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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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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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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July 16

DW: Year of the pig

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welcome to the 90th big finish main range adventure ‘Year of the pig with the sixth Doctor and Peri. The Story plays in the year 1913. It is a very special episode. It will never be my favorite. But it has something i can hardly explain.

Tobe and the inspector

Tobe is a pig that is always eating and his nurse is watching the other guests of the hotel and describe it to him. He is not just a pig, he is a famous pig and has a few very special fans. One we meet is an lady that infollwing Peri and the Doctor in everything.
The inspector is a very special person. He is really not sympathic. The Doctor and Peri saves him from drowning. So he searches the contact to these two. But he is hiding something.

The problem with this story is that it is so special that i am afraid that i write the wrong thing and everyone knows what is the solution to this abstruse story. About pigs, experiments, time travel, emenies and friends. I always have the feeling that i over heard something. How the go to place to place. For me it is a pile of chaos that does shows everything.

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