[Doctor Who] Destiny of the Doctor (50th Anniversary Audio Series)

Pour fêter les 50 ans de Doctor Who, Big Finish production (société indépendante) et AudioGO (qui appartient à la BBC) s'associent pour la première fois pour une collection inédite de 11 aventures audio.

Ces aventures, parues au rythme de une par mois de janvier à novembre 2013, se centrent chacune sur un Docteur différent, du premier au onzième, mais ont la particularité de former, une fois réunies, une seule grand histoire. Le lien qui les unit reste cependant assez ténu pour que l'on puisse ne piocher que "certains docteurs".
Elles se présentent sous la forme d'un audiobook lu presque systématiquement par l'acteur interprétant le compagnon de l'aventure, accompagné d'un second acteur qui reprend l'un des rôles secondaires.

Cette association unique a également trois conséquences importantes:
- certains compagnons créés par Big Finish (comme Charley Pollard par exemple) apparaissent ici pour la première fois dans un produit officiellement licencié BBC.
- Big Finish a pu pour la première fois utiliser le matériel fourni par la nouvelle série en produisant une aventure pour les 9e, 10e et 11e Docteur et en proposant plusieurs références à leurs aventures dans les audios des autres Docteurs.
- En septembre est paru simultanément le Destiny of the Doctor du 9e Docteur et l'e-nouvelle de la BBC qui lui est consacré. Ce sont les toutes premières histoires inédites de ce Docteur tous supports confondus depuis que Christopher Eccleston a quitté la série en 2005.


Vous pouvez commander ces audios à la pièce notamment sur les sites de Big Finish et d'Audiogo (mais aussi sur Amazon, etc) ou attendre l'édition intégrale qui paraîtra en Novembre et qui contiendra bonus exclusifs et fourreau inédit. A noter une offre à la précommande de -45% sur Amazon

Shoreditch, London, 1963. The Beatles have beaten John Smith and the Common Men to No. 1 and satellites are being launched in outer space. Back down on Earth, strange goings-on are occurring: the normally placid teenagers of Coal Hill are running riot and a master thief is stealing highly specialised equipment. Schoolgirl Susan Foreman just wants an easy life for herself and her grandfather, the mysterious Doctor. She wants to be liked and accepted by Cedric and all the other pupils at Coal Hill School. But there’s trouble in the streets and bombsites around Totter’s Lane. The teenagers are becoming dangerous… Their mission: to hunt down anyone different, or alien… Susan’s quiet life is about to spiral out of control. Having inadvertently started drawing attention to herself, she finds herself drawn into a desperate situation. Suddenly, the chase is on and she and her grandfather are now the hunted.

Following an emergency landing, the TARDIS arrives on a remote world orbiting a peculiar star – a pulsar which exerts an enormous gravitational force, strong enough to warp time. On further exploration the Doctor and his friends, Jamie and Zoe, discover a human outpost on the planet surface, inhabited by scientists who are there to study an ancient city. The city is apparently abandoned, but the scientists are at a loss to explain what happened to its sophisticated alien architects. The Doctor discovers that something dark, silent and deadly is also present on the world - and it is slowly closing in on the human intruders...

Two RAF fighter jets are on a training flight over North East Scotland when one of them is plucked from the air and promptly disappears. UNIT are called in, and the Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart are soon on the scene. They enlist the help of a local military officer - a young lieutenant by the name of Mike Yates. The Doctor discovers a link to the recumbent stone circles that are plentiful in this part of Scotland. The stones are thousands of years old, and are soon revealed to hold a terrible secret. Then Mike Yates disappears, abducted by an alien race that has a grievance with humanity. Their intention is to harness the power of the stones in order to take their revenge. For the Doctor and the Brigadier, the race is now on to save their new friend Mike and the entire planet Earth.

