-R-RED!" over and over again. Yeah, that. But more Scottish.
Static (1:33) Aquitaine (3:53) Wirrn Isle (5:18) The Lost Stories: The Masters of Luxor (7:24) The Lost Stories: Leviathan (10:29) The Lost Stories: The Queen of Time (11:49) The Lost Stories: The Elite (13:41) The Fearmonger (15:01) Creatures of Beauty (16:42) Red (18:28)
I'd love to see another video like this, random Big Finish Dr Who plays that you've listened to recently. I always despair at just how large their catalogue is so have tended to stick with only the ones on Spotify and various others I liked the look of, videos like this are terribly helpful in that, thank you! When Big Finish Dr Who is good, it is some of the best Dr Who
Elite is legit one of the best Dalek stories out there, and I love how sinister and slimy Briggs plays it, like he's really gotten high off his own religious status. Leviathan is great too, but its been so long since I heard it, I can't even remember why.
"I don't think we made any difference here at all" Jesus that twist was dark. I adored the play from the start, but that moment cemented creatures of beauty as my favourite 5th doctor story.
@LivinLuxuriouslySelena circular time is also awesome, i agree. I wasn't the biggest 5th doctor fan either from the tv show, but honestly after listening to a lot of his big finish stuff i think he's actually become one of my favourite doctors.
"If I knew that half of these were called 'Attack of the androids' or something from the beginning that would've saved me a lot of trouble" - 11th Doctor, A Girl Who Loved Doctor Who
"Aquitaine" is an amazing Big Finish story I'd highly recommend it to anyone who has not heard it . Which as a charming outer space Dr Who story is the complete poler opposite to "Red" a very dark but thought provoking 7th Dr story that I'd also recommend.................have fun kids
Love to see you continue the Big Finish He Who Moans videos on the 8da’s, especially now that Ravenous has been and gone and Time War is due to wrap up! :)
Thank you for including the gem that is Leviathan! I love your artworks I'm definitely gonna stick around! I really enjoyed that one and Six and Peri have much better chemistry in the audio plays. It's a shame that there aren't more stories accessible to all as I feel like the only Big Finish stories I can listen to on my salary are the ones for free on Apple Music/Spotify.
Fearmonger is brilliant. I've found that early Bernice summerfield is excellent at being uplifting and what not but also just a fantastic listen. A series I feel never gets any attention which I definitely deserves
One other play you didn't mention which I would argue is really underrated is The Peterloo Massacre. It's a Fifth Doctor story that's pretty much a pure historical, and as well as having a neat commentary on the horrific event and a well-characterised cast from different classes, I really liked how it shows how differently the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan act in that kind of story, especially seeing Tegan confront the prejudices of the people of 19th century England they encounter.
I downloaded Creatures of Beauty a while back just because it was on sale and it had a good rating on timescales, but wow did it turn out to be a hidden gem! It's one of those audios that I think wouldn't work on TV and really shows what Big Finish is capable of. I really wish they'd try more experimental things like this with David Tennent's audios.
One thing I always found particularly interesting about Red is how it feels like a grim sci-fi take on gothic Victorian melodrama. Like, the whole idea of repressing one’s base instincts only to have them emerge as a sort of manifestation of pure evil feels very reminiscent of Jekyll & Hyde, Dorian Gray and, more obliquely, Frankenstein. The vibe of the whole variety of potential human unpleasantness being distilled and tangible feels like a very Romantic morality tale. If you dig Red, I highly recommend Stewart Sheargold’s Bernice Summerfield plays; The Mirror Effect and The Masquerade of Death. Both are a bit more twisty-turny puzzle-boxy than Red, but there’s this continued feeling of distinct dichotomies between good and evil, and a sort of grand operaticness to them. Also, Stu, I know you’re big on metafiction, which The Masquerade of Death has in droves.
When I checked, I actually own most of them so I can give them a listen. But of the ones you recommended that I have listened to, I don't like any of them. But it's always nice to see a big finish video on TH-cam so I won't complain anymore.
I love Creatures Of Beauty although it doesn't feel like the story was meant to be out of order originally, so there are a few moments where we learn the same information again or stuff that we don't need to know. But it's still wonderful and I adore the twist about the Doctor
I know right? It poses so many questions about whether the Doctor's travels are morally okay and if this is something that has happened before unnoticed.
@@LordSlarr Yeah and he shrugs it off with "I try not to look too close at the brush strokes of universe" Funny to think that the mild-mannered Fifth Doctor is responsible for a number of calamities; genesis of the cybermen, death of the dinosaurs, a genocide in Warriors Of The Deep and the slow extinction of Veln
That's part of his character arc, he's too nice of a Doctor in a universe where that just doesn't work. It's all really nicely wrapped up in Caves where it's all shown in a microcosm and as a result he becomes the Sixth Doctor. Check out my video on Caves Of Androzani if you have no idea what I'm talking about here!
@@meris8486 Nyssa is my favorite companion but not sure why there's an older version of Nyssa on the front cover of some Big Finish stories while Tegan has not aged
@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 There's a sequence of trilogies set between *Enlightenment* and *The King's Demons* where the Doctor and companions meet up with Nyssa again, decades after she opted to stay behind on Terminus, and she ends up rejoining them for a while.
