July 6

DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth – rewatch

THey Guys,

I finally restarted my rewatch of the classic adventures of Doctor Who and I started where I left with the Dalek Invasion of Earth. It is the second story of the 2nd season of Doctor Who (DW 02). I like the second season were Doctor tries – even not really hard – to bring Ian and Barbara back to his time. The second season they friends, family and trust each other. It is a nice change to the distrust and fights in the first season.

The story has 6 episodes and also shows the first departure of a companion of the Doctor. It plays obviously in London around the time 2164. Ian finds a calendar that states this year but since the invasion they haven’t used a calendar anymore.

The Daleks are back

The Dalek Invasion of earth is the second story of the Daleks. We know that there are so many to follow. This is the plain old Daleks. When the Doctor and the other lands in London, the Daleks had already invade the earth. London was in the hands of the Daleks. The Doctor and Ian fall in the hands of the Daleks and Susan and Barbara met the resistance.

Resitance

Almost from the start Barbara and Susan help the resistance to make their plans. They also fight with them. Barbara is running into danger like always. Nobody can stop her. This is a story about war. That means that people die. The Daleks kill them without talking.
The resistance never really done anything against the Daleks. Dortmun is trying to build bombs. But they seem not to make much damage to the Daleks.
The resistance is running away. When Barbara stays to fight – mostly because to get reunited with her friends.

Not everyone gets out alive

For us many of the scenes look pathetic. You have to look past it. Than it is a really dark story with out much hope in it. People are trying to survive, trying to do something against the Daleks. It is about decisions to not help people when there is no hope. About running away. It is about the responsiblity you have for yourself and others.
It is dark and hopeless time where people are ruled by fear.

Watch it or not

I really like the story. I am not a big fan of ‘war’ stories what is a little contradictory to the fact that my favorite monster are the Daleks. The Daleks Invasion of earth has so many great theme in it, about strength and courage. The Dalek Invasion of Earth is not afraid to show reality. It has no mercy. People gets killed, they lose hope, but I also gives hope and show us who strong you can be with believing in your friends.
I love that Barbara is going and fight. How she is supporting the other that try to fight. They she keeps believing that their friends are still out there and alive.
It is a story that shows us Barbara strength and I love it when she has time to shine.

“Just go forward in all your believes and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.”

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July 4

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: The Sword of the Chevalier

Hey Guys,

welcome to the second adventure of the second Tenth Doctor Adventure Box Set – The Sword of the Chevalier. Again Rose and the Doctor are visiting earth to be precise Slough 1791. This is a historical story or at least a story with historical figure the Chevalier d’Eon. The Chevalier d’Eon is an interesting character who lived the first 50 year as man and then at least for a time as a woman. Historian are not sure if he did it because he or she was actual transgender or if it was just a plot to live freely in France. In the Time the Chevalier lived as a man he was spy.

The spy and the alien hunters

The Doctor and Rose just want to have a nice time. Visit the Chevalier d’Eon and look through the big telescope and maybe get a little ice cream. But of course everything comes different when the Doctor sees a space ship form the space mafia. Rose and the Doctor tries to find the aliens and stumble of the Chevalier D’Eon again who accompany them to a costume party.

The problems with the Psychic paper

Again we have an adventure with the typical lightness. The Doctor get them into the party with the psychic paper. The problem with that is that the host believes that he is a Tenor and want the Doctor to perform. So Rose and the Chevalier searching for the aliens and the Doctor is working on his performance.

Listing to it or not

Go and listen to it. It is great fun and I really like the character of the Chevalier d’Eon. The Chevalier is an interesting character and harmonize with the other two perfectly. Also again there is the typical lightness to the adventure of the TV series. So it is so good to be back at the good times of Doctor Who.

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July 1

The Omega Factor: From Beyond

Hey Guys,
welcome to the first episode of The Omega Factor. I first heart about it in a the Big Finish podcast. They played the first 15 minutes of the first box set and it seemed interesting. Someone on tumblr told me that it is a lot like The X-Files just without the aliens and instead with supernatural stuff. Sounds kinda perfect to me. This person also told me that the first episode of the first box set is available for free. It really is. For everyone who wants to listen to it you can get it here.

What is going on?

I am not so sure myself. What I know is that there is definitely a TV Series about this. The radio plays play years after the TV Series. This tumblr person told me I didn’t need to see the serie to understand it. It is like a new start.
As far as I believe to know the male main character is the son of one of the main character in the TV Series and the female main character is an old college of his father.
So far so good.

Greetings from X-Files

So this Organisation is researching the mind. But it seems like until the years passes there wasn’t much evidence that something like the supernatural exists. So they want to shut it down. In all that mass is Adam. He is following the last request of his dead father. Adam has a lot of problems. He is stressed and struggling with what he wants to do in his life or with is life. Also he has problems sleeping. He is kinda on the edge.

She is involving him with one of her projects she has to shut down.
This project is an old woman who tried to establish contact with her dead brother. We see that Adam is a person who needs to help. He can’t just look away.
Anne Reynolds on the other side seems a little blind sided from the supernatural, a little to focused on the project instead of the people in it.
What is behind the story of the siblings is not really surprising. What doesn’t mean the story is bad or anything. For me it just shows something of her character as much as it says about Adam.

This could be a very interesting combination. I can’t wait to listen to the other stories.

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