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48 Weeks to 50: Poll-of-Polls Countdown: Lungbarrow

Dec 22, 2012 17:21

Continuing my 50th Anniversary countdown of aggregated poll results for Doctor Who Books, TV Serials & Audio Dramas, with number 48:

( #48 Behind Cut )

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Comments 8

lyssie December 22 2012, 21:55:36 UTC

O.O Srsly? I've never even managed to read more than a few pages of Lungbarrow, and I assiduously collect (and love) the Virgin NAs.

(my vote is with No Future)

hammard December 22 2012, 23:03:37 UTC

I'm personally not a fan of Lungbarrow either and much prefer No Future (though my favourite is probably Blood Harvest).
However, I've met many Cartmellian superfans, which is probably why it gets moderately high. There are several other VNAs which are much higher.

a_phoenixdragon December 22 2012, 22:47:27 UTC

Of course, I read the synopsis and I want it...

*HEADDESK*

hammard December 22 2012, 23:08:26 UTC

Well either start saving or you can try to read an archived online version on the BBC website:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060613200827/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/lungbarrow/index.shtml

a_phoenixdragon December 22 2012, 23:26:01 UTC

You. Are. Amazing!!!

*SQUISHES YOU BREATHLESS!!*

*RUNS*

jjpor December 23 2012, 21:49:04 UTC

I like it fine - I like all of Marc Platt's weird takes on Gallifrey and its history and culture, mainly because I like my Gallifrey as strange as possible (LOOOMMMSS!) - but I'm not sure it's _that_ good. Mind you, I'm hard-pressed to think of any NAs that I'd consider so good they just had to make the top 50, as much as I do like the NAs generally. Human Nature, perhaps (but then I rate the TV remake with Ten too, more highly than most of the people I've spoken to about it online ( ... )

hammard December 24 2012, 09:37:12 UTC

I do like the VNAs, but I find them hard to compare myself as they are often so different. There a few more which appear on the list but not very many.

I actually don't even consider The Dying Days a VNA as it is so different. If I did it would probably by my favourite (or Cold Fusion, which is technically a VMA).

And we are all glad of it :) . As cool as the drudges are the whole story would never have worked well on TV.

jjpor December 26 2012, 22:29:07 UTC

It is very different from what the NAs had generally become by the end of the run, I agree. And that might be part of its charm. And the thing with Eight making a parachute/balloon out of bin-bags is audacious but so well set-up beforehand. Plus the Brig and Ice Warriors both portrayed excellently can't hurt. I find it very hard to believe that RTD hadn't read it before writing the first episode of Aliens of London/World War III, either. ;)

No, I don't think it could have - a wise choice. And I like Ghost Light a great deal just the way it is...