April 10

Torchwood: The Victorian Age

Hey Guys,

so I am back from my vacation in Prague and here is already ‘Zone 10’ waiting, but i never wrote about ‘The Victorian Age’. So here we go with the first Episode of the second season of Big Finish Torchwood adventure. Here we have Captain Jack Harkness again and Queen Victoria. It plays on the 17 May 1899.

Alien Hunt

This episode is a hunt through London. Jack is hunting down an Alien that should have been died and broke out of Torchwood when the Queen is there to inspect the Institute. The fun in this Story is the Queen that is going with Jack on the hunt. She is a great character. She sees the world in a different way and is desperate to help her people. She is not running after Jack, most of the time the Queen is running into the action and Jack needs to follow. It is a great dynamic between them. It seems like her walls are coming down and she has fun on the adventure with Jack and on the other hand is shocked from all the pain and death she sees and want to close Torchwood down. They seem close in some scene but there is always a distance between them.

It is a really great story and it is fun. It has humor, really great music and i can just recommand it.

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February 14

Torchwood: More than this

Hey Guys,

here we go with the last Big Finish Torchwood adventure – More than this – of the first season. It takes place after the 3rd adventure ‘Forgotten Lives‘ of this season. Gwen is actually doing what Rhys told her to do. She starts Torchwood again.

Seasonfinal – ordinary day

This isn’t a season final like we know it from TV stories. It is just a story like all the other. No big cliffhanger or something really game changing. But it is a start for the surviving of Torchwood. This is a story about Gwens ordinary working day. She is trying to rebuilt Torchwood and want a place to store all the aliens things. So she has to work with bürocrates and to explain what Torchwood is about. Gwen chooses the only way that makes sense to her and take the bürocrate out to work with her a day. So they met alot of different aliens. It is nothing special just an ordinary day what makes it in the end so special.

Special Guest

Gwen is this time alone with the bürocrates. But of course Rhys is still having a part in it. So they meet in some places Andi and we all know Andi, do we. In the end everything is about the bürocrate. He is telling us the story. He is lonely and he feels like humans are small and not insignificant. He lost his love and he doesn’t have faith anything anymore. It was just a accident. He forgot how precious life can be. This is a story about dealing with the pain and the ordinary day. About that we are not insignificant.

In the end i am really excited to listen to the next season. I hope that they are many to follow. Because this adventures are really amazing and i love all of them that are out now. So go and buy it and than listen to it and fall in love with Torchwood again and again.

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January 22

Torchwood: Uncanny Valley

Hey Guys,

welcome to the 5th big finish Torchwood adventure ‘Uncanny Valley’, which is a typical season one adventure. This was the weakest story so far but that doesn’t mean that it is a bad story. The Story is playing after ‘The Conspiracy‘ but i am still not sure when it should play.

I know what you are thinking

Jack is like the last time telling the story directly to us. This time it is not explained like the last time with a phone call, what actually a little sad but it doesn’t really matter. The kind of narration is placing you in the story and it gets you. It is a really good story for Jack Harkness. I for myself have enough of all the sex in the tv shows and i don’t want to tell to much but we have some here. Big Finish is here again remembers us of one thing that got a little lost in the fourth season. Jack Harkness is not gay. He likes guys, women, alien, anything you can have sex with and that was always why i liked him. Because he doesn’t care about something like race or gender. Also his way of seeing beauty is not bound to our sight. It is good that this is not forgotten.

What makes you human?

The story is nothing new but Torchwood don’t has any rules or no goes. So this is a story about someone that get something like a robot. This is a copie of him, which should do his life in the world for him because after a accident that put him in wheelchiar. Of course in this story it goes how this robot becomes kinda like human. It is his job to become like his owner but when you see them interacted or acted. They are very different from each other. But this is not what the story is about. It is more about how life can change you and that everything can turn against you. Even the comitee is not on the focus here. The Robot has to do with comitee, but we never got real information about what their plan is or what they are. It is more a drawing of a relationship that grows and breaks in the end. It doesn’t ask big questions. It makes all this question seem like it is totally normal.

It was fun to listen to John Barrowman again. Can wait for the next episode and the second season!

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December 18

Torchwood: One rule

Hey Guys,

it is a little late, but i got so many new radio plays that i doesn’t know were to start and end. Also it is totally the christmas caos getting the best of me. So here we go with the new big finish Torchwood ‘One rule’.
When i first heart about this radio play i was disapointed. There is no of our Torchwood members, but it is one of the best. It takes place before the Canary Warf accidient. Obviously because Yvonne Hartmann is still alive.

