August 28

DW: The Web Planet – rewatch

Hey Guys,

welcome to the story The Web Planet. It is a story over six episodes. The Doctor, Vicki, Ian and Barbara are landing on the planet Vortis with aliens in forms of giant insects. Ahistory and other novelisation place the story around 20.000.

Always the same

Like all the other Doctors the first doesn’t know what is going on in the TARDIS. This story is a story like this. The TARDIS doesn’t do what he wants. She stays at this planet and Ian and the Doctor go out to find the reason. What I like about this is Barbara. She is a very intelligent woman and she knows that there is a logic answer to what is happening to her and her bracelet – for me it looks like magnetic – but she doesn’t know the answer yet and it frightens her and she is not afraid to admit that.

Missing

The Web Planet is one of the stories that never really got me or I didn’t got the story. When you listen to Big Finish not just the stories but the interview you get a lot of opinions about different Doctor Who Stories. I actually don’t remember who said it but same one was talking about how great The Web Planet was and what this loved about it. So when I rewatched it wanted to see what this person saw. Sadly for me I didn’t. It wasn’t the costumes or that the stories wasn’t good. Somehow it is really hard for me to watch it. I don’t why or what it is that makes this story so uninteresting for me.
I am not a big fan of the costumes and you actually have to see it in the time it was made. Even I couldn’t remember who was who of this Menoptera. Everyone of them was slightly different. The story about an Invasion race and the fight against is great.

So the story has great things but still something seems to be missing for me. I still think that everyone should watch it. Even when the only reason is that there are just three stories left with Ian and Barbara and one of them The Crusade is partly missing.

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September 23

Hunter X Hunter

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welcome to one of my favorite Manga series finally on DVD in Germany – Hunter x Hunter. There are two versions of this series. Nippon Animation produced in the year 1999 62 episodes of the Manga-Hit. Personally I like the old series more than the new on from 2011. Madhouse produced them and made 148 episode which includes every Arc from the Manga. Here we are talking about the new version of Hunter X Hunter.

Better than nothing?

Like I said before I love the first version of the series. It is not sooo close to the Manga than the new one. The old series played a little more with the scenario. I loved the other parts of the exam. The new version is not bad. The Animation is great and the story is great too. How could it not? Because this new version is a lot closer to the original than before – sadly they kinda left the whole part with Kaito out . We see the characters we love in exactly the same situations, with the same reaction that we loved. So the story is still great and made me want to reread the Manga.

Gon and his amazing journey

Hunter x Hunter is the story about Gon and his friends. Gon is a young boy who wants to find his father. Kaito is a Hunter Gon meets and who tells him that his father is a Hunter and still alive, but that he doesn’t want to be found. So Gon declares that he will become a Hunter and find his father. On this way Gons nice and also a little naive character makes it easy for him to find friends. Once a friend Gon will give everything for them.
In the Anime sometimes you think ‘Gon your are a Mary Stu’. But you just have to love him.

Friends for ever

Gon is not alone on his journey. On the first test he meets Leorio and Kuparika. Leorio wants to become a Hunter to get money. Really fast you find out that Leorio has a good heart and is a lot more than he lets on. From all the people we met in this adventure Leorio is the most normal person but that doesn’t stop him. Kuparika is the only survivor of his clan. He wants to become a Hunter to get revenge. These three built a team from the start and I love them and the trust and respect they develop really fast for each other.
Later there is another person that becomes a part of the team – Killuah. Killuah is in the same age as Gon and likes him from the start. He comes from a family of assassin and his already a really good one. He gets really fast bored. When he meets the group Killuah wants to be more than an assassin.

Watching or not

I just have the first Box-Set with 13 episodes. But they are good and solid. The characters are great and have amazing chemistry between them. I think that the Anime is worth watching it. Maybe you like the new one more than the old one or the other way around. But one thing is clear the story is amazing. So watch the series or read the Manga. The story is totally amazing. I love four babies and are happy to follow their adventures on their way to fulfill their dreams.

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July 20

DW: The Romans – rewatch

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welcome to the vacation in acient rome. The Romans is a story with 4 episodes and tells about what happend to them after they crash landed. We visit rome in the year 64 AD. Their is a story ‘Byzantium!’ from the Past Doctor Adventure Book series that is stated to play between The Rescue and The Romans.

A little bored

The little family is make a little vacation for already a month. Vicki gets a little bored. She wants adventure and the Doctor can’t sit still any longer. So he and Vicki are traveling to rome. When Ian and Barbara were attacked by slave traders and sold at an auction.
The story starts slow and gets a little darker when they got sold and the Doctor and Vicki stubble over corpse.

