May 25

DW: The Underwater Menace

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welcome to the 5th adventure of the 4th season of Doctor Who ‘The Underwater Menace’. Sadly there is half of the episodes missing. They recreated the first and fourth episode. Sadly not like the others with animation but just with photographs. If I had realized it I am not sure I would’ve still bought it. The picture give us not a real picture of the episode.

The first episode

Everyone who follows this blog knows that I love radio plays. Also I have Nick Briggs in my ear that he did this when he was young, just record the audio and than listen to it. Think it can be good. Maybe I don’t like it because the first episode was just bad. I really liked the start where Polly plays this little game with the other. ‘Let’s guess where and when we are.’ Like always that is what I love the most about Doctor Who are these little scenes between them. But after that most of the episode Polly is just screaming. In the three adventures she seemed a lot different. She start a discussion with a cybermen. But here he just seems to scream and being frightend.

New Companion

The second and third episode are … crazy. But it is also fun. The Doctor and the others got into costums and do a little roleplay to capture the mad scientist. Yep you read right. They land on Atlantis. The people there believe that a scientist can make Atlantis rise again. This scientist things it is a good idea to destroy the whole world. It is fun to see the four of the interact with each other. The best thing are the comments of the Doctor. There is something else new in this episodes. Finally Jamie is here. Jamie is diffently one of my favorites. They met him in ‘The Highlanders’ and he will develope are really great relationship with the Doctor. Jamie is the first companin that came from the past and he takes the time travel really well.

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May 16

DW: Legend of the cybermen

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welcome the 135th Big Finish Monthly Adventure ‘Legend of the cybermen’ with the sixth Doctor and Jamie. It also have a little surprise we also met Zoe. The story is placed in the Land Fiction. We know this Land from the story ‘The Mind Robber’.

Figuring out what is going on

This story is the last part of the three parter. So we find out what is behind all of it. The cybermen are invading the Land of Fiction. It seems logic… or not. All the people of the other stories were trying to help in the war against the cybermen. We have quiet a special group that is fighting here. We got Dracula, Alice and Artful Dodger that all fight together. Which actually on his own already create a great and interesting dynamic.

New questions

It seems logic that they all fight the cybermen and that cybermen found a way to convert the people of the Land of Fiction. But how are they came there and what do they want there? This the mystery we try to solve in this story. I really like how this whole adventure turns out.
I tried to solve this puzzle until the end and always thought of a new surprise.
There is a part where Jamie gets his memories back and I love what they did with it. How he questioned the Doctor. It is just single question that so many companions asked themself. ‘Why did he ever came back?’ It is not just Jamie and Zoe. He left Jo and Sarah-Jane… and he never got back. Once he left he never looks back.

Such a mess

I love the story. I love the silliness of all this characters fighting together and great to see the totally different characters in unlikely friendships. A friendship between Alice and Dracula? It is fun to see this. Zoe and Jamie back with Doctor is so great to see. You can hear how much he cares about these two. But with memories of Jamie it also creates a sadness about the reality of the Doctor. So yeah go and listen to the last adventure of Jamie, Zoe and the sixth Doctor.

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May 9

DW: The Wreck of the Titan

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welcome the 134th adventure of the Big Finish Monthly Range ‘The Wreck of the Titan’ with the sixth doctor and Jamie. Everyone that had listened to the previous adventure ‘The City of Spires‘ knows that this story will be impossible to place. It has a lot of dates but nothing is quite right.

The Titans

The story brings the Doctor and Jamie to the Titanic and of course exactly to the moment were the Titanic is about to hit the iceberg. But something is wrong on the ship. It seems to have only two people on board and doors lead to nowhere. Before the Doctor can find out what is going on, the land on the Titan. A ship that will crash with an iceberg.

New friends

The story has only a few characters on it. Mostly there are just four. Jamie, the Doctor, Tess/Myra and Teddy/John. It is really interesting to see the four of them interact. Jamie has a lot of time with Tess/Myra. It is so good to have Jamie back. I really love how easy Jamie can adjust to the situations. The world is new and changed but he just takes it and deals with it. He doesn’t know the words but he still understands what is going on. I missed him so much.

Listen to it

It is not just bringing back Jamie which is amazing but also the relationship he has with the sixth Doctor is so great. The story is such a mess. It is great to try figure out what is actually going on and how it all fits together. Also I am really excited to see where this all will lead. How they explain what was going on in these two stories and why Jamie still doesn’t remember the travels with the Doctor.

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May 2

DW: The City of Spires

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welcome to the 133rd Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The City of Spires’ with the sixth Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon. What can be better than another Doctor meeting one of the best companions ever. I really love Jamie. Jamie is like the Doctors best friend. The dates in this story are really complicated and I can’t say so much about the time with telling to much. What I can say is that Doctor things that Jamie looks like it was twenty or thrity years ago. It is taking place in Scottland.

