April 25

DW: The Architects of History

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welcome the 132nd Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Architects of History’ with the seventh Doctor and Klein. The story takes place in 2044 in an alternate reality. Klein used the TARDIS to build a new Reich by creating new time lines again and agin until she likes it.

The web of time

Klein is using the TARDIS to eliminate traitors or other threats before they come up. She abusive the power she got. She had built a new Reich but it is never quiet right so she never stops. But in this story so many things happen that she hadn’t seen in the future. There are two ‘rebels’ that worked against Klein. We have the Doctor in a cell and three big ships of the Selachians. But the biggest problem for Klein is that the TARDIS gets destroyed.

The dark in the people

This story shows us again new sides of Klein. Who she is and who she became to get want she wants and never quiet get it. But we also get to see the darkest sides of the Doctor. How he manipulated and make alliance with people he shouldn’t. It even makes the Doctor uneasy. He doesn’t want to be this person. But in the end it is him. It is a part of him and he can’t erase it. He can and most likely will fight against this side over and over again.

Listen or not

I love it. The fight inside the Doctor. He wants to save everyone but he also need to repair the damage Klein did and he can’t do both. It is great. Klein and the Doctor trying to out smart each other. Both always on their heals to be not manipulate by the other. It is a really good story to end the story around Klein.

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April 18

DW: Survival of the Fittest

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welcome to the 131st Big Finish Main Range Adventures ‘Survival of the Fittest’ with the seventh Doctor and Klein. Before we get the main story there is a short story about Kleins history. We find out what let to the events of ‘Colditz‘ and give us an idea of what had happened in this story. This story takes place in 1962 and 1965 in Klein alternate timeline. The ‘Survival of the Fittest’ is placed around the year 2440.

Kleins Story

We get the story behind Klein. So even without ‘Colditz‘ you understand the story and her. You get a really good take on her character in this story. I really like it that we get so much time on her back story. We find out how she come to use the TARDIS and what Johann Schmitt had to do with all of it. The story not just give us a great picture of her, it also shows us a side of the Doctor that I love and many people like to ignore. His dark side.

The Vrill and Winterlack

The Doctor and Klein arrive in a cave and find a species that is like big insects that communicate by smell. Thank god that the TARDIS can even translate this language. The Vrill have two big problems. The first is a Vrill warrior that kills everything in his way also the new hatchlings. The second is the winterlack. Nor Klein or the Doctor know what the winterlack are but it killed so many of the vrill. It seems like only 4 Vrill have survived the winterlack.

On their own

To call Klein a great companion would be wrong, but she is amazing and really interesting. She can analyse a situation and knows to hold herself against the unknown. You never quiet know what she is up to and if the concern for the Vrill is true. It is really hard to tell if she learnt or just waits. But that makes her such a great addition. The Doctor is way trusting even with not trusting her.

Listen or not

I really like this story. The story around Klein is really interesting and can’t wait to see how this all works out. Also the Vrill are really sweet. The name giving is great. Butterfly for a warrior this is so the Doctor. Let’s go and listen to this great story.

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April 11

DW: A Thousand Tiny Wings

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welcome to the 130th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘A Thousand Tiny Wings’ with the 7th Doctor. He is on his own. The story takes place in Kenia 1952. 5 women are hiding in an old farmhouse from the Mau Mau Uprising. One of this women is someone the Doctor knows from a past adventure with Ace. In ‘Colditz’ he had met Doctor Klein and here she is again in the life of the Doctor.

Doctor Klein

I haven’t listen to ‘Colditz’ yet. She comes from an alternative timeline and worked for the Nazis. From her view the Doctor destroyed the right timeline and wants to change it back. She has quite interesting view of the world. The Dynamic between the Doctor and Klein is great. She is not one of the people who look up to the Doctor or believe that he is a good man. No she sees him as manipulating and arrogant. She not that wrong. That is actually why I love the 7th Doctor. He is really good in manipulating people.
She is really intelligent and she cares about people. There are two world views crashing and it totally is the reason the story works so well.

Injured alien

The five women find an injured alien and bring him into the farmhouse. It is great who these women work with each other and are so different in her ways of seeing the world and the way the deal with it. Denise is one of my favorite. She saves the alien and gives him a name. She believes that just because everyone is acting crazy you still act like an english person. So one moment she holds a reveal in the face of the Doctor and the next she is inviting him for tea.

The mysterious death

Next to the Mau Mau uprising and the alien the Doctor and the five women have to deal with mysterious death. The victim is covered with tiny little stretch. It is amazing who all the part of the story work so well together. The characters work so well together with all there quarrel and different views. Also it is interesting to see the change in the people. I am really excited to listen to the other stories with the Doctor and Klein.

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January 11

DW: The Angel of Scutari

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welcome to the 122nd Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Angel of Scutari’ with the seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex. It plays for our friends directly after ‘The Enemy of the Daleks‘, where Hex questioned if he is ‘made’ for this. So the Doctor brings him to met Florence Nightingale. So the story takes place between 25th September to 19th November. This is a historical story and so all the dates are being giving to us in the story. Also we have the third part of ‘The Three Companions’.