Start of Comic relief

The third episode was the reason for critic. There are a few comical scenes in it that for me doesn’t fit into the story. Nero is chaising Barbara throw the rooms and his slave behind them to fix his appereance. I get the wish to bring something new to Doctor Who and it is what makes the series still so amazing after 50 years. But I don’t like it very much in this story.
In this story is a lot of drama. Ian and Barbara are sold as slaves. The Doctor is finding himself surrounded by attempted murder.

Watch it or not

I love historical stories. The comedy elements are not mine. But they are not that much we had worse episodes like that in the new series of Doctor Who. The Romans is maybe not that good at the story telling but it is good story to get to know Vicki a little better. Also it gives us a chance to the Doctor interact with her. It is like he is replacing Susan (The Dalek Invasion of Earth) with Vicki.

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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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March 10

The Walking Dead: Season 4

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welcome to season 4 of The Walking Dead. The Governor is gone. The fight is over. We got a new time jump. Rick and his group took the survivor of Woodbury in. They started to build a life in prison. They plant vegetables and built water tanks. The group of survivors stopped running and started living again. Of course something bad will happen.
Remember here is danger of spoilers.

The old enemies are back

The first part of the season is about two old enemies. The first one is just an illness. Without meds everything is more dangerous. So a flu waves is killing people in the prison. What leads to a lot of problems and hard choice.
The other enemy that got back is the governor and it is really annoying how much time they give the Governor and his story.

I had to do it for the group

I love Carol. She got really strong. The development she gone through is amazing. She start to love this group so much. They are her family and she will do everything to save her family. In this season she crosses a line. A line i can’t go with her. I love her and I still love her. I don’t think she can do anything to make me stop loving her. I understand her logic. She decided that she had to kill two people of the group so the other can survive than it had to be like that.
That is the sad thing… Carol was never strong enough to leave Ed. She wasn’t strong enough to keep Sophia save. After she lost them. She become stronger and harder. But not totally hard. She let so many people in and cares about them. She needed to become strong so she can keep her family save. She become what she thought she had to be so she never have to lose her family again. But this is what will make her lose them again in a every different way over the seasons.

Parted ways

The Governor was the most annoying part of this season. But it also brought as a really amazing and sweet character – Tara Chambler.
When the Governor attacks the prison again. He destroys everything… the walls are down and the group leaves the prison behind but not as a group.
We have Tyresse and the kids who met up with Carol. Than we have Glenn and Tara who met up with a new group. Maggie is searching for Glenn with Sasha and Bob. Rick and Carl met up with Michonnen and the last group is Daryl and Beth.
I don’t like this part so much. I love them together…and i missed them as a group so much but the groups they built are amazing.

We have a mission or go to Terminus

Glenn teams up with Tara. Because Glenn saved her and gave a chance after she was part of the attack of the prison. She stays with him. He is searching for Maggie. At this search they met Eugene and his to bodyguards. Eugene knows how to save the world and Abraham wants them to join this mission. Because it is so important. I don’t get it. The world is lost with or without the walking dead. But hey go on your mission.
Maggie is searching for Glenn too. But Sasha stopped believing. Maggie and Sasha are so similar in what the lost and everything. Still really different. When Sasha is afraid to hope, Maggie can just keep going with that hope.

Look at the flowers

This season means it really bad with Carol. After losing Sophia she started to teach the kids who to survive. She got two daughters. One can handle herself but has a mental illness. She is just crazy. She sees the walkers as her friends. She feeds them, ‘plays’ with them and things that it is better to be like them.
The other girl is such a strong sweet girl. She doesn’t want to kill. She just can’t do it but she knows how dangerous the walkers are and she can fight them.
That everything turns when the crazy girl kills her sister to show them that the walkers are good. It brings Carol in a situation were she again has to do a difficult choice. Carol got strong enough to make this decision but it is breaking her to lose her kids again and to lose them in this way.

Family is healing them

Rick is badly hurt and Carl is so angry. All that pain that he feels he make it into anger. Anger at his father for not keeping them save. Rick is so broken after losing his family, after losing his baby… and the way Carl acts is hurting him more. The anger stops the moment he things that his father is dead and he let the pain in. That is when Michonne finds them. When Michonne decides that she will let the survivors in and that they are alive. Michonne is healing them. She makes them smile and laugh. She is healing them. These three become a family and i love to see them.
Daryl is broken. In this season he was so open. He liked the prison and the people. He let them in and let them get close. They are is family and he lost them. He couldn’t save them.
Beth is actually what he needs. Beth needs to do something, she needs to hope, to search, to live. Beth is so strong and she calls Daryl out on his shit. They are hurting each other so much but they also make each other heal. She gave Daryl hope. She was his hope. Until they got split up again.

