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0:00 is there a future for the novel adaptations after golf Opera big finish might have said a few months ago but it was a one-off release but I didn't believe that for a single second absolute BS think about it how many times have big finish ended a range and then brought it back again too many times I have said this so many times you know what I'm am going to say golf Opera served to test the water to see if the Nova adaptations are good enough sales-wise to do more in the future and to me go op Pro is very faithful to the book we don't
0:47 know what's coming after golf Opera because big finish have been they haven't said anything about entertaining to continue another adaptations or how well sales did with golf Opera to us fans of the novel from the Wilderness years the only thing that could be said is hoping goth up achieve what it set out to do to bring that buzz that spark back let's say in a hypothetical Situation Big finish was satisfied with the sales numbers of go Opera and said we should do more let's entertain that hypothetical what would be next for the range moving forward and see adapted into a big finish audio first we will
1:32 start what is unlikely we will see with the Nova adaptations and that is anything in the BBC books range that includes past doar Adventures a doar adventures and the new series books too which go quite under the radar in the possibility of showing up in the range but I digress the reason being is simply due to the fact big Finnish don't have the right from the BBC to adapt these novels now I say unlikely not impossible because things could perhaps change behind the scenes in negotiation we just don't know about but when entertaining this hypothetical as much as I would love it to be a possibility my realistic side or pessimistic side perhaps it will never happen so for this video I am putting
2:18 them aside so what about the Virgin new adventures what would make sense and have the highest chance in my opinion in happening I am not basing this list on what I would love to be adapted but what I believe makes the most sense also to quickly add I think they shouldn't go Overkill and limit One release per year quality over quantity playing faithful while simultaneously make it appealing for new listeners who maybe aren't familiar with the version new adventures or missing Adventures that's the formula they need to hit and that's what they did with go Opera that's what goof Opera achieved so they need to keep keep the ball rolling if we have any hope of the
3:05 no adaptations to continue so I was going through the list of all the Virgin new adventures and missing adventures and I was sadly pretty doubtful in most of them not happening like time R and CS cradle it would only make sense in a box set format and even that would be pushing it and adapting one from a series but not the rest would be rather pointless and rather silly even if I think Exodus and revelation are freaking amazing and Paul Cornell seems very happy to do these adaptations with his books which gives light to Revelation it's connected to a series so it's doubtful but one Series in the new adventures that caught my eye was the alternate time cycle Arc which features blood heat the dimension Riders the
3:52 left-handed hummingbird conundrum a sequel to the m robber and no future written by Paul Cornell but focused on a whatif scenario story I believe these would be a great choice and give the Seventh Doctor a nice strong Arc within the novel adaptations range but it depends if the writers agree Jim mortimore the writer of blood heat he's a complete gent and a great guy of his what if scenario story of the soran winning the event of Doctor Who and the saluran is a cool concept writers like Daniel brive and Kate Orman have done work for big finish before so that's something to to consider and Steve Lions too has done contributions to Big finish many times so I think it's
4:39 a good series to do all the books in fact but I don't believe they have the highest chance out of some different picks I'm going to mention blood Harvest now we don't have the legend Teran sticks anymore that doesn't mean that the possibility is dead in the water there are still ways they could gain the rights by contacting the estate of Teran sticks to potentially Greenlight it that is the only hurdle it isn't a brick wall but a hdle it depends if big finish have a green light or a red flag realistically it makes sense because we just had golf Opera however the Nova adaptation did do a different direction how golf Opera connects to blood harvest in the original continuity
5:25 with the Virgin books blood harvest the seventh drct book was a prequel to golf Opera but the adap ation was self-contained and didn't reference any event of blood Harvest so they could change it by making blood Harvest then the sequel in the novel adaptations but that might complicate things or they could simply do an explanation that yin's mind was wiped and just could remember battling the doctor in that story which of course he did in blood Harvest so if an adaptation were to happen things would be different compared to the original continuity because big finish made golf Opera self-contained story and not a sequel to blood Harvest so I place blood Harvest
6:11 perhaps second on my list in happening but for number one the one I believe out of any virgin new adventure not talking the Virgin missing Adventures just yet it is without question human nature I think as of right now this has the strongest and best possibility of happening compared to anything being next why is that because it has the perfect formula to continue what goth Opera already achieved it will attract people to the release and grab quite a large audience because of its role in aspiring the 10th doctor story in series 3 and we know that Paul Cornell is happy doing these adaptations so it encapsulates a perfect representation of
