July 2

DW: No Man’s Land

Hey Guys,

here we go with the 89th big finish main range adventure ‘No Man’s Land’ with the seventh Doctor and Ace and Hex. With Hex bad luck they land again in the time of war. This time it is the first world war it plays in 1917. They got an job to investigate a murder that didn’t take place yet in a militäry hospital.

Same Story over and over again

We know the Story. It is war and everyone wants to win it. Some people are ready to do anything for it. They want to make the soldier stronger. To give them a killer instinct, to take feelings away… in the end the humans always end to create something like cybermen. Of course their are no cybermen in this story but they are on the way. It is a step to this path.
But it is almost everytime a good story. We know what will happen and we know the Doctor is against it. The Doctor that wants to stop it.

Strength

This is about strength. What is strength and this is what i love about Doctor Who. Because Doctor Who is always (almost) telling you that strength has nothing to do with killing people. Don’t kill people is a strength. Hex is a man that many people accuse to be weak. Hex is against war and killing. He hates this war times. But he is not weak. He maybe don’t can defeat a soldier in a fight but he strong because he wants to help people and save them. He wants to make the world better. He is not afraid of getting in danger. He does it when things that it will help. But he is not running into danger. Hex is an amazing character and i really love the stories with him.

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April 23

DW: Red

Hey Guys,
welcome to the 85th adventure ‘Red’ of the big finish main range. Mel and the 7th Doctor are visiting a civilation that chiped themself.

Machine

The story has so much potential. It is not a new story. There is a community which decided to make a maschine that can take away your anger. They are all chiped, which mean the machine can take away your memories of your anger of your feelings. The machine takes their responisblitiy form them. This chip not just take their anger, it takes all their emotions. With brings us to very interssting situations. Because you always want what you can’t have.

Perfect system

This system seems perfect but nor Doctor or Mel thinks so. Both for really different reason. The Doctor thinks that the anger have to go somewhere. You can’t just take it away. Mel are thinking of all the other emotions like love and friendship. Also we have to patries here. One that let the machine edting them and the others that decided against it. They are not so different how they think. These people also forget how to feel and how to handle real emotions. That is what the hope to learn from Mel. I wish we had more of that part of the story.
This adventure also shows me how little Mel really knows the doctor. She believes in him and it is a good thing but he is not that good person she sees in him.

It is a really good story. So go and listen to it.

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March 26

DW: The Settling

Hey Guys,
here we go with the 82 adevnture ‘the Settling’ from the big finish main range. The seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex are landing in 1649 were Cromwell set an ultimatiom to Wexford. This is Hex first adventure in the earth past. So where do we start.

The Beginning of the end

I am not a way of the way the story is told. This is something i always say when we start in the present and than have something like two days before. But i have to say the way Hex is speaking, i forget about this way of telling the Story. Hex is thinking about what happend and seems to be very bad because he sounds a little broken. Everytime Hex is talking in the present, i just want to hug him.

Travling with Cromwell

We have two story parts. One is Hex who travels with Cromwell and is trying to make him a better man. He is trying to make a difference. Than we have the Doctor and Ace, which are searching for Hex. The Doctor and Hex have a pregant woman with them and which brings them in a difficult situation.
Can History be changed? This is a interessting theme and we know the Doctors opinion about it. You can’t change History. But maybe you can make a difference.

Did we make a difference

Hex is feeling for the first time. That he couldn’t save people like he wanted. He can’t change history, people are dying around him. Where Ace is seeing the positive side. They made a difference, they did the best they could do and they saved the pregnant woman.
But Hex don’t sees it yet as a difference. Thausands died and they saved one. He is not ready to see that one is better than none. He still wants to save everyone and that makes him so loveable but Ace is right. This makes a different. Hex is already thinking about leaving the TARDIS.

The Story is good but not more.

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February 13

DW: Night Thoughts

Hey Guys,

here we go with next adventure of big finish main range number 79 – Night Thoughts. This time we have the seventh Doctor with his companion with Hex and Ace. It takes place in Schottland 2006 after ‘Human Resources’. In the Doctors timeline would have been behind Survival (TV Serie). This adventure was the first adventure from big finish that was after a scrpit of the TV-Serie but never was filmed. After that big finish started the serie of Lost Stories. We start with a little information about Hex. This is my first adventure with him so lets see how he is.

