July 11

The Tenth Doctor Adventure: Cold Vengeance

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the Ice Warriors are going to wake up from the icy sleep in the last episode of the Tenth Doctor Adventures Box Set – Cold Vengeance. The Doctor and Rose lands on Coldstar which is a freezer satellite from the company Coldstar. There is no date given. But it takes places five hundred years after the ten-year war between the Ice Warriors and the Humans.

Meeting the pirates

Like I said before the Doctor and Rose lands on the Coldstar satellite where they meet space pirates and a refuse collector Lorna. Which for all we know could already enough for a whole story. But now the Ice Warriors are awaken and seek revenge for the war crimes of the humans.

Being apart

In every story before I said that there this lightness to all the stories. This is the darkest story so far in this Box Set. I think it is because most of the time the Doctor is with the Space Pirate and Ice Warriors. So Rose is with one Space pirate and the refuse collector. The lightness comes from how they act around each other. It is still not a dark story but darker than the rest.

Listing or not

Go listen to it. Isn’t that a surprise. This story is really good. We got good old Ice Warriors and really good characters like Lorna. The Doctor Rose know each other really good. They saved the day so often and they believe in them as a team and in their knowledge. That brings a lot of problems that could have been easier when they would stop talking and start listing. This is really amazing. Go and listen to the person that makes the Doctor listening.

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July 4

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: The Sword of the Chevalier

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welcome to the second adventure of the second Tenth Doctor Adventure Box Set – The Sword of the Chevalier. Again Rose and the Doctor are visiting earth to be precise Slough 1791. This is a historical story or at least a story with historical figure the Chevalier d’Eon. The Chevalier d’Eon is an interesting character who lived the first 50 year as man and then at least for a time as a woman. Historian are not sure if he did it because he or she was actual transgender or if it was just a plot to live freely in France. In the Time the Chevalier lived as a man he was spy.

The spy and the alien hunters

The Doctor and Rose just want to have a nice time. Visit the Chevalier d’Eon and look through the big telescope and maybe get a little ice cream. But of course everything comes different when the Doctor sees a space ship form the space mafia. Rose and the Doctor tries to find the aliens and stumble of the Chevalier D’Eon again who accompany them to a costume party.

The problems with the Psychic paper

Again we have an adventure with the typical lightness. The Doctor get them into the party with the psychic paper. The problem with that is that the host believes that he is a Tenor and want the Doctor to perform. So Rose and the Chevalier searching for the aliens and the Doctor is working on his performance.

Listing to it or not

Go and listen to it. It is great fun and I really like the character of the Chevalier d’Eon. The Chevalier is an interesting character and harmonize with the other two perfectly. Also again there is the typical lightness to the adventure of the TV series. So it is so good to be back at the good times of Doctor Who.

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June 28

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Infamy of the Zaross

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welcome to the second Volume of the Tenth Doctor Adventure and the first episode of it ‘Infamy of the Zaross’. This second set is obviously with the tenth Doctor and this time he is with Rose Tyler again. I love the combination so much. Rose and the Doctor were just fun. This story takes place in the present day on earth (2007 Norwich) so we have the pleasure of Jackie Tyler.

Special Box Set

The adventures of the tenth Doctor are available as separetly episodes or in the special box set. I of course have choosen the Box Set again. It is the same design as the first Box set. It includes 3 stories of Rose and the tenth Doctor. Also it includes a Behind the scene Disc and an exclusive Big Finish Documentary Disc.

Tenth Doctor Box Set 2
Tenth Doctor Box Set 2

Same as always

What is this story about. Jackie is taking a holiday at an old friend when an alien invasion happened. Same old, same old. Jackie phones Rose and of course the come and try to save the earth again. It is a story we heart and seen in a million ways before. Still it is fun. There is of course a nice twist in the story. But the story lives from the characters. The atmosphere is light and it makes you smile a lot. It is just like the series was with them.

