May 31

Torchwood: Ghost Mission

Hey everyone,

something that “Big Finish Torchwood Adventure” always seems to do is that the adventures that i am the less excited about, are one of the best. Ghost Mission is an adventure with Andy Davidson and a new character Norton Folgate which hopefully will be in more adventures. These tow rock this adventure. It plays after Gwen got Torchwood started again. So i asume that it takes place after “Torchwood – More than this“.

Dream Team

We all know who Andy is. The little sweet police man that always stands on the side. He wants to be Torchwood and want to be part of the bigger picture. Norton is a sarcastic commentator. He always has to say something. Andy is always more gabbling than real taking and Nortons comments are always on point and sharp. They has so much chemistry.
To be honest i am shipping this two so much and hope that we will have alot more of this team. The first thing i did was search for not existing fanfics about them.

Let’s go on Mission

Norton is from the past and is like a ghost in the present – some alientec that is explained in the story but things like that just don’t stay in my head. He can’t touch anything and that brings them in a lot of funny and dangerous situation. Actually the whole story is about Norton testing Andy if he is good enough for the new Torchwood. This is how they do things now. He can’t really help Andy because of the touching thing but his comments always hit the right spot and always making me grin.

So much fun

This story has a really interessting dynamic. It is about the question why you would join Torchwood. It is about the feelings of Andy and it give us a part of the bigger picture of the whole Commitee story. The story is deep and dark in away, but the two characters make the story light and fun. You can listen to it and love and feel helpless with Andy get annoyed be Norton or laughing at Andy.

So everyone listen to this amazing story. I really love every bit of it and needs so much more material of these two characters together.

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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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May 7

DW: The Reaping

Hey Guys,

welcome to the 86 adventure ‘The Reaping’ of big finish main range with the sixth Doctor and Peri. This story takes place in on the 24th september 1984 in Baltimore. Peri is leaving in the end of the story for a time that is not nearer defined before she rejoin the Doctor. This Story is part of a bigger story. The Reaping, The Gathering and The Harvest belong together. The Reaping can stand alone. There is just one thing that just stays in the dark. But sometimes it happens in Doctor Who.

Peris life

This story is a very personal story for Peri. At a station on the moon ‘the googlebox’ you can see everything on earth history and she decide to look for her family. That is when she found out that her best friends dad is murdered. She wants to go home. But the welcome doesn’t go like she hoped and of course there is more about the murder.
For the first time I listened to a story where I totally like and understand Peri. We have do deal with a lot emotion from Peri and it really works for me. I feel so much with Peri in this story that the other characters like Peris mother or her best friend Cathy seems unsympathetic for me and i dislike them. It is not that their feelings are not understandable too. But they just doesn’t work for me, like Peri.

The murder case

Peri and the Doctor already have a close relationship again. She feels secure around him. It is lovely to hear. Especially when you have like older Peri with them. You actually see the similar between Peri and her mother. The story just plays with these few people. After they found out that the have to deal with cybermen. The Doctor, Peri, her mother, Cathy and Brother and the suspect of the murder are trapped on the building in the graveyard.
The murdered father comes back as a cybermen and we have to ask us if something is left in the cybermen of the real man. And what is the meaning of surviving.
The story is so real and tragic. It is a really good story and with The Gathering it got even better. Just two things are not to liking.

First i really dislike that there is something left of the father…but they are explaining it with the uncompleted conversion. Which would make him like Lisa and with this i can live.
The second thing is that the Doctor in the end let something on earth on the house of Peri, which doesn’t make sense and is really irresponsible.

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