November 13

DW: The War Doctor: Agents of Chaos – Eye of Harmony

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let’s get to the last adventure of the third box of Agent of Chaos – Eye of Harmony. This adventure is for me the hardest to listen to. It is about Helenya what she is doing and why she is doing it. In the last stories i liked her but here she is – i don’t know how to discribe it. So let’s just start it.

Sacrifices in the war

Helenya has lost her grandfather in the beginning of the time war. She is right that many people lost their lifes in this war and alot will follow. That is what war is about. Dead people…killing. Some wars have to be fought and other you don’t understand. The Daleks offer Helenya a way out of the war. A way to bring the dead back. A way to prevent the time war for ever happening. I understand that this is tempting but really doesn’t she know anything about the Daleks. Why would the Daleks prevent the time war? Or would they by just defeating the time lord, but this would mean alot more death in rows time lord. She most know that there has to be more behind it. Why is everyone always falling for the promises of the Dalek?

The real heros

The story is not the best not the worst. This is mostly what i think about all the adventures in that serie of the War Doctor. But this adventure have a character that i really fall in love with. It is a young boy that help the other in the adventure before and now is with the other on this battle TARDIS.
What makes this story so good is that we have the time lords that are fighting in a war. They resignated to what it means and are ready to make these sacrifices. Other time lords are at the end of there power and can’t live with this war anymore and than there is this young boy that knows so little about war and sacrifices and yet does know so much more about what life is worth.
This story shows us the different between the people and that is what it makes such a great story.

Listen or not

So apart from the fact that you need to listen to this story to get the end of the adventure before and listen to the next Box. I would say this is definitly a listen to it story. Like i said before it is not the best story but it are the little things that makes this story great. One of them is the young boy and the other things have all to do with him. So yeah i really liked the story.

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November 6

DW: The War Doctor: Agent of Chaos – The Eternity Cage

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welcome to the second part of the Agent of Chaos – The Eternity Cage which starts at the same point the other adventure stopped. Heleyan, who works for Ollistra is telling the Doctor that Ollistra is captured by the Sontaron. Now the Doctor needs to help rescue her. Of course we all now the Doctor and is of course helping. It is amazing how much more he is the Doctor than some of the other Doctors.

Sontoron as part of the war

I don’t just understand that part. It is clear why the Sontoran want to be fight in this war. They just live to fight. If they want to be part of the war, than just attack one of the parties or both. Why do they need permission? Also the time lords and Daleks infollow every planet in this war but the Sontoran they just ignored? This bit is not really making sense to me. Sontoran will never be allowed in the time war… wow… good. Why is earth allowed to be part of the war? Maybe we can exchange this with them. Just thinking…
So we have the time lords, the Daleks and Sontoran all in one adventure and all three are trying to figth each other and maybe there is also a traitor in the mix.

Listen or not

It is obvious that you need to listen to the story when you want to listen to the other adventures of the war doctor. This adventure give us a few point you need to know for the next adventure. This box is like the first bound together. The second box were more stand alone than the stories now.
But i like this adventure because they point out something really good and it is a Dalek that did it. Who started the time war? The time lords that just fight to survive protect the time lines? Are they really? Didn’t the Doctor used them against the Daleks in the adventure before (The War Doctor: Agent of Chaos – The Shadow Vortex and what did they do when the Doctor to destroy all the Daleks before they became a threat…
That is why i always get back to listen to the War Doctor story. Because of this little things.

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October 29

DW: The War Doctor: Agents of Chaos – The Shadow Vortex

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i started to listen to the third box – Agents of Chaos – of ‘The War Doctor‘ and the first adventure ‘The Shadow Vortex’. It plays on earth. The Doctor and someone else who goes with the name Lara get arrested in East Berlin 1961. What is of course suitable with east and west are in the cold war.

The nameless name

This story is a typical Doctor Who episode. In this episode the Doctor is so much the Doctor. The Time Lords (Ollistra of course) is sending him to earth to stop the Dalek invasion. When the time war started a few planets got protected by the time lords. One of this planets was the earth. That is the reason the earth didn’t take place in the time war. But this is now in danger. Because the shield around earth got weaken and the Daleks are taking advantage of this. They send some one who did everything for the right price and she is really good at her job.
The Doctor take one of the stazi with him on this adventure to stop Lara. It is just like the old times. But i promise you this is totally and with everything the war doctor and that makes it such a good story. It is was so the Doctor and at the time everything he hates.

