April 4

DW: Mission of the Viyrans

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welcome to the 102b Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘Mission of the Viyrans’. It is the second story on the ‘Mind’s Eye’. This story is about Peri and the Viyrans. The fifths Doctor has a small role. Ahistory places the story around 2684 on the planet Grallista Social. It is a really short story but it still offers a lot. In the context with the other stories.

Meeting the Viyrans

This is actually the first adventure with the Viyrans. We get here the most information about the Viyrans. We get a bit of their history and what they do. I really like the idea of the Viyrans. They are a good enemy without really being an enemy. They want to help but have a really single-minded way to see the world. I really like to find out more about them.

This story gets concluded with the ‘Patient Zero‘. ‘Mission of the Viyrans’ is playing after the accident in ‘Patient Zero‘. I liked the story before. It is a short story and it focused on one Companion. The idea and the solution is great. But when you put it into context with the other stories. This little story get’s even better and more important.

I kinda like it that this story plays after ‘Patient Zero‘ and ‘The Bride of Peladon’ even when both are released later. So you have to revisited the stories and put them in the right order. You have to think when it happened, how every thing slides into the right place. The stories aren’t told in a line but a bit Timey-Wimey stuff.

So yeah go and listen to this story. It is a short great story. You don’t need any knowledge about the stories before with Peri. Erimem get’s mentioned but it is not important to know her or her story to understand what is going on in this story.

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October 25

Doctor Who: The Memory Bank and other Stories

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welcome to the 217th adventure of Big Finish Main Range ‘The Memory Bank and other Stories’ with the fifth Doctor and Turlough. This story has 4 parts with differnet little stories. They have nothing incomen except the Doctor and Turlough.

The memory Bank

It is a little story about how important memories are. Turlough and the Doctor lands in the Memory Bank where people had secured their memories. When you got forgotten in this world you die that is why they have this Memory Bank and Turlough with his great luck becomes the new archivator.
This stories is really sad and we got a few memories of Turlough. We all know that he doesn’t like his past life, his memories. Not everything is a good memory.

The Last fairy tale

The Doctor and Turlough stumple over a little town that is waiting for a storyteller. Turlough things the discribtion looks like the Doctor and brings them in danger. This story is more fun. The Doctor Turlough snipping at each other and mysterious storyteller makes a light funny story.

Repeat Offender

The Doctor got a call for help and arrives in a flat with an anconces woman. When both of them try to find out what is going on. The wife of the woman comes home and calls the police. Before the Doctor can do anything he finds himself in trail.
The story is a little crime story. How got killed and by who. Or was there even a murder? I really like this story.

The Becoming

This is my favorite story of ‘The Memory Bank and other stories’. Turlough and the Doctor meeting a woman on her pass to become what she is ment to be. It is a kind of ritual and these two just making things complicated.
I like this story the must because I love stories where we see that Turlough cares so much for people. Most times he has this wall and seems to only care about himself… we all know that is not true. But this one of the stories where he doesn’t hide that he cares but still doesn’t to get involved.

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August 31

DW: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster

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welcome to the 107th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Haunting of Thomas Brewster’ with the fifth Doctor and Nyssa. The story kinda follows this person Thomas Brewster through his life. It starts in the year 1851 at funeral of his mother. From that point on the Doctor and Nyssa appears in the background of his life.

Hey I am Thomas Brewster

The first episode of this story is told from perspective of Thomas Brewster and who he see the Doctor and Nyssa being there at different occasions. Thomas story is about the loss of his mother. He don’t remember much of her but he thinks that she calls out to him and that he need and can save her. The loss as formed his whole life. He never had someone who looks out for him or tries to help him. He got himself friend but nobody that takes care of him, like a mother or parents would do. So the only thing he has is this voice that calls for him.

A mess

I can’t find this story hard to follow. Thomas Brewster is not hard to understand but still he didn’t really got me. For me it all seems like a big mess of paradox stuff and I not sure if this makes any sense to me in the end. So this is for me a really weak story. I like the idea, but I don’t really get into the story. So that is that. But I still like to see where Thomas Brewster story play out.

