March 29

DW: Eight Doctor: The Time War Series 1 – One Life

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welcome to the fourth and last past of the Time War Series 1 – One Life. I really love this part of this story. It is the end of the action from the other parts. This has a lot feelings in it and that is why I like it. I wished so hard for a happy ending for them.

Escape

They whole story is about escaping. The group and Ollistra escaping the Daleks. The renegade escaping the war. It is all about escaping about running and hiding. This is what war is doing to them. Escaping the Daleks is for him the side story. It is to make things dramatic, to stop the renegade from running. The really story. The Story I love so much is the story about two person in love running away from their problems, away from the war. Two people how just what to be so desperately happy with each other.

Listing or not

So my conclusion about the time war series is that I definitely will buy the other boxes too. There are planned 4 Volumes f this series. The story is great and full of hopelessness and hope. About sacrifice and the value of one life. This isn’t about the fight of the Time Lords against the Daleks. This about the people who comes into the crossfire. It is about a Doctor who doesn’t want to be part of this war. So yeah go and listen to the story.

Extras

After every adventure is the soundtrack of the story. It is by the way amazing music. In the last adventure is like most times another CD with Extras. You got Behind the scenes material in form of interviews for example Paul McGann. The material is ca one hour-long. So I am sure there is a lot interesting stuff on it.

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March 22

DW: Eight Doctor: The Time War Series 1 – The Conscript

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welcome to the third part of The Time War Series 1 The Conscript. In this story the Doctor and his group get separated. Ollistra is of course involved again. The group get questioned and the Doctor is sent to be trained for war.

The war training

The Doctor is in this training camp. For him it must seem more like prison. So he can’t leave because of a barrier that makes sure that the soldier are save. The Doctor is in the room with two other. The one is really serious about that training. She wants to fight in this war and believes in the stuff that her Captian says. The other is there to fight too, but he is more like a goofball. He likes the Doctor from the first moment. Wants to be like him.
The Doctor is in that mix and questioned everything the others believes him. He cause trouble.

Listing or not

I really like this part. The Doctor is so wrong in this place. He don’t believe in war or in the way they do it. It is not that he don’t believe the Daleks needs to be stopped. It is just… and exactly for that it is good to listen to this part. In The Conscript we see again that the war don’t really have good and bad. We see how war changes people. We see why the Doctor destroyed the time lords.

What I love about this story and about the stories of the war doctor, is that you understand why the Doctor needed to do this one so cruel thing. All this story makes it clear that he hadn’t another choice. I was never a fan of taking this away from the Doctor as Moffats did. Because yes the Doctor can do this. The Doctor is capable of doing this.

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March 15

DW: The Eight Doctor: The Time War Series 1 – Echoes of War

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welcome to the second part Echoes of War from The Time War Serie with the Eight Doctor. This story starts in the same point were The Spaceship Thesus ended. The Doctor and the little group survived the crash of their ship and are stranded on a planet.

Can you outrun the war?

The group of people wanted to run from the time war just like the Doctor. But it seems that you can’t outrun it. The Planet were they landed is already one of the victims of the war. There are Time distortions in the jungle and they need to get to the safe zone. I really get why the Time Lords decided to fight this war. But I think like Rupa. Why do they have to rip the universe apart by doing it. They destroying so much and most of it is destroyed because of the Time Lords.

Big surprise

The Daleks were form the beginning one of the biggest enemies the Doctor had. Again and again he stood before them and tried to fight them. The Eight Doctor is one of the most extreme Doctors with his opinion about Daleks. Daleks are bad and never ever can they be good. There is nothing left that could be good in a Dalek. A good Dalek is something he can’t exceped. But here they found a defective Dalek. This Dalek doesn’t rememeber that it is infact a Dalek. He just remembers that he needs to survive. That is the Doctor using and makes sure that Dal helps them get to the safe zone.
I really love this bit. Because the others have problems with it. Because this is a Dalek helping them. Is there really nothing left that can be good in a Dalek?

One Point

There is one thing that I actually dislike on Echoes of War. On this planet are creatures that seems to mean them harm. They took people from the group. But you don’t know what happend to them – not really. For me the part were the Doctor and the others are captured by them and how they communicate and all that is just missing and you get thrown at the end and you think what just happend…
but apart from this the story is good and solid.

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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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March 8

DW: Flip-Flop

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welcome to the 46th adventure Flip-Flop from the Big Finish Main Range. It is a story about the seventh Doctor and his companion Mel. It takes place on christmas in the year 3060 and 3090 at the planet Puxatornee. The Adventure has two parts. The first is the Black one and than we have the White one.

Peace at all cost?

The story is about a planet and his two groups of population of Puxatornee. There are the Humans that where there before and the Slithergees that needed a new home. The president of Puxatornee is making a deal with them, which changed the life on this planet.
Some people thing that this was a mistake. That a war with this species would have been better and what to use the TARDIS to change the past.

Change the past

This story is like already said about changing the past. Can you change the past and what happend when you do. What are the consequneces of this? The Doctor and Mel find themself of course in that trouble. They found themself in a circle that is changing again and again. Can this circle end and how does it end. Does the changes really changes anything?

Changes

The stories are really simular to each other because it only changes small things about the Doctor and Mel. But it is really interessting that the circle is never ending. There are two person that fight against the Slithergees and want to kill the president to make sure that they go to war in the first place. But when they get what they want they find the world way worse than what they had. These two in the time were the president died. They work for the new president and what to go back in time to stop the murder of the president. When they get the new world they thing it is even worse than it was what they had.

Listing or not

Flip-Flop is an interessting story that doesn’t offer us any solution and no answer what the real reality is. So I really like it. It don’t know how it is on DVD because I just has the story as a Download. In the Black version are 4 episodes and in the White version are the same four episodes but the last two are the first ones. It functions perfectly well.

