November 2016 – Whovian travling through TV-series

Detektiv Conan/ Closed Case: Movie 19

Hey Guys,

i am a big fan of Detektiv Conan or in english i think it is called Closed Case. I fall in love with it at the first episode and started to read the Manga. Now i have 88 volumes of the Manga standing in my cupboard and 19th movies – okay to are still missing because i wanted to have the special edition. But i think you can totally see that i love Conan. I don’t get tired of it like many of my friends. I love it still the same – when not even more – when i first watched it. For me didn’t lost any of his magic. A few characters – especially Ran – are problematic in a way that she is a really sweet girl and you would totally like her if this story wouldn’t play with out time. Her is getting on your nerves with Conan and Shinichi and she never get’s it. That is one problem of the lenght of it but everything else i love. The most of course Heiji and Kaito Kid (a pair i ship instat of Shinichi and Kaito). I started even watching Kaitos own Anime Kaito Kid/Magic Kaito. The movies are always nice to watch and like you all can think now the ones with Kaito Kid are my favorites.

Still nice but doesn’t satisfy

Normaly the only point at the Conan movies i don’t really like (but just because i can’t japanese) are the quiz of the Professor. They are always word quiz that only function in japanese. But this movie is a little disapointing. I have high standards and the Conan Movies got better from Movie to Movie. Sadly this was a step back. The story is quite nice. It is about the sunflowers of Van Gogh (here can learn something xP).
Than Kaito Kid seems to want to steal the sunflowers that Sonokos grandfather bought or not?
Because is not stealing them. He is just making a big show out of it. That everyone would think that he is just promoting Sonokos grandfather.
But until than everything is fine. Kid got a show and we love him for it and when he came on board as Shinchi we all know that this will be fun. Than the let down starts.

Spoilers – Conans failure

Kaito Kid is a kind of a person that is acting like he has a code. He is only stealing juwels and he is always giving them back (without money). Everyone who nows him apart from Detektiv Conan/Closed Case, knows that he is only stealing us Kaito Kid because he search for a special juwel, which was the reason for death of is father. He wants to find them. This is his motivation. Of course he also has fun with it but this stands behind it. Kaito Kid is also someone who will try to save everyone he can and Conan totally know that. He made Kid at so many occasions. Kaito Kid saved Conans life on regular basis. He came to a wizard meeting to stop a murder. This kind of guy is Kid and Conan knows that.
So why his he not knowing that something totally different is going on? Kaito Kid stealing a picture? Kaito Kid should be responisble for an exploision a plane? That is stupid and Conan should know that. Conan should also know that Kid would not want money. He should know that something different is going on but he doesn’t. He take the whole movie to find out what we knows from the start. Kaito is not stealing the picture, he is protecting them and something totally different is going on there. The whole freaking movie. Kaito is acting as Shinichi. This alone should tell Conan that something is going on.
Also the whole case doesn’t get closed by Conan. No Kaito is telling him everything that is going on. So he is just telling everyone what Kid told him. That is a detektiv… also the last quiz of Kid was quite obvious. With all the hints to the apostels and the picture of the communion from Da Vinci. He should have getting behind the quiz earlier. The only good thing about this is that Kid is seeing at the same and tells Conan that he thought that Conan would come behind the quiz faster.

The movie should wear the name Detektiv Conan/Closed Case it should be called Kaito Kid. Because he did all the work. Closed the case, got the evidence, saved the pictures and saved Ran…and Conan just ran after him without even having a clue what really is going on there.

Watching or not (still with spoilers)

So yeah watch it for Kaito Kid, but still one point left that i dislike. The solution is unsatisfied. The motive of the murderer is quite stupid… i mean really stupid…
Also the way Kaito Kid found out about what is going on is not quite satisfied. But this can also be that the translation wasn’t quite right or not clear enough. But in german it sounds like Kid got an Whats Up acount as Kaito Kid and everybody can call him and give him jobs.

