June 18

DW: Dark Eyes 3 – Masterplan

Hey Guys,
i know that it is weeks after the last part of the Dark Eyes 3, but i listen to the third part again and again. It has everything a good episode needs: Amazing Characters, the Doctor and the Master. The Doctor want to change the rules. The rules that should be changed. This is the amazing thing about the eightDoctor. The Eight Doctor is always an the edge.

Changing the Past

The big war is not come, it already started and the Doctor doesn’t have a solution, big wonderfull plan that makes everything good again. He is always losing. Every step on the way the Timelords using him, the master is one step ahead. So he choose to change the past, to prevant the events that lead to the emenience.
This is bringing us in a situation were the Doctor and the Master need to work. The bickering is really amazing. I love how the talk a little about their past.
Also here again the Master is judging the Doctor and with every right. The Doctor has seen too much, thats why he want to break the rules. The Master asking him what he thinks he is: Jury, Judge and Execution.
The is always the most interessting in their relationship. Their sumularity, the way they judge each other, the mistakes both do to fight each other, how the can’t with each and not without.

Liv

In the first adventure (Dark Eyes 2 – The Traitor) of Liv, I didn’t like her much but over the adventures with her i really beginn to love her. She is really interessting and good character. The relationship between the Doctor and her are unstable. It changes and it is amazing to see what it will be next. In this adventure the Doctor left her with the scientist, which work will be the beginning of the invasion of the Emeniece.

Missing someone

As much i love to have more of Sally the companion of the master. I miss Molly and i miss Molly and the Doctor interacting. But the interactions between Liv and Sally make up for it. Sally is an really clever woman and she really believed in the Master. Everyone will say that this was a mistake, but i don’t think so…not on a personal level of course.
Liv is talking to Sally about her relationship with the master. It is interessting that this are true for many relationships of the Doctor. He had alot of ‘her’ before, telling him how wonderfull he is and in the end their is someone more important – Molly. Yes it is the relationship from him and Sally, or later from him and Martha… it will go on and on. I love Vicki so much more than Susan but it started their. He take Vicki with him to fill the emptiness Susan left. The Doctor and the master are really simular.

This can’t be the end of…

This includes probably a big spoiler. This so sad and it was just perfect… this changes alot – i think. The scientist is crazy. He is doing a experiments. He traps Liv and Sally in two different chambers and let the coincendence decide which will die in the experiments.
Here we see the biggest differnet about them. Liv doesn’t want to die, but she accepted it when she knows that she can’t do anything. Sally can’t except it, she is crying, scream, fighting till the end.
When the Master found out he is depressed about it, but he isn’t showing it and moves on. He take Liz with him.

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April 19

DW: Dark Eyes 3 – The Reviled

Hey Guys,
the second part of the ‘Dark Eyes 3’ is so much better than the last. It is an adventure like we know it. It is not the strongest story but it is a solide story.

Timelords handling problems

This is why the time lords are interesting and why i so much dislike them. They have their own way to handle problems. They are not the good ones. They have a wisdom about the world but they handle it with great sacrifices and they never try to justify their action. They don’t need to. To kill humans so they can’t fall in the ends of the enemy is an action that is okay. The Time Lords always have a level of the question does the end justify the means.

Reunion of the Doctor and Liv

The Doctor is on that planet to stand in the way of the master. The timecards using him as a chase stone. Liv is also there to help. The human are colonists and the other species is seeing him now in the war as a danger. The Doctor and Liv get together again and i love to hear them interact again. Also the Doctor get to know that Liv is ill and will die. This is bringing the Doctor to an idea. Which we hopefully see in the next episode.

The war

This is the beginning of a war. A real big war and in that the time lords are battling there own. Right now it seems like a play the master against the time lords and the doctor. All the other don’t play a big role right now. But this is what makes it so good and realistic.

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March 28

DW: Dark Eyes 3 – The Death of Hope

Hey Guys,

Dark Eyes 4 is no out i am haven’t listend to the complete Dark Eyes 3. But no i started it and the first story started with the Time Lords. Dark Eyes is eveloping in an amazing big story about a war between Time Lords, the master, the Daleks and Emenice. Somewhere in the mix we have Molly and she is an amazing companion. But yeah, let’s start about the story.

Something new

This Story is taking a different approuch than the others before. The Doctor is with the timelords and has to look what happend. The story is completelly about the master and Molly. Also we see his companion Sally again. The Master took Molly and use her to make experience. She is not just imhuman, but can also make others immune. At first the Master seems to help the people that are attack by the Emenice. But we all know the master better than that.

The Doctor

The Doctor just watched. But he wants to help Molly. The time lord don’t want him to do without his permission. It seems like the Doctor is make this deal with him. But we all know that the Doctor is not good with rules and orders. That is not who he is and it will never be him.

So i don’t like this story as much as i like the other. But it is solide story and is leading to something bigger and i am really excited to see were this will lead.

