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catboycephalopod · 3 months

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HOLY SHIT!!! Big Finish has resurrected their Novel Adaptations Range after SEVEN YEARS; They're adapting the first Virgin Missing Adventure novel "Goth Opera"! If you're a fan of the Wilderness Years books or of the 5, Nyssa, and Tegan TARDIS team you should check it it out! It's releasing in July and you can preorder it now, LINKS BELOW!

The VNAs and EDAs are a pretty niche corner of Doctor Who fandom these days so its really fucking cool to get more love for these stories and this era of the series (although they haven't adapted any BBC books yet). It'd be REALLY sad if they retired book adaptations because of meh sales so if you're even remotely interested feel free to check out the links below! THE CONTINUATION OF THIS RANGE GETS US ONE STEP CLOSER TO EIGHTH DOCTOR BOOK ADAPTATIONS. I NEED FITZ AND EIGHT YOU GUYS.

Link to Goth Opera page: https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-goth-opera-2998

Link to previous Novel Adaptations: https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/doctor-who---novel-adaptations

#doctor who #dweu #doctor who expanded universe #nyssa #virgin missing adventures #tegan jovanka #5th doctor #peter davison #big finish #big finish productions #classic doctor who #virgin new adventures #bernice summerfield

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yowzeight · 9 months

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girls be like I'm really normal about doctor who then proceeds to tell you the difference between EDAs 8DAs PDAs and VNAs

#dw #eighth doctor #edas #eighth doctor adventures #8das #vnas #pdas #virgin new adventures #past doctor adventures #8th doctor adventures #big finish #dweu #doctor who #doctor who expanded universe

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vivvision · 3 months

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It'll never not amaze me the depths and vast expansive-ness of Doctor Who spin-off content. Can any other fandom or show truly say that they have a 'universe' in the same way that Doctor Who does? You have decades of audio dramas, licensed, partially licensed, and unlicensed. Books about the main character, books about the main characters friends, books about timelines that never were or might have been! Movies with villains from the show and promotional shorts that occupy a secret third special place between plain fun and actual canon. Is all of it canon? Is none of it canon besides the show? Are only the bits we like canon? YOU decide, because you have decades and mountains and worlds to choose from.

Not to mention that this all gives fans the easiest in to make fan-content, fan doctors, etc and they do, hundreds of them! They have been for decades!

The Whoniverse is ever expanding, vast in a way that few can truly grasp onto, and you'll never be done discovering it. I'll never not be in awe of it.

#doctor who #doctor who eu #the whoniverse #torchwood #faction paradox #gallifrey audios #bernice summerfield #the Sarah Jane adventures #Forgotten lives #morbius doctors #iris wildthyme #jago and litefoot #doctor who vnas #virgin new adventures

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someotherthingsanstuff · 7 months

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90's who was wild and weird.

#doctor who #classic doctor who #doctor who fan art #classic who #doctor who art #ace mcshane #dr who #fan art #virgin new adventures #7th doctor #sylvester mccoy #lisa bowerman #bernice summerfield #dweu #doctor who eu #RTD had the doctor do coke an just shoot the villain.#90's who was wild and weird #photomanipulation

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legok9 · 8 days

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I've never seen a more prophetic trading card:

The New Adventures

Are the New Adventures novels "real" in the context of the show? Generally, only the primary medium and author of a work are considered canonical; for example, only printed stories by Arthur Conan Doyle form the Sherlock Holmes "canon." But in the years since the Seventh Doctor's final stories aired in 1989, there has been no new Who in its primary medium of television, and nine of the New Adventures published to date are by the same writers as the tv adventures. Some fans believe that only the 1963-1989 tv series should be considered canon, while others believe that the New Adventures and Missing Adventures novels should be provisionally accepted as "real"—at least until the Doctor returns to tv (we hope!). Only in printed media do we find such latter-day companions as Bernice Summerfield et al to read about and enjoy. Whether she's real or not, one thing is certain: the Doctor's adventures continue, somehow, somewhere.