With the end of this story there is a lot of possibilities what could happen and there is a lot of potential for the next stories and I curious were it will end. I know that will get little mini episodes about different companions that are bound by Thomas Brewster so we will see were this story ends. I just hope it isn’t working with so much paradox stuff like it feels in this story.

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October 3

DW: Omega

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welcome to the return of Omega in the 47th adventure of Big Finish Main Range. Omega plays in The Sector of Forgotten Souls with no date given. Ahistory places the story into the vulgar end of time – I didn’t find anything about it on the other sites so I am not sure what a time this describes but it seems to have is origin in the story The One Doctor.

Doctor on his own

In this adventure the fifths Doctor is on his own on a holiday history ship. It is on his way through the story of the time lord Omega. So obviously this is the story about Omega. We find out the really story behind this man. He wants to go back in his own universe where he tried to escape from.
It is an interesting story about a man who didn’t wanted to be known. He wanted to give all time to the Time Lords. He became the bad guy in his own tragic story.

What is going on

Most of the time you just think what is going on. Who kills who in this story? What are the real plans? Or does he just want to go home? The first part I personally don’t find so interesting but the characters grown on me. Daland for example on of the actors of the cruise is really growing on me and the old ladies are going on my nerves. It really gets better.

Listing or not

Omega like I said before is at first not mine. But the story about Omega is really interesting. How time works? How time changed the way we see history. The second part of the story is amazing and I love it. I also fall in love with this idiot Daland and he really is an idiot. So go and listen to the story of a foolish and a very powerful time lord who did a terrible thing and the heroic time lord how discovers what he did.

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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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June 21

DW: Loups-Garoux

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welcome to the 20th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – Loups-Garoux. This is an adventure with the fifth Doctor and Turlough. It takes place in 2080 in Rio de Janeiro. Like the name of the story gives away it is about werwolves. The idea behind it is really simular to the idea of Wolfs Rain. In Wolfs Rain the wolves take the shape of humans or at least play with the sense of humans so that they see them as humans. Here the werewolves plays also with the sense of the human but in the way that humans don’t see them if they don’t want to be seen. By the way Wolfs Rain is an amazing Anime and you should totally watch it.

Werwolves and their probelms

The story is about the leader of the werwolves Ilena, who tries to find a cure for her sons illness. He lost himself in the wolf. But that is not the only problem she has. She is also on the run from the gray one. He is a very old werwolf – the first one, who wants Ilena as his mate. In all that the Doctor and Turlough apear.

Warm Welcome

The werwolves are not fond of the two arrivers. They play with Turloughs mind and bring out the dark side he is afraid of. In is fear Turlough tries to run form his dark side. He runs directly in the arms of the last party for the show down. Rosa is a mysterious girl who knows about werwolves and isn’t one herself. She has a silver blade with her and waits for the king of the werwolves.

Listing or not

The characters are not so interesting. I like Rose and the relationship she built with Turlough and I love stories with Turlough. Like I always mentioned he is one of the most interesting characters in Doctor Who. The story is not bad. It is a solid story almost every story from Big Finish. So yeah it is definitly worth listing too. I want more of Turlough and the Doctor.

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December 11

DW: Sirens of Time

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welcome to the very first adventure of big finish – Sirens of time. It is not just the first adventure of the main range, it is the first episode they produced. This is the start of amazing stories. They start with three Doctors in one adventure. We have the fifth, sixth and seventh Doctor.

Always the time lords

They time lord see themself facing a enemy that is uncredible strong. It seems like they are totally powerless against this enemy. But they find out that the Doctor is involved and send warnings to him or are they are trying to kill him? Both is possible and believeble. The three Doctors faces all their own adventures.

Seventh Doctor

The seventh Doctor seems to be travling alone. The story of the Seventh Doctor is playing in the year 3562 on a not existing planet. The Doctor saves a girl – Elenya. Everything doesn’t seems quite logic at the beginning. On this planet is also living a man and woman. The woman needs to take care of the man. But she is not satisfied with this work and tries to make a deal. A deal were everyone will die.

