August 22

DW: Embrace the Darkness

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welcome to 31st adventure of Big Finish Main Range – Embrace the Darkness. It is again an adventure with the eighth Doctor and Charley. It takes places at Cimmeria IV there is no date given and my favorite source doesn’t put it to the ‘important’ stories.

Educational Reasons

This is a story I love. The Doctor wants to avoid a group of Time Lords so he lands near the planet Cimmeria IV. They are drifting through time and watch the changes of the planet. It was once a beautiful and colorful planet and then the light just goes out. The Doctor doesn’t know the reason behind and things why not watch if they find out what happened.
There is no other reason than pure curiosity.

They take the light

The story as a quite dark atmosphere. The story plays a lot in the darkness. The characters are not able to see and the situation seems for them rather hopeless. There are creatures with this whispering voice. You don’t know who they are or what they want. Just that they take the lights. Between all that they have to deal with a rescue robot who makes their life a lot harder than it has to be.

Listing or not

Listen to ‘Embrace the Darkness’. I love stories like this. It is a mystery that needs to be solved and it did get solved. Slowly step for step you understand more what is going on. It is nice to listen to this adventure. Also we find a few hints of the future stories that come up.

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August 15

DW: Season of Fear

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welcome to the 30th adventure of Big Finish Main Range – Season of Fear. The Doctor and Charley traveling through the times of britain in this story. It plays in 305, 1055 and 1806 also on the 31st december 1930 in Singapore. The reason that Charley was on the R101 was that meeting with the young Alec Grayle. When Charley goes on her date, the Doctor meets a man who is immortal and claimed to had killed the Doctor.

Tell it in our own words

This story is told from the Doctor to someone we don’t know or better we just don’t know who he is talking to. So there are this moments that are told from the Doctors view. It makes the jumps in time more easier to follow and understand what is going on in this story. The atmosphere is quite dark. The possible death is hanging over his head and he tries to find out what is going on.

Promise of Immortality

Grayle comes in contact with aliens that promising him immortality. It is hard for me to understand why he chooses to become immortal. Immortality is more a curse than a blessing. You understand more and more about the reasons for the actions of Grayle. Of the disappointments he had to face. We see how all the years change him until nothing of the original person is left.
It is quite an interesting journey.

Listing or not

Definitely go and listen to it. It is a good story and the journey of Grayle is interesting and a little bit similar to the story of ME just with a better outcome or more interesting outcome. There are also little mentioned of things that are explained in the later stories. Small hints of the overall storyline which started with the adventure Invaders of Mars.

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August 8

DW: The Chimes of Midnight

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welcome to the 29th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – The Chimes of the midnight. The eighth Doctor and Charley lends in 1906 London inside a Edwarian House and in mystery they need to solve. Before I listend to it I already heart a lot of this story. How good and well loved it is. It was so good that they actually re-released as a vinyl version.

Darkness everywhere

The Doctor and Charley lands in that House but it is dark – really dark. There are a few mysterious things like a name in the dusk that can’t be removed. Charley writting her name in the dusk and it vanished as she never written it. That is just the start.
The next time they find each other in a murder scene. The servant Edith Thompson got drowned in the sink and the other servants are knowing the Doctor as the inspectore of Scotland yard.

Darkness coming back

This story is a dark one. It is not particalor horror but you can feel the darkness everywhere. The atmosphere they are created with really simple things is quite dark and mysterious. I for one didn’t expecting this out of the story. It is a mystery that needs to solved and you try to find out with the Doctor together. It is not a fun story it is dark and full of death and sadness and ill treating of people.

Listing or not

This story is amazing and one of the best I heart from the eighth Doctor and Charley. It is dark and mysterious and you can investigate next to the Doctor what is actually going on. There are enough close. But as so many stories like that I didn’t get them. The second time you listing to it, you asked yourself how you can miss all that. So yeah go and listen to The Chimes of Midnight.

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August 1

DW: Invaders from Mars

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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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June 14

DW: Minuet in Hell

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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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June 18

DW: Memory Lane

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welcome to the 88 adventure – Memory Lane – of big finish main range with Charley and C’rizz and of course the eigtht Doctor. The story doesn’t give us a particialar date. When you go after the names and things Kim – one of the astronauts that the Doctor meet in the story – know. She must live somewhere 2010 (that is where the AHistory put it) and the story takes places two hundred twenty-seven years after Kim and her crew are departed from earth. This means it whould be 2237 or something like this. C’rizz is telling about the TARDIS and prisons so it is shortly after ‘Something inside’.

Prison again

The three are finding themself in a prison again. But were the story of ‘Something inside’ was dark and deep. This story is light and funny. The land in the living room of an old lady which doesn’t react in anyway than that they stay in her way to watch tv or the Doctor go of to buy ice cream. At first they think they are on the countryside but than the find out that every house not just looks the same. In every house is living the same old woman.
So the atmosphere is totally different to the adventure before.

Cell changes

The Cell is creating a really little world. At some point the cell is taking Charlies memories and create her childhood home. So we find out a little more about her past life. Which is really lovely to know more about her. She was a sweet kid. The Doctors world is just him and the other two asking about the Doctors victory. Again here is C’rizz the one how saves them again. C’rizz mind is something special and get always shown to us.

There is not much to say about it. The story is nice and as funny scenes. But it is nothing special. It is just another not bad episode of Doctor Who.

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April 9

DW: Something inside

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here we go with the 83 adventure ‘Something inside’ form the big finish main range. This adventure is playing somewhere after the Divergent Universe – in which this story should original take place. I assume that it also plays after Time Works. Inside the Story is no time given. So it would be a perfect fit for the Divergent Universe.

Here we go again

Big Finish want to make fun of me. This story is again a story with the future and than going to listen what happend. It feels like the story got to the start very fast. But i still dislike this way of telling stories. Again C’rizz, Charley and the Doctor lost each other again. I love it when every character can shine and this time it would be Charley. But here we see that there must be something new to be an interessting story.
The human nature is always the most interessting and this team around the time lord are amazing characters.

The human nature

There was a war that the humans couldn’t win. Everytime the humans can’t do something they found another way. This time the made a mashine that turns humans in telecnatic persons. After the war was over they tried to reverse the progress what didn’t functioned. The only other solution the humans can bring up is to bring this people into a special prison. Isn’t this a typical story about our nature. The story is really good and it makes a lot of fun to listen too.

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