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Post by magnusgreel on Jul 14, 2009 7:07:11 GMT
Is Nightshade one the of the earliest NAs? I might have listened to it...
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Post by Abbyromana on Jul 14, 2009 20:01:48 GMT
Is Nightshade one the of the earliest NAs? I might have listened to it... NAs? What is that?
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Post by jjpor on Jul 14, 2009 22:07:52 GMT
The NAs are the New Adventures, the novel range that Virgin Publishing started putting out a couple of years after oldschool Who kicked, and which ended I think in 1996 at the time of the TV Movie, when the BBC decided there was money to be made in taking the rights back and publishing novels themselves. Which led us to the EDAs, which are a whole 'nother story...
And, yes, Magnus, I think it was quite early on in the range, maybe the seventh or eighth book in the series? It's the one with the radiotelescope and the washed-up science fiction actor, and Ace finding what may have been her first love interest in the NA range, but would by no means be the last...
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Post by Abbyromana on Jul 14, 2009 22:22:50 GMT
And, yes, Magnus, I think it was quite early on in the range, maybe the seventh or eighth book in the series? It's the one with the radiotelescope and the washed-up science fiction actor, and Ace finding what may have been her first love interest in the NA range, but would by no means be the last... Actually, Jjpor, Ace found love in both the Fenric story and in the book "Loving the Alien," where she actually becomes pregnant by this lover.
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Post by jjpor on Jul 15, 2009 21:52:19 GMT
But I thought she and Captain Sorin were just good friends?! And that sentry hardly counted... ;D
"Loving the Alien" was one of the PDAs, wasn't it? I don't know if I've read that one...was it the one with Cybermen in WW2, or am I completely off the mark there?
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Post by Abbyromana on Jul 15, 2009 22:07:12 GMT
But I thought she and Captain Sorin were just good friends?! And that sentry hardly counted... ;D "Loving the Alien" was one of the PDAs, wasn't it? I don't know if I've read that one...was it the one with Cybermen in WW2, or am I completely off the mark there? No, Cybermen that I recall from reading it. I can't say it was actually a story I enjoyed with how the write took the character of Ace, but it did inspire me a bit for my Divided Bonds story with Ace and Seven. This story takes place during the early 1900s and includes *SPOILERS* [white] the murder and reincarnation of Ace and a temporal anomally.[/white] I'd rate the story of Loving the Alien a 2 out of 5. It's interesting, gives Seven some more depth and thought, particularly concerning his past... also introduces the idea that the Doctor can get drunk but only if he wants to get drunk, which I think is interesting.... considering Girl in the Fireplace scene with the drunk dancing Ten.
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Post by jjpor on Jul 15, 2009 22:17:35 GMT
It sounds interesting enough to give it a read if I ever see it on sale at a reasonable sort of price. Ace wasn't particularly well-served in most of the original novels she was in, in my opinion. The early NAs were mostly okay in their portrayal of her, but then went badly off the rails until she was unrecognisable. I think they thought it was character growth or something, as if she had not had plenty in the TV stories.
The subject of the Doctor and alcohol is an interesting one; I mean, if aspirin can kill him (althought that assumes Four was telling the truth, which is not a given)... Was Ten drunk or pretending to be drunk?
Now I want to know what the WW2 Cyberman one was called...
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Post by clocketpatch on Jul 15, 2009 22:55:44 GMT
It was Three, not Four, and given the circumstances I'm pretty sure he was telling the truth... though, incidentally, I don't think it's ever really specified that the pill /was/ aspirin. I think fandom came up with that all on its own.
Anyway, on topic of drunk!Doctor, in one of the audios (it's a Fivey one... and I think Jon Culshaw was pretending to be Four at some point too... anyway)... in an audio he reveals that he can get drunk off of ginger beer without meaning to.
the idea of the Doctor getting drunk off of pop amuses me greatly.
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Post by jjpor on Jul 16, 2009 21:16:39 GMT
LOL - yeah, I'm envisaging some awkward social situation now, with the Doctor embarrassing himself in front of some large gathering of people...a kids' birthday party or somehthing... (although the only place the Doctor seems to end up at things like kids' birthday parties is in the more sappy sort of Ten/Rose fic)
Yeah, Three with the aspirin, but I was thinking of a scene in, I think, the Invisible Enemy, when Four comes out with something similar. And I can't now remember what it was...I'm going to have to watch it again now...
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