#unit: extinction

[agenderhyde]

"everyone wants to talk about dad today 🙄"

[jewishjanetandco]

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Cork popping, champagne pouring.

Jenna: Welcome! Welcome, all. Do take a glass of champagne, have yourself a nibble! We'll be moving through to the auditorium shortly.

Jacqui: well, I don't know all this fanfare for a printer! Kate: Mr. Devlin certainly likes to put on a show. Jacqui: would you mind holding my glass for a moment? I need to rearrange my buffet selection. Kate: Of course. Jacqui: Thank you. Here.

clinking glasses.

Jacqui: sorry, is that one mine? Kate: this one, with the lipstick. Jacqui: of course, thank you. Um... you're not wearing a badge. Kate: I don't do labels -- you can't always trust them.

voices chattering in the background

Jacqui: I'm sorry? Kate: You're not Leslie Morris. I know Leslie Morris. Leslie Morris is almost sixty, silver hair, 5'11"... and he's a man. Jacqui: ...ah. You won't tell on me, will you, Ms. Stewart? Kate: that's very well informed. In fact, come to think of it, I do know your face.

Jacqui: Jacqui McGee, Orbit News. Kate: That's right! I've seen it in passing when we skip past en route to the movie channels. Aren't you normally a redhead? Jacqui: It's convincing, isn't it? Mm. When you're on TV, it's amazing how people don't look past the hair.

Kate: So, you know who I am? Jacqui: Of course I do, Ms. Stewart!

[scriptscribbles]

The weirdest part about the new UNIT audio coming out this month is that it's a reminder it's been two years since Big Finish released its first new series set. Two years since one of the first audios I ever pre-ordered! That's really surreal and makes me feel old. I've grown so much as a student, a writer, a critic, and a person in that time. Makes me feel that uneasy sense of the passage of time.

[elvisomar]

UNIT: SILENCED

From Big Finish Productions and the Worlds of Doctor Who

The capable UNIT team faces the Silence. I planned to listen to these four stories today while going for a nice long hike, but I seem to have forgotten all about it. Okay, I admit it, that’s a Silence joke. Pretty good stuff. I especially love Ingrid Oliver and Warren Brown in these. Ramon Tikaram is also excellent.

The creepiest thing about these is the similarities between the plan underway by the Silence, and real-life events. The mysterious Edvard Munch-like aliens enact a plot which seems to be intended to help a fascist, corporatist, idiot with no political experience become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It is not mentioned in the script whether this Kenneth LeBlanc person wears overly-long neck ties, but it was unnerving, nonetheless. 

This is not the best boxed set of Doctor Who-related dramas I’ve heard recently, but then the standards are extremely high from Big Finish, so I can definitely say I enjoyed them. Now that I’ve listened to this one, I can move on to the next UNIT box set which I’m even more excited about! 

UNIT: ASSEMBLED

UNIT: Assembled brings the modern-era UNIT team together with members of the UNIT family from the third Doctor’s era from the 1970s (or was it the 1980s?). Looks like they’ll be confronting Silurians.

If you want to give a listen to these, Big Finish has provided the first one-hour episode of the new series UNIT stories as a free download from their website.

UNIT: EXTINCTION  “VANGUARD” — FREE DOWNLOAD

[riversongssecondwife]

Look what came in the mail today!

[doctorwhodowntimeblog]

THE TRUTH SNAKE – Science Leads: Contextualizing and Interpreting UNIT: Extinction

UNIT: Extinction is a brave new start for Big Finish. Except, it isn’t. Except, it is. UNIT: Extinction is unavoidably beholden to so much that has come before. For one thing, it’s the …

Read @scriptscribbles‘s latest post for DoWntime, an essay on Big Finish’s “UNIT: Extinction”.  

[bonnissance]

friendly reminder that while Osgood might have grumbled and tried to talk Kate out of it, she secretly loved watching her boss give the order to run a tank over one of those tiny cubes, bc she’s always secretly hoping for the involvement of tanks.

[agenderhyde]

Kate: Josh!

Josh: lying down on the job again?

Kate: you know me! Any chance to put my feet up!