Thomas Hector Schofield

His first appereance was in the 58 adventure ‘The Harvest’. He is human and works as a Doctor. He met the two when they came to investigate alien aktivity on the hospital he works. It seems like he saw Ace got into the TARDIS and want to know about it. Ace is showing him and is convinced the Doctor to take Hex with them. This is the fourth adventure with them so there is not much to know.
In the first two episodes i don’t think what i would think about Hex. He got scared and he is having this nightmare. But he made a few dump comments to and about the girl. So i did thought really highly of him but he changed my mind. He is actually really lovely, has a kind heart and his giving out hugs if they needed. So yes i am liking him.

Happy the rabbit

This episode is really good. Actually i would have loved to see this as an episode. Because this would made a perfect horror episode. All that amazing effects how could made with just so little… just that girl with the rabbit. This is really good stuff. Big finish did a really good job with the effects to create this horror atmosphere. First i thought the story would go in a different directions. We have Hex having a nightmare about a OP and Ace almost drowning in the river. This lead the three of them to a house somewhere in the nowhere. With 3 man and 2 woman and girl. There is going something going on. Someone is dying and that is just the beginning. Of course all are mistrusting each other, people get attack and so on. The Doctor is in the middle of it with his wondefull coments and ironic way of dealing with everyone. I can’t say anymore with out actually destroying the story for you.

This Story is amazing. One of the best horror stories in the last time. Just listen to it.

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January 11

DW: Illegal Alien

Hey Guys,
i finished all New Serie Adventure books that i have right now, so it is time to went on the Past Doctor Adventures and start with the fifth book of the serie – Illegal Alien. It good reprinted in the Monster Collection and features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. The Adventure took place november 1940 in London and Jersey. It seems that for the Doctors timeline it is set somewhere after the 26 season.

Ace and Cody

Beneath the Doctor this are two of the characters that have a bigger role in the story. Ace of course because she is the Doctors companion. I am not a big fan of her, but she is an interessting and unique character. For me she is a little too much into explosives. Yeah, this is special were i often love characters, who love gun (i myself hate guns – don’t ask why…). But maybe it is because she is doesn’t seem to know what she can destroy with it. Also somewhere in the book she said that she like the The Blitz time. What takes her into a position i don’t understand and don’t want to understand. But her journay on the book is a good one. She is confronted with reality and death.
Cody is a private detective and not really sympatic. He is not friendly and has a death wish. I get me totally on the wrong food and i don’t even thing he is a good detective. It is sad that they gave him such a big role. When characters like Mama doesn’t get enough line but still are in our heart.

Rogue Time

The Story is about cybermen. One of the most used monster. Yeah i like them and here we have a rogue cybermen. It seems like this cybermen is search for blood and kills like everyone is remembered of the Jack the ripper cases. It seems like the humans always wants to become cybermen for winning a war. It is always the same. The worst in this story are not the cybermen it is the humans that betray each other, kill each other and toture each other.

The book is not my favorite. It is not my companion, not my story. It was for me just boring.

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November 7

DW: Unregenerate!

Hey guys,
Wecome to the 70 big finish main range with the seventh Doctor and Mel. This Story take plae in London 1957 and 2007. In the Doctors time line it is somewhere after Time and the Rani. It must be shortly after the regeneration. This Story seems to have some significant to ‘The Doctor’s Wife’.

Starting

The beginning of the story is quiet irritating. We have a few jumps to people and situations we don’t understand yet. Their is someone making deals with people – like the devil – for research.
The doctor seems like also be test subject and he and mel are apart from each other.

More irritating

The voice kinds of irritazed me alot. Mels voice os very different and also the voice of the doctor is unfamiliar. In case of the doctor is because of the situation he is in -like he is crazy. But mels voice seems so different. For everyone who wants to know it is of course the same voice. But they somehow really feel different.

The end justified the means

This is what the story is about. The scientist want to create something new, for the safety of her kind and all time. Time Lords often have a special way to justify the means or just looking. These people know Time Lords or are they Time Lords? The Doctor is here the bad guy for them. Is security justify these experiments? Louis is an really interessting character which thing that the end is not always justify the means, but sometimes it does. His change and grow is good and he would be a good character to bring back.

After this story i think that i will start the Gallifrey Stories. They are just having the interessting themes.

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December 1

Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor Volume 1 in Germany

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i was walking through the Dvd-boards on the shop and what did my eyes see? The Adventures of the seventh Doctor in German. I heart that it should come, but i didn’t believe it. But there it is. I don’t understand why the started with the seventh Doctor, but i also one who don’t understand the question where to start with Doctor Who. Because for me there are just two posibilities with the first Doctor or the ninth Doctor. But that is just me.