Hex in his element

It is really nice to see him in his element. He not just is a nurse but he also loves his job. In Scutari he can help ‘simply’ with trying to hold everything kill. Doing the job that Florence Nightingale did. She was one of the first people who took the enviroment into account for the healing of the wounded in time for more people died in the hospital bed than on the battle field.

You shouldn’t meet your heros

That is what people say. It didn’t work out for the Doctor with meeting his heroes. I think that is always a problem because we forget that their more than their work. Hex got really flustered when he meets her and it is endearing. I really love this story who Hex is charming this people. In a month people learnt to trust and respect him. It is so good to see him like this. I also love that the Doctor know Hex so good and he got a lot better in helping people than he was with Ace.

A little confusing

The story is a little confusing. It has a lot of time jumps. So you really have to think about when what is happening. All three of them are on their own and we jump between their stories and times around. The Doctor is captured for treason and Ace got badly hurt and is in prison. So they all have to make their own way.

Listing or not

I love the story. You all know I love historical and this is no exception. It is good story that tells us a lot about the time and this war. We see how close they got even when they are not together. I love it when they show us a little more of the relationship between the Doctor and Hex. Most times we have the Doctor and Ace or Ace and Hex.

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January 4

DW: Enemy of the Daleks

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welcome to the 121st Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘Enemy of the Daleks’ with the seventh Doctor and Ace and Hex. Ahistory is placing the story around 2560 during the Daleks Wars. This and the name of the story are promising us another Dalek Story. This story contains also the second part of ‘The Three Companions‘ were Polly tell the Brigadier a story about their adventures.

Welcome to war

This is a war story. Do I have to say more? The humans are fighting against the Daleks for years now. There is a desperation in them. They know the enemy, their the cruelty. A group of survivor of a Dalek attack flee to the planet Bliss, where they find a science base. All is set for a good and cruel war and action story spiced with war crimes.

Like the cybermen?

This is actually the first time that Hex encounters the Daleks. He thought that the cybermen were the worst the universe has to offer. Now he learns about the Daleks and it scars him. You all know that I love Hex and even more this whole combi of people. But Hex is different… he wants to see the world and loves adventure about he is no soldier and he is breaking by all the bad things he is witnessing. What I love so much about him is who he always tries to protect, to save people. How often do we see Companions standing up to Daleks to protect people he doesn’t even know?

Everyone in his element

Hex story part is about him being a nurse. The Doctor left him to look after the wounded and the patients that are infected by a ‘virus’.
Ace on the other hand is with the soldiers and can work with the big guns again.
That leaves the Doctor to deal with the scientist, the war crime and the question the Doctor has to answer in many incarnations. Is genocide something he can, shall and will do?

Listing or not

I like the story. War stories are always so dark and cruel and bloody… and this is no different… there is no real happy end. I am not such a great fan of these stories… but Big Finish always make it work and they are great. This particular works for me because of the combi of characters in the story. So yes listen to it. But you will not find humor in it or light conversation but it is totally worth it.

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November 3

Doctor Who: We are the Daleks

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welcome to the 201st Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘We are the Daleks’ with the seventh Doctor and Mel. The title promise us the Daleks. The takes place October 1987 in London and Bradford. The story will also take place at Sakro and Callico Nine. Callico Nine is a planet the Thals inhabited after leaving Sakro.

Everything like you left it

The Doctor and Mel visited home. He tell’s er that everything is like she left it except for the big skyscraper in form of Dalek. Both of them start investigating the situation by seperating. Mel get’s a job in this building and the Doctor is searching for information outside of the building.
This means that Mel and the Doctor don’t have really much screen time together.

Little confusing

The first episode is a little confusing. It jumps a little with the parts. This means that it jumps between scene with Mel and the Doctor and Mel working in the building. I had problems to put in the right direction. After like 10 minutes you got a picture of all the storylines that are going on. This is the moment when the confusion stops.

Daleks are always fun

It is no secret that I love the Daleks and the Mel and seventh Doctor compination. They are fun together. The way Mel interacts with the seventh is quiet different to sixth Doctor. The story has a nice pace. With all the politics in this story you could think that it is a slow story, but it isn’t. The story has a lot of actin scenes and doesn’t slow down. All this creates a good atmosphere and great story.
When you love Mel than you should listen to ‘We are the Daleks’. She has a lot of action and it is always fun to listen to her save the day.

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October 19

DW: The Magic Mousetrap

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welcome to the 120th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Magic Mousetrap’ with the seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex. The story takes place in 1926 in switzerland in the Hulbrook sanatorium. It seems like the Doctor has amnesia and he is on his own. Ace and Hex find themself in a very different position than most times.

Who pulls the strings

The Magic Mousetrap is one of these episode were you don’t what is actually going. We have a few people playing games to stay alive and we have the Doctor don’t remember anything. Than we have two rich people in the attic giving ‘orders’.
Actually I had a really hard time to realize that this woman voice is Ace. Hex voice was easier to recongnize.