Listing or not

Yeah i know i write everytime less. But the war doctor story are all in the same way. This one is a little different because it feels like on old doctor who story. But it is like all the others in this serie a good story and i would say one of my favorite so far. So yeah go and listen to it. The other two adventures will follow.

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October 1

DW: The War Doctor: Infernal Devices: Neverwhere

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welcome to the last chapter of the second Box ‘Infernal Devices‘ – Neverwhere. The second box thematics the question if the Doctor is still the Doctor. Ollistra is calling him this and also believe he does excatly what the Doctor would do. She manipulated him to do what she wants.

What the Doctor does

I believe the same things as Ollistra. He is still the Doctor and doing the same decisions than everyone else. The Doctor is trying to save everyone and is in away naive. Every Doctor is different. Every Doctor as his own way. The first doesn’t care about people. He doesn’t want to help or be nice. He just want to see new things.
The second would without a second thought earse the cyberman from existince, when the third just believes that their is always a other way. You can make this list as long as Doctors are their. For me the War Doctor is nothing to be ashamed of or not the Doctor. He is still trying to save people. He is still doing what he thinks is right. He is a fighter but not a soldier. He is not following any orders. He always makes his own way.
This is actually what i think is the most important thing to the Doctor. The one think that never change. The Doctor what ever he believed in, if he is bad or good. No matter if he is naive or manipulitave. The Doctor is always going his own way. He never let anyone else think for him. He thinks for himself. He doesn’t follow orders, he just follows his own believes. He always make his own way.

Living Hell

This time the weapon Ollistra is after is even more cruel than all the others and very simular to the other weapons. They created a place that can overcame everything. When you die you, you came back to live. You feel the pain. The Daleks and Time Lords fighting and nobody can win. They fight an endless battle. So the technology and the people himself is developing to make the most damage. It is a horrible version of horrible life without hope.

The story is not bad and like the whole box the story don’t get me. I will get the third of the war doctor. But it seems like just the first box got me this excited.

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September 3

DW: The War Doctor – Infernal Devices: A Thing Of Guile

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yeah i know that i need a really long time to actually listen to the second part of The War Doctor – Infernal Devices namend A Thing Of Guile. I really liked the first box of The War Doctor – Only The Monstrous. The second box is not bad but something is missing. I really don’t know what it is. The Doctor is the Doctor and the stories are really good…
This story is playing after the ‘Legion of the Lost‘ and this time the Doctor is as a prisoner in mission with Ollistra and the other the Doctor get to know in the adventure before.

War efforts

The stories are all very simular. The time lords find a weapon and try to use it in the war. They found a weapon and the Doctor should find out how it works. But at the same time they find a Dalek projekt. Like the Time Lords the Daleks are trying to find a way/ a weapon to win the war. It is really hard to see the differents between the Daleks and the Time Lords in these stories. The War is making everyone the bad and a victim of the war.
Which is really interessting to see. What does the war make of the people. Also the double standards that never change. The Time Lord are shocked at the unhuman experiments but they are not better. Is the only thing that counts that you win the war or does it matter how you win the war? Is it worth to lose everything that makes you human?

I really love the dark athmosphere and deep question about war and humanity. About losing yourself and be forced to make decision nobody want to make. It is good stuff. But maybe the problem is that it is the same in all the adventures. I am not big fan of War Movies and this shows me that war audio plays are not mine either. But it is way to good to not get the third box… i think.

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December 17

DW: The War Doctor – Only the Monstrous: The Heart of Battle

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here we go with the last part of the big finish ‘the war doctor – only the monstrous’ adventure ‘The Heart of Battle’. You can see this as a self-contained story but as far as i know big finish that it will be conacted to the other the war doctor boxes.

Paece with the Daleks

Seratrix believe that he can make peace with the Daleks. We all know the Daleks and know that this seems impossible but on the otherside is Seratrix not wrong. The War can only end in destruction of the universe and the Doctor is know for making the impossible possible. So why not peace?
What i like the most of the story is that on the surface you can agree with Seratrix but when you hear what he is ready to do for it. What is peace offering means. He is giving them thausand planets.