Yvonne Hartmann

Yvonne Hartmann is a really interessting character. She is not the typicall good character. Her moral is more than questionable and how she handles problems are too. But she has really good intentations. She wants to protect England. I never thought i would say it but i would love to her more of her story. There is much potential. Also she seems to know alot more about the comitee than anyone else from Torchwood Cardiff.
She also brings as a new way of getting more of Ianto. Because he is working for her.

Monster in Cardiff

Cardiff is standing shortly before an election for the new major. This monster is killing people who wants that job. The story isn’t a very special or new story nor is it very surprising but the character totally carries the whole story. They way she interacts friendly with Helen Evans and angry with Barry Jackson. It is very interessting to see the different facetts of her character and the story gave her enough room to show many of them too us.

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November 17

Torchwood: Forgotten Lives

Hey Guys,

welcome back to a new adventure of big finishs Torchwood ‘Forgotten Lives’. This time we know when it takes places. It plays five years after The Miracle Day and Jack is away for that time. Rhys and Gwen are living a good and normal life until an old Woman calls and talk about Jack.

Good pair

I am not a big fan of Gwen and i will never be ready to love her like i do all the others on Torchwood. But Rhys and she became a real good team and that is really amazing. I like these both together. Also i love Rhys. Rhys is someone that never really agreed with Jack and that is what he does it here again. What is really good to listen too. This adventure is different ot the others. The first two had just one of the Torchwood team as a acting character. Here we have Gwen and Rhys. But here we also have Captain Jack Harkness not has John Barrowman but has a role in it.

Like Sense8

The idea that is played with here is simular to the idea of Sense8. It is that people can jump into other bodies. The can’t stay in one. It is like you are every day in a new body. The race that has invented that, doesn’t ask other races if they want this, they just do it to them. They thing that they are the good people, that they are so protecting the weak. I think we can discuss about it. But to be sure is that, doing it to them is not the right thing.

This story is not bad for a Gwen Story and the end is like a goodbye to Jack but also a new beginning. A new beginning for a new Torchwood.

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October 22

Torchwood: Fall to Earth

Oh my god guys,

this new story ‘Fall to earth’ of the big finish Torchwood serie is amazing and our lovly Ianto Jones is back. My life is back to perfect. That Torchwood and Ianto is back and i waited for it since the moment he…
The last time i thought about were the stories are taking place. Now we know that Tosh and Owen are also still there. From what Ianto tells it has to be somewhere in season one after Lisa.

Ianto on his own

Like Jack told them in the first adventure, he left to actually go after the conspiracy. The others are left to do the normal Torchwood stuff and Ianto is alone trying to find something important for the Conspiracy. Of course everything goes wrong. Why did he do it? Because he wanted to be accepted by the other what is one indicator for season one. Also he kinda want Jack back – even when it is not really told in this story. But when his phone ring he assoumend/ hoped that it would be Jack.
So he is on Board on a spaceship with all the other passngers died and something is really wrong with the ship. Ianto is trying to get the ship back undercontroll, but of course he has no idea how to do it.

Lucky accidents

Just right on time Ianto got a call from the call center. The woman Zeyneb wants to buy him insurance. Ianto get her to help him. Together they face a lot of trouble on the way. They have an amazing chemistry. She and Ianto have alot in common. So just the two of them works really well. It is much fun to actually listen to them. I want so much more of Ianto Jones right now.

I don’t want to say more, just listen to it.

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September 16

Torchwood: The Conspiracy

Hey Guys,
today the first adventure of the big finish Torchwood story ‘The Conspiracy’ arrived and ineeded to write about it right now. Because nothing is more lovely than that. Oh yeah it is, because they had anounced that Ianto will be back. Everything is perfect. So lets actually talk about what the first adventure holds for us.

See again

First of all the first adventure is just with Captain Jack Harkness. We don’t have anyone else the team. But it plays when there still was a team. He talked to Gwen on one point. I am not sure when it plays. Torchwood seems to still exist and Gwen is part of it. So technically it had to play before Children of Earth. Which would mean Ianto is still alive. But other than that i don’t know. I am listening again right now to find a date.

