March 14

Torchwood One – Before the fall: New Girl

Hey Guys,

there was no way i couldn’t listen to the radio play Torchwood One – Before the Fall. It is a full-cast drama with three parts. It is the normal packaging as the other Three-Parter. Ianto Jones alone is a good reason to actually listen to it. But after the Torchwood Drama ‘One Rule’ i totally fall in love with Yvonne. So two lovely person in one adventure about the fallen Torchwood One. How could i say no?

I am Rachel Allen

The first episode is out of the perspective of a new girl. Rachel Allen seems like a nice girl that is totally exceited about working for Torchwood. I am not a big fan of her but she seems interessting enough. She interacts alot with Ianto Jones so this not really bad. We also good a few hints of Lisa. The Story is about how she deals with working in Torchwood. Friday night the colleges met and enjoy the evening. At these event Rachel hears a rumor and after that get Reconed. Someone in Torchwood seems to work for someone/something else.

Listing or not

The story is solid enough. It has alot of Ianto and alot of Yvonne in it and that are good reason for actually listing to it. Ianto is Yvonnes personal assistant and him working with Yvonne is one thing i actually need more about. The story is okay. It is nothing special. I am not really into the character of Rachel so it is not a story that completely captured me. But it is solid and has really amazing characters in it and there is more to everything than we thought. So yeah listen to it.

March 5

Torchwood Outbreak – Stage Three Invasion: Kill

Hey Guys,

welcome to the last part of Torchwood Outbreak were everything gets together. Everyone is coming to Cardiff Castle (which be the way really beautiful and totally worth a visit).

They warn people to…

The people in charge find out that Jack got infected and got his body to the place Andy is already. Gwen is on the way their and infected. Ianto met the first infected and make his way to the Cardiff Castle. Rhys aready figured out that Gwen wants to kill him…
The people in charge starts to ‘hand out’ the cure…or is there really one?
I really can’t say anything else without telling you to much.

Listing or not

It is the final episode of this story and it is amazing. Not so much fun like the second but it is quite the dramatic finale we know about Torchwood. Every episode is really good but as a whole story they are even better. Everything is quite clear in the end but there is just one thing that is still a mystery and maybe will always be a mystery: Norton Folgate.
This is Torchwood with everything we love and i can’t wait for the third season of Torchwood to start. With alot of stories i didn’t know i wanted sooo badly.
A word about the packaging. It is like the most Boxes of Big Finish. Three single CD-wraps and around them there is cardboard cover. Nothing special but good enough to look not bad.

February 26

Torchwood Outbreak – Stage Two Prodromal: Love

Hey Guys,

welcome back to the second and amazing adventure of Torchwood Outbreak. The second episode is amazing and i love it. I am already listing to it the second time in a row. It is fun and dramatic. It just have everything i love about Torchwood and everything i learnt to love about Torchwood when Big Finish started.

Pretty Boy against Pretty Boy

The second part of the story of Outbreak is mostly about Ianto and Jack. Jack is infected with the virus and looked himself in but something got wrong and Ianto is no trapped inside with Jack. Jack has a few flashbacks and we learn that he knew Norton Folgate and seems to be responsible for the ‘virus’ the first time.
Ianto our pretty boy get the what-ever-protector to actually talk to the other pretty boy Norton Folgate.
Norton Folgate is an amazing character and is always fun. Norton is involved in the whole ‘Good-Thinking’-Projekt. The funny thing about all this is you never know if Norton is lying or telling the truth. We never know on which side he is on and that makes him so a great thing. You just don’t know what he will do next.

Others

Gwen doesn’t have a real role in this episode. I am sure that this will change in the third and last adventure. Like i said the most part is about Ianto/Jack and Norton. But we also got a little of Rhys and also Andi who gets himself in really bad situation. Of course Rhys tries to do something stupid.

Listing or not

Oh my god go and listen to this episode. Norton is a good reason to listen to it. He makes the story so much more fun. There is nothing i love more than Nortons unhelpfull coments.
Also it is a really amazing Ianto and Jack story. I got so many feelings about them. Sometimes the way the two love each other is killing me. Right now i have so many feelings about this pairing. Also my ship is sailing: Norton is asking for Andi.

‘You never will just be a blip in time, Ianto Jones. Not for me.’

February 19

Torchwood: Outbreak – Stage One Incubation: Know

Hey Guys,

welcome to the Torchwood Adventure ‘Outbreak – Stage One Incubation: Know’. I am so happy that i actually found the time to start listing to it. As many of you already know i am totally in love with Torchwood and even more with the Big Finish stuff. Outbreak is a adventure with three parts and also a full-cast radio play. It plays after the second season and before ‘Children of Earth’. So we have an adventure with Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Rhys and Andi.