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March 1

DW: The Eight Doctor: The Time War Series 1 – The Starship of Thesus

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welcome I finally started ‘The Time War Serie’ with the eight Doctor and the first adventure is ‘The Starship of Thesus. I have to say when i bought ‘The War Doctor Serie’ with this I thought it would be just one adventure and not a serie. But I really love it. Not that it is very surprising. The Eight Doctor is not a War Doctor, he is different. He tries to run from the war so the stories are about not the war but how the war follows him.

Confusion

This story just starts like every other episode. Something happens and you don’t know what is going on and then the Doctor and his Companion arrives at a place and everything takes their way. But than something happens… it is really small at first. I didn’t notice it at first, but every time he says his companion’s name it is a different one.
This is so good thing about Big Finish Stories you are feeling as confused as the Doctor is. You don’t know what is going on. You just know that something is wrong. The first Story of the Box is about finding out what is it that is wrong in this story.

Change of atmosphere

The Story has a dramatic start and then it is a light story about the Doctor and his companion fighting monsters. It feels just like always. It is nothing special. It is just what we excepted from the Doctor. But this changes slowly. With everything that feels wrong the atmosphere changes and it got darker and darker every time. I really like it. The story feels wrong and right at the same time.

Listing or not

First things first of course go and listen to it. It is amazing and if you love the eight Doctor and the stories around the time war, you are totally right here. But there is one important thing to know about this story. I think you can’t even buy it without the other adventure – by the way the Box ‘The Time War Serie’ has 4 adventures and after the stories you will find the soundtrack of the story.
So what I want to say is that this are not 4 adventures. It is more 4 parts of a story. So this story can’t stand alone. You have to listen to the other 3 too. The Starship of Thesus is the first part of the bigger story like a Prolog.

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February 22

Torchwood – The Dying Room

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here we are with the final of the third season of Big Finish Torchwood – The Dying Room. I must say that this story is the weakest, but still amazing. The story is not bad and i like the idea of telling the story.

Biggest and only problem

The problem I have with this story are the characters. We have 4 persons in this story. The two main characters. The first one is an SS-Offizier and the other is a man who get questioned by the SS. The whole story is about this and the story that leads to this. In the story that leads to this we have two more characters. Gabriel the son of the man and a lady the man met. But none of the characters get me. I don’t developed any feelings or likings for a character. That is why the story lost for me. Because no matter how good the story is when the characters are not sympathic than it is no good.

Story flow

The story is told in two levels. The first one is the interrogation and the second one is what the man tells his Interrogator. The first time I listened to the story I was really tired and got a little confused but when you listen to it when you are awake than it is really easy to follow. Like all the other Torchwood stories this one as a surprising turn. There were actually a few things that were clear for me but other stuff I didn’t thought of.

Listen to The Dying Room or not

Definitely go listen to the story. Yes it couldn’t get me but I still think it is a really great story. Also it is Torchwood so there is no reason to actually not listen to it. I am really excited for the next season. The have a few really promising combinations like Ianto and Owen but my favorite will be Andi and Norton.

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February 15

Torchwood – The Office that never was

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welcome to the next adventure of Big Finish Torchwood – The Office that never was with Ianto Jones. An Adventure with Ianto Jones as a main character can’t be bad. I am still not sure about what to thing about it. The story play in the 2000s obviously. But i don’t know were it plays in the serie… i would say somewhere in the second season.

Hunting Ghost

Ianto investigate an abandoned building. A Building that don’t like Ianto. Which sounds really stupid, but it is kinda fun at first. Lights not going on for him or lifts don’t let him enter. He met a woman in this building who can’t even remember her name. They try to find out what actually is wrong in this building and later to just leave the building.
I got really fast clear that someone has a problem with Ianto and it seems that what ever happend, he don’t remember anything.

Listing or not

It is an Ianto Jones adventure so totally yes. The story is good. We slowly find out what actually happend in the past. Ianto Jones has a darker side and this story is a little playing with it. The darker Ianto. When I think about the story the Adam story comes to my mind. It has not much to do with each other but it still seems conacted. Sometimes i forget the dark side of Torchwood. They never had a perfect solutionen. There are so often sacrifices. This story remembers me of that dark side of Torchwood. A side we schould never forget.

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February 8

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I listened to this adventure of Big Finish Torchwood before but I got not around to write about it. Torchwood_cascade_CDRip_tor is a really different story. I actually can never decide if I love this story or hate it. This is another adventure with Toshiko Sato, who get a phone call of an old friend from Torchwood. It plays in the 2000s in London. It actually plays a few month before the final of season two.

It is really hard to listen to

What makes the story so special is also what makes it so annoying. The story is about a computer virus. So your CD is not broken. All that sound fluctuations and the scenes that are mixed in and all that other stuff is intentional. It makes it really, really hard to listen to. But it also created a total different atmosphere. Truth be told I hated that way of telling this story but with the end… it is just kind of perfect. I love Tosh so much and this hurts really.

Computer Virus on the lose

So like I said before the story is about a computer virus. This computer virus is targeting people who are downloading stuff illegal. Steven an old Torchwood worker who can’t stop looking out for this stuff. Find these people dying and calls Toshiko for help. Toshiko obviously goes and help him. The chemistry between Tosh and Steven is really good and it brings back all the old Tosh/Owen feelings. This story is like all the other stories and works on his own. But there are so many little stuff in it that makes it so amazing. We hear Yvonne and we hear stuff that happened or will happen.

Listen or not

Yes please go and listen to this amazing story. This story is an amazing annoying masterpiece. It is everything. The story is full of love and feelings. Feelings of Tosh and Tosh feelings. Tosh is amazing and I really love her and this story.

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October 4

DW: Reign of Terror

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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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