June 2018 – Whovian travling through TV-series

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Infamy of the Zaross

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welcome to the second Volume of the Tenth Doctor Adventure and the first episode of it ‘Infamy of the Zaross’. This second set is obviously with the tenth Doctor and this time he is with Rose Tyler again. I love the combination so much. Rose and the Doctor were just fun. This story takes place in the present day on earth (2007 Norwich) so we have the pleasure of Jackie Tyler.

Special Box Set

The adventures of the tenth Doctor are available as separetly episodes or in the special box set. I of course have choosen the Box Set again. It is the same design as the first Box set. It includes 3 stories of Rose and the tenth Doctor. Also it includes a Behind the scene Disc and an exclusive Big Finish Documentary Disc.

Same as always

What is this story about. Jackie is taking a holiday at an old friend when an alien invasion happened. Same old, same old. Jackie phones Rose and of course the come and try to save the earth again. It is a story we heart and seen in a million ways before. Still it is fun. There is of course a nice twist in the story. But the story lives from the characters. The atmosphere is light and it makes you smile a lot. It is just like the series was with them.

Believing in your kids

In the background the story is about families and how much impact they have on the children. We see Jackie being not always eye to eye with Rose but she loves her and is really prude of her. In this story we see that she doesn’t like that Rose is not staying home but she never stops her. I love this relationship between them.
Jackies old friend on the other hand as not such relationship with her daughter. She always talks her down and compare her to her sister.

Listing or not

Definitely listing to it. As much as I love the dark and story Doctor Who or the sad ones. There is a ligthness to all the adventure with Rose and the Doctor that I missed a lot and Big Finish captured them in an amazing way. All of the tenth Doctor companions are so standing on the ground. Rose is just a normal girl. She could be everyone. There is nothing special about her. But she fights and never gives up and she loves traveling with the doctor. What makes her very special like everyone else. Rose is us.
There is also one scene at the end of the adventure were Rose is in a situation were she has to save someone and often we see people on TV make a whole speech about Life and his meaning. Rose just doesn’t. She struggles to find these words. She use so simple and obvious sentence. What makes it so pure. What makes it so real.

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June 25

Timeless: Season 2

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welcome to season 2 of Timeless. So everything isn’t so easy as they thought. The season itself is built like the season before. Rittenhouse is using the time machine and they follow and try to stop them. Just now they are in hiding and actually start working with Garcia Flynn.

The big bad

The whole Rittenhouse mystery wasn’t that interesting in the first season and it didn’t become better. The story about the leader of Rittenhouse is… quite boring. The leader doesn’t do much and isn’t charming or anything else. Just kinda boring. Emma is the more interesting character and so far the only interesting character in Rittenhouse. Okay mostly it is about changing the past to a better future. But the things they choose to change doesn’t look like they change it to the better. So what is their actual goal.

Surprising Turns?

This season is also really predictable. The way they stop Wyatt and Lucy to becoming close was so clear and also the role the new people will play are more than obvious. There is no much surprise. What I actually really like is the role of Jyia. I like that she sometimes comes to travel with them and is more involved with everyone. Jyia is an amazing character.

Visiting Sherlock

One of the best episodes this season is the one with Sherlock and the women rights. It is such a strong episode were women stand up and fight for their rights. What I love the most about it is that. Mrs Sherlock Holmes is working with the police and they are listing to her because she just is that good. She works hard for the respect she has. Alice Paul is the woman who leads this women and inspire them. Mrs Sherlock Holmes doesn’t have much respect for her. Alice doesn’t work like her and all that protest are not helping anyway.
One of the last scenes when she is in that mass of people and gets thrown down by the police and hit and kicked she sees for the first time how strong Alice Paul had to be to fight for their rights. It is such a strong story and a really good one with background story of Emma.

Watching or not

Like season one Timeless is fun to watch because of the amazing characters and it is still worth it. But it ends on big cliffhanger and we will not get a third season. So yeah it is perfect for a series when you doesn’t have anything else to watch.

