You may have noticed that I’ve been doing lots of Confessions lately. Now that the DVD range has effectively come to an end (barring any future recoveries or reconstructions), I just don’t have new material to review. Sure, I could go back through the catalog and cover the older releases, but that feels like grasping at straws. Instead, I’d like to branch out from the “canon” (ha ha—as if that meant the same thing for every fan) of the televised adventures and start exploring the Big Finish audio adventures.
One of the big reasons I want to go this direction is that I think it’s a wonderful but less well known branch of the Whoniverse. I’m almost certainly suffering a bit of “this is how it is for me, so that’s how it likely is for everyone,” but if there’s more to be discovered here, why not bring my readers along for the ride?
Further, I’m thinking back to a panel I sat in on at Gally this past year. The topic of Big Finish audios came up, and I remember the moderator asking how many in the audience had ever listened to one. A decent number of hands went up—maybe half. Then he asked how many planned to listen to one at some point in the future. A sea of hands filled the air. The panel seemed impressed. Cleverly, I thought, they followed up with “How many of you don’t plan ever to listen to one?” Every hand went down, and not a one went up.