December 28

Torchwood: The Hope

Hey Guys,

finally I find the time to write about the amazing Big Finish Torchwood story ‘The Hope’. It is the 6 Volume of the 5 season. It is a story I was really excited about. The last adventure of Owen and Andy together ‘Corpse Day‘ were amazing so I really had high hopes for this story. The combination of Andi and Owen is something I never knew I needed and this story doesn’t let me down.

Doctor Harper

I love stories where we see Owen doing what he actually is. In Torchwood we don’t see him often in the role of a Doctor. Mostly he is working on dead bodies or aliens. So this are rare moments and I love them so much. Because he is such a great Doctor. He may dislike people or judge them but when they are his patients than they are just that his patients. He treats them the best he can no matter who they are. I like this side of him. It also one of the reason that I like this combie so much. Because Owen is more of a bad guy or tries to look like it and Andy is the nice guy.

No one understood

This story is so amazing because of the characters not just Owen and Andi but also the big bad – Megwyn Jones. Andy is sure that she killed a lot of kids. There is no doubt in him. But we see her as a woman that is about to die and wants to make amounds. You are here and asking yourself if Andy is right or maybe she is innocent? Or is she just playing?
The Chief Inspector is on the other hand really unsympatic. He acts like an idiot. Maybe he is not the good guy or is he just an idiot.

What really happened

I really don’t want to tell you more. Because this story is great and how they play with the characters is great. This story has so much more to offer us. What they put Owen through… Everyone should listen to this story. It is so amazing and I can’t wait to another adventure of Owen and Andy.

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July 14

Torchwood: Last Beacon

Hey Guys,

let’s get camping with Ianto Jones and Owen Harper in the Big Finish Torchwood adventure Last Beacon. It is the second story of the fourth season. I can’t believe we already have the fourth season of amazing stories of Torchwood. You can’t say it enough. I love that Big Finish for starting with Torchwood. I normally not say you had written the story but here I will say because it is written by Gareth David-Llyod himself.

The start of a beautiful friendship

Ianto was allowed to plan a mission – the first one after the Lisa incident. Someone sends a transmission into space and Ianto and Owen should find out what it is and who sends it. It is sent from the countryside. Ianto spend a lot of his childhood in this area visiting his grandparents. So he really enjoys the trip. Owen on the other hand isn’t a big fan of nature and people and everything that they are dealing with there.

Love or hate

The story is living through the chemistry between Ianto and Owen. Owen is his charming self and our lovely Ianto is on the receiving end. The story jumps between Owen snapping at Ianto and them bounding over a bar fight. It is such a great story about the relationship between them. We all remember who Owen in the series snaps at Ianto a lot. It is nice to see more of the relationship between them.

Atmosphere

The atmosphere is great. Ianto and Owen made a great team with the snapping and open up to each other. It is a great mixture of fun and calm moments between them. The music in the scenes are amazing. I love the music so much. The story is also really good. These two searching for the ‘person’ that is responsible for the transmission. They have to deal with ghost and locals. This story has everything bar fights, ghosts, guide tour of the attractions of the countryside.

Listing or not

definitely listen to it. These characters are great and the chemistry amazing. This is so far my favorite story in the fourth season. The story is set somewhere between Lisa and Owen dying. I love stories that concentrate on the relationship between two people and even more when these came to short in the TV series. So goooo listen to this amazing story. I hope we will get more stories written by Gareth David-Llyod.

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August 6

Torchwood: Corpse Day

Hey Guys,

welcome to the third and at the time best Torchwood adventure this season ‘Corpse Day’. This is the first Owen Harper adventure and i was really excited about it. Owen was the only one that wasn’t back yet. But it is not just Owen. In this adventure he teams up with Andy what actually is a great combination.

Owen and the Corpse Day

Corpse Day is a day were Torchwood offers their help to the police. What most of the time don’t end well. Jack thought it would be funny to send Owen for this corpse day because he is a corpse. What actually makes it really clear at which time this is playing – between his two death.
After his death he got even more – i don’t find the right word for it.
We all know Owens history. We know that he was a doctor and what he lost and how he stopped believing in a good end. He is eaten up with the life.

I love Owen because he is for me a person were all the oppesits united. He is eating up about life but also has so much respect for life. He has hard and sarcastic shell and inbetween he is slowly dying because of his inability to save people.

Andy surprises me

We don’t know much about Andy and this story shows us another side of him. I don’t want actually say to much but i was surprised by Andys reaction. I would never thought he would reacted that way, but when you think about it, it is logic. It is Andy. It is a side we didn’t see because he never had a big part in Torchwood before. Here we see more sides of him. To pair Andy and Owen together with that kind of story is a masterpiece. They are the oppists of each other. Owen shows us a darker side of Andy. They made the character flaws of each other more visible.

The way it goes

I don’t want to say much because the story is great and not what you thought at the beginning. You can piece it together a little faster than Owen but it still goes in a direction i didn’t thought of. It starts as fun part because really Andy and Owen… but don’t except a funny and light story. The gets really fast really dark.
It is such a cruel and real story. It left you with a lost feeling. It leaves you with alot to think about.

Really this for now my favorite Torchwood story this season and here i really love the way they tell it, the way the leave the end. It is just all we need to make our own thoughts and our own decission about what this end is.

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