March 28

DW: The Blue Forgotten Planet

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welcome to the 126th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Blue Forgotten Planet’ with Charley, Charley/Mila and the sixth Doctor. It ends the story of ‘Patient Zero‘. The story takes place on earth. There is no time given or any indication which year it is. Ahistory placed it in 2009. It has to take place before the mankind’s space age. With a few other pieces of the story there are just to times where it works without conflicts with other series. This would be 1930 or 2009.

The Virus

It is actually a little creepy that I finally find the time to listen to this story I bought like 2 years ago when the world goes crazy over the Corona-Virus. The scariest thing about this whole thing is the fear of losing our job or existence as a business. This story shows us a story about a virus. A world with a madness and somehow I feel like I live right now in a world of madness. It is another madness but still to close to home.
But that is something Doctor Who always could do really good.

Charley against Charley/Mila

Charley and Mila finally meeting each other and there is a lot of confrontation between them and between the Doctor and them. It is time for the truth and it is not easy to tell the truth when all you did was trying to hide it. Charley couldn’t let go of the Doctor and she had to lie to hold on to him. Mila needed to become Charley so she could travel with the Doctor. So what is truth? This is actually really great. India Fischer does a great job with the discussion between the both of the Charleys.

Goodbye…

This is an end of an era. I loved Charley, I got annoyed by her. She has a great chemistry with the sixth Doctor. Big Finish made me cry again. I cried for Mila, for Charley, for the Doctor… this story is really great. It hints to so much more and is also an end for a lot of things. I love it. Charley is great and this is a great end for her. I am sad that the sixth Doctor and Charley don’t have more adventures together. But I am also excited to were the Doctor is of to now.

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March 20

DW: Paper Cuts

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welcome to the 125th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘Paper Cuts’ with the sixth Doctor and Charley/Mila. The story takes place in 2090. The Doctor says it is 60 years after he visited Draconia but the Mother Queen means it is just 50 years. It is not said which incarnation had visited 50/60 years before. The book ‘Doctor Who and the Space War’ says it was the second one, but the booklet shows the first Doctor.
The story starts where the last story ‘The Patient Zero‘ stopped sadly the action of this story doesn’t have such big impact on the story that I hoped.

Summoned to the fuernal

Charley/Mila finds a summoning of the great emperor of Draconia. The Doctor followed this summoning and finds out that the emperor is dead. This emperor seems to had made a few difficult decision that doesn’t go well with the a few people like the priest or his son. But more important is that there is ritual that has to take place so the son can become the new emperor. For this ritual are four people summoned the Doctor, the son of the emperor, the soldier and Gomori.

Paper warriors

What would a funeral and ritual to become a new emperor without killing paper Sazous? It is hard to say more about the story without spoiling everything. But the more interesting storylines all start later. What is the meaning of the ritual and the after life. It is about revolution, about change and about playing chess. About planing at least two move ahead.

Listen or not

The story is really good. I really like it. The relationship between the Doctor and the dead emperor is interesting and I loved to see more of this. Like I sad before the Mila story doesn’t have a big inpact. Most of the story is like a normal Charley Doctor story. I hoped that Mila would have a bigger role instead of just being Charley. But maybe all that comes in the next episode.

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March 13

DW: Patient Zero

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welcome to the 124th Big Finish Main Range Adventures ‘Patient Zero’ with the sixth Doctor and Charley. Patient Zero is hard to place in time. In this story they talk about traveling ‘so far into the past’ but the story ‘To the Death’, which is shaped with some of the consequences of this story, claims it takes place in the future. So Ahistory put it around 7190.
This story is also concluding a story that started with ‘Urgent Call‘ (Bonus Story of ‘I.D.’) and plays also a part in stories like ‘Urban Myths‘ (Bonus Story of’Exotron’), ‘The Vanity Box‘ (Second Story of the Wishing Beast) and ‘Mission of the Viyrans‘.

