December 8

DW: The Natural History of Fear

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welcome to the next adventures of Charley, C’rizz and the eighth Doctor in the 54th adventure of Big Finishs Main Range – The Natural History of Fear. The story takes place in the Divergent Universe. I really like C’rizz and the new dynamic he brings in between Charley and the Doctor. Like many stories in the Divergent Universe you are totally confused at the start of the story.

Is this still Doctor Who?

Yes of course it is. One thing that Big Finish always does amazingly is creating Doctor Who new. The story start with the three of them doing something they are not so sure about anymore. Following by a replay of the scene between the Doctor and Charley in the story ‘Zagerus‘. Than there is a cut and the voice of Charley is talking about a TV show. It isn’t Charley…or is it? If she is does she remember? C’rizz and the Doctor also speak characters that doesn’t seem to be the usual persons. I was utterly confused but you just have to let go of all this and just listen to it really carefully because it gets more confusing.

A new world

The world that is created here is a very cold and lonely world. Questions are forbidden and it seems like people can be overwritten. There are really strength rules. It remembers me a little bit about Psych Pass. But this story seems to want mainly just to confuse you and that does it brilliantly. We don’t know what happened to the Doctor and his friends, what is the meaning behind the story and how does this world is built. So many questions you are not allowed to ask.

Listen to it or not

The story is part of the Divergence universe. A small part to the big picture they are trying paint here. I was just confused the most of the time and the spark just didn’t sprung over. I still would listen to it because of the bigger picture of this whole storyline. But in the end I didn’t like the story very much.

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October 24

DW: Zagreus

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welcome the 50th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – Zagreus. This story is set directly after the adventure Neverland, which means this adventure is with Charley and the eighth Doctor. It is an adventure to celebrate the 40th birthday of Doctor Who. It is 4 hours long and so lot longer than the other stories. Another special part is that all the companions that worked for Big Finish are playing in the story but most have a different part than we know.

Special Guest

It is lovely to have Romana II in the story again. After Neverland she thought the Doctor and Charley are dead. But she finds out that she was wrong. Leela brings her a message from Rassalon and they start to travel to the Dark Tower. It is the first time Leela and Romana meet and the start of great friendship. But I am really annoyed how they adresse Leela in the story – Savege. Even when I never was a great fan of Leela and the fourth Doctor but she is a great Companion. She is intellegent and lovely.

The Brig is back

Or is he. The Brig has a really big role in this story. But he is not really the Brig. The TARDIS – or a part of the TARDIS – takes the shape of the Brig to help Charley to find out what is going and how they can help the Doctor. They live through certain parts of history that have something to do with the Divergence.

Am I Zagreus

The Doctor is going crazy. The Anti-Time in his body forms the personality of the Zagreus. Zagreus and the Doctor are fighting for the upper hand and try to find out what is going on in the TARDIS. The story is quite confusing and you slowy unwrapping what is going on in this story. I think there is a lot going on in this story. It is about what the differents between love and friendship. It is about the pain about having the feeling to be left alone.

Listing or not

Zagreus is a good story that explains everything that was unclear about the overcasting story. The end set us up for new adventure in another Universe. It is lovely to hear all the familar voices and who they play with it. I like the theme friendship and what it means to the Doctor and the TARDIS. Because most part of the story are about these two. In the last part I am annoyed by Charley. I hate it when you can do something but you start judging others doing the same. But yeah go and listen to it.

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September 5

DW: Neverland

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welcome to the land that never was with people who never were in the story Neverland. The 33rd adventure of the Big Finish Main Range the eighth Doctor and Charley meets President Romana II who wants to stop the Time Crisis which started with the survival of Charley on the R101 (Storm Warning).
This adventure is just the first part and will be continued in the story Zagreus.

Team up

I am a big fan of Romana II. How much I loved her in the classic stories and I love that she become President. Her adventures as President (Gallifrey) interest me and even more after I read the book Shadows of Avalon. Now we can listen to her meeting the eighth Doctor and Charley. It is so much fun to listen to them working together. Also there are more Time Lords involved in this story and you all know how much I love stories with them.

AntiTime

It is way to complicated to explain the whole theory of AntiTime in my own worlds. But there is this sentient that comes into our universe through a gateway and destroys the boundaries of time. This gateway is Charley. So Romana plans to go through this gateway and fight these people there and maybe even find something important to the Time Lords.
There is a lot that is different from what seems at the beginning of the story. We will find out another dark chapter of the Time Lords.

Listing or not

By Rassilon go and listen to the Neverland. It is so good to listen to Romana and the Doctor working together again. The mystery around Charley Pollard started with the story Invaders of Mars is getting explained and maybe the story will end well or it will end in a disaster. We will find out in the second part of the story Zagreus.

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August 29

DW: The Time of the Daleks

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welcome to the new history with the Dalek as the ruler of earth in the 32nd adventure of Big Finish Main Range – The Time of the Daleks. It is another story with the eighth Doctor and Charley. It takes place in London, New Britain in the years around 2050s. Also it is the fourth part of ‘Dalek Empire‘. You don’t need the knowledge of the other stories but it is part of a four episode long Story (The Genocide Machine, The Apocalypse Element, The Mutant Phase and The Time of the Daleks) and get it own spin-off.

Shakespeare biggest fans

The story starts with the Doctor find out that Charley doesn’t know who Shakespeare is. We remember that in the story ‘Invaders of Mars‘ Wells didn’t know Shakespeare either. So yeah this is the story were a lot of the hints get explained. The leader of New Britain Mariah Learmann makes a deal with the Daleks. The Daleks are apparently fans of Shakespeare. So Learmann helps them to repair their ship and they help her save Shakespeare.
That sounds like fun, doesn’t it?!

A nice change

The other stories were quiet dark. This is not a light story but it is more fun the others. Just the thought of Daleks being fans of Shakspere or Daleks moving around and quote him. It makes the story lighter than the others before. Because the rest is obviously rather serious. Also in this story is a little bit more action than in ‘Embrace the Darkness‘. Daleks don’t talk long they just act. That is one reason I love them. Most bad guys just talk and talk and you think that if they would stop talking they may succeed.
In the TV-series I often found myself thinking that Daleks became a joke. But here the Daleks are rather out numbered and out gunned but they not afraid because they are still superior. You don’t need an army. One Daleks is more than enough.

Listing or not

‘The Time of the Daleks’ is a good story. It makes clear that there is a bigger problem and the Daleks are using this. The Daleks are on their best. This makes fun to listen too. Daleks quoting Shakespeare made my day. So yeah go listen to it.

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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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