May 25

DW: The Underwater Menace

Hey Guys,

welcome to the 5th adventure of the 4th season of Doctor Who ‘The Underwater Menace’. Sadly there is half of the episodes missing. They recreated the first and fourth episode. Sadly not like the others with animation but just with photographs. If I had realized it I am not sure I would’ve still bought it. The picture give us not a real picture of the episode.

The first episode

Everyone who follows this blog knows that I love radio plays. Also I have Nick Briggs in my ear that he did this when he was young, just record the audio and than listen to it. Think it can be good. Maybe I don’t like it because the first episode was just bad. I really liked the start where Polly plays this little game with the other. ‘Let’s guess where and when we are.’ Like always that is what I love the most about Doctor Who are these little scenes between them. But after that most of the episode Polly is just screaming. In the three adventures she seemed a lot different. She start a discussion with a cybermen. But here he just seems to scream and being frightend.

New Companion

The second and third episode are … crazy. But it is also fun. The Doctor and the others got into costums and do a little roleplay to capture the mad scientist. Yep you read right. They land on Atlantis. The people there believe that a scientist can make Atlantis rise again. This scientist things it is a good idea to destroy the whole world. It is fun to see the four of the interact with each other. The best thing are the comments of the Doctor. There is something else new in this episodes. Finally Jamie is here. Jamie is diffently one of my favorites. They met him in ‘The Highlanders’ and he will develope are really great relationship with the Doctor. Jamie is the first companin that came from the past and he takes the time travel really well.

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May 18

DW: Power of the Daleks

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welcome to ‘Power of the Daleks’. It is the first adventure with the second Doctor and the 3rd adventure of the 4th season of Doctor Who. After the Doctor met before his death the cybermen, the first enemies he meet are the Daleks. Sadly all 6 episodes are missing. So they had reanimate all of them. The Daleks look great. But the animation itself is not really good. The motions are looking wrong and every character looks like they hate the world and want to kill everyone.

The earth future

Vulcan is a colony of the earth. The dating is difficult. In the story itself is no date given but in the trailer it is said 2020. Since none of the people knew what a Dalek is it has to be before ‘The Daleks Invasion of earth‘ which is in 2165. Maybe it just feels so wrong because we see it from our eyes.

Daleks and a murder

The Doctor is a little… he still is trying to find who he is now. Polly and Ben also have to find out how to deal with all this. When the arrived the Doctor finds a dead person and got attack. The Doctor is acting as if he has that dead person and takes the role to find out what is going on. The humans are working on capsule with three Daleks in it. The Daleks are out of Power and the people have nothing better to do than to give them power again. Even when the Doctor warned them.

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January 7

DW: The Last Day at Work

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welcome to the new Short Story ‘The Last Day at Work‘. Big Finish released them for free. This story won at the ‘The Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity’. It features the second Doctor and Jamie after Victoria left the TARDIS and before they met Zoe.

What is going on

I always find it hard to say something about the short trips. The Story is easy enough. It is about Bernard Whittnam. He is a police men and this day the story takes place is his last at work. The Doctor and Jamie met him at a pub where he is celebrating is retiring. That is the story. Obvisouly there is more behind it, but I can’t tell anything more without ruining it.
So this what is going on. A nice evening in the pub.

Atmosphere

What I love about the short trips is the atmosphere they are creating in this short time. All the Short Trips I heart were amazing like Rise and Fall or Landbound. This story is not as amazing as the other I know, which are just four with this one. But it still creates a good atmosphere and it is a good story. It is easy to listen to and Nick Briggs does a great job by reading it.

So go and get it. It is quit entertaining and good idea. I would have thought that it turns out like this. Which is the second thing I love about the Short Stories and that they always have a surprising ending. It is not boring in any way. Just a little nice story about a man who meets the Doctor and Jamie and the consequences. Because meeting the Doctor always has consequences. But we all still love him.