Sacrifice

What is okay sacrifice for the greater good? This is something we meet alot in Doctor Who and Torchwood. The Doctor had to make that call a few times, like Pompeiji, or in the genesis of the daleks. What the Doctor did in the time war – like we know out of his dreams. Isn’t what Seratrix did the same that the Doctor did? Or are this to many people to sacrifice? Does it really makes a different?
Do you need to be monster to do this decision? If you make that sacrifice are you monster. Can you be still a good man? This are so many questions that story throw up.

Will you be a coward or a monster

When i heart that question i had Christopher Eccleston in my ears and eyes. He is standing there and the villian is asking him this question and we see the Doctor stand there looking at us and see the battle in his eyes. ‘Coward any day’ That is the totally different from what he did in this story.

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December 16

DW: The War Doctor – Only the Monstrous: The thousand worlds

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here we go with the next part of big finish the war doctor – only the monstrous ‘The thousand worlds’. Of course the first adventure had to do with what follows. This story is taking place in the future of the nursemaid, where the Daleks and they enemies of the nursemaid race ‘the taalyens’ conquered Keska of her.

The new mission

The Doctor got send on a mission with a team form the Time Lords. In the first adventure the Doctor saved two time lords that voluntiered to the suicide mission the Doctor take over and told them that someone made sure that these two get that mission. So the question is what is it with the two of them? Someone want them dead. We know nothing about it just that them were part of special mission. I am sure that this special mission is having a bigger mean to the story. I would love to listen to the Doctor working with this two, but of course that is not we get.
The Doctor is abandoned the team and goes alone to the so named ‘Null zone’ to save an important time lord from the Daleks.

Null zone

When the Doctor enters the Null zone he arrived at Keska in a time where they are conquered and the nursemaids race slaved. So the Doctor is meeting her again and start working together. The Doctor finds the time lord he searched for every easily but it seems like he is not prisioner. The Daleks answer to him and he tells something about peace and the Daleks time.
So the question this adventure throw up is what is the plan the Cardinal Ollistra have.

This story is not bad. But i can totally just really get opinion with the last adventure. Because it is all about the bigger picture.

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December 15

DW: The War Doctor – Only the Monstrous: The Innocient

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here we goes with the first Box-set of the Big Finish The War Doctor serie and we are talking about the first story The Innocient of this Box. What i think about the Box and if i will buy the others we will talk about it after i heart all three stories. So this Box like you can assume has three stories a 60 min. This are the three stories:
1.1 The Innocient
1.2 The Thousand Worlds
1.3 The Heart of the Battle

So in the next days i will write about the next two stories. One thing is clear John Hurt has an amazing voice and is perfect for a audio drama.

The start

We are in the middle of the time war. The Doctor already have done a lot of things that he is not prude of. He thinks about himself a monster and refuses to use his name the doctor. It is sad that we don’t now yet what makes him that way. But the Doctor has nightmares about this stuff so we maybe got to know more about it.
The first thing that happend is that the Doctor sacrifice himself to destroy the Dalek fleet. The time lords things that he is dead. I really dislike that start because it reminds me to much about the new Doctor Who seasons. But the story is good. The Doctor is badly hurt and a girl or woman is finding him and cares for him.

The nursemaid

She is nice and wants to help. The task to care for the Doctor is never an easy one. She is part of a peacefull civilisation that got attack be a race from their home planet they had to leave to hide from them. It is a little like the time war. The people had long forgotten what really started this war. The Doctor can just not stay away from getting involved in things like that.
I waited the whole time that this people are just fake or something bigger behind it and maybe there is but not in this story.

Nightmares

The nightmares are the most interessting part of the story, because it shows us what the Doctor became. He dreams of an accidient. The Daleks took innocient people as a shield so the time lords will not attack. Did the Doctor attack them? Did he make the choice to sacrifice a few for saving maybe everything else?

The first story is nice. But not just what i hoped for. I hoped for something dark and hopeless. But this story gives us hope and shows us that the Doctor is deep down still the Doctor. So we have to wait what the other stories had for us.

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