May 21

DW: The Gathering

Hey,
welcome to the second part of the story ‘The Reaping‘. It is the 87 adventure ‘The Gathering’ of big finish main range with just the fifths Doctor. He is traveling with Peri and Erimem right now and left them on their own and go into the year 2006. But of course he is not completely alone, he met Tegan again on her birthday.

Questions be answered…

This story answers most of the questions that were still open after The Reaping. For example what did Tegan do after she left the TARDIS and the Doctor. The story is about Cathy from the adventure before.
She moved and tries to save her brother which has a broken neck. Of course she tries it with the cybermen technology. The Doctor comes to stop her. But this incarnation doesn’t have met Cathy yet. We know what happened to Cathy and his brother the Doctor don’t. So we got to know what that numbers everyone is saying mean. But who is the guy that helps Cathy?
The create a circle. There are this small things like in The Reaping the Doctor searches a book he lost at one point and here he lost this book.

Saving people

I didn’t like Cathy in the first adventure but there I hadn’t a real reason. She was just a girl who had lost a father and a best friend. But here… The last time I could understand her feelings. Here on the other hand I just grow to hate her. This is so… I don’t know. She is telling her story to the barkeeper and the story she tells isn’t the same that we hear. She doesn’t want to help Tegan. She is ready to kill people to save her brother and then she is telling everyone the Doctor doesn’t know what a life means? The Doctor cares so much even the sixth Doctor he just choose not to show it anymore. That Nate survived is like a miracle. But it would be more human to just let him die… The only one that doesn’t understand how important a life is Cathy and that is making her really unsympathetic. Even her half cybermen brother understand that more than anyone.

It is good to met Tegan again. Tegan is something I really miss in the NewWho. She has a life, a good life, a life she choose and she is totally okay with that. Even when she knows that her life is not perfect and knows that it doesn’t have a good end for her. But she choose this life over the Doctor… Tegan was never my favorite but here she proves how strong she is and that the Doctor isn’t making your life better…not always.

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August 1

DW: Sands of Time

Hey Guys,
i was fighting with this Doctor Who Book ‘Sands of Time’. It is the 22th book of the Missing Adventure Serie and get her print in the Monster Collection. The 5th Doctor is traveling with Tegan and Nyssa and it takes place after Adrics death. The whole is playing in very different time periodes.

Different Times and persons

The biggest problem of the book is that it has to many different times and views to tell. We have two sides of the view of different people. It springs in time and people and you don’t now where, when and who you are. Also nothing of this seems logic because everything the Doctor does he did because he did it before. So in this story doesn’t seemed to be a beginning and an real end. With the time everything gets clearer but i hate to read such little croutons…

An endless circle?

There is a lot of stuff not explained – just a few little things that bother me. Also this story is a circle kinda like the novel Festival of Death. It is not clear were the start point is and were the end, because the do things because they now they do it. But why did they do it in the first place? The bad people do things because they now they happend… but were did it all start.

Nyssa and Tegan

I am not a big fan of these both companions. But this book is not nice to the characters. Tegan has a little to do, but mostly she is bored and Nyssa just has do be a mummy… so they don’t have a good character arc any moments to shine. The only good thing about the book is how they play with the stories in tv serie – like Pyramids of Mars and Black Orchid

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January 17

DW: Destiny of the Doctor – Smoke and Mirrors

Hey Guys,
so here we have the fifth adventure of the ‘Destiny of the Doctor‘-serie with the fifth doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adirc read by Janet Fielding and Tim Beckmann. It plays in England in 1920s. Adric is still alive so it must play before Earthschock.

An old friend

The Doctor meets up with an old friend: Houdini. He met the third Doctor and Jo and on another occasion he met the first Doctor, Ben and Polly. So he knows about the incarnation and the time travel. He wants to know the future. So he is an easy target for the master to set an trap for the Doctor. Her we go with another old friend the master. I like the master but this story is just a little boring.

I heart the story just a few minutes ago but it still isn’t stay with me… there is a thing with a tiger, the master taking control, the Doctor almost died and so on.

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July 12

DW: Fear of the Dark

Hi Guys,

It is the fifths book of the 50th Anniversary Collection (Past Doctor Adventures) and is featuring the fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) with his companions Nyssa and Tegan. It takes places after adrics death, Tegans departure and meeting again and before they met Thourlough.

At the beginning we have a insight of Nyssa and Tegan. We will learn more about their feelings or so it seems. What is really interessting. But i don’t like the beginning of the book. I mean the written things are good, but the splitting is not my  taste.  For some stories this works well but here i don’t see the sense in it. I will try to describe what i mean. So the book start with Nyssa and the nightmare and than the next part takes place in a mine and Nyssa is hurt. Than the next part is placed after the nigthmare in the TARDIS and than we have the part in the mines with talking. Than we land after this talk thing on a moon and they go out and the earth crubbeld. Than again the mines and Nyssa is awaiking. We are jupping in time with no really reason because know we are in the same time. The earth crubbled and they fall in the mines and than the mine parts take place.

So form my taste it is just annessesary jumping in the time levels.

The persons i find interessting did have much screen time. We have an alien with the crew and find out a little about there life and culture. This is something i find very interessting. How they thing and feel. I just can’t get them totally but it is totally one of the strong points in this book. Also we see the Doctor getting near to lose. Nyssa was nearly dying in his arms. We can see totally what Adric had left in him. I really like to see this other side of the Doctor.

What i really find interessting is Nyssa. We totally get much more about her character, her feelings and so on. Even if she is not really doing anything. Also the book shows a side of the Doctor that everyone often forget. He is using Nyssa and her ill state for his goals.

So we also see the worst fear of the Doctor – losing his friends, letting them down.

I really love the book. After the confusing beginning it really is an interessting story and really amazing. The end is a little ansatisfied. But it is really worth a read.

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