November 3

Doctor Who: We are the Daleks

.Hey Guys,

welcome to the 201st Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘We are the Daleks’ with the seventh Doctor and Mel. The title promise us the Daleks. The takes place October 1987 in London and Bradford. The story will also take place at Sakro and Callico Nine. Callico Nine is a planet the Thals inhabited after leaving Sakro.

Everything like you left it

The Doctor and Mel visited home. He tell’s er that everything is like she left it except for the big skyscraper in form of Dalek. Both of them start investigating the situation by seperating. Mel get’s a job in this building and the Doctor is searching for information outside of the building.
This means that Mel and the Doctor don’t have really much screen time together.

Little confusing

The first episode is a little confusing. It jumps a little with the parts. This means that it jumps between scene with Mel and the Doctor and Mel working in the building. I had problems to put in the right direction. After like 10 minutes you got a picture of all the storylines that are going on. This is the moment when the confusion stops.

Daleks are always fun

It is no secret that I love the Daleks and the Mel and seventh Doctor compination. They are fun together. The way Mel interacts with the seventh is quiet different to sixth Doctor. The story has a nice pace. With all the politics in this story you could think that it is a slow story, but it isn’t. The story has a lot of actin scenes and doesn’t slow down. All this creates a good atmosphere and great story.
When you love Mel than you should listen to ‘We are the Daleks’. She has a lot of action and it is always fun to listen to her save the day.

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February 14

DW: Thicker than Water

Hey Guys,
welcome to the 73rd adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – Thicker than Water. This adventure is with the 6th Doctor and Mel, which visited Evelyn Smythe. This story is a very interesting one. There are two different times the story takes place. The first one is around 2583 were Mel and the Doctor visit Evelyn. Than we Flashbacks of Evelyn’s departure which happens around 2581. It is a sequel to the story ‘Arrangement of Wars‘.

Evelyn’s new life

Evelyn left the Tardis and the Doctor to marry Rossiter. We met him in ‘Arrangement of Wars‘. At that point Evelyn choose to go with the Doctor and staying with Rossiter. When the Doctor and Mel visited her. She has a new life with a loving husband and step daughter, who hates her. The both stand on opposite sites on the matter who to handle the research of the technology the Killorans left behind. Also we remember that Evelyn had a heart condition that seems to get healed. Than the Doctor appears Evelyn and Mel kidnapped.

Never boring

There is a lot of going on. Mel and Evelyn make a great team. They are both people that do stuff themself. They don’t wait to get saved. But also we have these deep talks between them to understand who Evelyn feels about the Doctor and his way of dealing with things.
Than we have her step daughter who is searching for them. They actual paint a real sympathetic picture of her. I loved Evelyn form the first moment. But you understand her. It is not so much about Evelyn more what it means for her relationship between her and her father.
Than we have Rossiter and the Doctor trying to find who is behind everything and obviously there is a lot more going and nothing is a coincidence.

Always fun

This story is great. I love it to peace. It has Evelyn in it and got story with sympathetic characters. It is fun, it has action, it has background story. But it also is really sad. The Doctor stand so often in his way. This story has everything I need for a great story.
In the end the 7th Doctor as a cameo for this trip he sets Ace and Hex up to steal the Veiled Leopard which the fifth Doctor set Peri and Erimem up save it (The Veiled Leopard – the story is a special release for readers of Doctor Who Monthly).

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March 8

DW: Flip-Flop

Hey Guys,

welcome to the 46th adventure Flip-Flop from the Big Finish Main Range. It is a story about the seventh Doctor and his companion Mel. It takes place on christmas in the year 3060 and 3090 at the planet Puxatornee. The Adventure has two parts. The first is the Black one and than we have the White one.

Peace at all cost?

The story is about a planet and his two groups of population of Puxatornee. There are the Humans that where there before and the Slithergees that needed a new home. The president of Puxatornee is making a deal with them, which changed the life on this planet.
Some people thing that this was a mistake. That a war with this species would have been better and what to use the TARDIS to change the past.

Change the past

This story is like already said about changing the past. Can you change the past and what happend when you do. What are the consequneces of this? The Doctor and Mel find themself of course in that trouble. They found themself in a circle that is changing again and again. Can this circle end and how does it end. Does the changes really changes anything?

Changes

The stories are really simular to each other because it only changes small things about the Doctor and Mel. But it is really interessting that the circle is never ending. There are two person that fight against the Slithergees and want to kill the president to make sure that they go to war in the first place. But when they get what they want they find the world way worse than what they had. These two in the time were the president died. They work for the new president and what to go back in time to stop the murder of the president. When they get the new world they thing it is even worse than it was what they had.