Being very dyslexic I was so happy to find “love songs for the shy and Cynical” on Spotify. Then even more happy to hear Charley pollard tern up. Ok it’s India Fisher but I can pretend!!!
Hooray for some Creatures Of Beauty love! One of my favourite ever Doctor Who stories. The twist at the end though is one of the most impactful I've ever experienced, it gets me every time.
I've not heard "fearmonger" but we've had some amazing stories mirroring the dangers of far right politics usually through the medium of Daleks in Dr Who but I'd like to see a story mirroring the dangers of far left politics, perhaps there are some that I just haven't seen the connection with, but I think it would be an interesting topic for who to cover.
@@dysonwitwer6430 well in over 50 years with lots of different people running it and tons of different people writing for it I would hope they were not always ideologically far left like the current writing team is of the TV show but maybe I'm wrong about that *who* knows
@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 i dont know the show well enough but I do know the show was left during Thatcher being pm, and it is very left now. (Since season 9 probably)
@@Stubagful I liked it, quite a bit but I honestly wasn't as taken with it as a lot of other people are either, even without the racism taken into account.
@@LordSlarr i think if you listen to it on its own its by far one of the strongest big finish storys but i agree with you that in the context of the box set it doesnt really feel like it fits in
I’m gonna be a cheeky minx here, but if you ever have the time Mr Bagful, I would be delighted if you had any thoughts re: Doctor Who - The Last Day at Work, written by, erm, little old me! In fact, any thoughts you have about the Paul Spragg Short Trips, Landbound, Best Laid Plans and Forever Fallen would be lovely! Huge fan of your work, keep it up!
For me I’ve mostly been Marathoning movies such as all of the Studio Ghibli films, the original X-Men trilogy and many other random other films I’ve missed
Brilliant, I thoroughly enjoyed this and now have some new Big Finish top check out! Currently the first 50 Monthly Adventures are £1.49 each, I have just picked up Creatures of Beauty :)
Aquitaine is my favorite Big Finish product ever. Everything from the acting, the story, the sound design, and that awesome soundtrack just hit so right for me. The pacing was nice also and I felt a real sense of danger while listening to it. I think I'll revisit that one in Lockdown. I've just got the 3rd, 5th, and 7th doctor blu-rays that I'm currently getting through, but I"m starting to make time for Big Finish as well. Currently I've just finished the free adventure The Beginning which I felt was fairly good on the whole, although Carol Ann Ford makes the Doctor sound like a grandmother. Lol. Now I'm starting Stones of Venice which I've found to be an interesting listen so far.
Aquitaine is amazing and Hargreeves is just so adorable, it was one of the earliest titles I bought so was great to hear Nyssa and Tegan again alongside the Peter Davison. Nyssa was heavily underused in the TV show so is great to hear her being used more in stories like this.
mrjekyll andhyde It was the earliest CD I bought. I got this one then “The Middle” (which is pretty great and very unique in terms of setting), and “Red” (which I love the morbid idea for and the setting was pretty cool too)
Brilliant video, I’m just wondering if your eighth doctor review series is going to continue any time soon, looking forward to hearing what u think of the newer relewaesn
I honestly don't blame him for putting that series to rest. If there's one thing Big Finish likes to do, it's to prove that they can be as crazy with continuity as possible. Stubagful's mission to review every big finish audio player that had the 8th Doctor in it was a very doable task back when he was doing it, but now random characters are literally popping up and completely unrelated audio plays. Paul McGann has battled the War Master twice, David Tennent has again as well- 8th and 10th both crossed over in Time Lord Victorious which had 4 other releases with 8th and a release with 4th somehow- 4th also appeared in a Dalek Universe prologue which had 3 installments with 10th- It's all over the place which is a lot of fun to look at but very intimidated to get into🙃
For as much as i love Creatures Of Beauty i think that it's a story that can't be explained without being spoiled due to it's structure The best way to explain is: Nyssa is being interrogated by an uggly person in a conflict where The Doctor can't choose a side At the end of the day you gotta let people trust your word and listen to it because Creatures Of Beauty is absolutly Beautifull Beautifull Beautifull Beautifull
The gathering, the harvest and the reaping all connected cyberman story’s 5,6,7 doctors and they are amazing and when you finish it you go ooooo shit it all makes sense
I listen to The Fearmonger when I found out all the monthly plays up until Zagraus are on Apple Music and decided to start listening to them, so when I stumbled upon this I loved it with all of my heart
I have been enjoying the Big Finsh audio stories next to the show since the end of series 10. Day of the Master from Ravenous 4 was a really good book end to the series and tied up some loose ends. Anti Gensis was my second favorite War Master series (for it's levity) next to the original. I love hearing Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated for some Missy vs Monk.
I don't know why, but it's very hard for me to understand what's going on whenever I listen to a Big Finish play. It isn't until I hear Stubagful talk about it, that suddenly I understand what's going on! So... Thank you :)
I’ve got a lot of 5th Doctor, Gallifrey s2-s6, Handful of monthly Torchwood, and like V7-13 Jago and Litefoot. It’s such a curse as there’s just I wanna buy id listen to as soon as I download but my back catalogue is off putting
I agree with what you said about variety with the companions, Stewart. In my fan series of Doctor Who, I have two characters who follow the same dynamic as Flip and Constance, a girl from a future Earth colony named Emily, and a man from the Great Depression named Malcolm. Variety really is nice!
