April 4

DW: Mission of the Viyrans

Hey Guys,

welcome to the 102b Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘Mission of the Viyrans’. It is the second story on the ‘Mind’s Eye’. This story is about Peri and the Viyrans. The fifths Doctor has a small role. Ahistory places the story around 2684 on the planet Grallista Social. It is a really short story but it still offers a lot. In the context with the other stories.

Meeting the Viyrans

This is actually the first adventure with the Viyrans. We get here the most information about the Viyrans. We get a bit of their history and what they do. I really like the idea of the Viyrans. They are a good enemy without really being an enemy. They want to help but have a really single-minded way to see the world. I really like to find out more about them.

This story gets concluded with the ‘Patient Zero‘. ‘Mission of the Viyrans’ is playing after the accident in ‘Patient Zero‘. I liked the story before. It is a short story and it focused on one Companion. The idea and the solution is great. But when you put it into context with the other stories. This little story get’s even better and more important.

I kinda like it that this story plays after ‘Patient Zero‘ and ‘The Bride of Peladon’ even when both are released later. So you have to revisited the stories and put them in the right order. You have to think when it happened, how every thing slides into the right place. The stories aren’t told in a line but a bit Timey-Wimey stuff.

So yeah go and listen to this story. It is a short great story. You don’t need any knowledge about the stories before with Peri. Erimem get’s mentioned but it is not important to know her or her story to understand what is going on in this story.

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March 28

DW: The Blue Forgotten Planet

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welcome to the 126th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Blue Forgotten Planet’ with Charley, Charley/Mila and the sixth Doctor. It ends the story of ‘Patient Zero‘. The story takes place on earth. There is no time given or any indication which year it is. Ahistory placed it in 2009. It has to take place before the mankind’s space age. With a few other pieces of the story there are just to times where it works without conflicts with other series. This would be 1930 or 2009.

The Virus

It is actually a little creepy that I finally find the time to listen to this story I bought like 2 years ago when the world goes crazy over the Corona-Virus. The scariest thing about this whole thing is the fear of losing our job or existence as a business. This story shows us a story about a virus. A world with a madness and somehow I feel like I live right now in a world of madness. It is another madness but still to close to home.
But that is something Doctor Who always could do really good.

Charley against Charley/Mila

Charley and Mila finally meeting each other and there is a lot of confrontation between them and between the Doctor and them. It is time for the truth and it is not easy to tell the truth when all you did was trying to hide it. Charley couldn’t let go of the Doctor and she had to lie to hold on to him. Mila needed to become Charley so she could travel with the Doctor. So what is truth? This is actually really great. India Fischer does a great job with the discussion between the both of the Charleys.

Goodbye…

This is an end of an era. I loved Charley, I got annoyed by her. She has a great chemistry with the sixth Doctor. Big Finish made me cry again. I cried for Mila, for Charley, for the Doctor… this story is really great. It hints to so much more and is also an end for a lot of things. I love it. Charley is great and this is a great end for her. I am sad that the sixth Doctor and Charley don’t have more adventures together. But I am also excited to were the Doctor is of to now.

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March 13

DW: Patient Zero

Hey Guys,

welcome to the 124th Big Finish Main Range Adventures ‘Patient Zero’ with the sixth Doctor and Charley. Patient Zero is hard to place in time. In this story they talk about traveling ‘so far into the past’ but the story ‘To the Death’, which is shaped with some of the consequences of this story, claims it takes place in the future. So Ahistory put it around 7190.
This story is also concluding a story that started with ‘Urgent Call‘ (Bonus Story of ‘I.D.’) and plays also a part in stories like ‘Urban Myths‘ (Bonus Story of’Exotron’), ‘The Vanity Box‘ (Second Story of the Wishing Beast) and ‘Mission of the Viyrans‘.

The Amethyst Viral Containment Station

The Doctor finally demands answers from Charley but before she can give them she fades in and out of existence. She caught a virus, which itself seems to be a problem, because the TARDIS seems to protect them from this stuff. The Doctor tries find to out how to save Charley. The search leads him to the Amethyst Viral Containment Station. This station works for the Viyrans. But we also meet the Daleks again.

Daleks and time

In this story the Daleks ask for things and don’t shoot first. They traveled in time and seem to be aware that time is a very delicate thing and are not shooting without thinking it through. That is actually something new about the Daleks. The Dalek search for a Patient Zero and they are not willing to give up. It is what I really like in this story is that the Daleks are acting with content and the Doctor using the Daleks. ‘Know your enemy.’ It leads to a very great end and I love it.

Blind Passenger

We also have a blind passenger on board of the TARDIS or maybe she is just a imagination of Charley. The girl is a little fangirl of the Doctor and claims to be his companion and that she is a long time with him when he still had gray hair. This leads to a very interesting story. That will be influence the next stories very much and I am really excited to find out where it leads to.

Listing or not

Definitely listen to it. The sixth Doctor and Charley has such a great and easy chemistry. They had fallen in place so easy that even the Doctor himself finds it weird. He can’t let her die and he doesn’ t understand why it is so much more important to him than everything else. He has to deal with her and his feelings, with the Daleks and Fratalin and nobody helping him.

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