Story

Like the name suggest it is about something that spreads like an epidime. We know not much about it. Just that one infected person got arrested by Andi and wants to talk to Torchwood. We all know that Torchwood is in Cardiff an open secret. This infected person seems to have killed someone because he is full of blood and he always asked for his wife – so i think he actually killled the wife about that is just what i think. Also the skin is twitching… and it spreads fast.

It doesn’t happen much in this episode. It is more of prologue were you got the feeling for the story and the whole action will be – hopefully – in the other two episodes. The episode is not boring far form it. Because we love all the characters.

Everyone gets their time

Gwen and Ianto are going to handle a few curios reports that escaleted pretty fast. We got alot of – i have problem finding the right word – snipping at each other like their were together.
Jack is going to the station and talk to the infected person. Jack gets to interact with almost everyone like always.
The amazing thing is that we got so little scenes not just about the story but about the characters. We got Rhys and we got Andi deal with everything. Everyone has their scenes.

Listing or not

It is hard to say more about the episode without telling to much. It is just Torchwood we love and the characters we love. So yes go and listen to it. The first part sets an interessting setting and i am really excited to see were they are going with that story.

February 5

DW: Dark Eyes 4 – The Monster of Montmarte

Hey Guys,

welcome to the second adventure of the Dark Eyes 4 Box The Monster of Montmarte. Again it is with the eighth Doctor and Liv which are now not searching for Molly but the TARDIS. So we are still in 1921 but they traveled to Paris. This story is bringing the first story into the whole Dark Eyes story. They are all conacted to a big story.

Welcome to Paris

Like I said before Liv and the Doctor are searching for their TARDIS. For that reason they split up to cover more ground in shorter time. When the Doctor met an artist which is telling him about the monster that is going around Paris and brings him to the Red Pagoda. Liv get followed by suspious peopel, which she of course notice every fast. They want to make a deal with her and the Red Pagoda is playing a role in it.
The Red Pagoda is like the moulin rouge and has this establishment something to do with the artists which vanish in Paris.
I can’t tell more about the story without spoiling the story.

Listing or not

I would say this is one of the weaker stories of the Dark Eyes Story. But Liv and Doctor have time to shine in it and go their own ways. The characters are nice and interessting. So it makes definitly up for the weaker story (it is still a good story). Also it makes sure to conacted the story of these box with the stories before. What makes the story so much better again.

January 29

DW: Dark Eyes 4 – A Life in the day

Hey Guys,

i finally got the fourth box of the Dark Eyes serie from the New Eighth Doctor Adventures, but know we can start with the first adventure A Life In The Day. It plays after the last adventure of Dark Eyes 3. Molly should be back in her right time line but still with Dark Eyes. This time is London 1921.

Alien

The Doctor is searching for Molly and is staying in London for that time. Liv is feeling quite alien, because everything is so different from what she knows. Like the coincidence the Doctor is finding trouble on his search. He visited Mollys old work place and find an man with serious problem. When he is around this man he find himself in a time loop for a few seconds. So he ask him to spend the day with Liv. When Liv and the man – Martin are around in the town. The Doctor and Martins sister Kitty are attack from people on the street. So everything is a mess, like always with the eighth Doctor.

Listing or not

The story is good and fun and everything a good story needs. Liv is still traveling with the Doctor they have a good chemistry. I still miss Molly. Molly is also the only thing that tells us that we are still in the Dark Eyes adventure. Apart from that it doesn’t seem like it is conacted to the Dark Eyes story. What doesn’t mean that it isn’t conacted, because so far every adventure were conated so i am sure that we will find the conaction to the other adventures apart from the search for Molly.
So yes this is definitly a go and listen to the story. But like you already know i always thing that Dark Eyes is one of the most enjoyeable stories so far.

January 22

DW: Fear of the Daleks

Hey Guys,

‘Fear of the Daleks’ is an adventure from the Companion Chronicles – the second of the first season. The Companion Chronicles are reading books. Every story has a Companion that is the main part of the story. We get little of the life they are living after the Doctor and an adventure that took place in their time together. The companion the story is about is reading the story. This time it is Zoe Heroit and the second Doctor – Jamie is standing on the sideline.

Zoe Heriot

Zoe Heriot is one of the most amazing characters. She is strong in many ways and is a genius. She is way more intelligent that the Doctor and is not showing off. She never looked down on Jamie how is way slower in his thinking what also is because he cames out of a time the technic wasn’t developed that way so all that technic stuff is all new to him. But this is not about Jamie. How thinks this is a story were all characters have the same among of story is wrong here. Jamie is of course part of the story but he is really just a background character. The focus of the story is on Zoe.
My problems with the companion chronicles is that it is a reading book. I don’t think that many companions have a reading voice. Zoe is one of the better but not as gripping as of example the Brigadier. Which makes it not so easy to listen to the story but the stories in this serie are to good to not listing to them. Zoes is adventures also of an overlapping story. What makes here story even better.