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March 21

Doctor Who: Scherzo

Hey Guys,

let’s talk about Scherzo of Doctor Who. It is part of the main range of the Doctor Who audio story – to be excatly number 52. To be clear it is maybe not a good starting point for people, who don’t know much adventures of the eighth Doctor and don’t know Charley (Charlotte Pollard). Like you maybe know for me it was like that. Of course… i had the same problem with the last companions Fitz and Anjal.

It is the first adventure that plays in the Divergent Universe. The problem with it is that you need the story before to fully understand what is happing. So beaware that now everything can be a spoiler.

Charlotte Pollard

She is one of the human companion of the Doctor. She seems to have a interessting timeline. Because she is the companion of the eighth Doctor, but later she apparently travels with the sixth Doctor.
So it seems that the eighth Doctor saved Charley from her death that seems to be a fixpoint in time, what breaks the law of time and the time lord handled it with exile him in to the Divergent Universe and Charley is following him there.
Later she meets the sixth Doctor what is problematic because of the foreknowledge of his future. Even later the Doctor have to explain his actions to her.

Start of the Story

We get through in the story. The Doctor is exiled and have to choose to go in the light or the dark. The light is like we get to know the Divergent Universe. But this isn’t the decision of the Doctor it is the decision of Charley. The Doctor seems in this story to be again on a point were he give up (what seems to be a habid of the eighth Doctor). He wants to die.
Charley in this story is really sympatic to me. She isn’t to let the Doctor throw shit at her and that what he does the whole time. He is that asshole timelord we all love once in a while. The first two episodes were almost just the two of them fighting or ignoring each other.

Boring?

Does it sound boring maybe. But it is an amazing story and it give the characters so much time to shine and struggle. We just have the two of them and we can see so much of how it looks like in them. We hear Charley struggling with the way the Doctor is dealing with things. Also apparently the Doctor told her that he loved her, but know he tells her that he didn’t mean it. Charley get’s really emotional and i think everyone can feel with her hear. The Doctor is just like really you want to this things now? And to be truthful this is a side of the Doctor i missed. Totally don’t get why somethings seems so important to human, just things about the mystery and giving everyone the fault just not himself.

Fighting back?

This story shows us a perfect inside of the Doctor and why he chooses this companions. This Story is characterisation of him. Everything is so much the Doctor. This is the most interessting in this story to see which things you find in every Doctor and the things that just are the parts of the eigtht. It is amazing how the Doctor is charactisated here. Charley also is fighting her place into my heart.

If you want a really good story, with really good character inside. Listen to Scherzo. It is really amazing. I love it already really much. I hope Big Finish never stops make such amazing stories.

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March 14

UNIT: Snakeheads

He Guys,
i found time to hear the second story about UNIT. I like it and i am becoming a big fan of the new team even without the Brig.

Intro

The start is a little special. At the beginning we just here a lot of noices and than someone speaking in an other language. To tell the truth i hate the beginning. At first i thought that something was wrong about the CD, but than i got it and when i listend again it just got on my nerve. Most of the time i just skip it. But it is nice because you are in the story and are totally clueless.

The team

Emelie and the ??? working together outside of London. He gets really sympatic. I like how he is moody and wants his coffee. I get warm with him. He is intellegent and open minded, even when he didn’t believe in most things UNIT deals with. But he is learning fast and i like the dynamic which is built here between the two.

Story

Here we go. They hunt a invisible vampire, which is really fun because you never know if this is real. They could just hunt a fantasy and this with someone which has a hard time to believe all that stuff. So yeah the story is fun to listen.

So the next is waiting for me.

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February 28

DW: Companion Chronicles – Memory Cheats

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here we go to the second part of Zoes Story of the Companion Chronicles. It plays in Zoes present 2109 and the adventure take place in 1919 August. In the timeline of the Doctor it is placed between the stories Krotons and the seed of death.

the Company

We don’t know much about the company. Just that they are really interessting in her travelings with Doctor and that they intaned to use this knowledge but Zoe didn’t want to help them. So know she brought her in. But she doesn’t remember the Doctor anymore. The woman that question her know, believe she found the evidence for the time travel. So Zoe begann to tell the story.

What happend?

Children just disepair. They are trying to help them. They investigate the disapier. They found out that the creature was crashlanding there, because get shoot in the war. In the spaceship they found the children alive. The creature had seeing the war and everything that happend to that children. He wanted to save them. He wanted to make them safe. The Doctor agreed with the creature and told them that they never saw their parents again. That inflict a terror in the children and also in the creature. That is when everything turns bad.

I don’t want to tell here more because what Zoe did is amazing. I love it. This more about the present and Zoes Story than about the Story with the Doctor.

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February 21

DW: Destiny of the Doctor – Trouble in Paradise

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welcome back to the 6th adventure of the Destiny of the Doctor serie. This story plays on the Santa Maria in 1492 with the sixth doctor and Peri. Just from the start that is not my story…

Characters

Everyone, who follows me know that i am not a big Fan of Peri. It must set place after the ‘timelash‘ because she mentioned it in this story. It is really hard for me to say if this adventure had captured her correctly or not, because i don’t remember much of her character, because she wasn’t one of my favorite. But it seems to be right. The Doctor is kinda… boring…
The met Columbus, who is not really sympatic. We hear a lot of him. The whole story over we hear his logbock entries. Which is in this story for me really annoying. Maybe because Columbus is so an unsympatic character.