6:57 the Seventh Doctor be it his era and his character so if I was a gambling man or in charge of the decision making this is where I'll put my mind towards poor Corner also written Happy Endings which you might think has a possibility I personally don't think so with that one it's pretty much plotless the novel because what the novel adaptations need to do which is to appeal to a wide audience blood Harvest and human nature can do that Happy Endings not so much so sorry to fans of Happy Endings I don't think so despite written by Cornell it just doesn't have the appeal but one I will give a maybe that slight acknowledgement is so v a sin cuz if big finish ever wanted to entertain the
7:44 departure with Ros it's there though I have no idea of big finish or even considering continuing those box sets where they just left off with volume one and that's it with Chris and Ros which makes me believe the sales for that release were as satisfactory soar sin at this moment in time doesn't make much sense only if big finish want to continue doing audios featuring Chris and Ros which Ros did make an appearance in the last day but we need more to go on if they continue strongly with the Ros and Chris stuff then it would be more hopeful to see soala but right now soala sin is just up in the air but what about the infamous
8:30 lumaro guys I don't think it's going to happen from what from what I am led up to believe and from various big finish day panels This does go back to 2015 and 2016 mind you Mark Platt isn't interested in doing an adaptation of Lumar if that's because of a lack of Interest or controversy with the story though the latter I really think people do not care about we know about what larrow does I believe nobody will protest lumaro getting adapted because of its controversy regarding the law I would find that rather silly but not having interest seems to be the reason and that seems to be Mark Platt's
9:16 decision then again those panels it was years ago perhaps big finish will magically blow our freaking minds and they will do it what I can confirm it will freaking sell lumaro has like a cult following it is the the most infamous Dr hoop book ever and now it's even more stupid to get your hands on even the reprints go for mad money so for the virge of new adventurers I believe what comes next is number one human nature has the best chance at least in my estimation number two blood Harvest it kind of makes sense because they did goth Opera and number three the novel is related to the alternative time cycle Arc but let's humor it and say blood
10:01 Heat as that's the book to begin the ark so let's jump to the Virgin missing Adventures I think our start of what is unlikely that would be in the range that would be the plotters why because I doubt big finish will work with Gareth Roberts despite your position or what you think about Gareth Roberts but I'm not going to get into all that because it's totally unrelated to the topic of the video but that's 100% getting an X it's not happening but someone in my comments in my Quinn dilemma review did in fact tease a reference to Grant marker now some may not know who the six doctor was referring to in mcquinn dilemma by the name of Grant but that was in fact a temporary companion who
10:50 never had an exit mind you he featured in only two novels being time of your life and killing ground now when I listened to the Quinn dilemma I only thought about it as just a little nod of continuity but but I rather out of the box reference I got to admit if it actually did turn out to be a very slight Easter egg for the next novel adaptation releases then I will simply say Well done Time of Your Life follows directly after trial of a time lord it's right next door and killing ground shows some of the darkest depictions of the Cyberman ever and I would consider them a Poss ability depending Steve Lions would be happy to do so if ever
11:35 approached I don't put it the highest possibility of happening because I believe the reference to Grant was simply just a reference and not an Easter egg but if it ends up being an Easter egg then I will put my hands up and say Well it turned out to be an Easter egg another adaptation I believe works the best for the Virgin missing adventures and bring in a new doctor for the range no other than the scales of Injustice unfortunately we we don't have the wonderful lovely Caroline John with us anymore but Daisy Ashford is now playing the role scales of Injustice was always one of those audios for me but I'm surprised never got adapted the same opinion I had with golf Opera I thought it was just a no-brainer Gary Russell is the author behind the Nova who was the executive producer of big finish my
12:22 favorite period of big finish mind you from the beginning to 2006 is considered one of his best works and my last pick because of suek coming back in the TV series the sands of time did come to my mind but I do put scales of Injustice over it so for the possibility of the Virgin missing Adventures number one I see having the best chance is the scales of Injustice I think it's just a no-brainer number two is the grant maram book starting with time of your life then eventually killing ground and number three the sands of time but going back to my number one it is still human nature that in my opinion is what I believe will be next or at least in
13:09 discussion about depending on the sales of gov Opera blood Harvest at a very close second and scales of Injustice at three that would be my actual top three ranking human nature number one blood Harvest number two scales of Injustice number three but it all depends on this one important condition did golf Opera do well in numbers well I don't know I've seen for the most part very positive reviews of people praising the audio so I would consider that a good sign but maybe nothing happens and golf oppra is simply a one-off celebration for the 30th anniversary of the novel adaptations and if big finish want to leave it at that certainly a possibility and quite a depressive one in that if it leans
13:58 true I guess we must wait and find out [Music]
