August 1

DW: Invaders from Mars

Welcome Guys,

to the historical adventure of Big Finish Main Range – Invaders from Mars – about the invasion on the 30 October 1938. Oh sorry I ment the 31 October 1938. The Eighth Doctor and Charley stubble across another invasion.

Let’s go and invade the earth

Here we are again the 200th invasion of earth. The Doctor and Charley actually wants to visit Singapore but they land in New York City. Both of them find a dead man and try to find out what is behind his death. There is so much going on in this series. There is the broadcast of the ‘War of the Worlds’, the dead private detective, an alien weapon is on the market and then there is also a kidnapping. How is it all connected? Is it all connected? What is actually going on here. On top of everything there is an alien invasion going on or is there?

Everything not quiet right

There are a few little things that are mentioned in this story that aren’t quiet right. Like the date of the actual broadcasting of ‘War of the Worlds’. All this things lead as to the story that will go over the next 6 episodes. I actually didn’t get all that little mistakes. But people who actually live in america may know more about it.

Listing or not

I really like the grand idea behind this story. All the different little stories that of course expand to one big story are not that bad. I actually like the story. It is a little mysterious and also fun. There is so much going on in this story that you have to listen to it very carefully to get everything quiet right like the wrong stuff. So yeah go and listen to this story.

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July 25

DW: The Eye of the Scorpion

Hey Guys,

the 24th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – The Eye of the Scorpion – leads to egypt. The fifth Doctor claims in the story that he and Peri must be around 1400 BC from hieroglyphics. It seems that the real history doesn’t know exactly when Amenhotep II reign ended in 1401 BC or 1397 BC. This story is a pseudo historic story. It is the story about the daughter of Amenhotep II Erimem.

Who will become pharao

Erimem is in this story ment to become the pharaoh. Who knows a little about egypt know that their wasn’t a pharaoh named Erimem. The Doctor knows that too and is afraid that she will die in the revolution that is to start about the fact if Erimem actually can become pharaoh. There are people who doesn’t like the thought of a woman being pharaoh.

Friends and Traitors

But Erimem is an interesting character and I really like the side characters Fayum and Antranak. Antranak is the general of the palace guards and is trying to protect Erimem. Fayum is a priest in the royal court. The story definitely lives through these two and that friendship between them. The chemistry between the characters is amazing. It is so easy to fall in love with this characters which I hadn’t like that in a long time.

Listing or not

I really love egypt. When I was young I read so much about it and was so interested. Sadly nothing from the knowledge survived but I still love everything about egypt. Maybe I should get back into it. The story itself doesn’t held much ‘real’ history in the story about Erimem but there is much information about the time in the little details in the story telling about the land and their culture. This is already a good reason to listen to this story. Second the story is great and the characters are lovely.
The atmosphere is mostly lightly and fun. Peri and Erimem make good team and it is fun to listen to them. But it still has his moments seriousness and sadness. It is a great story and also introduced a new companion of the Doctor. So yes go and listen to it.

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July 18

DW: Project: Twilight

Hey Guys,

in the 23rd adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – Project: Twilight – they in invite us to the casino ‘The Dusk’ owned by plain old vampires. This story is the first part that featured the Forge. The Forge is an enemy that follows the Doctor through more stories than this one. Created as a long story it includes the adventures Project: Lazarus, Project: Destiny and a spin-off novel Project: Valhalla and a short story named Twilight’s end.

This story takes place the present day. In the story itself is no date given. But in Project:Destiny is stated that it happens on the 23rd August 2001.

What happened and who are the Forge

First of all the story is about what happens behind the curtains of the casino. The vampire are working on a cure for what happened to them. This is actually a really interesting setting. This vampires are made by experiments. Experiments that are conducted by a Government organisation named the Forge. The people we met here are victims or were they victims?

The question is who are your friends, who can you trust? What are the goals everyone is having? I like settings like that were you don’t know what they are planing. Were you don’t know if they are still the victims or are they already the perpetrators? This whole story is a grey zone and it is amazing.

Great Character Moments

Evelyn has amazing scenes in this story. She and Cassie – a woman who works in the casino – have so many great scenes together. Cassie is an amazing side character with so many layers and good background story.
You can judge her or feel with her. Her story hopefully doesn’t end here. There is so much potential left.

Listing or not

Go and listen to this story. I really liked it. Stories that play in this gray zone are amazing. There isn’t a clear line between good and evil, sometimes not even between victims and perpetrator. What is your right of survival and what is just cruelty. Where begins right and were starts wrong? Just it is an amazing story and I am sure the following stories in this storyline are also amazing.

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June 21

DW: Loups-Garoux

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welcome to the 20th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – Loups-Garoux. This is an adventure with the fifth Doctor and Turlough. It takes place in 2080 in Rio de Janeiro. Like the name of the story gives away it is about werwolves. The idea behind it is really simular to the idea of Wolfs Rain. In Wolfs Rain the wolves take the shape of humans or at least play with the sense of humans so that they see them as humans. Here the werewolves plays also with the sense of the human but in the way that humans don’t see them if they don’t want to be seen. By the way Wolfs Rain is an amazing Anime and you should totally watch it.