The only thing that would made sense would be if he got the job from his butler and he wanted to steal the pictures for him and when he researched and spoted everything out he found out about the other thing. It is not the best solution, it still doesn’t make totally sense but better than someone leaving him a voice mail…

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November 27

DW: Son of the Dragon

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welcome to the 99th adventure – Son of the Dragon – of big finish main range with the fifth Doctor and his companion Erimem and Peri. They visited 1462 and lands in a war against the son of the dragon. What actually is really exciting because the son of the dragon is the really Dracula. I was always a fan of the Vampires. They real Vampires that can’t live in the daylight, don’t like garlic and drinks blood. The old vampires…without glitter. The cruel Vampire that really existed in our world. A monster who is nothing else than a human. This is not just a story of Dracula but it is also a historical story which i really love.

Quite a mess

The story is quite changing. Our lovely people stumple over a little armee that wants to defeat Dracula. But they get attackt by Dracula and his people. In the chaos of the fight Erimem saves Dracula. When Erimem is living with Dracula. Peri and the Doctor are searching for her and than try to save her. So the first two episode are quite a mass and a chaos for her.

The reason too love Doctor Who – listen or not

What i can totally promise all of you is that all characters have an amazing deep. Dracula is not just the monster the books do. You can understand him. He has his reasons. The good brother is not so much a good guy either. This is a really important thing is to never forget two things. Thing one is that you always have to see the things in their time and second all monster are nothing else than humans. We are the monster. Doctor Who shows this alot of time that everyone of us can become this monster. We should never forget that. This story shows us this. This story is totally a go and listen to it.

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November 23

Touch: Season 1

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here we go again… me and my parents just watching the first thing we found on Netflix – Touch. We had seen episodes of it before. We are not sure if we saw the whole thing or just half. But we started watching when it was first aired in Germany. Actually it is just not my thing. My parents wanted to watch because of Kiefer Sutherland. It was in that phase, when my father bought every Kiefer Sutherland film he saw. The serie is kinda like 24 – Kiefer Sutherland runing around and his kind never does what it should. That are all of the simularise.

Stop joking…

Communication

The story is about a father with a kid that is a challenge. He doesn’t like to be touched and hits around when they do. He doesn’t speak and is mostly writing numbers. The father is overwhelmed with work and is son on his own. This is when the social security office steps in to check if he can care for him or not. The kid – the name is Jake – sees the world different. He sees things in numbers. He sees the bigger picture. He gives his father numbers and he must find out what they mean. It can be anything… a flight number or a time. Sometimes it is just everything at ones. All these people are connected with each other. Things on the other half of the world are effecting the events.

Does this lead?

The first season shows us that everything is somehow conacted and that there are others like Jake (the kid). Someone want these people. But we does get more. Season one is just showing us a little piece of the picture and when you think in the final everything will lead now together, it doesn’t. You don’t get any answers or no what it is that actually is going on. This is not totally a bad thing. It make you look the next season just to see if the second season will give us answers. But the whole episodes are not very emotional for me. They don’t get me. Destiny is not enough to make me interessted.

Look or not

It is really hard decision. The serie is not bad. It is okay to watch, but either the story nor the characters capture me in any way. There is no character that i love. They just all their. Some stories are sweet but they don’t break my heart or make me feel warm. I just watch it and than it is over and you just can stop watching without the feeling of missing something.
So if you don’t have anything else to watch, than watch this but if you have another serie you may stay with that serie. I won’t rewatch this serie… so this is for me a not watching.

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November 20

DW: Frozen Time

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here we go with the 98th adventure of big finish main range – Frozen Time. It plays in 2012 in Antartica with the sixth Doctor again totally and uterlly alone. Something is frozen in ice and my first thought was Silurian. But the person frozen in ice is the Doctor, but maybe there is more in the ice than just him.

Whats going on

The Doctor seems to have lost his memories in his time frozen. He instinctly knows the names like Mel, Ace and Hex. People that are not longer with him. An Expitition is searching for a expition that got lost in 1929. But what they found was a blue box and a Doctor without his memories and something really bad.

Like always

I really like the crew that found the Doctor. The are many so different people. It is fun to listen to them interact with the Doctor. Sadly i am one of the few people that wished that this time it wouldn’t be the woman that run with Doctor in the show down but with some of the guys. It is always a girl or woman…

Listen or not

The story is really good and even when the Doctor don’t remember gets kinda old. The story function well and the characters are really interessting. So yes go and listen to this story.