Your favorite was Leviathan? I thought "Point of Entry" had your name all over it. Horror of the unknown, morbid, ghostly set pieces, amazing atmosphere, witty writing, it's very you. Also, Fearmonger was the first Big Finish monthly to make me fall in LOVE with this format, and though that one still stands, it only got better from there.
I got Creatures of Beauty when it was sale this past week and you are right it is an immersive experience. It was one of those stories where I believe there were no bad guys. While some characters did horrible things I understood why they were doing them and given the circumstances I can't really blame them. By the end I just felt bad for everyone involved, and that is not fully mentioning everything that did happen which I will not be spoiling here. Everyone who has not listened to this story should go listen to it in order to understand what I mean.
One I listened to a few months ago that I really liked was equilibrium. Its part of a return to espace trilogy but what I really love is the doctor trying to stop something that seems to be just barbaric superstition and actually ends up basically putting the whole planet and it's people in jeopardy. I really love when the doctor while trying to do good ends up actually making a big mistake and has to deal with and live with the consequences
I haven't listened to the others but I just picked up a copy of Red Along with Time Works and a couple other CDs on Ebay recently. I just listened to Time Works. I'll probably start Red tonight.
I remember listening to Creatures of Beauty a while back and I absolutely loved it to pieces, and was quite excited for the next story following on from it (at least on my Spotify) Flip Flop, which was a story I had heard a lot of good things about. But then I listened to Flip Flop and... yeah... maybe not.
I’ve listened to the eight doctor adventures from storm warning to Zagreus, the first series of the 4th doctor, 4 torchwood monthlies including the death of captain jack and broken both of which are great, as well as the lives of captain jack volume 3, the war doctor only the monstrous, war master anti-genesis, colditz, master, omega and Davros. Big finish has consumed my life during lockdown. Next I’m listening to I Davros.
Stu, I will have to politely disagree with you on the ‘Nightmare Fair’, yes it definitely would have worked better as a visual story, as it feels like all the video game elements have been rushed, but I still feel like it has a really strong premise and the audio has a fantastic sound direction for Blackpool, I can really visualise all the rollercoaster and stalls.
Have you tried listening to Nekromanteia (BF 041) starring Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant and Caroline Morris? Very dark, grisly and violent (the Doctor actually gets beheaded in one scene!) Interesting to listen back on early stuff before the revised series came along. Much more 'New Adventures' type vibe to it.
Hey Stu, have you ever listened to the Magnus Archives? I've gotten really into thanks to the quarantine and given your love of horror and audio medium I think it'd be right up your alley.
I feel that one, while good, suffers from having a definitive best ending with all wrong choices leading to immediate death on the next track. I feel it would have been better if each decision spawned it's own narrative which contained further decisions with multiple equally valid endings, though I'm not against having some choices that just lead to death. It's a lot of fun for what it is, but I feel that being part of short story collection hampers it's potential as it places a limit on how long it can be and how many possibilities their can be.
@@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502 that would require an insane amount of additional writing and additional recording. the only solution ultimately always is to force the listener to figure out the preferable ending by trial and error. which is why I don't really like "choose your own adventure" stories. It's not mathematically possible to REALLY write intertwisted "choose your own adventure" storylines without either being highly contradictory with itself if you want the different storylines to still lead back with each other, or to have to branch out into tons and tons of additional writing
I just want to know how they get together, last time we saw Nyssa she was on a medic ship during the time war and Tegan was in charge of an animal food company.
@@Jack-Oates there is no unified Dr who cannon and no one can reasonably be expected to know all of it, so the simple answer is no one writing that knew about those stories.
@@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502 I know especially considering the big ball of wibbley Wobbley Timey Wimey Galifrey Contriducations but, it's nice to have a coherent narrative of the less expansive stuff. Although theres technicaly 4 9th Doctors and 2 K9 Mk2s, 9 K9s altogether so, who really cares?
@@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502 according to "Peri and the Piscon Paradox" by Nev Fountain, there are five different versions of Peri running around in the universe because everyone writing for the EU collectively fucked up and wrote storylines so contradictory that it can only be explained with five separate timelines.
Yo that Red storyline sounds very similar to a Star Trek Voyager episode, "random thoughts" in that the crew encounters a telepathic alien race who outlaw negative thoughts/feelings which is how they get such a low crime rate however it is shown that the society has a black market expressly for sharing such feelings between eachother, to the point that it can count as a form of currency to these people and the more violent the better
What do you think is Big Finish's main flaw? Both currently and previously. For me, their biggest flaws are having too much on their plate (Terrahawks, Doctor Who, Blake's 7, etc) and their need to make stories combined in boxsets. With the boxset stories, they usually don't have enough time to have a decent and developed story, and mostly add in fan service to tide people over (Time War boxsets).