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June 21

DW: Loups-Garoux

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welcome to the 20th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – Loups-Garoux. This is an adventure with the fifth Doctor and Turlough. It takes place in 2080 in Rio de Janeiro. Like the name of the story gives away it is about werwolves. The idea behind it is really simular to the idea of Wolfs Rain. In Wolfs Rain the wolves take the shape of humans or at least play with the sense of humans so that they see them as humans. Here the werewolves plays also with the sense of the human but in the way that humans don’t see them if they don’t want to be seen. By the way Wolfs Rain is an amazing Anime and you should totally watch it.

Werwolves and their probelms

The story is about the leader of the werwolves Ilena, who tries to find a cure for her sons illness. He lost himself in the wolf. But that is not the only problem she has. She is also on the run from the gray one. He is a very old werwolf – the first one, who wants Ilena as his mate. In all that the Doctor and Turlough apear.

Warm Welcome

The werwolves are not fond of the two arrivers. They play with Turloughs mind and bring out the dark side he is afraid of. In is fear Turlough tries to run form his dark side. He runs directly in the arms of the last party for the show down. Rosa is a mysterious girl who knows about werwolves and isn’t one herself. She has a silver blade with her and waits for the king of the werwolves.

Listing or not

The characters are not so interesting. I like Rose and the relationship she built with Turlough and I love stories with Turlough. Like I always mentioned he is one of the most interesting characters in Doctor Who. The story is not bad. It is a solid story almost every story from Big Finish. So yeah it is definitly worth listing too. I want more of Turlough and the Doctor.

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June 15

Lethbridge-Stewart: Moon Blink

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welcome to the 5th adventure of the Lethbridge-Stewart Series ‘Moon Blink’. Again I got confused with what I book I have to read next. Normally you would read ‘Mutually Assured Domination’ before ‘Moon Blink’. Like the other adventures this is about Lethbridge-Stewart with Anne and Bill Bishop. For a Lethbridge-Stewart Series it has way to little of our future Brig in it. It is an adventure of Anne and Bill.

Good and Bad Aliens

This story is about the space race. Just that the space race that we could witness isn’t the real one going on. Americans and Russian has already a base on moon and found there an alien life form. As we all can imagine it doesn’t go very well. It gets really fast clear that the bad guys in this novel are not the aliens. It is the human race. So Anne and the Brig has to deal with good aliens and bad humans.

Baby Alarm

An old friend of Anne is coming to town and asked her for help. She ran from scientist with an alien baby. At Anne’s she involves a lot of people. Like she called Bill – why ever she would call Bill when she just knew him from the tellings of Anne. Also she brings Sally in what actually doesn’t really make much sense – even less when she as no role in this adventure.
I am a little let down be this book. It seems rather easy to care for an alien baby which don’t get anything to eat and nobody wonders that he didn’t need any thing to eat? There is so much in that goes unattended. Which is really sad.
But apart from that the story is rather nice. I really like Bill and we see more of the developing relationship between Anne and Bill.

Military

In the last part of the book when Anne and Lethbridge-Stewart finally work together, Anne gets on my nerves. She worked a lot with the Brig at this point she should know him a little. But she is judging him so much from thoughts she had herself in the very same book. Also the way she handled herself when they followed the bad guy to the show down. I am not a big fan of military either. But she is acting so headless and makes the situation never better. They are three people against a freaking group! They have to think things through. The way she is angry at him for not reacting… stop it. He is just trying to get everyone out alive. That she doesn’t seems to get that is so annoying. Most of all because before she always wanted him at his side and always that he could help them and then he does but it is not good enough for her.

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June 14

DW: Minuet in Hell

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welcome to the 19th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range ‘Minuet in Hell’. It is another story with Charley and the eighth Doctor. It is also a story were Lethbridge-Stewart plays a role. This is mostly a good indication for a good story. But someone on tumblr told me that this story is not one of the better once and that is not so wrong.

The story takes place in 2003 Malebolgia, USA. Malebolgia is the newest state of America. Lethbridge-Stewart is send there to investigate what is going on in this state. The Brig is already in retirement but still does sometimes a few jobs for them. Because he can’t just sit at home.

Bit from everything

We have three big story elements. One is like I already said Lethbridge-Stewart. He is investigating the facility that claims to heal mental illness. We all know that there of course has something behind it. I like this storyline. The Brig on his own is amazing and just his reactions at the answers of his bosses are fun.