Back to old times

It started like we all know Torchwood ever start. So you are from the line totally back into Torchwood mode. They way the adventure is built is a little special. I don’t like the way. Jack is talking to us. He is telling as happend and there are just scene played by them. We have Jack talking than a scene and than talking again. Than we also a youtube blog between the interview Jack is holding. It’s not a real flow. But that is just my liking. And to be honest it give alot worst than listening to Jaohn Barrowman.

The Commitee

I don’t want to talk to much about the story. Because you all should be buy it and hear it for yourself. But we have talk about it a little bit. So it goes about a guy named George Wilson. He talks about an alien invasion form the inner circle. There is theis group -the commitee – that will destroy human race and take the earth. There are not coming and attacking with spaceships. They are doing it buy getting their man into all positions like in the goverment and so on. So it will be a big story fight them. Which could really interessting and worthy opponent. There is not much happing in the first adventure. It is just like a long prologue for a bigger story and you just got the important information.

I can’t wait to hear the next adventure. The next adventure will be out in october.

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September 8

Torchwood: Miracle Day

Hey Guys,

i will be honest with you right away. This season has a really bad starting point. Because everything that is Torchwood for me isn’t there. I miss the base, i miss their pets, i miss Cardiff and most of all i miss the team. For me was Ianto the most important part of Torchwood. He was the soul, the heart, he was Torchwood. Without it him it doesn’t feel right.

But the season is not so bad as i thought. You can totally look it. This is a really big think and we will see if they find a good ending. I like the Characters. Vera is an amazing character. My favorite character is totally Esther. She is really amazing. She is strong, she is intellegent, sees what is going on, and even when her world collapse around her she gets her shit done. I like her very much and i want to hurt Rex every time he is mean to her even when he is right.

Rex isn’t a character i really like…not a little bit. But it is a good character. So Rhys has much to little screen time. I love him and want to see him in action.

What i really don’t like is how they show Jacks Sexuality in this season. Jack is not gay, he is not bi, he is into everything. But this season he is just flirting with the guys. I don’t like it. Jack is flirting with everyone. He was actually flirting with everyone when he was together with Ianto. He flirts with everyone and that should not be changed. That is Jack. That is totally a negative point.

Also they are to much explosions and so… i don’t need this big effects…

But i like how broken Jack seems to be and this is really good. Because he is broken not just because of Ianto, but because of Steven… that is really important.

This are my first impressions of the serie. I will talk about a few things that totally are spoilers. So if you don’t want spoilers stop reading here 😉

First of all the story is really a big thing. It is good but also you can’t become bigger after that. Because really they are building concentration camps in the whole world and nobody is doing same thing. Everyone, who knows me a little knows that i don’t like Gwen. Most of the time i want to stangle her. But in the Children of earth she has this monologe about what happend and the doctor. That was really amazing. Here is a scene that totally remembered me of that. She is talking to one doctor at that camp and what she said is so true. It is. The sad thing is that i totally see that happen. If something like that would happen in the real world. Everyone would exactally do the same. This can happen again so fast and who will stand up?

Because if you stand up you can end like Vera. Vera… i loved Vera she was a great character. She was strong and so human. She wanted to help people and she was one of the persons that was not afraid to tell everyone her opinion. Everything she did was amazing. That whats make her death so tragic. She was nice and sympatic not just for the viewer, Torchwood liked her. She was intellegent and just did what she things is rigth. She stands up for what she believed in. But because she was such a good person, she is dead. She said what she thought and that is why she is dead. This is really sad but also a really good move. You like Vera and her death has a great impact on the viewer and on the team. Everyone can die…

The background story with Jack and that guy was interessting and sweet but not really so nessessary for the story and for me it just give us more questions than anything else – that not get to answer. This whole three family thing cames a little short and there is so much in the dark. What did them do all the times, why did they do it and what was it what they are wanted? Just power? Wasn’t there a easier way to do it than that?

Everything about the last episode a really good. It is very emotional and sad. We see the world colapesing. We see how fast people adjust to the new world order. We see Rhys, who is trying to find a new job and what did he get? Drive the undead to the ovens. This is really amazing. What i don’t like is how agressiv Rhys became toward Danes. Thats not the Rhys i know…

I hate when people say that the death of that character was unnessassary, but really Esthers death was so unnessassary. Esthers is having from all the characters the most character developement and she was amazing. I love her. She is so sweet and than she dies and i am totally not okay with that. Why she and why not Rex. Yeah i knw because of Jacks blood… but Rex lives and Esther dies. No! Why are they always killing the persons i love?