Heros that doesn’t must be heroic

Columbus is a hero of the Doctor. Acctually i don’t understand that. For this theme, that hero is not what he seem, could be more suitable characters. So i don’t care about him and Peri didn’t care. Also Peri didn’t see him as a hero at all. But this is a part of the fight they have. They only help the people which counts and not the little ones…

omniparadox

The whole story is not really logical… omniparadox is a thing that the eleventh Doctor needs. I do understand that it is a paradox that… yet where i think about it, it doesn’t make anysense. It is Paradox…
Back to the theme… One of the crew saw the devil and that devil is a Bovine, which tries to change the future so his herd will survive, but he is not realy good with the time travling thing.

Not my story…

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February 15

DW: The Glourious Revolution

Hey Guys,
welcome to one of my audiobooks of the Doctor Whos ‘The Companion Chronicles‘. This time it is about Jamie McCrimmon and of course Zoe and the Second doctor. It is read by Frazer Hines and he did really job. The Story takes place in London 1688, and Jamie tells it to a time lord 42 years after they take his memories away.
The Glourios Revolution plays between the adventures ‘The Space Pirates’ and ‘The War Games’.

Jamies time

This events brought Jamie to the place he was when he goes with the Doctor. He was fighting for King James II, he was believing in him and here we are and Jamie can met his King, that run away. All this events are part of Jamies life before he was going in the TARDIS. This is something important to him. That is why for the first time i remember (maybe i forgotten something) Jamie and the Doctor are fighting.
Jamie wants to change history. He wants that King James fights and don’t go hiding. The Doctor is trying to prevent it from happen. But Jamie don’t understand why. They are always changing things, they are always get mixed up in the events. Why is this different.

The Glourious Revolution

I love the Story because it shows us, what person Jamie is. He shows us that is not a warrior, that he indeed understood what was going on. He believed in his King and fought for him. It makes him angry that the call it the glourious revolution because nobody died … in England…
He referrse to to big battle: the masacer of glencoe and the battle of boyne. This is the second part i love about the story all the historic events.

Time Lords

It strart the same Zoes Story started and i was really sceptical and afraid that it takes something away form the ending of the war games, but it didn’t. It was well written and the choose that Jamie take in the end broke my heart again. It is sad. Sad that he become happy. He lived his life with no regrets. He didn’t lived his life thinking about what happen if he was going with the Doctor. He became a family and got happy. But with all the memories.. with all he had and lost, he knows, so cruel it is to his family, that it will never be enough. For Jamie this life was something more… that is why he decided to forget again.

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January 17

DW: Destiny of the Doctor – Smoke and Mirrors

Hey Guys,
so here we have the fifth adventure of the ‘Destiny of the Doctor‘-serie with the fifth doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adirc read by Janet Fielding and Tim Beckmann. It plays in England in 1920s. Adric is still alive so it must play before Earthschock.

An old friend

The Doctor meets up with an old friend: Houdini. He met the third Doctor and Jo and on another occasion he met the first Doctor, Ben and Polly. So he knows about the incarnation and the time travel. He wants to know the future. So he is an easy target for the master to set an trap for the Doctor. Her we go with another old friend the master. I like the master but this story is just a little boring.

I heart the story just a few minutes ago but it still isn’t stay with me… there is a thing with a tiger, the master taking control, the Doctor almost died and so on.

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January 10

DW: Companion Chronicles – Star Born

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here we go with the new adventure of Vicki and the first Doctor in ‘the Companion Chronicles’-serie. It is the 9th adventure of the 8th season and play in London early 20th centuary. In the timeline of the Doctor it most be shortly after Rome, that would be ‘the romans’. That means Ian and Barbara are on board of the TARDIS. This is one of my favorite travel group.

A story about Vicki

It is like that. Of course it is really good that Vicki has such a big role because it is her story, but Ian, Barbara and the Doctor completely changeable. The role are so little that it also could be Dodo and Steven… or someone else. But Vicki is really well written and can totally shoulder the story on her own. The Story is a nice idea. Vicki get warned that when she will step in the TARDIS again she will die. The person that whats to save her is nobody else than herself. Vicki is an interessting character and make that story work really nicely.

Time

The only point i have is the time thing. How much time did they spend on that planet to develope that friendship? For me this friendship thing is to fast and not really believeable for me. Also Vicki seems to know the Doctor very well, what is a little special because she doesn’t know him very long. ‘The Romans’ is the second adventure together and Vicki hasn’t seen many side of the Doctor at that time, but she knows him in that story good enough to know he will do anything to save them. This is what takes a little away from the story. But this can only be me.

Fazit

The first story read by Maureen O’Brien (DW: Frostfire)was for deficult to listen to. This story his more pleasant to listen too. It is a really good story and Maureen did a really good job reading the story. It is sad that the role of the other are so little but it don’t take anything form the story. Vicki is shining in this episode and i can recommand it. It is a really good story.

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