Believing in your kids

In the background the story is about families and how much impact they have on the children. We see Jackie being not always eye to eye with Rose but she loves her and is really prude of her. In this story we see that she doesn’t like that Rose is not staying home but she never stops her. I love this relationship between them.
Jackies old friend on the other hand as not such relationship with her daughter. She always talks her down and compare her to her sister.

Listing or not

Definitely listing to it. As much as I love the dark and story Doctor Who or the sad ones. There is a ligthness to all the adventure with Rose and the Doctor that I missed a lot and Big Finish captured them in an amazing way. All of the tenth Doctor companions are so standing on the ground. Rose is just a normal girl. She could be everyone. There is nothing special about her. But she fights and never gives up and she loves traveling with the doctor. What makes her very special like everyone else. Rose is us.
There is also one scene at the end of the adventure were Rose is in a situation were she has to save someone and often we see people on TV make a whole speech about Life and his meaning. Rose just doesn’t. She struggles to find these words. She use so simple and obvious sentence. What makes it so pure. What makes it so real.

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January 16

DW: The Resurrection Casket

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welcome to the 9th book of the New Adventure Serie The Resurrection Casket. I am happy and sad that there are only three books of Rose and the 10th Doctor left. I love these two together. But i also love to have Martha back. She is one of my favorite companions of the Doctor. But back to the theme at hand. This book is like already said with Rose and the 10th Doctor. The guys of AHistory place it around the year 3906 in the time of the Galatic Federation and would take place between the events of The Infinite Quest (an animated Doctor Who story) and The Pirate Loop (NSA#20). In this story are no idication when in the time line of the Doctor this take place. So i thing it plays after the book The Feast of the Drowned and obviously before the events of the TV-Episodes Army of Ghosts (Final of season two).

The big time of the pirates

Isn’t it one of the biggest dreams to be a space pirate. What kid didn’t wanted to be a pirate (i didn’t)? But many people in stories dream about it. About the freedom and the adventure that it will bring. In this story we will met such a boy. A boy who dreams of big adventures and treasures. But we all know that a life of pirate is more than adventures and treasure. A life of a pirate is about blood, death and fights. Every freedom comes with a price. Of course there is a legend of a big pirate and his treasure that got lost in the Zeg. The zeg is a zone in space where all that technic schnick schnack doesn’t work. Steam is the only mechanic that works there. We all know that behind story there is always a truth. So it seems that the legend of the dark shadow is true. If someone put the dark shadow on you, he will kill you.
In all that legend and stories the Doctor and Rose stranded. Because the zeg is also shuting down the TARDIS.

Reading or not

The story has is ups and downs. The first part is kinda boring. I mean Jimm the boy is sweet but he is so blind for the dark sides of the world that it is hard to don’t want to struggle him. At first i thought that the story is very obvious but in the end the twist make it worth it. It is just not like it seems. Even when i am pretty sure most of you can work it out before the Doctor explains it. But the second part of the book is fun. The travel group brings me joy and tears. Just a hint the story is about something i really love. The question what makes us evil and what makes us good. Are we born the way we turn out or can we change. So yes definitly go and read that book. I love it.

The next book on my list is ‘The Shadow of Avalon‘ because the next books of the New Adventure Serie are not bought yet. But yeah i am sure that it doesn’t take long to get them.

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December 16

DW: The Feast of the Drowned

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i actually get to read the 8th adventure of the New adventure serie – The Feast of the Drowned – with the tenth Doctor and Rose. It place in the present (2007) when Rose is visiting her mum again. For Mickey and Jacky this is taking place after The Stone Rose (NAS#7) which also after the christmas special- The Christmas Invasion and place before School reunion.

There is always another explaination

Is there something like ghost? The brother of on old friend of Rose died. He was working on a ship that sunk and he and all the other crew members drowned with it. After three month the parts of the ship got transfered to London and this is when the ghosts start apearing. But even when they found the ship, they didn’t found anything of the crew. Of course the Doctor and Rose with the help of Mickey start investigating.