Werwolves and their probelms

The story is about the leader of the werwolves Ilena, who tries to find a cure for her sons illness. He lost himself in the wolf. But that is not the only problem she has. She is also on the run from the gray one. He is a very old werwolf – the first one, who wants Ilena as his mate. In all that the Doctor and Turlough apear.

Warm Welcome

The werwolves are not fond of the two arrivers. They play with Turloughs mind and bring out the dark side he is afraid of. In is fear Turlough tries to run form his dark side. He runs directly in the arms of the last party for the show down. Rosa is a mysterious girl who knows about werwolves and isn’t one herself. She has a silver blade with her and waits for the king of the werwolves.

Listing or not

The characters are not so interesting. I like Rose and the relationship she built with Turlough and I love stories with Turlough. Like I always mentioned he is one of the most interesting characters in Doctor Who. The story is not bad. It is a solid story almost every story from Big Finish. So yeah it is definitly worth listing too. I want more of Turlough and the Doctor.

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June 14

DW: Minuet in Hell

Hey Guys,
welcome to the 19th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range ‘Minuet in Hell’. It is another story with Charley and the eighth Doctor. It is also a story were Lethbridge-Stewart plays a role. This is mostly a good indication for a good story. But someone on tumblr told me that this story is not one of the better once and that is not so wrong.

The story takes place in 2003 Malebolgia, USA. Malebolgia is the newest state of America. Lethbridge-Stewart is send there to investigate what is going on in this state. The Brig is already in retirement but still does sometimes a few jobs for them. Because he can’t just sit at home.

Bit from everything

We have three big story elements. One is like I already said Lethbridge-Stewart. He is investigating the facility that claims to heal mental illness. We all know that there of course has something behind it. I like this storyline. The Brig on his own is amazing and just his reactions at the answers of his bosses are fun.

Prostitute

Charley is the other big part of the story. She doesn’t know who she is or where she is. But she not just lost her memories, she also get captured and used as a prostitute. That is not totally right. Thanks god she didn’t good touched that way or before it comes to something like that, someone else is helping her out. Someone who seems to be a demon hunter.

At last

The last part is of course about the Doctor. The Doctor is in a similar situation as Charley. He forgot who he was and got captured and held in the place for the mental illness. With not knowing who he is, the escape seems more difficult like this.

Listing or not

The story is really not that great. But they have amazing characters and it is always fun to see the Doctor and the Brig interact with each other. So even when the story is not that great. It is a must listen for me, because the Brig and the eighth Doctor are lovely together.

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June 7

DW: The Stones of Venice

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welcome to the 18 adventure of the Big Finish Main Range ‘The Stones of Venice’. The Eighth Doctor and Charley travel to Venice in the year 2294. There lays a curse over Venice and it’s people who actually is coming to his end.

The Tragic Love Story

This story is about a pair that loved each other until her husband lost her in a game. She curses him to live a long life to regret everything and in the end Venice will be sink under the water for ever. I am not a big fan of such stories. Why do you all the people die with this idiot? Why does the curse include innocent people. All of this just because of a broken heart…
It is so overdramatic. Not the story itself but the people in it and I just not like this kind.

Just enjoy

I really love the eighth Doctor and Charley. She is amazing and I love that she sees the beauty even when it is dying. The dynamic between them is great and it is always fun to listen to them. Like most of the adventure Charley has a lot of possibilities to shine on their own.

Listing or not

The story is definitely not my favorite. It is not a bad story. It is just that there are so much better once out there. I must say that many of the first adventures of the eighth Doctor and Charley are missing this special thing. I don’t know what. But the thing that makes a good story to an amazing story. It is Charley and the Doctor so yeah it is still fun to listen to it. But you don’t need to.

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May 31

DW: Sword of Orion

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welcome to the 17 adventure of Big Finish Main Range ‘Sword of Orion’. It is a story with the eighth Doctor and Charley. They met the cybermen in the year 2503 in the Garazone System. It is long after the Cyber War but in the Orion War. I think many can already thing how the story plays from here.

Orion War

The Orion War is a war in the late 25th and the early 26th century. It takes place between androids and humans. This got also explained in the story itself. The human race is always on a war.

Surprise, Surprise

The Cybermen are not dead. The Doctor and Charley strand on an old cybermen factory. A ship and their crew trying to get everything that makes money from the factory. The new captain is fishy from the start. The story is not really surprising at all. The characters are kinda dull. One of the crew got killed and they blame the murder on the Doctor. What totally make no sense at all. But all of the characters doesn’t make much sense. I also have problems to follow who is who in this story.

Listing or not

Okay truth be told this one of the very little adventure were I thought I really didn’t need to hear it. It is not sooo bad. But the story is a little boring and the characters are all so annoying. Of course Charley and the Doctor are great but that is here not enough.

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May 24

DW: Storm Warning

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welcome to the 16th big finish main range Storm Warning. It is the first adventure in the main range with the eighth Doctor and he also meets his new companion Charley Pollard. The story takes place on the 5th October 1930 over France on the R101. This story takes a bit of real earth history and tells us a story of what could be the reason that leads to that.