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November 16

Lethbridge-Stewart: The Shizoid Earth

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after my little confusion i read now the second book of the serie Lethbridge-Stewart – The Schizoid Earth. Unlike the other two books it is not referring to classic Doctor Who story. It stands alone and plays without much surprise after the second book.

Confussion

The story is really confussing and i can’t tell what it is about. We have three main strands of plot. We have the Brig. Theoretically he finds a bomb that doesn’t detonated with a passenger – a dead professor Trevors. Now comes part that confuses me. Because the second strand is with Anne Trevors and Professor Trevor finding somewhere else a simular ‘bomb’ but before they can make tests they got called back to search for Lethbridge-Stewart.
The third strands is a reporter that also got asighned to find the Brig.

Problems over problems

This mystery ‘bombs’ are not the only thing that is going on. Soldiers from the past appier the present. These soldiers are not aware of that. They still things they are in war. All three groups met some of these soldiers. But there is still more. The Brig is having problems remembering things. Also there seems to be problems with the year they are in. Everything is really mysterious. You really don’t know what is going on. So the story is working good. But the biggest problem is that the parts with the Brig are the shortest until the middle of the book. After that we got alot more Lethbridge-Stewart and the book good alot more interessting from that point on.

Reading or not

If go through the first half of the book, the good really interessting, emontional, still confusing but the question gets answered and i really fall in love with the story. So yes totally worth reading.

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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 9

Veronica Mars: The Movie

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This is the end of my addiction of Veronica Mars. The serie got me with one character – Logan Echollos. In the first episode of season one it was Weevil who made me watch until we see a little more of the different sides of Logan.

Piz?

When i moved on, i fall in love even more with Logan and Weevil and until the end i hoped to see a friendship between them. But i also fall in love with the many other characters – Cliff, Mac, Mag, Vinny and even Lamb. Yes i loved him too.
One person i never get warm with is Piz.
Okay, many of it is just this name. Who calls himself Piz?
Piz is a really nice guy. So nice… and i really don’t want to write it because it is bullshit in a way… He is too nice. I believe that there is nothing like that but he is like that. Always nice and always accepting any choice. He is not a fighter. Of course you have to accept a no but if you really carr for someone you fight for this person.
Also I don’t like the way he acted when Logan was around.
But this is not the thematic of this article.

When the serie ended you left all this people you began to love and doesn’t know what happend to them. So everyone who loved these characters should watch the movie to see where they end.
We met alot of people again and see what their lifes became. What bugged me the most of Wallace as a teacher in High School. What happend to engeniering?

9 years later

What happend in the movie. The movie plays nine years after the serie. Veronica changed her life completely. She is one the way to become a lawyer and has a normal ‘boring’ life. This is so not Veronica. But that is kinda the point. When Logan gets accused of murder again. He calls Veronica for help and of course she came. This time she actually trust Logan what is a nice change.
But the murder is not the only thing going on in that town. The police is corrupt and plant wrong evidence and terrorize the poor people in town. Not the 09ners of course. We all know from the other three seasons rice people never comitt crimes.
I don’t want to tell to much. Sadly the Movie doesn’t really talk about ther organization Veronica finds out about. This would be really interesting.
But the story function. She is nothing great but works like the serie very well and everything else came with the amazing characters which all met at the class reunion.

What starts like a totally not Veronica Mars story ends like one and you know what ever happens now Veronica Mars is back and she is there to stay.

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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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November 4

Beijing: Shichahai

Hey Guys,

welcome to the next station of my beijing travels – Shichahai, which is a famous scenic. It is a little like two worlds met. The Old and the new and mostly the tourist. It is an amazing scenic and fun to visited at day but the best way to walk around the lakes is the night.

Two worlds

The area is around three lakes Qianhai (前海), Houhai (后海) und Xihai (西海). The way around these lakes is full with little shops, bars, cafes, restaurants. You can almost find everything here. At light it is full lights and music and life. It is full of people and has just an amazing atmosphere.

But also this area has the best instand Hutongs. Hutongs is the name for the small alley with old houses. The look really beautifull i think.

Actually i think there is no more to say about it. Shichahai is something you has to see and feel not to read about.

If you want to visited Shichahai the simplest way is to just drive to the station ‘Shichahai’. This station is still in the built but can already be used. It starts at end of the lovermost part of the three seas and start with a beautiful view.

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