February 26

Torchwood Outbreak – Stage Two Prodromal: Love

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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.’

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February 19

Torchwood: Outbreak – Stage One Incubation: Know

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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.

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February 15

Stargate Atlantis: Season 1

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welcome to my opinion about Stargate Atlantis Season 1. I don’t know how often i already rewatched this serie but here we go another round. I watched an old McShep vid (here) which brought all the feelings about the serie back. I always was a big fan of the original Stargate serie and the original movie. But i never wanted to watch Stargate Atlantis. I already stopped watching Stargate at this point. In the first run i stopped when Daniel died or ascended. So i never get to the point were Atlantis came into play. But than Stargate Atlantis get aired after some serie i watched and i just let it play without really looking. That changed when i saw a episode that had the focus on the relationship between Rodney and John. These two made me addicted to the serie. So i didn’t started with the first season. But after i got addicted i started from the beginning and so let’s start with my thoughts on season one.

My all time favorite: Rodney McKay

Rodney McKay is my favorite Character on Stargate Atlantis. But i really love almost everyone on that damm show – later more. Back to the smartest person in two galaxies. This is of course what he thinks of himself and sadly it is totally true. What ever problem there is on Atlantis Rodney is the one repairing it. He is the head of the scienice department and also a part of Mayor Sheppards Off-World-Team. He is smart, annoying and totally freaking out about almost everything. But that is actually the best part about McKay. He is a scientist. He can’t fight and is not the most athletic person on Atlantis. He is afraid of almost everything. But everytime his team goes through the Stargate he goes with them. Everytime something bad happend he is trying to prevent it. Yes he is afraid but he always tries to defeat his fear to protect his team and Atlantis. Which makes him for me one of the strongest person in two galaxys. Somehwo with is not so charming personality he became friends with a lot of people. Other people may not like him but almost everyone is respecting him and know that he is actually the smartest guy in two galaxys. Nobody would ever tell him that of course.

The Team

The reason i fall in love with the serie was the friendship that developes slowly and become the greatest love story without ever getting acknowledged for that. These two (Rodney McKay and Mayor John Sheppard) fall into place right from the start. Rodney is mostly one step behind Sheppard. Sheppard needs a way to fight. Rodney is the one that gives him that. They just seem from the start to always be around each other. Everytime we see Rodney in the medic bay John is beside him. His eyes almost everytime fall to McKay.
But McKay has also an easy ‘friendship’ with Ford. Ford touches McKay alot or is in his personal space. They talk easy and snappy with each other.
The only one Rodney don’t fall easy into place is Teyla. I really need along time to get warm with her and that time she needs to get warm with Rodney. I think that in the first season she doesn’t have a high opinion about him and he has to earn her respect with hard work.
Ford likes Sheppard from the first moment. Just the whole team dynamic is briliant. I love every bit about it.

Colonel Sumner and Weir

When i watched Stargate Atlantis for the first time i really disliked Sumner and loved Weir. After watching the full serie and than rewatching it. Everything changed about these two facts. I really started loving Sumner. He would be a great head of military and would be excatly the one they needed in a situation with the Wraith. He had a good overside, a natural distrust against everyone and he liked Sheppard. There are this small smiles when he looks at Sheppard interacts with Teyla. He let all that stuff to him and remaind in the state ‘i look at it with distrust even when i like them’. He would be amazing in his job and i wished we had seen some of it.
Weir on the other hand i started to dislike. She is really bad at doing her job. I never saw it like that before i saw Carter in command. When you rewatch it she makes so many mistakes and it is okay. But i can’t respect her anymore like this with knowing everything.
It is okay that she brought Sheppard on the expedition without talking to Sumner – it is not the right decission but it is okay. But she should have made something really clear from the start and that is that Sheppard has to do what Sumner says. Yes she is the head of the whole expedition but Sheppard is military and so under Sumner. She always undermines his authority. Sumner should choose a team for a Off-world-Mission and he does. But without talking to him. She send Sheppard with him against his decission. She is doing that always. She accused the Athosians to be traitor because nobody of her team could be one. Sorry. That is not true and even it were. You could stop being so obvision about it. But when Bates is talking against Teyla for actually good reason in the last episodes everyone shoots him down. Bates is an asshole but not wrong.

