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TRANSFORMATION 2

25/5/2012

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The second issue of the British Transformers comic gets looked at HERE

The feedback so far has been extremely kind, so do keep your thoughts coming in.

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Transformation Launches.

19/5/2012

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A whole new exciting part of the blog kicks off today with the new Transformation section, looking at the full run of the British Transformers Full details and the first entry can be found here:

http://thesolarpool.weebly.com/transformation.html
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Doctor Who: 158 Wirrn Isle [Spoilers] 

18/5/2012

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Robert Holmes sells. According to Big Finish head honcho Nick Briggs pretty much anything containing something, however loosely, created by the former script editor during his run on the TV show will be guaranteed to sell better than the plays around it. Hence in 2012 alone we're getting, as well as the continuing solo adventures of Jago and Litefoot, returns for such diverse things as Nerva Beacon, the Sontarans, Magnus Greel (and Mr. Sin as well) and, in the final of this years Sixth Doctor trilogy, the nasty giant space insect Wirrn.

The story, by William Gallagher in his first four parter for the range, is something of an odd one. There's some good atmosphere and very nice ideas, but the dependence on technobabble and some fairly silly characters drag the thing off course before the end.



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Doctor Who: 157 The Fourth Wall [Big Finish Review, Spoilers]

16/5/2012

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After an extremely faltering start in The Curse of Davros new companion “Flip” really needed a strong second story to properly establish her character. Like Jonathan Morris last month author John Dorney is part of the Big Finish writers rep. Indeed, he also script edits for them, acts for them and no doubt writes and sings the theme tune. Oddly despite being a regular for them I've only previously encountered his one episode story Special Features on the 2010 anthology release.

However, The Fourth Wall, his first full story for the main range, happened to come out around the same time as a little spurt of work from him that wound up in my CD player, including a very good Lost Story for the fifth Doctor, a very good Lost Story for the forth Doctor and a decent in flawed historical for the Fourth Doctor Adventures. Anyone who posts on Gallifrey Base will have run across him in the audio sub forum as well, his posts, though not always ones I agree with, show someone who is clearly overflowing for enthusiasm for his work, and that clearly shows in most of his output. And unlike the otherwise usually equally excellent Morris he's much stronger at “Real” sounding characters, meaning Flip stood a much better chance of not being a one dimensional cipher this time round.



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Avenging Angels [SPOILERS]

12/5/2012

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The road to bringing The Avengers (and no, I'm not going to use the UK title on the quite sensible grounds that no one actually says “Avengers Assemble!” once in the entire movie) to the screen has been a very long one, covering five movies over four years and an immense amount of ball juggling to get us to the point where Joss Whedon's movie picks up.

I've enjoyed the set up films, the worst is the poor unloved Incredible Hulk and that's more a bit dull in places than outright terrible. But Captain America and Thor were never as engaging nor as fun as Robert Downey Jr's career saving performance as Tony Stark. If The Avengers was going to be a successful team movie it needed to be more than just Iron Man and Some Other People. It actually almost succeeds at that, even if some super heroes are still more equal than others.



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