#doctor who #classic doctor who #7th doctor #seventh doctor #bernice summerfield #virgin new adventures #VNAs

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dalesramblingsblog · 5 months

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Your friendly reminder that the first thing Russell T. Davies did when he wrote a Doctor Who book back in 1996 was to immediately make the Doctor's buff himbo companion have steamy gay sex in the back of a car.

If you're going to complain that he somehow "went woke" by including an acknowledgment of the existence of trans people, then I'm sorry but you just haven't been paying attention, and you will be pointed at and laughed.

This is not negotiable.

#doctor who #russell t davies #virgin new adventures

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wgough42 · 8 months

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Discuss

#Seventh Doctor #Ace McShane #Bernice Summerfield #Chris Cwej #Roz Forrester #VNAs #virgin new adventures #Doctor Who

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eriktheshitmusician · 26 days

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Reading 'Where Angels Fear' and Brax is there like *leans threateningly* ....im like ...not even half the book in and its already breaking me into furious drawing time

#doctor who #bernice summerfield #bernice summerfield books #virgin new adventures #bernice summerfield fanart #irving braxiatel #Renée Thalia #my art

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doolallymagpie · 7 months

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two thoughts about human nature (the dr whomst episode):

martha should've got a fun edwardian outfit

it should've happened simultaneously with the book, and martha and benny should've got together every now and then to talk shit about compare notes on their respective Doctors Who

#also: 3. martha/benny. if you even care.#doctor who #doctor who expanded universe #virgin new adventures #doctor who new adventures #human nature #the family of blood #seventh doctor #bernice summerfield #tenth doctor #martha jones

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a-wartime-paradox · 1 year

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My NEW mapping for the Doctor's incarnations!

After showing off my old version of the "doctor mapping" on the Doctor Who Discord, Bongo50 showed me this app, DrawExpress. I subsequently spent 5 hours of the next day creating this, and the next week slowly adding to it. The PNG here is very poor quality, but I have a PDF attached which is amazing quality (as Tumblr doesn't allow files to be uploaded afaik, I'll attach a drive link).

Here's the link!

Anyway, the incarnations I think I added since last time are:

All three incarnations of Intrepid instead of just one

The Nth Doctor and his predecessor from Audio Visuals

The Stranger and the Professor from BBV Productions

Doctor Omega, El Jefe, and Dr. Who (King Kong Escapes)

As always, I very much appreciate any feedback!

#doctor who #dw #dweu #doctor who expanded universe #whoniverse #the doctor's timeline #the doctor's life #the doctor is half human #eighth doctor adventures #classic who #new who #virgin new adventures #faction paradox #arcbeatle press #chibnal era #all doctors

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geronimomo-spd · 11 months

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listen i do not know much about Lungbarrow, but jesus christ is the idea of Otherstide as a Galiffrayen festival the Doctor celebrated, and probably had little to no feelings about, is fucking hilerios

its like celebrating Christmas, not caring much about it, only to discover you are the reincarnation of Jesus himself

#doctor who #dw #vna #virgin new adventures #lungbarrow #i don't go here usually but that is fucking hilerios #like pick a struggle

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casasupernovas · 2 years

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i realised that the reason doctor who series 3 doesn't work as well as it should is because it focuses on the doctor instead of the companion. series 1 in my opinion is the best series of the rtd era and it's because there is so much attention to detail to the companion. which is something the show had never done before. this is also why series 4 works so well. everything about rose is cultivated. her homelife, job, social life, community, family, everything. which is disturbed and re-shaped by her meeting the doctor. the story is about rose but revolves around the doctor.

series 3 is too self involved with the doctor. the companion is the audience's eyes but not nearly enough attention or detail is paid to martha. she's the only companion with biggest family but has the least amount of episodes dedicated to them. rose and donna's stories are built around their lives and why they make the decisions they do and not nearly enough time is dedicated to martha in this way.

it's also why so many of the stories have martha away from the doctor. it's focused on the doctor and the doctor is emotionally distant and not paying attention, so martha is seperated from him a lot. not to mention martha is written to be in love with him which only focuses the story on him more. most martha centric scenes will only discuss this. there's no balance.