I think that the didn’t need the church scene. It is one of the last scenes. They are at Esthers  funeral and the treator is also there and until that point that scene is okay. But than Rex finds out that she is the traitor and calls her and she is shooting at him and he dies and she get shot. Yeah and than we see Rex coming back to life. So unnessassary. I don’t like Rex also beeing immortal but it was clear so they didn’t need to show it again.

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September 1

Torchwood: Rift War

So,

i could resist and had to buy the ‘Rift War’ it is a comic from Torchwood. So this comic strip is drawed by different artist. So i will talk about the chapters and than about the whole story.

The first chapter is not my art. I don’t like the way it is drawn, the same is it for chapter two. But the characters are really well written. It starts with creatures that came through the rift and attacking humans. Torchwood is on the way to fighting them. Also it seems like this creatures are in war with Torchwood, just Torchwood don’t know anything about it.

The second chapter is about the vanishing of the Torchwood mainquarters and Tosh with it. Tosh is in the space between and met there a strange guy named Vox, which seems to know a thing about this creatures and the rift.

The third and fourth chapter is looking really amazing. I like the way it looks. The third chapter is really sweet it is about gwen and rhys raising a alien baby. The fourth chapter is about dinosaurs in  our time and Vox says that he can help to heal the rift forever.

The fifth chapter is about gwen and jack in the past. Also it is Vox which brings them there and bring them back. It is a really special guy. But this chapter and the sixth is not my art. I don’t like the way it looks. The sixth chapter is about a time overlap. So we met the old Trochwood.

Chapter seventh and eigth find kinda ugly but also it is a more realistic style what i like more. So yeah… i don’t know it are a special chapters from the artworks. Also we find out a little more about the creatures and about Vox.

Chapter nine and ten  are also not my style. This is the big finale. Yeah i know i didn’t write much about the comic. So lets say, i was dissapointed. Not just about the drawings because i am not a big comic fan (i am more the manga guy). But the story is not so good. The episode are to short to be reall emotional or thrilling. The turning point is not really surprising. I think must people did see this caming. It is nice and so but not more. If i had read it before i bought it, would had bought it.

There is also a bonus story in there. She is really short and i like the drawings. But it is also not a deep story, just scratching the surface, if you could call that scratching…

I love Torchwood and i love things where everyone is still alive. But i can’t recommend the comic. For me it was to disapointing.

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August 25

Torchwood: House of the dead

So this is a really horrible story. I love her. That is a good story but it is just to torture us. Ianto is by a seasson and tries to stop him, also Jack is there. Gwen is on the way to them. There is a medium that can let them see person their want to see. But a very bad thing reach out to come back to life and that what Jack want to stop.

Gwen thinks that something is wrong with Jack and Ianto thinks he is a little spuck. For me Jack is just like Jack. Ianto get visited by his father. The father is telling him that he waited for his call. Also she says that he should stop Jack and that everyone will be alive – Owen, Toshiko and so on. We see more inside in Ianto Jones. This is a really amazing thing.

Also it says that they can’t trust Jack and Gwen is saying that is right and Ianto have to stop it. She is totally talk Ianto into believing that Jack is mad. But Jack says that he should trust him.

So here it will became spoilers. There is a twist in the Story.

Jack tells him that he couldn’t talk to Gwen because his headset is not on and he totally trust Jack from this moment. Jack wants to close the rift forever but before they can do it. But the father of Ianto give him a chance. He tells him that they just can move away, that he can take Ianto and leave. Because can he really let Ianto die again? So he needs to tell Ianto that he is dead and it is really emotional. Because Ianto is breaking down and crying and Jack can’t just bear to look at him. Ianto is seeing through Jack. Jack wanted to close the rift but Ianto know that this is not the truth. He knows this is about Jack. This is about Jack. Because Jack can’t let Ianto go. He can’t live with the thought that the world is empty. He wants to do suicide so he never came back. But Ianto is so much more. Ianto tells him that they take the chance. But Ianto is just using this to get Jack to live. He is sacrefice himself and Jack needs to say these words. I love you… and it never break my heart like that. This Story is telling us to much about the characters. About Jack and about Ianto. If you want to cry or have a broken heart just listen to it.

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