If you want to get it, than just go to Big Finish or follow this link:
The Last Day at Work

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January 22

DW: Fear of the Daleks

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‘Fear of the Daleks’ is an adventure from the Companion Chronicles – the second of the first season. The Companion Chronicles are reading books. Every story has a Companion that is the main part of the story. We get little of the life they are living after the Doctor and an adventure that took place in their time together. The companion the story is about is reading the story. This time it is Zoe Heroit and the second Doctor – Jamie is standing on the sideline.

Zoe Heriot

Zoe Heriot is one of the most amazing characters. She is strong in many ways and is a genius. She is way more intelligent that the Doctor and is not showing off. She never looked down on Jamie how is way slower in his thinking what also is because he cames out of a time the technic wasn’t developed that way so all that technic stuff is all new to him. But this is not about Jamie. How thinks this is a story were all characters have the same among of story is wrong here. Jamie is of course part of the story but he is really just a background character. The focus of the story is on Zoe.
My problems with the companion chronicles is that it is a reading book. I don’t think that many companions have a reading voice. Zoe is one of the better but not as gripping as of example the Brigadier. Which makes it not so easy to listen to the story but the stories in this serie are to good to not listing to them. Zoes is adventures also of an overlapping story. What makes here story even better.

They are still people out there…

That doesn’t here about the Daleks and know that they never work with someone with out turning in the end of them? It is always a surprise to me when an alien race is making a deal with the Daleks to reach their goals. But a part from that obivious dumb idea.
We have a story about two races that want to make peace. Of course not everyone is working for that goal. Zoe and the others stumble in a peace conference. Zoe and the Doctor became really fast pawns in the game of one of the people that want war to overthrow the people in charge. Everything is okay to still the hunger of power.
But he has not the guts to do it himself. He has a maschine which can controll minds and make a copy of you in a different place and take your conscious in this copy and controll it.
Why all this is actually necessary is not logic for me but i decided to just go with the story and not thinking about the complicated way to do this.
The one that he chooses to be the one for the kill is Zoe. The story is about how she tried to fight against it.

Listing or not

For me this is the weakest Zoe story i heart until now. The other i heart were Memory Cheats and Echoes of Grey which are both better. But it is still a Zoe story and this is still something good. So everyone that loves Zoe should totally listen to it.

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February 15

DW: The Glourious Revolution

Hey Guys,
welcome to one of my audiobooks of the Doctor Whos ‘The Companion Chronicles‘. This time it is about Jamie McCrimmon and of course Zoe and the Second doctor. It is read by Frazer Hines and he did really job. The Story takes place in London 1688, and Jamie tells it to a time lord 42 years after they take his memories away.
The Glourios Revolution plays between the adventures ‘The Space Pirates’ and ‘The War Games’.

Jamies time

This events brought Jamie to the place he was when he goes with the Doctor. He was fighting for King James II, he was believing in him and here we are and Jamie can met his King, that run away. All this events are part of Jamies life before he was going in the TARDIS. This is something important to him. That is why for the first time i remember (maybe i forgotten something) Jamie and the Doctor are fighting.
Jamie wants to change history. He wants that King James fights and don’t go hiding. The Doctor is trying to prevent it from happen. But Jamie don’t understand why. They are always changing things, they are always get mixed up in the events. Why is this different.

The Glourious Revolution

I love the Story because it shows us, what person Jamie is. He shows us that is not a warrior, that he indeed understood what was going on. He believed in his King and fought for him. It makes him angry that the call it the glourious revolution because nobody died … in England…
He referrse to to big battle: the masacer of glencoe and the battle of boyne. This is the second part i love about the story all the historic events.

Time Lords

It strart the same Zoes Story started and i was really sceptical and afraid that it takes something away form the ending of the war games, but it didn’t. It was well written and the choose that Jamie take in the end broke my heart again. It is sad. Sad that he become happy. He lived his life with no regrets. He didn’t lived his life thinking about what happen if he was going with the Doctor. He became a family and got happy. But with all the memories.. with all he had and lost, he knows, so cruel it is to his family, that it will never be enough. For Jamie this life was something more… that is why he decided to forget again.

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September 13

DW: Destiny of the Doctor – Shadow of Death

So here is the second part of ‘Destiny of the Doctor’. The second doctor is featured in this story with Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot. Both really amazing companions.

