DW: The Girl who never was

Hey Guys,

welcome to the 103rd Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Girl who never was’ with the 8th Doctor and Charley. I know I was really quiet for a long time. Life never goes like you wanted. But let’s talk about the more important things Doctor Who. This adventure is the last adventure of Charley and 8th Doctor. The last time we lost C’rizz (Absolution). Charley can’t deal with who the Doctor deals with the death of C’rizz and wants to separate.

They are at their best

This adventure as it all. It has a great friendship at their end. Charley and the Doctor had so many adventures together. They were so close than C’rizz came and everything changed and when he died everything again. The way Charley is grieving and the way the Doctor is grieving or trying to avoid grieving doesn’t work together. So we have these both character that cares deeply about each other and still need to say farewell. The last adventure and it doesn’t work out like they thought. The story with each other are always the best when they are on their own. Charley is landing in 1942 on the Batavia – Batavia was a the last ship out of the harbour at the japanese siege of Singapore. The Doctor lands on the same ship in the year 2008.

I am Charlotte Pollard

The Doctor meets an old woman who tells him that she is Charlotte Pollard. She doesn’t remember what happened in 1942 and doesn’t remember the Doctor. Is she our Charley and the Doctor fails to save her and she just stays there and live her life. If she is not Charley than who is she really. The Doctor is trying to solve this mystery and find his Charley.

Charley on the other hand find herself in 1942 on the ship with the crew of the smuggler Byron. She also met a girl disguise as a boy on the ship. It is like throwback to her past when she run away and smuggled herself as boy on board. Isn’t it a great circle?

The End of the story

I like the story but it is war from the best we had from them. It feels most of the time like a farewell. It is time for both to move on and that is how the story feels for me. It is good but the best times are over and it is time for something new. Even both are not ready to really let go. Something it could go on and then next second you think no it can’t and that it is. It is an end of an era. It is a good goodbye to them. They were a great team but they never really got them totally right and that they kinda misunderstood what is going on is so them. It feels right as an end for them.