December 18

DW: Bloodtide

Hey Guys,

welcome to the 22 adventure of the big finish main range – Bloodtide with the sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smithe. The Doctor want to surprise Evelyn and brings her to the Galapagos Islands to met Charles Darwin. It a time (1835) he will evelope his evolution theory. The Silurians plays a huge part in it.

Evolution

Like i said before this is a story about Evolution and Silurians. The Silurians are like always trying to eliminate the ape-creatures. They want their earth back. The Galapagos Islands is a prison and this give the Silurians enough guinea pigs for their virus to eliminate the apes. In all that mess is Darwin trying to explain the behavier of the birds.
Evelyn is running around with Darwin and sees how he develope his theory. It is really nice to see her interact with one of her heros and to see Darwin struggling with his religion and convictions to come up with his evolution theory.

Nothing new

Sadly it is like every other Silurian story. The Silurians try to kill the apes. The Doctor and the apes are trying to stop them. At some point there is virus and death – a lot of death on one side. The story is not really surprising and you had it at least three times already… it is really sad that every story is so simular. This adventure is not bad writen or boring. It is solid story and amazing characters that made it fun to listen to it.

Listening or not

If you listen for the story and to hear something new, than don’t listen. If you want a solid story and amazing characters listen to it. The characters make the story interessting to listen to. The story is good just much surprising but it don’t think that this is nessassary to be an amazing story. The characters can totally carry the story.

December 4

DW: 100

Hey Guys,

here comes the 100th adventure of the big finish main range with the name ‘100’. This adventure has four sperate episodes. With the sixth doctor and Evelyn Smythe. The stories might be short but really amazing itself.

100BC

I can’t say much about the stories. They are short and don’t want to spoil them to you. The first story is about the two visiting Rome and the parents of Julius Caesar 9 month before he should be born. The story tells as alot of character of Evelyn and i really like the story.

My own private Wolfgang

This story is about Wolfgang Mozart. How seems to lived little bit longer than he should. So what behind that mystery. The story is not mine but it is not bad. It is about life and if could be that genius be a genius forever or does the forever take the genius away?

Bedtime Story

Someone is telling his child a bedstory about the Doctor. He is telling about his meeting with the Doctor. These someone is a father and when he get child his grandparents would die. It always been like that and nobody is question it. Of course the Doctor is questioning it.
This is my favorite story of this volume.

100 days of the Doctor

The Doctor crossed a species and they are taking revenge. He got infected with a virus that will shut his body down in 100 days. They travels in his own past to find out when he got infected.

June 4

DW: The Nowhere place

Hey guys,
welcome to the 84 adventure ‘The Nowhere place’ of big finish main range. This story plays in 7th september 1952 and 2197 somewhere by earth. The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn is hearing a bell and are going to investigate.

The bell

The Story seems promising and a little mystirious. Some people are hearing a bell and seems to go crazy. The have panic. But what this the whole mystrious thing about it. Mainly the story plays in 2197 and their is were people are hearing the bell. A bell from the 7th september 1952. I thought that the actions on 1952 have something to do with the happing in 2197 but this is not really the case. Because the whole episode in 1952 just could have left out. It doesn’t really make sense. And the solution behind it is a liitle disapointing but it is kinda realistic.

Characters

Evelyn get a little more action than in the other stories i listend before. But the main actions is still on the Doctor. Tanya Oswin are a good character and i would have loved to have more time with her. She is really human. The other characters on 1952 are a little to mysterious. They worked at a secret facility. But we never got more information. This characters with a real story could be great but how this part of the story is played it is just to much.

It is not a bad adventure, but this is actually the weakest i have heart until know. But still nice to listen to.

January 30

DW: Pier Pressure

Hey Guys,
welcome to the Big Finish main range vol 78 ‘Pier Pressure’ it featured the sixth Doctor and Evelyn (Infos about Evelyn). It plays in Brighton in the end of 1936 and takes so place after Players. In the Doctors timeline it is betweeen ‘Thicker than water’ and ‘The nowhere place’. I promised me alot from that story because Evelyn is playing in it, sadly in the first two parts she got to sit on the sideline. But actually the guest stars are fun. The voice of the character Albert reminds me of David Tennant.

We will have enough time for this

The six and the seventh doctor are gotten darker again. When we got to know Albert and his girlfriend Emily, Emily said that they had enough time for all that nonsense. So my first tought was that Albert will not survive it. Albert is cocky and jumps to every possiblity to prove himself. He wants to get to Warner Brothers. Emily on the other hand is the voice of reason. It is important to have a job and don’t play around.
I really like these two and so i like that they are in the action with the Doctor, but why does that mean that Evelyn has to sit in the TARDIS.

He will come around

This is the first time i am a little annoyed by Evelyn. In the first episode she gives the Doctor shit and don’t take any shit from him. That is the Evelyn that i love. But in the second episode the Doctor send her with Max Miller to the TARDIS and she is just going. Because the Doctor knows what he does. I think it is established that the Doctor never knows what he does. This is something that Rose would do… (Don’t get it wrong i love Rose). But why does anyone does that?

The evil

This story is dealing with a darkness that is amazing. I love storys were you don’t know if you have a happy end or not. If it is just an endless circle or will be there a winner? Where light is has to be a shadow. That are the best stories. I don’t want to tell you more than this because the end needs to be heart not read. Just one thing this story has a darkness I love about he sixth doctor. There is no holywood solution just the truth. I promised me more of Evelyn but it is an good story and hopefully we have alot more stories were Evelyn got more to do.

October 24

DW: Arrangement of War

Hey guys,
Here we go with he 57 advenure of big finish main range.It takes place somewhere between the stories ‘Rain of Terror’ and ‘Ticker than water’. I actually would say that this takes place for the sixth Doctor after Peri and before Mel. He travels with Evelyn a character big finish created.

Evelyn

Evelyn is a companion i would love to see in the tv serie. She is an old professor of history and apears the first time in the big finish main range adventure “The Marian Conspiracy”. The relationship between her and the doctor seems complicated. I read a summery of her story. I understand it like someone tried to remove her family from existince. In order to save her the doctor tried to eliminated the influence and she somehow created a paradox.
But she starts traveling because she wanted to learn more and see the history with her own eyes. Important to know is that before this story the Doctor could save a girl and that is something Evelyn is carring with her.

We are not getting involved

The doctor promiswd evelyn that this time everything will turn out okay without their help. Evelyn need time without saving tje World, without the doctor. Of course it is impossible for the doctor to keep that promise. It started so small. He just gave a man an adivise.
But these advise can lead to war and invasion. So the doctor starts a dangerous play which of course goes wrong.

What this is really about

This story is about relationships. How do you make a relationship work? Can we change? Should we change? With what decisions can we live with and with one we doesn’t. Can we give up our love, because it would better for the country? Can we acctually live with that consequences? What is more important love or the country and how can you make that choice.
Evelyn is struggeling with how the Doctor handles things, who he let not show how it hurts him. She is not sure she can live with the consequences anymore. She can’t change him and she can’t change herself. She realize that they have to find a way to live with each other.
We also see the Doctor break down and this is one of the saddest thing that happend. The way the love story ends. The way the Doctor reacts to tragic events, how Evelyn get how the Doctor works and what he needs. They learn to understand each other better. This story is just the life.