It starts with a really interessting question, who old are they. The Doctor is making fun of Jamie and tells him that he is thousand years old and of course jamie didn’t believed him. But when he tries to think how much time he traveled with the Doctor he could answer that.
When they land he is telling them the whole time that they are save and of course their not save. They are never save.

So it seems like parts of the planet there on are jumping in another timeline? So parts are moving faster than others. Also there are this shadows, that makes people age really fast and die. Thay think that this shadows murdered the civilasation on that planet.

The Doctor becomes of course a messages of the Doctor. The Story is nice. Really good to hear. Freazer Hinz is making a really good job with his readings. He really good at speaking the Doctor. It is really amazing how he did it. I like the turn they are making with the shadows, that they only wanted to comunicated. The Story is good but nothing really amazing – just a nice story.

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August 23

DW: Echoes of Grey

Here we go to listen to the next adventure of ‘the companion chronicles’.

It is featuring Zoe Heriot and the third doctor. Zoe and Jamie had one of the heartbreaking goodbyes in the Doctor Whos histery. So this story after everything is what we all want. We want them to remember.

Zoe has a photographic memory. She was one of the companions, that was more intelligent than the Doctor. So this story starts really good, because you totally can see that this is like they tell, that she has the feeling that she forgot something.

Wendy Padbury is easier to listen as Maureen O’Brien but not so faszinating like Nicholas Courtney.

Zoe is meeting someone that know her from her time with the Doctor and she wants to help Zoe remember. Of course the story is about the adventure they met the girl. They are in something like hospitel but it is empty. Every patient get healed that is what the files say. The doctor is really suspicous about it. Zoe get separate from the Doctor and she finds a room with a few creatures. The Girl that wanted to help Zoe, tells her that she felt so connected to Zoe. I find her really suspicous.

So a journalist is search for her grandmother, who was healed but never came back. When Zoe and Jamie wants to talk to him, one of this creatures suck the life out of him. Also it seems that it know that Jamie and Zoe are hiding in that room and left them alone.

The Doctor wants to see the creatures but they vanished. So they go to search one creature in the workplace. They find something of a fluid that heals/adsorbs everything. Of course the Doctor goes to confront the people behind it.

What i don’t like about the story, that Zoe is not getting what happend. The Doctor explains it to her and the others. Zoe is so intellgent she should have get it before the Doctor explains.

But the story is really good and i love what they make out of it. The creatures are made to remove damaged zelles, and when the can’t take anymore they die. This is interessting because for one the damage zelles aren’t there they take good ones. And the second part is that the made them want to die… this is real cruel. The solution of the Doctor is also cruel, but without much choice. That is the third thing i love about the Story.

The ending of Zoe and Jamie losing all the memories where heartbreaking and i never thought that the can do that again. But the end of the story is breaking my heart and fills my eyes with tears. The offered Zoe everything, her memories, her life, to be whole again and she choose to give all that up, just to prevent this people to make this creatures again. Zoe Heriot this is an ending that take her justis. That is my Zoe i love.

i will totally buy the other stories with her.

 

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June 26

DW: Two Doctors

So guys hear we go again,

with the best Story ever. Because Jamie McCrimmon is in it and the second Doctor. Jamie is one of my favorite companions. He is so good and i love how the play again and again in the classic Stories. I miss this. How cool would it be if the Doctor visited Jamie in the old days or Benton in the TARDIS. What would i give to see Benton traveling with the twelfth Doctor.

I like the beginning. It started with the second Doctor and Jamie in the TARDIS in black and white and than become colourfull. But the best is of course their interaction. What i can tell is that the benter between Peri and the sixth Doctor is really good. So we have two really good teams and i really can wait to see them met another.

Jamie worked quite well with the sixth Doctor. The Story is like the others. But the interaction of this amazing characteres are make it really interessting and exciting. And i really want to know the both Doctors work together.

The Story is one of the Story of season 22 with more than two episodes. It is amazing who well they all work with each other. It is really fun to watch them. So yeah totally the best story of season 22 so far.

Bye

 

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