Storway

Charlotte Pollard is a storway on the R101. She wants adventure and see new places. The first impression you have on her is that she is a very kind person who does things and mostlikely before thinking. SHe is reacting and I like her (maybe because I already know her from the later adventueres). On the R101 she meets the Doctor who really fast find out that he is in a place that is doomed.

So many things I love

This story as alot I love. There is of course the eighth Doctor, who is at fault that I became adiccted to Big Finish. I also like Charley and the Doctor. Also I already knew who the travels of these two end and know to see how they start is interessting. Also I love the stories with historical background. Give me more with this.
So there are alot of reason to listen to this adventure. The story itself is good. There is something mysterious going on this ship. Changes in the buildings plans, a mysterious passenger that is on no list and nobody has seen and a mission to forfill.

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May 17

DW: The Spectre of Lanyon moor

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welcome to a great adventure of Big Finish Main Range ‘The Spectre of Lanyon Moor’ with the Brigadier. I love him and I just need so much adventures with him. Also you could bring back Sergent Benton. But back to the topic at hand here. The Brig meets the sixth Doctor and Evelyn. obviously the story takes place on earth – to be precise in Lanyon moor in Cornwall. Since Evelyn calls a friend it has to be her time and it also plays ‘a few years’ after his retirement – so it has to be somewhere in the 2000.

Just a short notice I read

It seems that here we have a situation – which is not addressed in the adventure. The Brig must have met the sixth Doctor already. He meets him for the first time in Business Unusual (Book from the Past Doctor Adventures) in 1989. So since my source says that the sixth Doctor has to met Evelyn before Mel with who he travels in 1989 it has to be his first time meeting the Brig, when the Brig already had met him.

A mysterious murder and goblins

A mysterious death bring the Brig – who works sometime for UNIT in his free time (love that guy) – undercover to Lanyon moor. As the coincidence wants the Doctor and Evelyn are landing here to. It is almost always fun when the Doctor and the Brig meet.
This story is like always a good mix between mystery and funny. Just like I love it the most. Everything from everything.

Respect

I love that we actually see the Doctor collect information. He sent Evelyn to inform herself about the local history. This also means that Evelyn is doing a lot of stuff on her own in this adventure and she is definitely not a damsel in distress. She has a lot of action going on.
She kicks asses but also can faint after she witnessed something horrible. But also stand up so she can try to prevent it ever happen again.
That means also that the Brig and the Doctor are working together again. The friendship and respect between each other is one of my favorite thing.
In this story the Brig is actually voicing some of his opinions about the Doctor to someone else. I love to hear him talk like this and that he takes the Doctor really serious.

Listing or not

definitely go and listen to this adventure. Evelyn is a really amazing and strong character. It is always fun to listen to her. Also we got a lot Brig and Doctor friendship what is a really good reason to listing to it. The story is good. Nothing spectacular but good. A good old mystery about a murder goblin?!

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May 10

DW: The Marian Conspiracy

Hey Guys,

welcome to the first adventure with Evelyn Smythe in the 6th big finish main range adventure The Marian Conspiracy. Evelyn is the first companion on audio created by Big Finish. She is quite lovely. She travels with the sixth Doctor and I listened to a few adventure of her already. I read that her history or better time line is quite complicated. I haven’t notice such thing yet, but didn’t listen to many stories with her yet. The story takes place in London 1555 a month after the Wyatt Uprising and is one of the stories with a history setting. I love this stories.

Evelyn Smythe

The year she is living is not been given. But she is out of the ‘present’ time so my sources has put her first meeting with the Doctor at the 2000. When they met she is giving a lecture of Tudor History. She is like my sources put ‘nearer to the end of her career than the beginning’. Evelyn is a strong woman who has very strong opinions. What I love about her is that she is very similar to the Doctor. She likes to tell what knows about stuff and she doesn’t take any shit. She challenged the Doctor from the first moment. They not always have the same opinion what makes they travels so exciting.

You must be the Nexus point

The Doctor searches for a temporize Nexus point which seems to be Evelyn Smythe. It seems that Evelyns history is going to change. So the Doctor of course tries to find out what is going. Evelyn is talking about one of her ancestors that the Doctor don’t heart of. So he travels to London 1555 and see him for himself. Evelyn invites herself to accompany him. They land like I state above a moth after the Wyatt Uprising, which means that Mary was still Queen.
The goes to talk to the Queen and has a very interesting talk with the her. About what she plans on doing and why she is doing it. The Doctor even seem similar between them.
Evelyn is on her own and stables in a conspiracy against Mary to put Elizabeth on the throne.

Listen or not

I love this story. First of all I love the history adventures. They are amazing and with this Doctor and Evelyn it is even more fan. Evelyn is really a great character. The most I like the different points of view from the Doctor and Evelyn. The both have strong opinions but mostly not the same. It makes it interesting. Evelyn is not a fan of Queen Mary. She things that Elizabeth is one of the strongest female leader. Were the Doctor sees himself in Mary. That makes a really amazing adventure.

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