This is the boxset flaw. Boxset 1 : yay something new we can do. Boxset 2: oh no we’ve gotta do a story arch. Boxset 3: ALL THE STORY ARCH. Boxset 4 : and we tie that all up in a bow
My biggest issue was with Ravenous. R3 has definitely one of the best stories companion piece but it has nothing to do with ravenous overall just a good story. Ravenous 4 ends with a epic multi master story .... but why when we already have the Ravenous and The Eleven to deal with ??? Aren’t they a big enough threat
I listened to all of Torchwood Series 5, all the new characters are excellent and there’s not really a story I didn’t care for but it is definitely setting up Series 6.
I might listen to that seeing as I just binged the TV seasons (with the end being the TV version of Sequel bating) and moved onto Modern Who with Rose, End of the World and The Unquiet Dead today.
Since Lockdown Started,I've Listened To Jago And Litefoot Series 3,Rose Tyler The Dimension Cannon And The Last 3rd Of Dark Eyes Starting Doom Coalition Today And Trying To Finish All My Big Finish By September Edit:Their Is Probably Some I'm Forgetting But These Are The Main Ones Edit 2:I JUST HAD A GREAT IDEA The Lost Stories....But With The New Series
I do love some Mind Robber. Fearmonger is good but I honestly think Live 34 is miles better. Might pick up Red next time though. I just recently finished Susans' War Dark Universe Subterfuge ALL OF GALLIFREY! Night Thoughts
I've noticed you've mentioned the reason you don't review some stories/boxsets because of how expensive they are. However, given the amount of people who love your videos, have you considered if you just flat out ask us fans to give you our digital copies of basically any story you'd want, you might get it for free for the sake of reviewing them? I have a strong feeling that might actually work
Frobisher be praised! More Big Finish from Stubagful!
All hail the big talking bird!
Now I’ve got that rave mix in my head XD
I want more Frobisher in Big Finish. I actually sent them a DM wishing there were other stories with Frobisher. Maybe even adapting some of the comic strips he originated from, and they replied back saying they're not sure if they have the rights to do it.
While the big finish discography is a never ending chasm, it's very helpful to have these videos to guide me through it's corridors
I've watched this video 4 times now! I missed this! :)
The Big Finish discography is so big that it is one of the few things that are even bigger than Steven Moffat's massive, massive brain.
@@Jedi_Spartan Stephen Moffat making Big finish canon was the point where the enormous gravitational pull caused by the sheer mass of his profound cranium finally drew the company and all its output towards its orbit
This comment is beautiful...
The radio show host from The Fearmonger is actually played by Sophie Aldred's husband
I am falling in love with the Charley era thanks to you.
^^^
Stu recommending the Charley era has to be one of the best things that’s ever happened to me in terms of doctor who.
The only thing I remember about "Red" is McCoy in Part 4 going "R-R-R-R-R-R-RED! R-R-R-R-R-R-RED! R-R-R-R-R-R-RED!" over and over again.
Yeah, that. But more Scottish.
Static (1:33)
Aquitaine (3:53)
Wirrn Isle (5:18)
The Lost Stories: The Masters of Luxor (7:24)
The Lost Stories: Leviathan (10:29)
The Lost Stories: The Queen of Time (11:49)
The Lost Stories: The Elite (13:41)
The Fearmonger (15:01)
Creatures of Beauty (16:42)
Red (18:28)
I'd love to see another video like this, random Big Finish Dr Who plays that you've listened to recently. I always despair at just how large their catalogue is so have tended to stick with only the ones on Spotify and various others I liked the look of, videos like this are terribly helpful in that, thank you! When Big Finish Dr Who is good, it is some of the best Dr Who
Yes! It's been nearly 2 years since his review of The War Master Vol 1! I've watched this video 4 times!
Thanks for the kind comments about Aquitaine, that's made my day :)
And the illustrations are so on point it's spooky :o
Glad to. Was a tonne of fun, and thank you :)
Muahahahaha finally Stuart, you have succumbed to the dreaded
*TH-cam Algorithm*
More Big Finish, please!
Elite is legit one of the best Dalek stories out there, and I love how sinister and slimy Briggs plays it, like he's really gotten high off his own religious status. Leviathan is great too, but its been so long since I heard it, I can't even remember why.
I’m honestly surprised he didn’t recommend Point of Entry, as good as Leviathan is.
@@Popcultureguy3000 paradise 5 too. Not mission to magnus tho
"I don't think we made any difference here at all"
Jesus that twist was dark. I adored the play from the start, but that moment cemented creatures of beauty as my favourite 5th doctor story.
@LivinLuxuriouslySelena I'm not sure if it's the exact quote, but yes that quote is from the fifth doctor near the end of part 3 of the story.
@LivinLuxuriouslySelena circular time is also awesome, i agree.
I wasn't the biggest 5th doctor fan either from the tv show, but honestly after listening to a lot of his big finish stuff i think he's actually become one of my favourite doctors.
"If I knew that half of these were called 'Attack of the androids' or something from the beginning that would've saved me a lot of trouble"
- 11th Doctor, A Girl Who Loved Doctor Who
I found myself digging into their Torchwood work. I love the show and am impressed by the way they continued it.
"Aquitaine" is an amazing Big Finish story
I'd highly recommend it to anyone who has not heard it .
Which as a charming outer space Dr Who story is the complete poler opposite
to "Red" a very dark but thought provoking
7th Dr story that I'd also recommend.................have fun kids
Love to see you continue the Big Finish He Who Moans videos on the 8da’s, especially now that Ravenous has been and gone and Time War is due to wrap up! :)
LivinLuxuriouslySelena why not? i loved stranded.