The Amethyst Viral Containment Station

The Doctor finally demands answers from Charley but before she can give them she fades in and out of existence. She caught a virus, which itself seems to be a problem, because the TARDIS seems to protect them from this stuff. The Doctor tries find to out how to save Charley. The search leads him to the Amethyst Viral Containment Station. This station works for the Viyrans. But we also meet the Daleks again.

Daleks and time

In this story the Daleks ask for things and don’t shoot first. They traveled in time and seem to be aware that time is a very delicate thing and are not shooting without thinking it through. That is actually something new about the Daleks. The Dalek search for a Patient Zero and they are not willing to give up. It is what I really like in this story is that the Daleks are acting with content and the Doctor using the Daleks. ‘Know your enemy.’ It leads to a very great end and I love it.

Blind Passenger

We also have a blind passenger on board of the TARDIS or maybe she is just a imagination of Charley. The girl is a little fangirl of the Doctor and claims to be his companion and that she is a long time with him when he still had gray hair. This leads to a very interesting story. That will be influence the next stories very much and I am really excited to find out where it leads to.

Listing or not

Definitely listen to it. The sixth Doctor and Charley has such a great and easy chemistry. They had fallen in place so easy that even the Doctor himself finds it weird. He can’t let her die and he doesn’ t understand why it is so much more important to him than everything else. He has to deal with her and his feelings, with the Daleks and Fratalin and nobody helping him.

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October 5

DW: The Raincloud Man

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welcome to the 116th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Raincloud Man’ with Charley and the sixth Doctor. We also have a special guest and that would be DI Menzies. The story takes place after ‘The Condemned’ in 2008. It seems to be december because all the people are doing their Christmas shopping. So obviously we find ourself in Manchester again and the second part of the story takes place in Rio de Janeiro.

Switch places

DI Menzies built herself a amazing new reputation and also a network of informants. It is really lovely to see how she dealt with everything. This time when they met it is not the Doctor that is believed to be a murderer but Charley. One of Menzies informants – Kelsa -knew of her special situation with the Doctor and than when Menzies left them alone he ends up dead. Kelsa is an interesting character and I loved him the whole 5 minutes he is part of the story. I really would love to met him again sometime in his past.

Time Travelers

The Doctor is following a coin from the future to find the time traveler behind it. Of course it leads to something much bigger than this mystery time traveler. We got a dubious casino and different aliens who are all searching for someone. For who are they searching and are they all searching the same person? We follow mostly three different storylines of the story. Obviously the one from the Doctor and the one of Charley but also got DI Menzies and her story.

The new companion?

What I love about ‘The Raincloud Man’ is that we got a lot of DI Menzies action. She trusts the Doctor but doesn’t believe everything he tells her. She is searching for her own answer and I am sure that she would make a great companion material. Maybe someday we will see this. The three different storylines – it’s not the perfect word for it – make the story so good an interessting.

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September 21

DW: Brotherhood of the Daleks

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welcome to the 114th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘Brotherhood of the Daleks’ with the sixth Doctor and Charley. In the story itself is no actual date given, but with all the clues given in the story AHistory place it around 5426. Like the title says it is Dalek story but we also met again the race of the Thals – who found a new home on the planet Spiridon.

Secrets

Charley is really bad at keeping secrets and act not suspicious. She is so obvious. But it is still fun to listen to try to explain her knowledge. What I like the most about this is that even when the Doctor and Charley seem to be close – to be friend. There is still is thing between them. This in a way he trusts her and in a way he don’t. I don’t know. I just like relationship full opposites.
The story starts with these two making contact with a group of Thals. Something is off. One of the women seems to react to the words ‘blue box’ and Charlotte Pollard. Obviously the Thals know about the Doctor and the TARDIS but for them it is more like a fairy tale than real history.
The fun part is that there is a bigger reaction to the name Charlotte Pollard than to Blue Box. The Story has a few hints of an early story ‘Terror Firma‘ the last encounter form Charley and the Daleks.