Watching or not watching – Everybody save

Terminus promised a save place and every one of the group is going there. This is the place were they met again. It is not save. Is there really a place were everyone is save?
There is a lot of stuff i don’t like about this season, but it is still amazing. I love how we get to see more of the people we love. To see them interact with people they hadn’t before.

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October 4

DW: Reign of Terror

Hey Guys,
welcome back to the last adventure of the first doctor who season – Reign of Terror. Sadly to episodes of the story are lost. On the DVD these two episodes are reconstracted with animation. The fotoage is missing but both episode have the full-length audio soundtrack of the original. The animation is… I have seen why better animations. But the look of them are not bad. Just little passive? Just for information the missing episodes are the 4th and 5th.

The story plays in late July 1794. It tells us the Happings of the days before the 27th July. Ian finds out really fast that they landed in the France Revolution.

Welcome to France

I love stories like this. The Doctor and his companions are involved in this but everything would happen if they would be there or not. They don’t change history, they don’t save history or someone. Everything they do just is important maybe for the people around them. But the bigger picture is untouched by this. We learn about the down fall of Robespierre. There is so much information in this story about the history.
Also Barbara tells us something really important. Ian is quick to say ‘he deserved what he got’. Barbara points out that this is easy to say but not true. She makes clear that both sides have the right points. That you shouldn’t judge and with the knowledge they have the should know better. I really love her so much.

The End

This is the end of the first season of one of the most amazing series i have seen. I wish we would again get episodes like this. Episodes that just teach us about the History, about right and wrong and you time can change the view of it.

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September 27

Psych: Rewatch

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with all the talk about the Psych Movie the uninvetable happend – I had to rewatch all seasons of Pysch. The truth about the Serie is that i would have never watched that show without my best friend. I just had seen a trailer with all that stupid jokes. My friend told me that the show is really fun and that i actually should try it. Normally my other friend – She is just a serie junky like me – recommenand series for me. But this time it was my best friend and so i gave it a try.

Since I already told you that i rewatch the serie, you can tell that i fall in love with Psych. I love every bit about it even the lovely dump humor. Shawn is sweet as he is stupid. Shawn definitly has a charm and he got me from the first moment. I love the serie because so many things.

Psych is fun and most of the time crazy. The cases are not sooo serious but also the show has his serious moments. That is why i love the show so much. It is sad and tragic but it always makes sure that you laugh. There aren’t many episodes that ends with you not laughing.

What the serie is for me

Another reason to love the show and that is first of all the relationship between Gus and Shawn. They lie to each other, they use each other and call each other names. But they never let each other down. When it comes hard of hard they have each others back. They fight and don’t talk to each other but they always forgive each other. That what i love about it.
What brings me to another reason to love Psych Juliet and Lassiter. Lassi is amazing and a little problematic with the things he says. He gave Juliet sometimes a hard time. But he learns to respect her and as her back. He would do everything for her and the most important thing is there are no romantic feelings involved. It is complete platonic friendship.

Of course there are more amazing relationships. The other two are Shawn and his father. The show lives also from this little scenes about his past. His father wasn’t the father of the year but he tired to prepair Shawn for everything in his life. So the relationship between them is a little rooky but they love each other and we see them grew closer over the serie.

So the last relationship i really love is Shawn and Juliet. They grew closer and from the start there is this romantic undertone. The possiblity is always there and they really need a while but that is why i love the relationship. They go slow and built up over years and they work so good with each other.

Don’t ever grow up

I love the athmosphere they are creating and i love all the puns and hints of other series. I love that the don’t take themself so seriously. I love the serious moments as much as the silly moments. I love that they are refusing to grow up. Because i think that people do that to often. Hey of course you should a bit more serious about work. But i think it is a good thing to stay in many things a kid. Don’t take everything so serious. Look out there. There are so many adventures and beautiful things. I really believe that we all should be alittle bit more like Shawn and Gus.

The Final

The best thing about Psych is that it ended at a high and the serie final was everything Psych always was. I didn’t often saw such a perfect ending for a serie. Actually i try to think of one. Oh Person of Interest and White Colar were pretty good. One tree hill was not bad either but i still wait for the kiss betweeen Chris and Chase. But that is a different theme.
Truth is that there are not many serie finals out there which are not disapointing or better than okay. I literally just stood before my DVD shelf and thought about the endings in all shows that are standing there…
But back to Psych. I am sure i have written it here before but Psych is a perfect ending. This episode was silly and funny and i cried my eyes out about Shawns inability to do for once right thing in many important relationships for him and the worst of it is that he knows it and tries so hard. But it is Shawn and everything we love about him. Every character is amazing in this serie and every relationship Shawn had with the people around him gets his time. It tooks us back to all the fun we had with them.
And in the end it is just life. Another really ends it just changes. The life goes on and on. People leave and others stay behind. You will always have the memories you made with them. All this 8 years will always stay with Shawn and so will the 8 season stay with us. There is just a new chapter starting.