Prostitute

Charley is the other big part of the story. She doesn’t know who she is or where she is. But she not just lost her memories, she also get captured and used as a prostitute. That is not totally right. Thanks god she didn’t good touched that way or before it comes to something like that, someone else is helping her out. Someone who seems to be a demon hunter.

At last

The last part is of course about the Doctor. The Doctor is in a similar situation as Charley. He forgot who he was and got captured and held in the place for the mental illness. With not knowing who he is, the escape seems more difficult like this.

Listing or not

The story is really not that great. But they have amazing characters and it is always fun to see the Doctor and the Brig interact with each other. So even when the story is not that great. It is a must listen for me, because the Brig and the eighth Doctor are lovely together.

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June 11

Timeless: Season 1

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welcome to my thoughts about Timeless the first season. I haven’t watched it at first because Time Travel stories most of the time disappoint me. Doctor Who is one of the very little that I really enjoyed without thinking that it just doesn’t make any sense. Which is here a problem too. Later more to it. Timeless has so far two seasons and it doesn’t look good for the third season. For people who don’t like ending series with an OPEN end than stop here. Season two ends on a massive cliffhanger. But now to the series itself.

The Team

This is the reason I stayed with the series. First things first. Mason Industries developed a working Time Machine. This Time Machine got stolen be a man called Garcia Flynn. This man has a diary from the main characters Lucy – the Lucy from the future. So to stop Flynn Homeland security choose a team to follow the time machine into the past with the ‘Life Boat’ the first version of the time machine.
Agent Christopher who leads this mission. Three people can travel in the life boat. So they need a pilot. That would be Rufus, who already worked for Mason Industries and helped building the time machine. Than there would be a soldier Wyatt. His job would be to kill Flynn. The last person would be a historian – in this Lucy.

Working together

At first Rufus is really insecure about all of this. He is not a big fan of the time traveling for good reasons. He is black and there is not much time that is actually nice for him. The good thing about this series is that it actually showed that the times are bad for black people. Wyatt is the typical soldier type in this shows. He doesn’t care much about history. He is the one I can identify the most. Because he can’t just stand by and watch people die. Even when history already was written. Lucy is the one that is trying to don’t change anything. She believes that history has to be protected the way it was.
The team plays them in your heart very fast. This relationship between this three are amazing and I love them.

Changing History

I love history. There is not much good in the history of the countries.Slavery, mass murder to just name a few. But the different culture devolving. The people who stood up and fought for their believes. Is amazing and should be remembered. I personally know little to nothing of the american history. But that makes this series even more interesting for me.
What I dislike about the series is how they ran around changes things. Of course they show you that it has consequences. But people not even know it. The future changes so much all the time in the series… that is why I hate this stuff.
But I like the thoughts of the team. How they questioned letting things happen. Like save Lincoln and kill Werner von Braun for example.

Watching or not

If Timeless ends like that it is really bad but the series is still good. I really like the dynamic between the team and the big mystery is not getting answered but still I would watch it. It is just fun.

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June 7

DW: The Stones of Venice

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welcome to the 18 adventure of the Big Finish Main Range ‘The Stones of Venice’. The Eighth Doctor and Charley travel to Venice in the year 2294. There lays a curse over Venice and it’s people who actually is coming to his end.

The Tragic Love Story

This story is about a pair that loved each other until her husband lost her in a game. She curses him to live a long life to regret everything and in the end Venice will be sink under the water for ever. I am not a big fan of such stories. Why do you all the people die with this idiot? Why does the curse include innocent people. All of this just because of a broken heart…
It is so overdramatic. Not the story itself but the people in it and I just not like this kind.

Just enjoy

I really love the eighth Doctor and Charley. She is amazing and I love that she sees the beauty even when it is dying. The dynamic between them is great and it is always fun to listen to them. Like most of the adventure Charley has a lot of possibilities to shine on their own.

Listing or not

The story is definitely not my favorite. It is not a bad story. It is just that there are so much better once out there. I must say that many of the first adventures of the eighth Doctor and Charley are missing this special thing. I don’t know what. But the thing that makes a good story to an amazing story. It is Charley and the Doctor so yeah it is still fun to listen to it. But you don’t need to.

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