the narrative is so focused on this that martha gets no grace for most episodes. it's too busy focusing on the doctor's heartbreak to point out that martha cannot possibly understand or know because she's in the dark for most of the episodes (she doesn't find out what happened to rose until utopia) and it's not like the doctor ever asks martha about her life. ever. and i understand that the point of series 3 is to show that the doctor was being unfair to martha and this is why he loses her but i still don't like it. because for that to work we need consequences, and i suppose martha leaving is a consequence, but no one apart from martha and jack call him out.

he's rude to her in almost every episode but no one calls him out. even when rose (and the doctor) were behaving badly they got called out. mickey calls rose out. jackie calls her out. there's a tiny mention in 'voyage of the damned.' a brief mention in partners in crime suggest accountability but again she's never focused on when she really should have been. especially if we are working from the point of donna changing her mind from being terrified before.

we can have a whole series with rose's impact lingering but not for martha apparently. in fact, in a weird twist, the doctor tries to turn it on martha instead in 'the sontaran strategem' in him disapproving that she has become a soldier. the actual audacity. he should be feeling shame not distaste. you can't have the doctor confess to ruining her life only to turn up his nose to the consequences in the same season.

no one is in martha's corner so she has to do it all by herself, and it sucks to watch martha eventually stop trying by the end of her season. and while this is a bit off tangent but i never really liked the 'get out' analogy martha uses at the end because the man who is oblivious to a girls affections is a huge understatement to what actually happened between the two.

anyway, focusing on the doctor is an interesting concept but ultimately, at least in my opinion, doesn't work because a show about time travel and aliens etc etc will work best through the eyes of those who do not know that those worlds exists aka the companion. again, season 1 displays this perfectly.

i also think the doctor works the best when he is kept mysterious, and i think we know too much of what the doctor is thinking in series 3. i would have preferred more ambiguity because we can never truly pinpoint a character like that, someone who has lived so many lives, lived for so long. you can never quite out your finger on what he is thinking. in the 90s when they were writing the books, it was an rule to never put in a doctor pov because he was to remain a mystery and i wholeheartedly agree. i always think that the tenth doctor is the one with this most prominent problem. i can argue enough ambiguity for classic and 9, 11, 12 & 13. they're all quite impersonal and while 9's emotions are plainly written on his face, the presentation of his past and present in his stories still leave a lot of mystery i think.

i think david tennant is good enough an actor to pull off this mysteriousness, but i still think he is quite easy to read in series 3 and i'm not sure how much i like this narrative decision. i think despite the obvious love story in the second series, there was a uncertainty sometimes of what sort of person he had regenerated into. certainly the main theme of series 2 was that rose doesn't know much about him still.

i dunno, i'm not explaining myself very well.

anyways, these are my thoughts.

#doctor who #series 3 #series 1 #martha jones #rose tyler #donna noble #10th doctor #tenth doctor #rtd #criticism #?#kinda?#virgin new adventures #seventh doctor #jackie tyler #mickey smith

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73chn1c0l0rr3v3l · 1 year

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based on a conversation i had with my spouse, i'm curious about the overlap!

#doctor who #torchwood #virgin new adventures

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pluralzalpha · 8 months

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Galactic Gazetteer: The Worldsphere

Type: Dyson sphere

Suns contained: one

Planets contained: one, Whynot

Diameter: 1 AU

Population: 2 trillion

Inhabitants: the People (organic and synthetic collective)

Capital: iSanti Jeni

Visited by: the Seventh Doctor, Benny, Roz and Chris

Appearance: "The Also People" (1995 novel)

Fun fact: the People are a pastiche of Iain M. Banks's Culture.

#doctor who #galactic gazetteer #virgin new adventures #seventh doctor #bernice summerfield #dyson sphere #the people and the also people

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catboycephalopod · 7 months

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I'm building a VNA collection and I just got a copy of Lungbarrow off of ebay for what I thought was a great deal but I took it out of the package and it was new, like NEW new. And it says its a 2015 reproduction??? I can't find any online, I know its not an official reprint but did somebody just make this???? It was like $100+ bucks so I feel a bit bummed about it? Honestly I just want to know where this came from LMAO