So there is the seventh Doctor in german that is a good thing. I will not buy it, because i have all of them in my DVD-board at home in english. But this is a good developement for every Doctor Who Fan in Germany, who think about buying it – do it. The seventh Doctor is fun.

I can’t tell you about the quality or something like that, because like i said i will not buy it. But i can tell you what is on it and i will link my articles about the episode in the english episode name. Also the review that i read about it tells that there are a lot of bonus material in that Box.

On the DVD are the episodes:

„Terror auf Lakertia“ („Time and the Rani“) – 4 parts
„Der Fluch des Kroagnon“ („Paradise Towers“) – 4 parts
„Delta und die Bannermänner“ („Delta and the Bannermen“) – 3 parts
„Das Feuer des Drachen“ („Dragonfire“) – 3 parts

The Seventh Doctor

My problem with the seventh Doctor is that the stories don’t caught me. I love the characters. The Rani is one of the best time lords we ever met, also Mel and Ace are good characters even when i don’t like them very much. The seventh Doctor is a good Doctor. The Doctor is different from the others before and he is with the sixth Doctor the darkest of the old doctors. He often isn’t the nice understandble Doctor. He isn’t really nice to Ace (Ace will be in the last episode and will be the companion in the next season). She said she doesn’t want to go there and he will bring her there the second she says it. He force her to confront her problems, her fear and not on her terms – on his terms. But he has a charming art to play it with his umbrella and his way to walk and talk. It is a really interessting and amazing Doctor. So i just can tell everyone even when the episodes are not so good, he is worth it.

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October 31

DW: The Curse of Fenric

So welcome one of the last Doctor Who Storys i have left.

My plans are to watch Sarah Jane Adventures again and than start at the beginning with the first Doctor again. I haven’t write about it and i need my episode Doctor Who every day. Also i hope that more Doctor Who Stories are coming out on DVD.

This Story is about the second world war. Ace is a really special person. She didn’t like Clowns, ghost houses or swimming. She could be a really amazing companion. But it seems like they always travling to times where woman don’t have a say. I don’t like it. Also they ever let her stay back. She is most of the time exactly doing that. Also it seems that everyone has interesst in the vikings.

Okay there is this really special ‘love’ scene between Ace and that old soldier… okay he seems old.. and i don’t know.  She is just more unsympatic than before….

I love the scene where the Doctor goes against his companion. That is how you destroy trust. There is a storyline in the new doctor who era. Where the Doctor tries to broke Amys trust in him und i found it really stupid, because he broke nothing at all… But here he did. The only thing i really loved to see is, that Ace didn’t just forgave him. That she has to work on her trust again.

 

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October 24

DW: Ghost Light

Okay guys, we are near the end…

i don’t know a what i think about it for now. For first it plays in a different time, but i am a bit annoyed be how everyone is treating Ace. So now to the Story. It seems like they entered a ghost house. The house is a little different. All personen are acting a little strange. Ace don’t like ghost house. She was in one and never wanted to go back. She was thirteen and sensed something bad. This Doctor as cruel at he is brings her back to this house. So she can face her demons.

The Story doesn’t make much sense for me. All Characters are strange and i don’t can understand any of them. This not a story for me. Maybe if i can sympatize with a character it would be different but i can’t. So for me it was kinda boring. But we will see what the next story brings.

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October 15

DW: Battlefield

So, i love this episode because the Brig is playing in it and UNIT is there again. A UNIT without the Brig. I really have big expetations. The Brig is in retirement but he goes back when he hears that it is about the Doctor.

This Story had a cross over with other demension. With Arthur and Mordrid and they are knowing the Doctor as Merlin. So it is fun to see all people recognize the Doctor as Merlin. But the best part is that the Brig also recognized the Doctor.

It is really lovly to see the Doctor and the Brig interact. It is so sad we can’t see the Brig with another Doctor. He is perfect and he brings Bessie. The Story is for my taste a little to much magic, but i really like everything else. UNIT Stories where alway the best because of the characteres. And the Characteres have not losed anything. It is sad that Benton is not also back. But as long we have the Brig i am happy.

For everyone which love the Brig, this is a really good story. The Brig is amazing in it and it did him really justiz. The Doctor is really cold. He fight with words and that is amazing but he also is distant. He choose a side and don’t have any thoughts about the enenmy. He no longer tries to safe everyone.

Long live the Brig and UNIT.

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