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Okay, but can we talk about the audio dramas?

You have my attention, anon. Do go on.

1.) Evelyn Smythe.
2.) Lucie Miller.
3.) Bang-Bang-a-Boom!

1) One of the best companions ever.
2) /quietly sobs
3) It's...interesting. Very amusing, at least. I'm not always a fan of their comedic audios, but I love that they give it a shot. And what could be funnier than the Doctor stuck in the middle of the sci-fi equivalent of the Eurovision Song Contest?

What about them?

They're pretty goddamned good, that's what. I actually got into them after some lovely anons here recommended them to me some time ago.

Come on now, anon. Don't tease us.

Magenta's actress and the Seventh Doctor.

Flirting.

Wow, and here I thought I knew everything there is about the audios. I must be out of the loop somewhere.

Who's Magenta and her actress?

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Give me your audio recommendations, anons! :3

Let me try to think of ones that don't totally require listening to previous episodes to get it.

Chimes of Midnight has some arc-heavy moments in it, but it's fairly early in the arc and they explain it well enough that you can get the gist and not be totally confused.

I'd recommend Scherzo as well, but it's kind of the opposite. It's at the end of the arc and you have to at least listen to the two previous audios (Neverland and Zagreus) to get the full impact. It's so good, though, it might be worth it.

Pretty much all of the Gallifrey spinoff. Good stuff, if you like political intrigue and wonder how cool it would be to have Romana as the President of Gallifrey. (Also features the Doctor's brother, Braxiatel, who is just too smooth and awesome for words.)

For a fun taste of Lucie Miller, I'd suggest Max Warp. Does that sound like a silly sci-fi parody of Top Gear? It is, and it's hilarious.

Live 34. I love when Big Finish goes experimental, and this is definitely one of those. Basically it's an audio play set up completely like a broadcast from a news radio station. Features Seven and Ace, along with the original cute male nurse companion, Hex.

The One Doctor. A Six and Mel audio that is absolutely insane and hilarious. There's a charlatan running around pretending to be the Doctor, but he's got a lot of information wrong. Not that anyone notices, because most people have only heard of the Doctor through reputation, not actually seeing him. It even employs the "TARDIS looks kinda like a portapotty" joke. Take nothing of this one seriously and enjoy the ride.

Definitely seconding Chimes of Midnight. If you like that one, the author did another one, Jubilee, that's also relatively stand-alone and just as good. It's Six and Evelyn and really, you gotta listen to at least one with Evelyn because she's cool. fun fact: the New Who episode Dalek is partly based on Jubliee.

Fourty Five is a series of four smaller stand alone stories that are all pretty good. It's Seven, Ace, and Hex.

I remember liking Loups-Garoux but it's early in the Big Finish range, so you've got some early installment weirdness going on. still, can't knock werewolves.

The Companion Chronicles is a spin-off series that features one of the companion actors narrating a story their companion's in. The Scorchies is a hilarious Jo Grant one where she's stuck in sort of children's puppet programming from hell—Find and Replace is another good Jo companion chronicle. Peri and the Piscon Paradox is another good companion chronicles but fair warning, it will make you cry.

I've heard a lot of good things about the audio Spare Parts myself, though I haven't actually listened to it. I've also heard good things about The Natural History of Fear but it's smack in the middle of a story arc.

Ha, Big Finish makes both RTD and Steven Moffat look like amateurs when it comes to ripping your heart out and laughing at your misery as they stomp all over it. Just listen to the two-parter Lucie Miller/To The Death. Hooooooly crap.

I can't believe I'd forgotten Loups-Garoux. It's amazing, I think. I love how unique and fascinating the werewolf culture was. They weren't just generic werewolves. Also, I've always found Turlough to be a fascinating companion, and his interaction with the other characters in this audio is great.

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Don't worry about the Natural History of Fear being in the middle of an arc, it's pretty standalone. As long as you've heard at least one other Eight/Charley audio you should be fine. All you really need to know is that the Doctor picked up a new alien companion called C'Rizz shortly before the episode. You might get a little more out of it if you've heard another C'Rizz audio but most of them are awful so probably don't go that far.

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Jubilee is a great one. So is Arrangements for War, but that's not a stand-alone ep.

Gallifrey. It's fabulous. I know only a very few people who play from it.

there needs to be more narvins around here.

not that i blame people for not playing him, though. it's a bitch to get icons of him.

Sympathy for the Devil is an awesome what-if story where an alt!Three lands in the 90s instead of the 70s, so every Third Doctor story goes terribly wrong. It features a disgraced Brigadier as the companion and probably one of my all time favorite Master/Doctor conversations.

Invaders from Mars is an amazing pastiche of 1930s radio dramas--particularly War of the Worlds--and has Eight doing terrible impressions of noir detectives. Orson Welles is a major character.

The Kingmaker is essentially Doctor Who does Blackadder. Imagine Richard III (who sounds eerily like Christopher Eccleston) having been hounded by time travelers all his life, pestering him with questions about why he murdered the Princes. Now imagine Five getting involved in it.

The Wormery requires a decent amount of knowledge of Six's era to fully enjoy, but it's ridiculous and silly and the overarching theme is Iris Wildthyme's terrible karaoke skills. Big Finish is a trip, yo.

Like everyone else is saying, Chimes of Midnight. It'll make more sense if you listen to Storm Warning first but Storm Warning isn't super great quality. Seasons of Fear is another really great Charley/Eight audio that comes a little bit after Chimes of Midnight.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned the 10/Donna audios that are out now, those are pretty great too. They might not be anything super special plotwise but 10 and Donna is one of my favourite pairs and it was just so amazing to hear them together again. Tate and Tennant haven't lost their chemistry at all and it translates into audio beautifully.

Similarly, the Diary of River Song is also great if you like River (which I do but I know opinions are divided). It does fall a little bit into the trap of treating her exactly the same as the Doctor but there are a few bits especially in the later episodes of it where her solutions to problems are very distinctly River solutions and not Doctor ones.

Spare Parts and Jubilee are typical recommendations and are also really good even as standalones.

i'm just happy they got the rights to torchwood.

That's right, they did! Are they going to be canon to the series, like the Doctor Who audios are?

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also the rights to some other New Who stuff. I'm saving up some money for Diary of River Song because Big Finish has a great track record of rehabilitating companions I don't like and I wanna see what they do with her.

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Anons, what are your favorite audio moments?

Five trying to teach the real Musketeers the "All for one and one for all" cheer from the Three Musketeers. (Church and Crown)

That correspondence through time between Peri and Erimem and the Doctor, with a sorta kinda cameo from Nine, with a reference to "A Northern chap with big ears" who left them a letter. (The Kingmaker)

Pretty much every time each Doctor and their companion received a message from Eleven in those Destiny of the Doctor Companion Chronicles. Their reactions were priceless.

The flushing toilet sound every time the STARDIS took off. (The One Doctor)

And for pure feels:

"OF COURSE I LOVED YOU!" (Scherzo)

"LUCIE BLEEDIN' MILLEEEEERRRRR!" (To the Death)

From the Diary of River Song: River getting especially mad at the bad guys not just because they're messing with the Doctor but because they're messing with Eight in particular and he's so nice and gentle and kind how dare you do anything to that version of him

The whole of Scherzo

From Seasons of Fear: Eight having a small personal crisis because he's just realised he actually hates the bad guy enough that he wants to actually hurt him

Eighth Doctor Adventures: The Doctor realising what's actually going on in Human Resources and who he's just helped.

... I really love Eight, okay.

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