Aiden Ford – spoilers

When i watched the first season for the first time don’t really get warm with Ford because in my head i know that i shouldn’t get attached to him because Ronon will be coming and i love Ronon. But that was wrong. Ford is so amazing and totally deserve to acknoweldged and loved and totally missed when he leaves Atlantis. He is amazing he is a good soldier. He knows what an order is and acts on them. But he always have his own opinion. He thinks for himself. He is good at what he does. He can stand is ground alone even when he is really young. But also he is one of the kindest people. He cares so much about other people about everyone on that mission. He is always for the fun and makes people feel better. This alone makes him for me a hero. But he is also always ready to sacrifice everything to protect everyone and Atlantis. He always jumps into the danger when it is nessassary but doesn’t do it so suicidal like Sheppard. No Ford will always decide to live when there is a way. This whole character was a freaking gift.
What got me must about his fate is that he really believes that drug makes him stronger. I know that is what drugs make you think… but i really believe he never saw how good he was. That he was so strong without the drug. That he doesn’t need that drug even a little bit. He didn’t survive this long off-world because of the drug – it may be helped him – but he survived because he was always good at it. Because he knows how to use his brain and how to fight. And even when i am really happy that we got Ronon, i miss him deeply.

So this are just a few thoughts about the first season. Now i start looking the second season.

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February 5

DW: Dark Eyes 4 – The Monster of Montmarte

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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.

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February 1

Person of Interest: Season 4

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here we come to the fourth season of Person of Interest. The finale of season 3 (POI S03) left has with a lot of questions and parting ways. Our four heros are now on different ways and have new covers. It left me in fear of what happens to Fusco and how all of this will go. The machine seemed to send a number to kill but Harold decided not to what made it easy for Samaritan get the power. This season is a war between the machine and Samaritan. It is about survivle.

A Purpose

Last season we saw John question the whole we need to save the people. He doesn’t saw a sense in fighting if you can’t win. John wanted to go away and all that behind him. But Lionel was the one in the right. Just because you can’t win you don’t stop fighting. The lifes they saved they mattered. Linonel made such a great developement in the whole serie and i love to see this. This season it is not John questioning their mission. He and Shaw find it really hard to stand down and don’t save the numbers.
The on questioning everything is Finch. He is disapointed in the machine. He built her to save people not to kill. He lost is believe that every life counts that this is as important or even more than ever.
We see Finch struggle this season between his believes, his fear of Samaritan, about what it means to be at war, sacrifices and guilt. But not just Finch is struggling this season. Because we see for the first time Root struggling. Root always believed in the machine. The machine was always the most important think in her life and she was ready to do everything to protect it. But this season all that is wavering. I love to see these two people that had clear believes struggling with them and find a way to life with themself and what they are ready to do.

Root

Root came a long way way from season one (POI S01). She was a hacker that was always interested in herself. She lost all her believes in the human race. Computer was so much more to her than human ever could. When she discovered that there is this machine. The machine became the most important think in her life. She made a machine that always try to save people the focus of her life. She never gave a shit for people (after the accident). But this machine saw all of the cruel world. She saw every murder, every war but she don’t waver. The machine believes in people, she wants to protect them. The machine thinks that life is something important. She believes that she can help but that the world belongs to the people in it, not to her.
This makes Root and the relationship to this machine so amazing and interesting. Yeah Root came a long way but her character gets even better this season. I love every bit about it.

More respect for Lionel

One of the best things these season is that everyone have alot more respect for Lionel and his work. In the last three season they always demanded that he has time for them. They never thought about him and his real work. But now that they have there life on their own they seems to understand how hard it is and what Lionel put on the line for them. Because he has a job, a job he can easily lose because of them. So i love to see all of them taking more consideration of is situation. Also i really love to see Lionel and John work closer with each other. Even when i like Fusco pairing up with Shaw is the best. I love the platonic friendship that developes between them.

Watching or not

I am sure everyone already know this answer. Go and watch this season too. It is amazing, we see our characters struggle and i am sure you will lose tears. I cried so much this season. It was so emotional and amazing, so sad and so funny. Being a hero and have a normal job is not so easy and i really like how they show a little of it. That John has problems at work or had to sit out for a number or even have to visit a shrink. Sadly Bear as much to little screen time because we all knew he is the real hero here.

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January 30

Re:Hamatora

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welcome to the long-awaited second season ‘Re:Hamatora’. It seems like i love the first season so much of Hamatora, that i had way to high exspections of the second season. The first three episodes doesn’t get me like the first season did. But the season is still good.

Three Months later

I find it really stupid how the season starts. The first season ended with Art shooting Nice. From the position and everything you could have thought that Art killed him. But it was clear that Nice isn’t dead.. it is like Buffy, the vampire slayer without Buffy. But first episode is telling us that Nice is dead. But somehow the don’t make me sad. The scenes are not tragic. The characters are like they always are. The talking about Sex-DVD’s and pour Coke over the griefing picture. It feels just stupid. Hajime eating the offerings for the deseased. You don’t see the characters griefing. Yes makes you smile a little but it is not the feeling i want in this episode.