LivinLuxuriouslySelena yeah but why shouldn’t he listen to it i mean
My favourite Stubagful videos! And your illustrations are terrific! Thank you 😊
Thank you for including the gem that is Leviathan! I love your artworks I'm definitely gonna stick around! I really enjoyed that one and Six and Peri have much better chemistry in the audio plays. It's a shame that there aren't more stories accessible to all as I feel like the only Big Finish stories I can listen to on my salary are the ones for free on Apple Music/Spotify.
Fearmonger is brilliant. I've found that early Bernice summerfield is excellent at being uplifting and what not but also just a fantastic listen. A series I feel never gets any attention which I definitely deserves
One other play you didn't mention which I would argue is really underrated is The Peterloo Massacre. It's a Fifth Doctor story that's pretty much a pure historical, and as well as having a neat commentary on the horrific event and a well-characterised cast from different classes, I really liked how it shows how differently the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan act in that kind of story, especially seeing Tegan confront the prejudices of the people of 19th century England they encounter.
I love that one too! One of the very best 5th Doctor stories.
I always loved Red. It was for me the sort of story that Sleep No More should have been, but I guess that's another matter entirely.
Been a big fan of Fearmonger for nearly 20 years now. Nice to hear your take.
I downloaded Creatures of Beauty a while back just because it was on sale and it had a good rating on timescales, but wow did it turn out to be a hidden gem! It's one of those audios that I think wouldn't work on TV and really shows what Big Finish is capable of. I really wish they'd try more experimental things like this with David Tennent's audios.
I’ve been meaning to get back to Red. I listened to part one like years ago and I just never finished it. I may have to do that now
TheGD256 Red is a slow burner, but what really makes everything click is part 4. That is amazing.
I'm very glad you talked about Static, it's my favourite Doctor Who story of all time. Great video mate
One thing I always found particularly interesting about Red is how it feels like a grim sci-fi take on gothic Victorian melodrama. Like, the whole idea of repressing one’s base instincts only to have them emerge as a sort of manifestation of pure evil feels very reminiscent of Jekyll & Hyde, Dorian Gray and, more obliquely, Frankenstein. The vibe of the whole variety of potential human unpleasantness being distilled and tangible feels like a very Romantic morality tale.
If you dig Red, I highly recommend Stewart Sheargold’s Bernice Summerfield plays; The Mirror Effect and The Masquerade of Death. Both are a bit more twisty-turny puzzle-boxy than Red, but there’s this continued feeling of distinct dichotomies between good and evil, and a sort of grand operaticness to them. Also, Stu, I know you’re big on metafiction, which The Masquerade of Death has in droves.
When I checked, I actually own most of them so I can give them a listen. But of the ones you recommended that I have listened to, I don't like any of them. But it's always nice to see a big finish video on TH-cam so I won't complain anymore.
This was a lot of fun. I hope you do more like this.
I love Creatures Of Beauty although it doesn't feel like the story was meant to be out of order originally, so there are a few moments where we learn the same information again or stuff that we don't need to know. But it's still wonderful and I adore the twist about the Doctor
I know right? It poses so many questions about whether the Doctor's travels are morally okay and if this is something that has happened before unnoticed.
@@LordSlarr
Yeah and he shrugs it off with "I try not to look too close at the brush strokes of universe"
Funny to think that the mild-mannered Fifth Doctor is responsible for a number of calamities; genesis of the cybermen, death of the dinosaurs, a genocide in Warriors Of The Deep and the slow extinction of Veln
That's part of his character arc, he's too nice of a Doctor in a universe where that just doesn't work. It's all really nicely wrapped up in Caves where it's all shown in a microcosm and as a result he becomes the Sixth Doctor. Check out my video on Caves Of Androzani if you have no idea what I'm talking about here!
@@meris8486 Nyssa is my favorite companion but not sure why there's an older version of Nyssa on the front cover of some Big Finish stories while Tegan has not aged
@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 There's a sequence of trilogies set between *Enlightenment* and *The King's Demons* where the Doctor and companions meet up with Nyssa again, decades after she opted to stay behind on Terminus, and she ends up rejoining them for a while.
Being very dyslexic I was so happy to find “love songs for the shy and Cynical” on Spotify. Then even more happy to hear Charley pollard tern up. Ok it’s India Fisher but I can pretend!!!
Hooray for some Creatures Of Beauty love! One of my favourite ever Doctor Who stories. The twist at the end though is one of the most impactful I've ever experienced, it gets me every time.
It’s kinda upsetting that The Fearmonger is still very relevant today and unfortunately will probably always be
Muh Dumpf bad?
I've not heard "fearmonger" but we've had some amazing stories mirroring the dangers of far right politics usually through the medium of Daleks in Dr Who but I'd like to see a story mirroring the dangers of far left politics, perhaps there are some that I just haven't seen the connection with, but I think it would be an interesting topic for who to cover.
@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 oh, did you think Dr. Who would be politically neutral? Silly boy
@@dysonwitwer6430 well in over 50 years with lots of different people running it and tons of different people writing for it I would hope they were not always ideologically far left like the current writing team is of the TV show but maybe I'm wrong about that *who* knows
@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 i dont know the show well enough but I do know the show was left during Thatcher being pm, and it is very left now. (Since season 9 probably)
Great video, you listened to more? would love another one of these.
