Doctor Who: The Library of Carsus discussion

As a sort of celebration (?) of news of the release of a Peladon box set from Big Finish. I created a list of Peladon books and audios. Come vote, if you’re so inspired.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Added the New Adventures novel Legacy to the list.

Sweet. Thanks! 😸

I added Seventh Doctor to the tags as well. When I find out which Doctors will appear in the box set Doctor Who: Peladon, I’ll add them as well, if they’re not already represented. I’m hoping for Eight and at least one from the new series will be included.

Rick wrote: "I added Seventh Doctor to the tags as well. When I find out which Doctors will appear in the box set Doctor Who: Peladon, I’ll add them as well, if they’re not already represented. ..."

My gut feeling is that it's likely either going to be a Doctor-less set or with only a single story featuring one. That's been the model for other sets (including Susan's War and the first River Song set).

Possibly. But other releases in this range include:
Doctor Who: The Light at the End
Doctor Who: The Legacy of Time
Doctor Who: Classic Doctors, New Monsters Volume 1
Doctor Who: Classic Doctors, New Monsters Volume 2
Doctor Who: The Four Doctors
Doctor Who: The Five Companions
Doctor Who: The Veiled Leopard
Doctor Who: Excelis Rising
Doctor Who: Excelis Decays
Doctor Who: Excelis Dawns

So there is a history of using the Doctors, and multiple Doctos, in the releases in this particular range. I’m hoping that the various Excelis releases and the Classic Doctors, New Monsters are going to be the format, but you could be right with Time War: Susan's War and the River Song series being the formula. We’ll see.

Big Finish has put up a new token cover for the box set



Much better than that crappy cut and paste they had for it previously. With Davison, C Baker, McCoy, McGann & T Baker’s faces cut out and slightly off size on their respective bodies.
It used as the top of the banner on the this page, but it’s not as noticeably bad here
https://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/do...

Rick wrote: "Much better than that crappy cut and paste they had for it previously. With Davison, C Baker, McC..."

The reason it looks so odd is because it was the 3D cover to the special edition release of The Light at the End. Owning it, I can say it looks a heck of a lot better in 3D than 2D. Though I suspect Big Finish use it as much as they do simply because it's got their four main Doctors all in one place.

“Flattening” it into 2D would definitely distort the image, not sure that’s all that was going but as I’m certainly no expert in 3D images (as I don’t really have 3D vision myself) I’ll give them a pass. Still, I like the new image better.

I’ve updated the information for the box set. River Song will appear in one story. And the Sixth and the Eighth Doctors will appear in one story each.

Matthew wrote: "My gut feeling is that it's likely either going to be a Doctor-less set or with only a single story featuring one. That's been the model for other sets (including Susan's War and the first River Song set).."

Well, I'll admit I was totally wrong about this one! Especially since, as you pointed out Rick, we're getting TWO Doctors and River Song in the set. As someone said on one of the Big Finish Facebook groups, it's interesting to see who they're using thanks to lockdown availability (which is why we've gotten next to no McCoy audios this year).

Matthew wrote: "… which is why we've gotten next to no McCoy audios this year..."

Yeah, I’ve heard he doesn’t have access to recording equipment or a sound booth. Let’s hope they can get him back in a recording studio soon.