This a story where it is really hard to write something without spoilering everything. It is quite a mess. It seems like only Ace and Hex kno whats going on. I definitly didn’t what was going on. Because there is so much happening and nothing logic to me.

In the end

They explain everything in the end and it makes sense. There is a lot in this story and it is fun to listen to the story to unravel. But for me it is a little to crazy. I like story but it is also a story I totally forget and will never be one of my favorites. But it still fun to listen to this little mystery. To listen to Ace and Hex which kinda like to play with the Doctor. Normally it is the other way around and it changes a little of the dynamic between them.

Side story

The 120th adventure comes also with a little side story – The three Companions. It is a little like the Companion Chronicles. This one are a letter conversation between Polly and Brigadier about the Doctor. I really like it and I really want to hear the other 11 parts of this story.

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September 28

DW: Forty-Five

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welcome to the 115th Big Finsih Main Range Adventure ‘Forty-Five’ with the the seventh Doctor with Ace and Hex. This story is actually for four differnet stories. We had adventure like that before for example Circular Time and 100. It should celebrated Forty-Five years of Doctor Who. So the number Forty-Five is playing a role in every story.

False God

The first story of Forty-Five takes place in 1902 in egypted. They met Howard Carter on his search fo the lost tomb of Userhat. The interessting part is that Hex is hearing a calling that none of the other can hear. What I really love is that this Doctor is not playing favorites.

Order of Simplicity

This story is taking place in the 3380 on the planet Sphere of Influence. There is a mysterious code that the Doctor should solve. But the problem is that everyone that reads this code gets infected by a virius that reduces your IQ to 45.

Casualties of War

The third story of Forty-Five takes place in 9th May 1945 in London the celebration of the end of the second world war. For Ace this is a special adventure because Ace and her mother grow up in this street – in the house next door.

The Word Lord

The last story takes place in the year 2045 in the second cold war that seems to lead to the state of affair seen in ‘Warriors of the Deep’. There is murder in a top secret base and the Doctor and his friends need to find the murder.

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August 24

DW: The Dark Husband

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welcome to the 106th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Dark Husband’ with the 7th Doctor and his companions Ace and Hex. It plays at sometime at another planet named Tuin. Ace is wanting a holiday and do something nice. Of course it doesn’t work out.

Let’s take a break

What can go wrong when you want a holiday? Hex finds broshure and the decide to visited the festival of Twin Moons of Tuin. Of course lands at the time when something bad had happened. They found a graveyard and no festival. Just this part makes me love the story. I mentioned it a lot that I wasn’t a fan of Ace in the series. But when I started listing to her stories with Hex, that really changed. She grows in all the stories and it is great to see her developement. Also I love the way these three characters interact with each other. It is always fun to listen to their banter.

Let’s end the war

So really fast the story developed from let’s take a break to let’s end the war. Apparently there are two race that are at war forever. They have the Festival ones a year. It is a little bit like the Christmas wonder. Every they make this festival they celebrate together and just stop the war for this time and after they just go back to it. To make this even more special you can stop the war by a marriage and of the Doctor jumps to the chance to end this but he doesn’t what he got into. It’s a typical we make up as we go story.

Dark Husband and Shining Wife

The atmosphere of the story is hard to describe for me. It is not a really dark story. The actor talked about it being a comedy in away. But I really don’t see it. I don’t share humor I think, because I can’t remember that I laughed at this story. So it is something between everything. I don’t think it is a bad story. Actually I like it. I just don’t see what is funny about it. Also I feel with my Hex. We got glimpses of what he feels for a special someone who doesn’t seem to see him that way. I love my babies.

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February 21

DW: Live 34

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welcome to the 74th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – Live 34. My sources put the story around 2400 since they say that earth was abaondend centuries ago. From the setting it fits with the setting of ‘The happiness Patrol‘. The seventh Doctor, Hex and Ace are on the colony 34.

Live on 34

The story is easy. On colony 34 the situation is restless. The premier wants to stay in power. But a group of people think that it is time to finally have the election they wait for 4 years. People are unsatisfied. There are a lot of problems when you listen to them and none problem at all when you believe the premier. It is not easy to see the truth or is it.

Something different

What Big Finish does here is one reason I love them so much. It is a good story. But this time it doesn’t get presented the way we used to. The whole story is told in news and media broadcast. Which means we don’t see what the Doctor and his friends are doing. Don’t know what they know and what they want. We only get what the normal population knows, statements and reports. Maybe we gets part of the truth or maybe it is just manipulated?

How free is the media really and who much can you depend on the information. It is so easy to put a situation in different light. When you know what Ace know, you maybe would say that she is right. But when you just here about bombs exploding it just pains another picture.

Totally in love

I really love the story. The Doctor appears in all four episodes but is role is not so big. Ace appears in the second episode and Hex in the third. I like the way they tell the story and the story itself. Thematic is great and it is the perfect way to show this thematic. They show us how easy it is to change the situation without changing the facts.

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