The violent, volcanic world of Hephastos is home to a colony of composers, painters, authors and poets, all striving to create the greatest works of art the universe has ever seen. But in pursuit of their goal, artistic collaboration has been taken a stage too far... When the Doctor and Romana arrive, they discover the colonists have neglected their well-being and their once beautiful habitat, which has now succumbed to decay, and they are enslaved to the Babble network which occupies their every waking moment. Every thought, however trivial or insignificant , is shared with everyone else and privacy is now a crime. The colonists are being killed and the Doctor and Romana begin to suspect that a malevolent intelligence is at work. With time running out, the two time travellers race to discover the truth before they too are absorbed into the endless trivia of the Babblesphere...

The Doctor answers a psionic distress call being sent from England in the 1920s. There, in the environs of a fairground, he is reunited with an old friend: Harry Houdini. To Adric and Nyssa the name means very little, but to the Doctor’s companion Tegan he is a legend. Escape artist extraordinaire, Houdini’s reputation will last for decades. But how come Harry knows so much about Tegan herself? Is it really just guesswork, as he says? Is Harry right to be concerned about the fairground’s fortune teller, who claims to have supernatural skills? Both he and the Doctor suspect an alien influence they know of old. What neither the Doctor nor his friends realise is that, somewhere in the shadows, a far more sinister and familiar presence is lying in wait for them…

Responding to a desperate summons from the Doctor's future self, he and Peri find themselves on a sailing ship in 1492, where the crewmen are gripped by superstitious fear. They say the Devil walks among them, stalking and striking them down. Even though they have landed in paradise, they fear that 'El Diablo' himself will drag them over the edge of the world and into the depths of Hell. When the Doctor and Peri meet the captain of the ship, they both discover that heroes can sometimes behave unheroically. Peri's reaction leads her into deep water, and soon the Doctor fears not only for her life but also for the existence of the ship, the paradise island, and the universe itself...

In the far future, the inhabitants of Tarsus Six face a desperate struggle to evacuate their world before their sun, Tarsus Ultra, collapses into a cataclysmic spatial anomaly. When the Doctor navigates the TARDIS to a space station orbiting Tarsus Six, Ace assumes that he intends offer their assistance. But it soon becomes clear that the Doctor has an agenda of his own. With the TARDIS immobilised, Ace realises that their own lives are as much in danger as those of the fleeing inhabitants. The race is on to escape the destruction of Tarsus Six and the devastating shockwave that will follow, reaching out and destroying everything in its wake.

1935: a message from a Time Lord in trouble sends the Eighth Doctor and Charlotte ‘Charley’ Pollard to the streets of London’s West End, in search of a mysterious alien adversary – unaware that something monstrous is already on their trail. They soon discover that an insidious conspiracy is indeed at work, its tentacles extending the length of the British Isles. Proving its existence won’t be easy, however, after a confrontation in a music hall ends up with the Doctor under arrest and Charley on the run, suspected of murder. All their hopes rest in a musical clue and a man named Hilary – neither of which are much consolation, with the two time travellers the object of a nationwide manhunt. And all the while, the enemy aliens are drawing closer and closer still…

New Vegas, 23rd Century – a sprawling city huddling beneath an artificial atmospheric bubble on a distant moon. Pleasure seekers flock there from every corner of the galaxy, to take in the shows and play the tables in the huge casinos. But beneath the glitz and the glitter, organised crime rules the streets. Whilst Rose Tyler works as a waitress in the Full Moon nightclub, Jack Harkness poses as a reporter for the Daily Galaxy. Meanwhile, the Doctor is helping the police department with their investigation into The Whisper, a strange vigilante that has been terrorising the city’s underworld. But the Doctor is also on a mission of his own – to save Police Chief McNeil’s life at all costs.