I really wish they would do official big finish animations.
Could you review some more classic who stories
talons of weng chiang would be cool
*said incredibly quietly* ...........I just think its alright
@@Stubagful I liked it, quite a bit but I honestly wasn't as taken with it as a lot of other people are either, even without the racism taken into account.
the big finish videos are back.
So there is an upside to lockdown
Listening to The War Master: The Persistence of Dreams was a mistake.
The good kinda mistake or the bad one?
I hate that story lol
remember when the woman is giving birth to fruit?
superspy6 Both?
I quite liked that episode even if it was the weakest of the set.
@@LordSlarr i think if you listen to it on its own its by far one of the strongest big finish storys but i agree with you that in the context of the box set it doesnt really feel like it fits in
I’m gonna be a cheeky minx here, but if you ever have the time Mr Bagful, I would be delighted if you had any thoughts re: Doctor Who - The Last Day at Work, written by, erm, little old me! In fact, any thoughts you have about the Paul Spragg Short Trips, Landbound, Best Laid Plans and Forever Fallen would be lovely! Huge fan of your work, keep it up!
I like Big Finish's Monthly Range No.51 the best out of that range. Just the Doctor and Charley(don't know why it took me ages to remember her name).
Red is basically like a really dark version of Paradise Towers
Paradise towers was already pretty dark, so more like paradise towers without the lighter atmosphere
Evil moss... IT finally happened!
Thank, you some excellent stories reviewed there, many of which I knew about already, even so has given me ideas of things to follow up on.
Big Finish suggestion: check out "Trial of the Valeyard", for anyone who has not heard it
The Celestial Toymaker
The Queen of Time
The Mind Robber
The Best Doctor Who Trilogy
The Fearmonger made me check just which year it was made in.
For me I’ve mostly been Marathoning movies such as all of the Studio Ghibli films, the original X-Men trilogy and many other random other films I’ve missed
Brilliant, I thoroughly enjoyed this and now have some new Big Finish top check out! Currently the first 50 Monthly Adventures are £1.49 each, I have just picked up Creatures of Beauty :)
Not to mention the fact that the Percy in Static is played by the guy who voiced the daleks in all the sixties stories.
Aquitaine is my favorite Big Finish product ever. Everything from the acting, the story, the sound design, and that awesome soundtrack just hit so right for me. The pacing was nice also and I felt a real sense of danger while listening to it. I think I'll revisit that one in Lockdown. I've just got the 3rd, 5th, and 7th doctor blu-rays that I'm currently getting through, but I"m starting to make time for Big Finish as well.
Currently I've just finished the free adventure The Beginning which I felt was fairly good on the whole, although Carol Ann Ford makes the Doctor sound like a grandmother. Lol. Now I'm starting Stones of Venice which I've found to be an interesting listen so far.
Aquitaine is amazing and Hargreeves is just so adorable, it was one of the earliest titles I bought so was great to hear Nyssa and Tegan again alongside the Peter Davison. Nyssa was heavily underused in the TV show so is great to hear her being used more in stories like this.
mrjekyll andhyde It was the earliest CD I bought. I got this one then “The Middle” (which is pretty great and very unique in terms of setting), and “Red” (which I love the morbid idea for and the setting was pretty cool too)
Brilliant video, I’m just wondering if your eighth doctor review series is going to continue any time soon, looking forward to hearing what u think of the newer relewaesn
I honestly don't blame him for putting that series to rest. If there's one thing Big Finish likes to do, it's to prove that they can be as crazy with continuity as possible.
Stubagful's mission to review every big finish audio player that had the 8th Doctor in it was a very doable task back when he was doing it, but now random characters are literally popping up and completely unrelated audio plays. Paul McGann has battled the War Master twice, David Tennent has again as well- 8th and 10th both crossed over in Time Lord Victorious which had 4 other releases with 8th and a release with 4th somehow- 4th also appeared in a Dalek Universe prologue which had 3 installments with 10th- It's all over the place which is a lot of fun to look at but very intimidated to get into🙃
For as much as i love Creatures Of Beauty i think that it's a story that can't be explained without being spoiled due to it's structure
The best way to explain is: Nyssa is being interrogated by an uggly person in a conflict where The Doctor can't choose a side
At the end of the day you gotta let people trust your word and listen to it because Creatures Of Beauty is absolutly Beautifull Beautifull Beautifull Beautifull
Y E S finally someone is talking about creatures of beauty it's one of my favorite big finish releases ever.
The gathering, the harvest and the reaping all connected cyberman story’s 5,6,7 doctors and they are amazing and when you finish it you go ooooo shit it all makes sense
I listen to The Fearmonger when I found out all the monthly plays up until Zagraus are on Apple Music and decided to start listening to them, so when I stumbled upon this I loved it with all of my heart
And there on spotifly too.
I have been enjoying the Big Finsh audio stories next to the show since the end of series 10.
Day of the Master from Ravenous 4 was a really good book end to the series and tied up some loose ends.
Anti Gensis was my second favorite War Master series (for it's levity) next to the original.