The most alive person he met

Jamie and the Doctor parted in ‘The War Games‘. The Time Lords made Jamie forget everything about the Doctor except the first time they met. For Jamie it is like he never choose to travel with the Doctor. I still think that his and Zoe (and Donna) have one of the saddest endings. But all that is not part of this article. The Doctor is meeting Jamie again. What puts the Doctor a little of is that Jamie don’t remember him or better the other him. There are no memories of Polly or Ben. Jamie is a little different. The Doctor says that Jamie was one of the most alive persons he met. But now Jamie don’t have much hope and even when he still fights he thinks that they are already dead.

Nothing made sense

All the information given doesn’t make much sense. The Doctor realizes which figths this are but this doesn’t work with the time he things had gone by since he and Jamie had to part ways. Jamie not remembering him is another thing. But since when is there a Overlord and why are there oil-pumping maschines. For people like me that know almost nothing about Scotlands history you got the big mistakes like I already mentioned but there are a few names that appear and doesn’t seem to fit. I really love how this story plays out. It is like the travels with Klein or the Mila storyline. It is a three parter. So we don’t find all the answer and let us want to know how this will all play out.

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January 7

DW: The Last Day at Work

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welcome to the new Short Story ‘The Last Day at Work‘. Big Finish released them for free. This story won at the ‘The Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity’. It features the second Doctor and Jamie after Victoria left the TARDIS and before they met Zoe.

What is going on

I always find it hard to say something about the short trips. The Story is easy enough. It is about Bernard Whittnam. He is a police men and this day the story takes place is his last at work. The Doctor and Jamie met him at a pub where he is celebrating is retiring. That is the story. Obvisouly there is more behind it, but I can’t tell anything more without ruining it.
So this what is going on. A nice evening in the pub.

Atmosphere

What I love about the short trips is the atmosphere they are creating in this short time. All the Short Trips I heart were amazing like Rise and Fall or Landbound. This story is not as amazing as the other I know, which are just four with this one. But it still creates a good atmosphere and it is a good story. It is easy to listen to and Nick Briggs does a great job by reading it.

So go and get it. It is quit entertaining and good idea. I would have thought that it turns out like this. Which is the second thing I love about the Short Stories and that they always have a surprising ending. It is not boring in any way. Just a little nice story about a man who meets the Doctor and Jamie and the consequences. Because meeting the Doctor always has consequences. But we all still love him.

If you want to get it, than just go to Big Finish or follow this link:
The Last Day at Work

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February 15

DW: The Glourious Revolution

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welcome to one of my audiobooks of the Doctor Whos ‘The Companion Chronicles‘. This time it is about Jamie McCrimmon and of course Zoe and the Second doctor. It is read by Frazer Hines and he did really job. The Story takes place in London 1688, and Jamie tells it to a time lord 42 years after they take his memories away.
The Glourios Revolution plays between the adventures ‘The Space Pirates’ and ‘The War Games’.

Jamies time

This events brought Jamie to the place he was when he goes with the Doctor. He was fighting for King James II, he was believing in him and here we are and Jamie can met his King, that run away. All this events are part of Jamies life before he was going in the TARDIS. This is something important to him. That is why for the first time i remember (maybe i forgotten something) Jamie and the Doctor are fighting.
Jamie wants to change history. He wants that King James fights and don’t go hiding. The Doctor is trying to prevent it from happen. But Jamie don’t understand why. They are always changing things, they are always get mixed up in the events. Why is this different.

The Glourious Revolution

I love the Story because it shows us, what person Jamie is. He shows us that is not a warrior, that he indeed understood what was going on. He believed in his King and fought for him. It makes him angry that the call it the glourious revolution because nobody died … in England…
He referrse to to big battle: the masacer of glencoe and the battle of boyne. This is the second part i love about the story all the historic events.

Time Lords

It strart the same Zoes Story started and i was really sceptical and afraid that it takes something away form the ending of the war games, but it didn’t. It was well written and the choose that Jamie take in the end broke my heart again. It is sad. Sad that he become happy. He lived his life with no regrets. He didn’t lived his life thinking about what happen if he was going with the Doctor. He became a family and got happy. But with all the memories.. with all he had and lost, he knows, so cruel it is to his family, that it will never be enough. For Jamie this life was something more… that is why he decided to forget again.

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September 13

DW: Destiny of the Doctor – Shadow of Death

So here is the second part of ‘Destiny of the Doctor’. The second doctor is featured in this story with Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot. Both really amazing companions.

It starts with a really interessting question, who old are they. The Doctor is making fun of Jamie and tells him that he is thousand years old and of course jamie didn’t believed him. But when he tries to think how much time he traveled with the Doctor he could answer that.
When they land he is telling them the whole time that they are save and of course their not save. They are never save.

So it seems like parts of the planet there on are jumping in another timeline? So parts are moving faster than others. Also there are this shadows, that makes people age really fast and die. Thay think that this shadows murdered the civilasation on that planet.

The Doctor becomes of course a messages of the Doctor. The Story is nice. Really good to hear. Freazer Hinz is making a really good job with his readings. He really good at speaking the Doctor. It is really amazing how he did it. I like the turn they are making with the shadows, that they only wanted to comunicated. The Story is good but nothing really amazing – just a nice story.

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