Responding to multiple maydays, the TARDIS lands on the planet of Death’s Deal, but the distress calls are old, the final echoes of terrified lost souls. This is an exotic world of lethal creatures, nicknamed ‘The Deadliest Planet in the Galaxy’, and only the brave, foolhardy or greedy would ever dare to visit. Finding themselves stranded among a motley bunch of space-tourists, the Doctor and Donna must lead a struggle for survival against the frenzied wildlife, as they slowly realise that other members of the group have very different agendas. And soon the Doctor learns of an even bigger threat hiding on Death’s Deal. Somewhere deep below the surface, is something that must never be unearthed. Time is running out, and only an impossible survivor holds the key…

23 November 2013. In an Oxford laboratory, graduate Alice Watson helps Professor Chivers assemble the final pieces of an impossible machine. A time machine. The scientist and his assistant believe they are making history, little suspecting that the project’s completion will threaten the existence of the entire universe. But someone has sensed the danger, and when the mysterious Doctor arrives, Alice is taken on a desperate race from libraries and dreaming spires all the way to the nightmare world of Earth’s future. The monstrous Creevix are coming. They seek control of time itself and are certain that the Doctor is already too late to stop them.  But can the key to saving the future lie in the Time Lord’s past lives?

oh le joli post   

Ah ben je suis contente qu'il te plaise, parce que j'ai eu un mal fou à trouver comment l'organiser

J'en profite pour parler de mes écoutes, j'en suis au 7-et-demi, mais je n'ai écrit de review que pour le premier, je m'en vais la copier-coller ci-dessous.
J'ai eu du mal à m'habituer à ce qu'Eleven "pop up" au milieu de mes big finish, mais une fois qu'on s'y fait on finit par attendre avec impatience qu'il déboule (ce que n'est plus bien long vu que sur les derniers il arrive dans les 3 premières minutes  ).
Mais dans l'ensemble, si la première histoire est vraiment la plus faible, les autres aventures sont toutes assez simples mais très funs. Très très dans l'esprit de chaque ère - et donc j'ai beaucoup moins aimé la 3e mais je sais qu'elle est de bonne qualité, c'est juste que le 3e Docteur et UNIT, c'est pas du tout mon turc. J'ai adoré la 4e parce que Lalla Ward et Romana, même si certes le tacle sur notre société toute en réseaux sociaux est fait avec l'élégance d'un mammouth  
Et tous ceux qui écouteront la 2e histoire feront la même sempiternelle remarque que l'on fait à chaque audio lu par Frazer Hynes: bon sang de bon sang de bois, mais c'est un truc de malade à quel point son imitation de Two, C'EST TWO!!!  



Enfin, mon gratte-gratte sur l'épisode 1: Hunters of Earth




Un démarrage sympathique mais sans plus pour cette nouvelle série. Une histoire simple qui avance en ligne droite - rare chez big finish, beaucoup moins chez audioGO - pourtant ce sont bien les premiers qui tiennent la barre. Mais l'avantage de l'association est qu'il se passe quelque chose que l'on avait jamais eu chez Big Finish: y a des références directes à la nouvelle série dites donc!

A part ça, on est pré An Unearthly Child, et le décor et l'époque sont bien rendus - c'est un bon point.
Susan qui se fait remarquer à l'école et qui attire l'attention d'un prof, ça a l'inconvénient qu'on met un moment à se débarrasser du goût de déjà vu.
Le Docteur ronchonne, bougonne, et méprise l'humanité. Ca va, c'est bien monsieur le premier. Il vole, aussi. Parce qu'acheter, c'est trop commun. Sauf s'il achète chez Magpie Electrical Shop.

On aborde le sujet de la peur de l'autre, de la peur de l'étranger, de l'omniprésence d'un racisme et d'un nationalisme encore fort prononcé. C'est pas toujours d'une subtilité sans failles mais pourquoi pas.


Sorti de ça, pas grand chose à dire sur cet audio dont seule la petite intrusion de l'arc à long terme au milieu de l'histoire m'aura satisfaite. Ce message que le Docteur laisse à la radio, hein, on est d'accord que c'est pas One       (ça m 'a rappelé la conversation radio d'Ace et Seven dans the Fearmonger tiens).
Par contre Susan qui se la joue Madame Irma à la fin ça m'a laissé de marbre: ça n'a rien à foutre au milieu du reste et bon, "un grand danger te guette dans 1214 ans", voilà la menace immédiate quoi    )

ça donne très envie tout ça, merci Mel , je vais peut-être profiter de ma "convalescence" forcée de cette semaine pour essayer un audio drama DW tiens