Art

Art is the big mysterious this season. Something changed Art and we don’t know what it is and why he seems so different and in the same time not so much. I really get what Nice tries to tell that somehow the way he act is totally Art but the reason behind it seems different. I love Art and i love the relationship Art and Nice have. Because i think that this is one of the most interessting one. Sadly when i look bad at the whole season it seems like the just forget that fact. Arts way of acting that has somehow nothing to do with Nice. At some point at the serie i actually stopped caring. What he did had so much influence of the people around him – people i love that i just wanted him to be stopped. Of course we get explained what changed Art and what he tries to achief…but with that Art lost a lot. He is so stupid and dump and actually i thought that he would know better. But the ending just let the feeling in me to hug him tell him that he is a stupid idiot, so dump and wrong but still never let him go.

Problems with the Minimum

Between the whole Art problematic and a few minimum terrorist or like they call them revolutionärs, they also have problems with their minimum. It seems like it begann to have side effects and maybe even vanish. The question is why is it like that and what will it do to the characters. How essential is the Minium for the whole being? What is an interessting question which leds to another question what is the Minimum? Is it something bad? Something good? Can we live without it?

The worst

In season two they started something that really annoyed my and also destroyed alot of the feeling of the serie. When the scene changed we got a picture of the scene with a zooming sound and that happens like 10 time in one episode. It is so annoying. In the last episode of the season it doesn’t disturb so much. Maybe it isn’t so often anymore or you just become accustomed to it. But it really is the worse thing the did in this season.

Wachting or not

The start is a little weak and somehow a few things feel of in the season but in the end everything get explained. We got the background story about Arts brother and of Hajime even about the Chief and his waitress (sorry i can’t remember her name). We got dramatic and see more about relationships. Ratio and Birthday, Nice and Murasaki… Nice and Hajime… everything is there. In the last six episodes everything is harmonising perfectly. The story, the characters and the humor and also the depth in it. Of course it is not Psycho Pass deep but it is enough for this serie. So yes watch it. Now i am waiting for a movie that explain the background of their informant. Because that is the only thing that we didn’t get explained in this season.

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January 29

DW: Dark Eyes 4 – A Life in the day

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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.

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January 22

DW: Fear of the Daleks

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‘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.

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January 16

DW: The Resurrection Casket

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welcome to the 9th book of the New Adventure Serie The Resurrection Casket. I am happy and sad that there are only three books of Rose and the 10th Doctor left. I love these two together. But i also love to have Martha back. She is one of my favorite companions of the Doctor. But back to the theme at hand. This book is like already said with Rose and the 10th Doctor. The guys of AHistory place it around the year 3906 in the time of the Galatic Federation and would take place between the events of The Infinite Quest (an animated Doctor Who story) and The Pirate Loop (NSA#20). In this story are no idication when in the time line of the Doctor this take place. So i thing it plays after the book The Feast of the Drowned and obviously before the events of the TV-Episodes Army of Ghosts (Final of season two).

The big time of the pirates

Isn’t it one of the biggest dreams to be a space pirate. What kid didn’t wanted to be a pirate (i didn’t)? But many people in stories dream about it. About the freedom and the adventure that it will bring. In this story we will met such a boy. A boy who dreams of big adventures and treasures. But we all know that a life of pirate is more than adventures and treasure. A life of a pirate is about blood, death and fights. Every freedom comes with a price. Of course there is a legend of a big pirate and his treasure that got lost in the Zeg. The zeg is a zone in space where all that technic schnick schnack doesn’t work. Steam is the only mechanic that works there. We all know that behind story there is always a truth. So it seems that the legend of the dark shadow is true. If someone put the dark shadow on you, he will kill you.
In all that legend and stories the Doctor and Rose stranded. Because the zeg is also shuting down the TARDIS.

Reading or not

The story has is ups and downs. The first part is kinda boring. I mean Jimm the boy is sweet but he is so blind for the dark sides of the world that it is hard to don’t want to struggle him. At first i thought that the story is very obvious but in the end the twist make it worth it. It is just not like it seems. Even when i am pretty sure most of you can work it out before the Doctor explains it. But the second part of the book is fun. The travel group brings me joy and tears. Just a hint the story is about something i really love. The question what makes us evil and what makes us good. Are we born the way we turn out or can we change. So yes definitly go and read that book. I love it.

The next book on my list is ‘The Shadow of Avalon‘ because the next books of the New Adventure Serie are not bought yet. But yeah i am sure that it doesn’t take long to get them.

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January 15

DW: Return of the Daleks

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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.

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