January 11

DW: The Angel of Scutari

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welcome to the 122nd Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Angel of Scutari’ with the seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex. It plays for our friends directly after ‘The Enemy of the Daleks‘, where Hex questioned if he is ‘made’ for this. So the Doctor brings him to met Florence Nightingale. So the story takes place between 25th September to 19th November. This is a historical story and so all the dates are being giving to us in the story. Also we have the third part of ‘The Three Companions’.

Hex in his element

It is really nice to see him in his element. He not just is a nurse but he also loves his job. In Scutari he can help ‘simply’ with trying to hold everything kill. Doing the job that Florence Nightingale did. She was one of the first people who took the enviroment into account for the healing of the wounded in time for more people died in the hospital bed than on the battle field.

You shouldn’t meet your heros

That is what people say. It didn’t work out for the Doctor with meeting his heroes. I think that is always a problem because we forget that their more than their work. Hex got really flustered when he meets her and it is endearing. I really love this story who Hex is charming this people. In a month people learnt to trust and respect him. It is so good to see him like this. I also love that the Doctor know Hex so good and he got a lot better in helping people than he was with Ace.

A little confusing

The story is a little confusing. It has a lot of time jumps. So you really have to think about when what is happening. All three of them are on their own and we jump between their stories and times around. The Doctor is captured for treason and Ace got badly hurt and is in prison. So they all have to make their own way.

Listing or not

I love the story. You all know I love historical and this is no exception. It is good story that tells us a lot about the time and this war. We see how close they got even when they are not together. I love it when they show us a little more of the relationship between the Doctor and Hex. Most times we have the Doctor and Ace or Ace and Hex.

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January 4

DW: Enemy of the Daleks

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welcome to the 121st Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘Enemy of the Daleks’ with the seventh Doctor and Ace and Hex. Ahistory is placing the story around 2560 during the Daleks Wars. This and the name of the story are promising us another Dalek Story. This story contains also the second part of ‘The Three Companions‘ were Polly tell the Brigadier a story about their adventures.

Welcome to war

This is a war story. Do I have to say more? The humans are fighting against the Daleks for years now. There is a desperation in them. They know the enemy, their the cruelty. A group of survivor of a Dalek attack flee to the planet Bliss, where they find a science base. All is set for a good and cruel war and action story spiced with war crimes.

Like the cybermen?

This is actually the first time that Hex encounters the Daleks. He thought that the cybermen were the worst the universe has to offer. Now he learns about the Daleks and it scars him. You all know that I love Hex and even more this whole combi of people. But Hex is different… he wants to see the world and loves adventure about he is no soldier and he is breaking by all the bad things he is witnessing. What I love so much about him is who he always tries to protect, to save people. How often do we see Companions standing up to Daleks to protect people he doesn’t even know?

Everyone in his element

Hex story part is about him being a nurse. The Doctor left him to look after the wounded and the patients that are infected by a ‘virus’.
Ace on the other hand is with the soldiers and can work with the big guns again.
That leaves the Doctor to deal with the scientist, the war crime and the question the Doctor has to answer in many incarnations. Is genocide something he can, shall and will do?

Listing or not

I like the story. War stories are always so dark and cruel and bloody… and this is no different… there is no real happy end. I am not such a great fan of these stories… but Big Finish always make it work and they are great. This particular works for me because of the combi of characters in the story. So yes listen to it. But you will not find humor in it or light conversation but it is totally worth it.

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October 19

DW: The Magic Mousetrap

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welcome to the 120th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Magic Mousetrap’ with the seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex. The story takes place in 1926 in switzerland in the Hulbrook sanatorium. It seems like the Doctor has amnesia and he is on his own. Ace and Hex find themself in a very different position than most times.

Who pulls the strings

The Magic Mousetrap is one of these episode were you don’t what is actually going. We have a few people playing games to stay alive and we have the Doctor don’t remember anything. Than we have two rich people in the attic giving ‘orders’.
Actually I had a really hard time to realize that this woman voice is Ace. Hex voice was easier to recongnize.

This a story where it is really hard to write something without spoilering everything. It is quite a mess. It seems like only Ace and Hex kno whats going on. I definitly didn’t what was going on. Because there is so much happening and nothing logic to me.

In the end

They explain everything in the end and it makes sense. There is a lot in this story and it is fun to listen to the story to unravel. But for me it is a little to crazy. I like story but it is also a story I totally forget and will never be one of my favorites. But it still fun to listen to this little mystery. To listen to Ace and Hex which kinda like to play with the Doctor. Normally it is the other way around and it changes a little of the dynamic between them.

Side story

The 120th adventure comes also with a little side story – The three Companions. It is a little like the Companion Chronicles. This one are a letter conversation between Polly and Brigadier about the Doctor. I really like it and I really want to hear the other 11 parts of this story.

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September 28

DW: Forty-Five

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welcome to the 115th Big Finsih Main Range Adventure ‘Forty-Five’ with the the seventh Doctor with Ace and Hex. This story is actually for four differnet stories. We had adventure like that before for example Circular Time and 100. It should celebrated Forty-Five years of Doctor Who. So the number Forty-Five is playing a role in every story.

False God

The first story of Forty-Five takes place in 1902 in egypted. They met Howard Carter on his search fo the lost tomb of Userhat. The interessting part is that Hex is hearing a calling that none of the other can hear. What I really love is that this Doctor is not playing favorites.

Order of Simplicity

This story is taking place in the 3380 on the planet Sphere of Influence. There is a mysterious code that the Doctor should solve. But the problem is that everyone that reads this code gets infected by a virius that reduces your IQ to 45.

Casualties of War

The third story of Forty-Five takes place in 9th May 1945 in London the celebration of the end of the second world war. For Ace this is a special adventure because Ace and her mother grow up in this street – in the house next door.

The Word Lord

The last story takes place in the year 2045 in the second cold war that seems to lead to the state of affair seen in ‘Warriors of the Deep’. There is murder in a top secret base and the Doctor and his friends need to find the murder.

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August 24

DW: The Dark Husband

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welcome to the 106th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Dark Husband’ with the 7th Doctor and his companions Ace and Hex. It plays at sometime at another planet named Tuin. Ace is wanting a holiday and do something nice. Of course it doesn’t work out.

Let’s take a break

What can go wrong when you want a holiday? Hex finds broshure and the decide to visited the festival of Twin Moons of Tuin. Of course lands at the time when something bad had happened. They found a graveyard and no festival. Just this part makes me love the story. I mentioned it a lot that I wasn’t a fan of Ace in the series. But when I started listing to her stories with Hex, that really changed. She grows in all the stories and it is great to see her developement. Also I love the way these three characters interact with each other. It is always fun to listen to their banter.

Let’s end the war

So really fast the story developed from let’s take a break to let’s end the war. Apparently there are two race that are at war forever. They have the Festival ones a year. It is a little bit like the Christmas wonder. Every they make this festival they celebrate together and just stop the war for this time and after they just go back to it. To make this even more special you can stop the war by a marriage and of the Doctor jumps to the chance to end this but he doesn’t what he got into. It’s a typical we make up as we go story.

Dark Husband and Shining Wife

The atmosphere of the story is hard to describe for me. It is not a really dark story. The actor talked about it being a comedy in away. But I really don’t see it. I don’t share humor I think, because I can’t remember that I laughed at this story. So it is something between everything. I don’t think it is a bad story. Actually I like it. I just don’t see what is funny about it. Also I feel with my Hex. We got glimpses of what he feels for a special someone who doesn’t seem to see him that way. I love my babies.

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