The little things

What i really like about this story are the little things. Like the mentioned the time Rose was away. Her friends that believed the first and how everyone gave Mickey the fault for her absence. I think that Rose never really thought about what her friends or Mickey had been through. She just always forget about this time, because it is just the best thing in her life. She lost kinda contact to her life when she starts traveling with the Doctor.

Reading or nor

The story is solid but not superb. I read better and way worth. What makes the story so good is Rose life. This story shows us what Rose did to the people around her and how she forget about it. We see a Rose that we would say should grow up but on the other hand we see a grown up Rose. A Rose that would sacrifice herself to save people. A Rose that will never give up. We see what the travels did to the persons near to her but we also see what the travels did to her and that is why the story is a yes to reading this book.

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September 12

DW: The Stone Rose

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now that i sadly had read every book of the ‘New Serie Adventure‘ with the ninth Doctor, i started the Stone Rose the first book of the serie with the tenth Doctor. The Story takes place in the 120’s the ancient Rome. Rose and the Doctor are travling there because Mickey found in 2007 a statue looking like Rose. This first part the big family trip to the national museum is really funny. But watch holds the rest of the book for us.

Who is it?

I don’t know how it was when the book was publiced. But i think it was like now with the twelfth Doctor. That the author had to writte about the new Doctor without really nowing him. The get a little information and had to work with it. I hope that it is that way. Because i don’t find the tenth Doctor in that book. There are little things like the Doctor trying to adjust to the time he visit. I don’t think i can recall any Doctor that would’ve done that. The Tenth Doctor visit greek in his coat and chucks… he never change, the tenth Doctor is an extremly emotinal Doctor. Here i doesn’t see this in him. The tenth Doctor is the Doctor that is part of the family. He is staying for dinner with Rose and her Mam. He is building a conaction to Mickey. He is not the one anymore that goes out searching the adventure on his own.

Fortuna

We have Rose as goddess Fortuna, a missing person, a slave that seems to see the future or not, a artist that makes skupltures with out even working on it. We all know how is most suspecious to be the suspect in this missing case. In the end we have alot of stuff going on and the whole story becomes a big paradox. Too much for my liking but the book did something i really like. The Doctor got a lot of time to have an adventure on his on and Rose have hers too. That is not oven the case. Also i apprechiat the way Rose is portrayed from the Doctor. She is a lot like the describe Fortuna. This is Rose. She is not the perfect girl. She can be for a few people like goddess or just an ordinary girl, she can be nice and cruel. She left Mickey… i really like Rose, but to often people forget that she was cruel to Mickey. That she broke his heart and than always gave him hope for more. We should remember her good sides and her bad sides, and she had like every human being alot of flaws.

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August 29

DW: The Clockwise Man

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so here we go with the first adventures from the New Serie Adventures The Clockwise man. The ninth Doctor is visiting with Rose London in October 1924 to see the British Empire Exhibition. The Story takes place after the story The Unquiet Dead. Rose reverse alot to it in the Story.

Tick, Tock, goes the clock…

Tick, tock, this is also how the story goes it is stedy it have no ups and downs, it just goes tick, tock, … Also you may have sensed it, it goes about the clock-robots (what was their name?). We see them in episodes like ‘The Girl in the fireplace’ or ‘Deep Breath’ but they accured also in earlier stories like ‘The Mind Robber’. I never was a big fan of them but they work mostly in the stories very well.
They story has his turns but it turns so slow that you can see them coming in the long way. To be honest the ‘biggest’ twist i didn’t see but i wasn’t surprised because if you look clearly it was scream in your face. Most of the time you are just to focused on the kid.

The little Prince

The Story about the kid – Freddie – isn’t important at all. I love Freddie he is sweet and you can so feel with him. He is the best in this story and sometime i was very afraid that he will not survive. I most saw to my shame that i like Rose totally don’t make the circle but the haemophilia. This was really sloopy reading on me side. For Freddie it was worth reading the book.

So this book is some of the really weak books, but it has Freddie in it and he is a really good character.

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