I love hearing Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated for some Missy vs Monk.
Would u consider reviewing the villains trilogy or doing the ravenous box sets? Also maybe some 7/ace/hex stories?
“If you want a play to lift your spirits in these depressing times I highly recommend aquataine”
*looks at robot on cover*
Yeah don’t think so
Fuck you, hargreves is the best robot ever.
First listened to the fearmongee in 2017 in the midst of all the Brexit stuff and let me tell you it was chilling
I really don't get why people are bored with the lockdown. There's so much stuff to do!
I don't know why, but it's very hard for me to understand what's going on whenever I listen to a Big Finish play. It isn't until I hear Stubagful talk about it, that suddenly I understand what's going on!
So... Thank you :)
YES OH MY GAWD YES YOU LISTENED TO STATIC! THANK YOU BASED STU!
I’ve got a lot of 5th Doctor, Gallifrey s2-s6, Handful of monthly Torchwood, and like V7-13 Jago and Litefoot. It’s such a curse as there’s just I wanna buy id listen to as soon as I download but my back catalogue is off putting
just curl up in bed with headphones and snacks and big finish binge, highly reccomend
I agree with what you said about variety with the companions, Stewart. In my fan series of Doctor Who, I have two characters who follow the same dynamic as Flip and Constance, a girl from a future Earth colony named Emily, and a man from the Great Depression named Malcolm. Variety really is nice!
Can i have a link to that series?
I love the Meddeling Monc from Bigfinish
Your favorite was Leviathan? I thought "Point of Entry" had your name all over it. Horror of the unknown, morbid, ghostly set pieces, amazing atmosphere, witty writing, it's very you.
Also, Fearmonger was the first Big Finish monthly to make me fall in LOVE with this format, and though that one still stands, it only got better from there.
15:16 Am I the only one who listened to Fearmonger after the release of 'Years and Years' and pictured her as looking like Viv Rook?
Can you listen to the War Doctor stuff and do reviews on them as they are my favourite Audio boxsets
9:46 you were in Egypt Stu? I hope you had a good experience in my country before the pandemic happened
Yes I did. Everyone was lovely (and the food was fucking incredible - everything I've eaten since I've been back has tasted like shit in comparison)
I got Creatures of Beauty when it was sale this past week and you are right it is an immersive experience. It was one of those stories where I believe there were no bad guys. While some characters did horrible things I understood why they were doing them and given the circumstances I can't really blame them. By the end I just felt bad for everyone involved, and that is not fully mentioning everything that did happen which I will not be spoiling here. Everyone who has not listened to this story should go listen to it in order to understand what I mean.
One I listened to a few months ago that I really liked was equilibrium. Its part of a return to espace trilogy but what I really love is the doctor trying to stop something that seems to be just barbaric superstition and actually ends up basically putting the whole planet and it's people in jeopardy. I really love when the doctor while trying to do good ends up actually making a big mistake and has to deal with and live with the consequences
I haven't listened to the others but I just picked up a copy of Red Along with Time Works and a couple other CDs on Ebay recently. I just listened to Time Works. I'll probably start Red tonight.
I remember listening to Creatures of Beauty a while back and I absolutely loved it to pieces, and was quite excited for the next story following on from it (at least on my Spotify) Flip Flop, which was a story I had heard a lot of good things about. But then I listened to Flip Flop and... yeah... maybe not.
I’ve listened to the eight doctor adventures from storm warning to Zagreus, the first series of the 4th doctor, 4 torchwood monthlies including the death of captain jack and broken both of which are great, as well as the lives of captain jack volume 3, the war doctor only the monstrous, war master anti-genesis, colditz, master, omega and Davros. Big finish has consumed my life during lockdown. Next I’m listening to I Davros.
Aaaaaah, proper Who written by talented writers. How novel.
Stu, I will have to politely disagree with you on the ‘Nightmare Fair’, yes it definitely would have worked better as a visual story, as it feels like all the video game elements have been rushed, but I still feel like it has a really strong premise and the audio has a fantastic sound direction for Blackpool, I can really visualise all the rollercoaster and stalls.
Have you tried listening to Nekromanteia (BF 041) starring Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant and Caroline Morris? Very dark, grisly and violent (the Doctor actually gets beheaded in one scene!) Interesting to listen back on early stuff before the revised series came along. Much more 'New Adventures' type vibe to it.
Leviathan is such an amazing story and I reckon it would have been the Season 23 finale if the show wasn't on hiatus.
Can't be bothered with Big finish, but can be bothered with your reviews - so that balances things out!
Hey Stu, have you ever listened to the Magnus Archives? I've gotten really into thanks to the quarantine and given your love of horror and audio medium I think it'd be right up your alley.
Have you listened to all of the War Mater stories yet? I loved the latest serial!
Speaking of experimental, have you heard You are the Doctor? It's basically a choose your own adventure story in audio, and is much fun.
I feel that one, while good, suffers from having a definitive best ending with all wrong choices leading to immediate death on the next track. I feel it would have been better if each decision spawned it's own narrative which contained further decisions with multiple equally valid endings, though I'm not against having some choices that just lead to death. It's a lot of fun for what it is, but I feel that being part of short story collection hampers it's potential as it places a limit on how long it can be and how many possibilities their can be.
