December 17

DW: The War Doctor – Only the Monstrous: The Heart of Battle

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here we go with the last part of the big finish ‘the war doctor – only the monstrous’ adventure ‘The Heart of Battle’. You can see this as a self-contained story but as far as i know big finish that it will be conacted to the other the war doctor boxes.

Paece with the Daleks

Seratrix believe that he can make peace with the Daleks. We all know the Daleks and know that this seems impossible but on the otherside is Seratrix not wrong. The War can only end in destruction of the universe and the Doctor is know for making the impossible possible. So why not peace?
What i like the most of the story is that on the surface you can agree with Seratrix but when you hear what he is ready to do for it. What is peace offering means. He is giving them thausand planets.

Sacrifice

What is okay sacrifice for the greater good? This is something we meet alot in Doctor Who and Torchwood. The Doctor had to make that call a few times, like Pompeiji, or in the genesis of the daleks. What the Doctor did in the time war – like we know out of his dreams. Isn’t what Seratrix did the same that the Doctor did? Or are this to many people to sacrifice? Does it really makes a different?
Do you need to be monster to do this decision? If you make that sacrifice are you monster. Can you be still a good man? This are so many questions that story throw up.

Will you be a coward or a monster

When i heart that question i had Christopher Eccleston in my ears and eyes. He is standing there and the villian is asking him this question and we see the Doctor stand there looking at us and see the battle in his eyes. ‘Coward any day’ That is the totally different from what he did in this story.

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December 16

DW: The War Doctor – Only the Monstrous: The thousand worlds

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here we go with the next part of big finish the war doctor – only the monstrous ‘The thousand worlds’. Of course the first adventure had to do with what follows. This story is taking place in the future of the nursemaid, where the Daleks and they enemies of the nursemaid race ‘the taalyens’ conquered Keska of her.

The new mission

The Doctor got send on a mission with a team form the Time Lords. In the first adventure the Doctor saved two time lords that voluntiered to the suicide mission the Doctor take over and told them that someone made sure that these two get that mission. So the question is what is it with the two of them? Someone want them dead. We know nothing about it just that them were part of special mission. I am sure that this special mission is having a bigger mean to the story. I would love to listen to the Doctor working with this two, but of course that is not we get.
The Doctor is abandoned the team and goes alone to the so named ‘Null zone’ to save an important time lord from the Daleks.

Null zone

When the Doctor enters the Null zone he arrived at Keska in a time where they are conquered and the nursemaids race slaved. So the Doctor is meeting her again and start working together. The Doctor finds the time lord he searched for every easily but it seems like he is not prisioner. The Daleks answer to him and he tells something about peace and the Daleks time.
So the question this adventure throw up is what is the plan the Cardinal Ollistra have.

This story is not bad. But i can totally just really get opinion with the last adventure. Because it is all about the bigger picture.

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December 15

DW: The War Doctor – Only the Monstrous: The Innocient

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here we goes with the first Box-set of the Big Finish The War Doctor serie and we are talking about the first story The Innocient of this Box. What i think about the Box and if i will buy the others we will talk about it after i heart all three stories. So this Box like you can assume has three stories a 60 min. This are the three stories:
1.1 The Innocient
1.2 The Thousand Worlds
1.3 The Heart of the Battle

So in the next days i will write about the next two stories. One thing is clear John Hurt has an amazing voice and is perfect for a audio drama.

The start

We are in the middle of the time war. The Doctor already have done a lot of things that he is not prude of. He thinks about himself a monster and refuses to use his name the doctor. It is sad that we don’t now yet what makes him that way. But the Doctor has nightmares about this stuff so we maybe got to know more about it.
The first thing that happend is that the Doctor sacrifice himself to destroy the Dalek fleet. The time lords things that he is dead. I really dislike that start because it reminds me to much about the new Doctor Who seasons. But the story is good. The Doctor is badly hurt and a girl or woman is finding him and cares for him.

The nursemaid

She is nice and wants to help. The task to care for the Doctor is never an easy one. She is part of a peacefull civilisation that got attack be a race from their home planet they had to leave to hide from them. It is a little like the time war. The people had long forgotten what really started this war. The Doctor can just not stay away from getting involved in things like that.
I waited the whole time that this people are just fake or something bigger behind it and maybe there is but not in this story.

Nightmares

The nightmares are the most interessting part of the story, because it shows us what the Doctor became. He dreams of an accidient. The Daleks took innocient people as a shield so the time lords will not attack. Did the Doctor attack them? Did he make the choice to sacrifice a few for saving maybe everything else?

The first story is nice. But not just what i hoped for. I hoped for something dark and hopeless. But this story gives us hope and shows us that the Doctor is deep down still the Doctor. So we have to wait what the other stories had for us.

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