What is real

It is quiet complicated to explain the story without spoiling too much. If you listen to this adventures when you do different things than maybe you should sit done and do nothing except listing. It is not so complicated but it has a lot layers. What is the truth and what is illusion. Are they really at Spiridon? Or where are they and what is really going on there. That is why I actually love this story. Maybe listen a second time to get what you missed.

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September 14

DW: The Doomwood Curse

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welcome to the 111st Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Doomwood Curse’ with the sixth Doctor and Charley. The story takes place in the 1738 in England. It is a story about reality and fantasy. It is about the legendary highwayman Dick Turpin. In the Doctor Who universe he was bad criminal that got romanticized be the book ‘Rockwood’.

The dynamic

Something is really wrong in London 1738. The Doctor and Charley arrive there and something of. It is fun to hear Doctor trying to figure Charley out and still he already knows her enough to realize that something is wrong that she is acting off. It doesn’t end with Charley. All the people start acting weird. People dying of curses and sudden marriages will hold the Doctor on his heels. Everything turns overdramatic and overacted just like in an old romantic story.

Just to dramatic

The biggest problem with this is the overdramatic and overacting – even when it is totally intended to be like this. Thief that still from the rich to give it the poor. Falling in love with your sister that got kidnapped years ago. We kill everyone and we curses people. It is just not my kind of story. I love Charley but sometimes she goes on my nerves with overdramatic view of things and now she changed in this girl who is so overdramatic and naive.

Great Idea

I really like the idea of the story. It is just couldn’t it be a modern story? Okay have to admit it wouldn’t work so well with a modern story. All the part of the story fit to the idea behind it perfectly. Even when I don’t like these kinda of stories so much, it brings us great scenes between the Doctor and Charley and their evolving friendship.

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August 16

DW: The Condemned

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welcome to the 105th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Condemned’ with the 6th Doctor and a new companion. The 6th Doctor is getting Charleys signal and save her from her stranded island (The Girl who never was). She realizes that this is former regenerate of the Doctor and doesn’t tell him who she really is. The TARDIS drops out on earth on the 28th February 2008 and they found a died body.

It is funny

I really like the new dynamic between Charley and the Doctor. He doesn’t really trust her but still is intrigued by her. She is trying to explain stuff without telling the truth or is trying to distract him. It makes it a really tricky situation and relationship.
Also they obviously manged to get into trouble. Charley gets kidnapped and hold in the building they found the body. She gets a phone call on a disabled phone from Sam who is a prisoner in the basement.

The Doctor got arrest for murder, because he is Doctor and that is what he does. But of course he also get’s him out of this situation and makes kinda friends with DI Menzies. DI Menzies is an amazing character. She is a police women that works on this case. She asking the right question and doesn’t closes the eyes from trust. I like humor and her way to handle things. She works very well with the Doctor – and as a little spoiler she will be around.

Go and listen to this story

I love the story. It is great who everything unfolde for them. It is like life something happens and it brings a lot to light that just not had much to do with stuff. The character work so well together and the atmosphere is created between them is so amusing. I am really looking forward to see these three work together again.

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August 9

DW: The Girl who never was

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welcome to the 103rd Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Girl who never was’ with the 8th Doctor and Charley. I know I was really quiet for a long time. Life never goes like you wanted. But let’s talk about the more important things Doctor Who. This adventure is the last adventure of Charley and 8th Doctor. The last time we lost C’rizz (Absolution). Charley can’t deal with who the Doctor deals with the death of C’rizz and wants to separate.

They are at their best

This adventure as it all. It has a great friendship at their end. Charley and the Doctor had so many adventures together. They were so close than C’rizz came and everything changed and when he died everything again. The way Charley is grieving and the way the Doctor is grieving or trying to avoid grieving doesn’t work together. So we have these both character that cares deeply about each other and still need to say farewell. The last adventure and it doesn’t work out like they thought. The story with each other are always the best when they are on their own. Charley is landing in 1942 on the Batavia – Batavia was a the last ship out of the harbour at the japanese siege of Singapore. The Doctor lands on the same ship in the year 2008.