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September 20

DW: The Sensorites

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welcome to the next adventure in time and space with the story – The Sensorites. The Sensorites are an interessting alien race. In the future story ‘Planet of the Odd’ hinted at a possiblity of kinship. The story keeps place in the 28th centuary. There is no exact date give. In two of the episode we sadly has to do without Barbara because the actor was on holiday.

What is going on

The Doctor and his friends lands on a spaceship from earth. This Crew is in a ‘war’ with another alien race – the sensorites. The Sensorites are a kind race that didn’t know mistrust and murder. But when the humans arrive everything changes for them. This story is about fear and distrust and courage.

Susan and the sensorites

The Sensorites are a telepatic race and it seems like susan is very sensible in this kind of area. So she tries to talk with them. She tries to take the place normally the Doctor take. The Doctor doesn’t like it very much and i don’t think she is really good at it but you only learn by doing.
At some point Susan says that trust has to be earned and of course she is right but on the other hand why mistrust people how never gave you a reason to doubt them? Why is it wrong to trust? To have this trust in everything. In all the time before the humans came to the Sense- Sphere, there was no lying, no power fights, no murder. So why distrust his people?

Watching or not

I am not a big fan of the Sensorites and many things are very clear from the start. There is little in it to surprise us. But on the other hand is a solid story about what fear can do to a race. This story shows us how a race can change, how the human race brings out the worse in everyone. So yeah it is still a good story.

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September 6

DW: The Aztecs

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here we go with a new historic adventure – The Aztecs. It takes place somewhere 1430 – where Yetaxa died and was – and 1480. You can find different dates but the book of my trust is setting it around 1454.

How the story goes

Like the title says the story goes about the Aztecs. The TARDIS lands in a tomb of Yetaxa. Barbara had written about the Aztecs and is faszinated. She leaves the tomb and her comrads follow her. Just to find out that it is a one way door. You can go out but not in. So they have to find another way to get back to the TARDIS. The Aztecs think that Barbara is a recarnation of Yetaxa and that brings Barbara in a situation were she tries to change the future and stop the human sacrifices.

Changing History

The story is a really interessting story but changing time. Can you change the future or not. Barbara is at that point were she tries to change the outcome. Every companion has the moment. Barbara is one of the companions that doesn’t want to change the outcome for herself. Rose for example tried to save her father. Donna tried to save all the people of Pompeji. But Barbara didn’t know the people she tried to save and there were no big event like the volcano. She is faszinated by the Aztecs and wanted them to change to stop unnessassary sacrifices.
I really love Barbara for it and i love that the relationship between Barbara and the Doctor revivels so much about the Doctor.
The Doctor become more open and friendly and is fun to see him change and grow closer to the people around him.

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August 23

DW: Keys of Marinus – Rewatch

Hey Guys,

welcome to the next adventure of the Doctor and his new family – Keys of Marinus. Sadly it is not really the next story. Between this story and ‘The Edge of Destruction’ is the story ‘Marco Pollo’. This story is not out on DVD. The story got lost over the time. Hopefully the will find it somewhere. Here in this story. The Doctor and the Crew are already friends and respect each other after the action of ‘The Edge of Destruction’.
Again this story is hard to set in the time line. There is no date given and also there is no indication were it might happen. My trusted source is setting it in the Prehistory time. For everyone that wants to know alittle more about it, i will writte about it in the last point it holds spoilers to future stories.

You need to help me

This story is built up a little different than the others. The Crew get asked for help and when they refuse they got backmailed. Our crew is send out to find the keys that got hidden in differents places. So this adventure has many mini-adventure and two of them are without the Doctor, because William Hartnell had a two-week-vacation. The story is alot faster than before and the last part comes a little short.

New pace

The story is really good. The whole atmosphere is different. Barbara and Ian stopped talking about going home. Barbara and the Doctor starting to become really close. We see a family growing together. It is fun to see them growing closer.

The History of Marinus – might have spoilers

There is a really interessting part of dating this story in a time line. Future stories about Marinus give the planet an interessting turn in History. The story ‘The World Shapers’, which is a comic strip from the ‘Doctor Who Magazine’ reveals that it has a big role in the History of another big monster in the Doctor Who Universe. Marinus will become Mondas the home planet of the cybermen. I don’t know if there are any indications for the time in Doctor Who (2005) Season 10 but before that the time is a wild guess. My source is saying that the story of ‘Keys of Marinus’ just make sense after the first rise of the cybermen in the story ‘The Cybermen’ and of course before ‘The World Shapers’.

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