Listing or not

Flip-Flop is an interessting story that doesn’t offer us any solution and no answer what the real reality is. So I really like it. It don’t know how it is on DVD because I just has the story as a Download. In the Black version are 4 episodes and in the White version are the same four episodes but the last two are the first ones. It functions perfectly well.

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October 22

DW: The Wishing Beast

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here we go with the 97th adventure of the big finish main range – The wishing beast with the sixth Doctor and Mel. The wishing beast is three parter and the other story on the CD – The Vanity Box – is kinda a prequel and sequel at the same time.

They sounded nice enough

At the beginning of the story the Doctor resived a recording, where two siblings invite everyone to join them and visited them. The Doctor who told that his time of running into problem without thinking is over and at the same time he goes visiting the siblings because they sound nice enough. But of course it is never so easy. On the way to the house something like a ghost is warning them to go there. The siblings of course tell the Doctor and Mel that the ghost are the bad. Which one is right?

The great time traveler

The siblings are waiting for special people. A great time traveler, a hero. Of course the Doctor thinks that they mean him but they are actually talking about Mel. They want her to go to the wishing beast and get granded their greatest wish. This is a really interessting thing because Mel is a person that is actually very satisfied with her life. She has nothing like a big wish. I mean Rose wanted her dad would be alive, Nyssa would have wanted to save her father and people and everyone of his companion had something they wished for. But Mel is one of very little people that traveled with Doctor that is just satisfied. Or at least this is how i saw her and remembered her.

A

Of course it is nothing like a wonderfull and peacefull place. In that Town is a Vanity Box that makes the woman younger and more beautiful. This is something i never understand why people want to look younger or try to change how they look. I am not happy with everything i look but i would never even try to change it. But many people see it different. This little story is just what it is a little story. But the best thing is we get to know what Mel would have wished. This wish just got me because it is not just everything i thought about Mel. It is what i would have wished too. I really miss someone…sorry i am just emotional right now.

Listen or not

It is a really good story. I like the way they tell the story. Who is the bad guy and who is the good guy or is there anything like that? Is it all just about love or hate? It is a story about wishes and what they can do to people. So yes go on and listen to this great story.

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April 23

DW: Red

Hey Guys,
welcome to the 85th adventure ‘Red’ of the big finish main range. Mel and the 7th Doctor are visiting a civilation that chiped themself.

Machine

The story has so much potential. It is not a new story. There is a community which decided to make a maschine that can take away your anger. They are all chiped, which mean the machine can take away your memories of your anger of your feelings. The machine takes their responisblitiy form them. This chip not just take their anger, it takes all their emotions. With brings us to very interssting situations. Because you always want what you can’t have.

Perfect system

This system seems perfect but nor Doctor or Mel thinks so. Both for really different reason. The Doctor thinks that the anger have to go somewhere. You can’t just take it away. Mel are thinking of all the other emotions like love and friendship. Also we have to patries here. One that let the machine edting them and the others that decided against it. They are not so different how they think. These people also forget how to feel and how to handle real emotions. That is what the hope to learn from Mel. I wish we had more of that part of the story.
This adventure also shows me how little Mel really knows the doctor. She believes in him and it is a good thing but he is not that good person she sees in him.

It is a really good story. So go and listen to it.

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November 7

DW: Unregenerate!

Hey guys,
Wecome to the 70 big finish main range with the seventh Doctor and Mel. This Story take plae in London 1957 and 2007. In the Doctors time line it is somewhere after Time and the Rani. It must be shortly after the regeneration. This Story seems to have some significant to ‘The Doctor’s Wife’.

Starting

The beginning of the story is quiet irritating. We have a few jumps to people and situations we don’t understand yet. Their is someone making deals with people – like the devil – for research.
The doctor seems like also be test subject and he and mel are apart from each other.

More irritating

The voice kinds of irritazed me alot. Mels voice os very different and also the voice of the doctor is unfamiliar. In case of the doctor is because of the situation he is in -like he is crazy. But mels voice seems so different. For everyone who wants to know it is of course the same voice. But they somehow really feel different.

The end justified the means

This is what the story is about. The scientist want to create something new, for the safety of her kind and all time. Time Lords often have a special way to justify the means or just looking. These people know Time Lords or are they Time Lords? The Doctor is here the bad guy for them. Is security justify these experiments? Louis is an really interessting character which thing that the end is not always justify the means, but sometimes it does. His change and grow is good and he would be a good character to bring back.

After this story i think that i will start the Gallifrey Stories. They are just having the interessting themes.

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