I am Charlotte Pollard

The Doctor meets an old woman who tells him that she is Charlotte Pollard. She doesn’t remember what happened in 1942 and doesn’t remember the Doctor. Is she our Charley and the Doctor fails to save her and she just stays there and live her life. If she is not Charley than who is she really. The Doctor is trying to solve this mystery and find his Charley.

Charley on the other hand find herself in 1942 on the ship with the crew of the smuggler Byron. She also met a girl disguise as a boy on the ship. It is like throwback to her past when she run away and smuggled herself as boy on board. Isn’t it a great circle?

The End of the story

I like the story but it is war from the best we had from them. It feels most of the time like a farewell. It is time for both to move on and that is how the story feels for me. It is good but the best times are over and it is time for something new. Even both are not ready to really let go. Something it could go on and then next second you think no it can’t and that it is. It is an end of an era. It is a good goodbye to them. They were a great team but they never really got them totally right and that they kinda misunderstood what is going on is so them. It feels right as an end for them.

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March 14

DW: Absolution

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welcome to the 101st adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – Absolution. It takes place on the planet Utebbadon-Tarria with the eighth Doctor, C’rizz and Charley. This story brings the storyline around C’rizz to an end. It is not my favorite story but it focus on C’rizz and his developement. Which is a good thing.

The Hell breaks loose

Charley opens the Medallion of C’rizz and hell breaks loose. The TARDIS has problems and the Doctor doesn’t seems to get it back under control. It happens what had to happen. C’rizz get seperate from the other two.
Charley and the Doctor lands inside a barrier and C’rizz on the outside. So we have two sides. The one inside the barrier that have the barrier to protect themself from the outsider. Than we have the outsider who wants to get inside the barrier.

Dark

The atmosphere of the whole story is dark and cold. There is nothing fun or light in this story. It is just really dark. It is about death, religion, believes, fears… and of course manipulation. The story shows us that there is not always a happy end. That there is not always something you can do to make it better. The story ends and left you to deal with all that grief on your own. There is no light offered at the end of the tunnel.

With all that grief

It is great story. There are no excuses, no step backs, no rewriting history offered. We get just the dark reality of life.  I felt at the end like Charley. I get the Doctor. We all know how he deals grief. He just doesn’t. But after this I still felt like her. All that makes it a great story. I also love C’rizz developement in this story. I love him so much. The story itself is not mine but everything around and atmosphere is just great.

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March 7

DW: Scaredy Cat

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welcome to the 75th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – Scaredy Cat. The story puts the eighth Doctor, Charley and C’rizz on Endarra around the year 4.000.000. I am not sure were I got this information from – I believe recall that it was on the extras of Absolution. But this is one of the adventures that should have taken place in the Divergent Universe but got changed and now play in our universe.

SCaredy Cat, Scaredy Cat

What is going on here? That is the big question. The Doctor and C’rizz see a young girl and follow her to kind of shrine. This shrine as the girl they saw lying on dead and the app like natives are not happy that they are close to her. So the two of them traveling back in time to find out what happened there.
Charley is on the other hand on the facility that is making experiments on the natives to find the part of the brain that is responsible for being evil.

interesting set up

I like the setting. It has a lot of potential. I like themes like are people born evil or not and it would be a great story about this. But it is kinda gets more in the background the longer the story goes. Then we another interesting theme. The problem with getting involved with the events, with changing time. The interesting part is that C’rizz don’t really understand time and this means he doesn’t understand what the Doctor wants to protect. Which has a lot of potential but it also just got shortly addressed.

Great Team

There is lot I like about the adventure. I like Charley on her own. She is always the most sympathetic on her own. Also to see C’rizz and the Doctor team up is great. C’rizz who tries to understand the Doctor and this believe he has in the Doctor. You could do so much with this. But the story just kinda stays light-minded.

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