Fifth Doctor

The fifth Doctor is traveling with Tegan and Turlough but they don’t have a big role. This adventure takes place in 1915 on a submarine. He gets closed of of his TARDIS and met a girl – Helen. The submarine got attackt and the a german submarine is saving them. It seems like someone is trying to take controll of the crew members and try to kill the Doctor who seems to thing the time lords are behind it.

Sixth Doctor

This story of the sixth Doctor is playing in the year 3562 on a spaceship. There is a conferance at that spaceship. His TARDIS get caught in an explosion and he strands on the spaceship. There he mets a girl which get him in the conferance room. A time distortion gets everyone in trouble.

Listen or not

The story is really not my thing. It all ends of course in a big story but the story are to short for my liking. But this is totally a listen to it story because the three Doctors are working together and that is the best. This three Doctors are not my favorites. I mean i love these three but my favorite Doctors are the tenth, first and second but these three together have just the best chemistry with each other. It is so much fun listen too them. This story also made very clear that the Doctor is the same in all incarnations but also shows us all the differents between them and they are very different. It is really lovely to listen to so well writen Doctors.

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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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September 24

DW: Exotron

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welcome to the 95 big finish main range adventure Exotron that featured the fifths Dotor and Peri. It takes place on distant outpost of earth, AHistory is setting it around 2350 somewhere before the Macra Terror. For the Doctors timeline it is somewhere before they met Erimem or after. Anyway Erimem is not part of the Story and they don’t explain were she is.

They protect us

This is beautifull story about missunderstanding about language in many ways. On that outpost of earth are of course humans, but there are als the Farakosh that don’t comunicate like humans. The humans just see them as danger and animals. Than there are the Exotrons. The are devoleped to protect the humans from the Farakosh. But is this really that simple? It never is. They are in a way three species that don’t understand each other. The just reacted to things without thinking what it would look like to the other.
This whole things to we got in a smaller version. Because it goes about a two people that loved each other on some point of their life. She got an affair and the got devorced. All this because of the undoubtly point that comunication is really complicated.

Atmosphere

The Story is really good. I like the themes and it works pretty well. The way the story is told serves to see the simualars between the little situation and the bigger situation. I love how the make this story about love without telling a love story. But something is missing. I don’t get in the story and i don’t know why. Because i like everything about the story. But it is like there is just no spark. I can’t tell you why this is.

B-Side: Urban Myths

The Story is a really nice idea, but i really dislike almost everything about it. Three time lords eats lunch and discuss about the event that lead to the discusion to kill the Doctor. Everytime the tell a little different story. The first time has a WTF-Moment when the tell a story were the Doctor isn’t acting like we know him. You asking yourself what is happend there… it doesn’t make seens like that. But we just get the same story just a little more like the Doctor and again… I don’t know, you wait for something big and different than in the end you just get a story were the Doctor is like always. I am not a fan of stories like that. I hated the endless loop episode of Supernatural…

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August 27

DW: Renaissance of the Daleks

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welcome to the 93th big finish main range adventure – Renaissance of the Daleks. This adventure is with the fifth Doctor and Nyssa. They are not alone on this adventure. They have four new companions in the TARDIS everyone out of a different time. Mulberry is a knight of templar and met Nyssa in 1320. Nyssa and Mulberry are landing in Petersburg 1864 at the time of the american civil war and met Floyd. 1967 they save major alice hunniford and take her with them. The Doctor is traveling with Wilton how seems to be out of a parallel universe. 2158 a year after the Dalek invate the earth but it didn’t happen.

Big group

This is really good. So many characters in the TARDIS. They are all very different even when they all are soldiers in a way. There is so much potential in the conactions between all this characters. This is the best part of the story. All that stuff about the different times and characters. It is fun to hear them try to work together and find out what happend. There is way more potential between them than just this adventure. But sadly they will not travel together longer.

Same old

Okay, i know that every Daleks story is in away the same old story over and over again. But this one of the story i didn’t like very much. The story is in away very boring. I like the characters but everything else seems so act on the survice. So many things doesn’t make much sense to me. Also i am i not a fan of humind Daleks. So the story is not getting me.

I am really sorry for the short articles. I will give my best to change that again.

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