July 25

DW: The Eye of the Scorpion

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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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November 27

DW: Son of the Dragon

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welcome to the 99th adventure – Son of the Dragon – of big finish main range with the fifth Doctor and his companion Erimem and Peri. They visited 1462 and lands in a war against the son of the dragon. What actually is really exciting because the son of the dragon is the really Dracula. I was always a fan of the Vampires. They real Vampires that can’t live in the daylight, don’t like garlic and drinks blood. The old vampires…without glitter. The cruel Vampire that really existed in our world. A monster who is nothing else than a human. This is not just a story of Dracula but it is also a historical story which i really love.

Quite a mess

The story is quite changing. Our lovely people stumple over a little armee that wants to defeat Dracula. But they get attackt by Dracula and his people. In the chaos of the fight Erimem saves Dracula. When Erimem is living with Dracula. Peri and the Doctor are searching for her and than try to save her. So the first two episode are quite a mass and a chaos for her.

The reason too love Doctor Who – listen or not

What i can totally promise all of you is that all characters have an amazing deep. Dracula is not just the monster the books do. You can understand him. He has his reasons. The good brother is not so much a good guy either. This is a really important thing is to never forget two things. Thing one is that you always have to see the things in their time and second all monster are nothing else than humans. We are the monster. Doctor Who shows this alot of time that everyone of us can become this monster. We should never forget that. This story shows us this. This story is totally a go and listen to it.

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March 12

DW: The Kingmaker

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welcome to the 81 big finish main range adventure ‘The Kingsmaker’. The fifths Doctor is traveling with Peri and Erimem. It takes place in 1483 and 1485 in England. For the Doctors timeline it takes place after the Planet of fire and after the Axis of Insanity.

Big start

The Doctor made a contract at his fourth Incarniation that he will write a kids book. This Books should be called The Doctor, Who decover… and it becames Doctor Who. It is a funny play with our title. But that is not what the story is about. The Doctor wanted to write about the mystery about Richard 3 and who killed the princes in the tower. The story plays with a lot of things. What is going on there and than there is the mysterious man ‘Mr Seyton’, which has a TARDIS and alot of knowledge about the future.

Different sides of view

This story gives us alot of time to see the different points of view of Peri and Erimem. That is actually why i love to have an companion like Erimem again in the TARDIS. We see how Erimem sees the death and how she sees alot very different. She is ready to learn new things and is eager to get to know all that stuff. But she has strong opinions and is ready to do things Peri would never understand. Which makes the story very interessting.

But that is the only thing that is interessting. The Story is not bad but not the best.

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October 10

DW: The Axis of Insanity

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so ‘The Axis of Insanity’ is the 56 adventure from the main range. The Story takes place somewhere after the ‘Resurrection of the Daleks’. The fourth Doctor is traveling with Peri and Erimem. I excatly not pretty sure when this story or all the Erimem stories are set in the timeline after the Doctor. It seems like it has to be after the goodbye of Thourlough. If someone knows better tell me.

Erimem

So what do we need to know about this companion? She appear the first time in the story ‘The Eye of the Scorpion’, which is the 24 adventure of ‘Big Finish Main Range‘. She is an uncrowned Pharao from the ancient egypt. When she started traveling with the Doctor at the age of 17. She as a great wisdom and wants to learn more. The Doctor offered her the chance of doing that. Along the travels with the Doctor she and Peri built a strong bond like sisters.

Mistakes of the Time Lords

This story is one of the most interessting. I love all the theme about Time Lord and their mistakes. This Story tells us what happend to the part of history the Time Lord changes. The mighting Time Lords are making mistakes that left their traces. We learn about the way Time Lords deal with their mistakes. They hide them and lock them away. It shows us a side of the Time Lords that they try to hide.
Also we see the graveyard of the TARDIS’s. The way they create the atmosphere is really amazing. I could see it before my eyes the way Erimem sees it. Beautifull and so sad.

Insanity

What is insanity or what sanity? The story apart from the really good theme about the Time Lords is really insane. Many parts of it seem unreal and crazy and other way to much real. It is life and it is fantasy. It is a special mix that defines the whole story. First it seems like only the Doctor get screen time but than Peri is out of the TARDIS searching for her. And the two first episode you think that Erimem is just there. But than she can shine too. Erimem had too little time but that time she has were really strong and good stuff.

In the end i really like the crazyness and the reality of the story. I like the way Time Lords play there part without being really a part of the story.

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July 24

DW: No place like home

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the Big Finish is celebrate 15th years of Doctor Who releases. So they have a lot of special prices and so on. Also they have two audio plays on the first day for free. On is ‘No place like Home’ and the other ‘The ratings war’.  Of course i couldn’t resist. So here is what i think about the first one and tomorrow the other.

This audio play is featuring the fifths Doctor and the new companion Erimem. This is in the time with Peri traveling. Erimem is a human from the old egypt time. Peri is in his room and don’t play a role in this story. So this story take place in the TARDIS. It is really lovley to have all the hits of the other companions. We wander with the Doctor and Erimem through the TARDIS, it is really fun to find a few rooms.

Shayde is also a part of this story and Erimem has a cat on board on the TARDIS. The Story is about what means home and about lonliness. I like it. It is a nice entertainment. So go and hear it.

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