They are still people out there…

That doesn’t here about the Daleks and know that they never work with someone with out turning in the end of them? It is always a surprise to me when an alien race is making a deal with the Daleks to reach their goals. But a part from that obivious dumb idea.
We have a story about two races that want to make peace. Of course not everyone is working for that goal. Zoe and the others stumble in a peace conference. Zoe and the Doctor became really fast pawns in the game of one of the people that want war to overthrow the people in charge. Everything is okay to still the hunger of power.
But he has not the guts to do it himself. He has a maschine which can controll minds and make a copy of you in a different place and take your conscious in this copy and controll it.
Why all this is actually necessary is not logic for me but i decided to just go with the story and not thinking about the complicated way to do this.
The one that he chooses to be the one for the kill is Zoe. The story is about how she tried to fight against it.

Listing or not

For me this is the weakest Zoe story i heart until now. The other i heart were Memory Cheats and Echoes of Grey which are both better. But it is still a Zoe story and this is still something good. So everyone that loves Zoe should totally listen to it.

January 15

DW: Return of the Daleks

Hey guys,

welcome to the bonus release of big finish – Return of the Daleks. This release was given away with the adventure ‘Year of the pig‘ as a gift to the subscriber. It is the 5th bonus release and can be bought alone now too. It is adventure with the seventh Doctor and place in the 42th century on Zeleria (which is hinting at the story ‘Planet of the Daleks’. The Doctor is traveling alone but he is referring to Ace, Hex and Mel at the start of the story.

Doctor the side character

This story is a little different than all the others. It is not just playing over a time span of severly years without time traveling it is also a story were we follow not the Doctor around. The story is about Kalendorf and Susan Mendes. This are characters that are take place in other stories of Doctor Who – like the Dalek Empire.
They are the people that should orginaze the rebelion against the Daleks. But the Daleks made a pact with them and vanished for a long time before they returned.
The Doctor is there to warn them and later he will take place in a few actions. The sixth Doctor is a Doctor that sit few things out.

Listen or not

The story is good. I like it and it is nice to listen to it. I think when you hear the other stories – at one point i hopefully will listen too – it will be even better and would be give us a better inside in the characters. But truth be told. I would buy it. I got at a gift for the subscribetion and than it is amazing. But otherwise i would not listen to it.

January 8

DW: The Sandman

Hey Guys,

welcome to the 37th adventure of the big finish main range – The Sandman with the sixth Doctor and Evelyn. The story plays at the Clutch, which is a fleet that is always in motion in 27 century. This story is of the Doctor being the nightmare of a race he defeated in a war.

I am your sandman

For the Galyari the Doctor is a monster that is holding his hand above them. The picture and the story they have to tell about the Doctor show us a monster. But it is not just what happend long ago in the war. It seems like the Sandman took the children and kill them. The Sandman and the Doctor are the same thing. Or is it?
We see here a darker side of the Doctor and the sixth Doctor is totally the right Doctor to let you believe that he would be capable of doing horrible things for the right reason. This Doctor is ready to do things…he is the one that is the closest to the war doctor. Which makes the story interessting to thing about what the Doctor were and what is just a story or someone else.
How far would the Doctor go?

Listen or not

I can’t tell you much more about it, without giving to much away. In the story is a part were the leader of the Galyari is telling what the Doctor had done in the war. Later in the story the Doctor is telling the story again a little different. Which is a little annoying. Who reads more of my articles knows that i dislike stories like that. I am bored by always hearing the same story. But i am a fan of Evelyn Smythe stories and she is who she is – brilliant. So yes it is definitly a listen to it. The story is worth it.

December 18

DW: Bloodtide

Hey Guys,

welcome to the 22 adventure of the big finish main range – Bloodtide with the sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smithe. The Doctor want to surprise Evelyn and brings her to the Galapagos Islands to met Charles Darwin. It a time (1835) he will evelope his evolution theory. The Silurians plays a huge part in it.

Evolution

Like i said before this is a story about Evolution and Silurians. The Silurians are like always trying to eliminate the ape-creatures. They want their earth back. The Galapagos Islands is a prison and this give the Silurians enough guinea pigs for their virus to eliminate the apes. In all that mess is Darwin trying to explain the behavier of the birds.
Evelyn is running around with Darwin and sees how he develope his theory. It is really nice to see her interact with one of her heros and to see Darwin struggling with his religion and convictions to come up with his evolution theory.

Nothing new

Sadly it is like every other Silurian story. The Silurians try to kill the apes. The Doctor and the apes are trying to stop them. At some point there is virus and death – a lot of death on one side. The story is not really surprising and you had it at least three times already… it is really sad that every story is so simular. This adventure is not bad writen or boring. It is solid story and amazing characters that made it fun to listen to it.

Listening or not

If you listen for the story and to hear something new, than don’t listen. If you want a solid story and amazing characters listen to it. The characters make the story interessting to listen to. The story is good just much surprising but it don’t think that this is nessassary to be an amazing story. The characters can totally carry the story.