@@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502 that would require an insane amount of additional writing and additional recording. the only solution ultimately always is to force the listener to figure out the preferable ending by trial and error. which is why I don't really like "choose your own adventure" stories.
It's not mathematically possible to REALLY write intertwisted "choose your own adventure" storylines without either being highly contradictory with itself if you want the different storylines to still lead back with each other, or to have to branch out into tons and tons of additional writing
Nyssa and Tegan are now a lesbian couple as of today's "Farewell Sarah Jane"
Not sure why I'm sharing this info, but there it is
I just want to know how they get together, last time we saw Nyssa she was on a medic ship during the time war and Tegan was in charge of an animal food company.
Jack Oates actually Nyssa was last seen living in E-Space.
@@Jack-Oates there is no unified Dr who cannon and no one can reasonably be expected to know all of it, so the simple answer is no one writing that knew about those stories.
@@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502 I know especially considering the big ball of wibbley Wobbley Timey Wimey Galifrey Contriducations but, it's nice to have a coherent narrative of the less expansive stuff. Although theres technicaly 4 9th Doctors and 2 K9 Mk2s, 9 K9s altogether so, who really cares?
@@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502 according to "Peri and the Piscon Paradox" by Nev Fountain, there are five different versions of Peri running around in the universe because everyone writing for the EU collectively fucked up and wrote storylines so contradictory that it can only be explained with five separate timelines.
When you said red faster it sounded like "Bread beard bread!"
A couple of stories I'd like to throw into the hat here:
The Lost Stories: The First Sontarans
Legend of the Cybermen
Peri and the Piscon Paradox
Yo that Red storyline sounds very similar to a Star Trek Voyager episode, "random thoughts" in that the crew encounters a telepathic alien race who outlaw negative thoughts/feelings which is how they get such a low crime rate however it is shown that the society has a black market expressly for sharing such feelings between eachother, to the point that it can count as a form of currency to these people and the more violent the better
You did the Lost Stories, but not Season 27!?
Damn, guess I'll have to wait another 2 years to find out if you have thoughts on those 😔😔
What do you think is Big Finish's main flaw? Both currently and previously. For me, their biggest flaws are having too much on their plate (Terrahawks, Doctor Who, Blake's 7, etc) and their need to make stories combined in boxsets. With the boxset stories, they usually don't have enough time to have a decent and developed story, and mostly add in fan service to tide people over (Time War boxsets).
I really didn't want to make an account for me it’s the price.
I think they are trying to change the monthly adventures into boxset style. I think some new boxsets are having longer stories.
This is the boxset flaw. Boxset 1 : yay something new we can do. Boxset 2: oh no we’ve gotta do a story arch. Boxset 3: ALL THE STORY ARCH. Boxset 4 : and we tie that all up in a bow
My biggest issue was with Ravenous. R3 has definitely one of the best stories companion piece but it has nothing to do with ravenous overall just a good story. Ravenous 4 ends with a epic multi master story .... but why when we already have the Ravenous and The Eleven to deal with ??? Aren’t they a big enough threat
Why number the boxsets when they are standalone ? 8 time war 3 finally fleshes out Bliss but that’s 3 boxsets out of 4
Is the Dracula review up next?
I listened to all of Torchwood Series 5, all the new characters are excellent and there’s not really a story I didn’t care for but it is definitely setting up Series 6.
I might listen to that seeing as I just binged the TV seasons (with the end being the TV version of Sequel bating) and moved onto Modern Who with Rose, End of the World and The Unquiet Dead today.
Jedi Spartan 38 shame you missed out on the big sale they had
(Googles definition of: 'Prolific.') *Produces much fruit.*
YEAH! :D
Well I guess I’m cancelling my holiday to Luxor then…
Constance's voice actor was also Cassandra in Dragon Age :D
and Tallulah in Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks in Series 3!
@Studio 404 she was tho!!!!!!!
Listened to anything lately in the last 7 months?
Yay positive stu!
okay okay I'll get Red,
I really enjoy Wirrin Isle and I don’t really know why it people don’t care for it. Also yay for Scotland
Since Lockdown Started,I've Listened To Jago And Litefoot Series 3,Rose Tyler The Dimension Cannon And The Last 3rd Of Dark Eyes
Starting Doom Coalition Today And Trying To Finish All My Big Finish By September
Edit:Their Is Probably Some I'm Forgetting But These Are The Main Ones
Edit 2:I JUST HAD A GREAT IDEA
The Lost Stories....But With The New Series
I do love some Mind Robber. Fearmonger is good but I honestly think Live 34 is miles better. Might pick up Red next time though.
I just recently finished
Susans' War
Dark Universe
Subterfuge
ALL OF GALLIFREY!
Night Thoughts
Night thoughts is possibly one of the most horrifying and dark BF stories ive ever listend to. The kitchen scene is terrifying!
I've noticed you've mentioned the reason you don't review some stories/boxsets because of how expensive they are. However, given the amount of people who love your videos, have you considered if you just flat out ask us fans to give you our digital copies of basically any story you'd want, you might get it for free for the sake of reviewing them? I have a strong feeling that might actually work
That would be piracy i think, a better way is if in his patreon you can donate for him to buy x story
When are you not going insane Stu?