June 5

Torchwood: Sync

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welcome to the 3rd adventure of the 5th season of Big Finish’s Torchwood ‘Sync’ with Suzie Castello and the Mayor of Cardiff. At first it is not clear when this is taking place in Suzie timeline. Magrette and Suzie meet at the crash side of a spaceship and she thinks Suzie is a UFO spotter.

A special bond

Like I said they meet on the crash side of a spaceship. We don’t know why Suzie is there but we know it is not for Torchwood. Magrette is searching for a way to leave earth. After the crash the ship bonds them together so they don’t loose each other until help arrives. Which means that they can’t leave each others side. Also what ever shot the spaceship down is firing missiles at them. So they have to find a way to break the bond and stop these missiles.

Simularity

Both are really different people but they are really similar in many ways. They both are outsiders and play people that they not really are. Both of them has they very own agenda and they are ready to make everything to get what they want. Actually they are both crazy and that probably is the reason we they get along so good. They form are a special pair.

It is also the reason why this is a fun story. It is not one of my favorite but it is still fun to listen to this very special pair and the unique friendship that they share. I like the stories with Suzie because she is so hard to read. She is for me the bad one. It never was really different but I find it interesting to see what she plans and what she want to achieve. You know that she has a secret agenda but you never quiet sure what she is after.

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May 29

Torchwood: The Green Life

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welcome to the 2nd adventure of the 5th season of Big Finish’s Torchwood ‘The Green Life’ with Jack and Jo Grant. This was one of the adventure I really looked forward to. I really love Jo. She was such a great character and pairing her with Jack promise so much fun. This is a sequel to ‘The Green Death’.

Bickering

I could just listened to them bickering all the time. It is so much fun to listen to them. They they interact is so perfect and so Jo and Jack. Jo got older and she lived her live without the Doctor for a while and I always love the Doctors Companion who don’t regret leaving him. I really loved it when the show us that these people had great time with the Doctor and their miss him but the actually are happy in their life. Jo is one of the people who tried to make so much out of her life. She fought to make the world better, she traveled and never regretted leaving.

Difference

Jo left the Doctor and it has her decision and Jack got left and never got quiet over it. He also use to find a solution with a gun when Jo just don’t like them. It is quiet interesting to see them fighting with each other to find a way to achieve the same thing. I really loved this story. It is a typical Torchwood story. Torchwood itself like a big gray area and they never have a totally ‘white’ solution. Torchwood is just so imperfect and it is so love to see. Because Doctor sometimes things he so much better than the humans. The third Doctor for me had always this way of thinking that he has the only right solution. I think most solutions of Torchwood would get his approval. But they tried their best. So it is great to see Jo understanding that. She doesn’t like Jack solution but she listened to him and understands.

High Expections

I had such high expectations for this adventure and it was even better than I imaged it. I think they captured not just Jo’s character perfectly but also the feeling you had watching ‘The green Death’ and the UNIT. It shows the past and how it is now. I really love it. Jack and Jo are a great time and I had a lot of fun listening to this adventure.

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May 25

DW: The Underwater Menace

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welcome to the 5th adventure of the 4th season of Doctor Who ‘The Underwater Menace’. Sadly there is half of the episodes missing. They recreated the first and fourth episode. Sadly not like the others with animation but just with photographs. If I had realized it I am not sure I would’ve still bought it. The picture give us not a real picture of the episode.

The first episode

Everyone who follows this blog knows that I love radio plays. Also I have Nick Briggs in my ear that he did this when he was young, just record the audio and than listen to it. Think it can be good. Maybe I don’t like it because the first episode was just bad. I really liked the start where Polly plays this little game with the other. ‘Let’s guess where and when we are.’ Like always that is what I love the most about Doctor Who are these little scenes between them. But after that most of the episode Polly is just screaming. In the three adventures she seemed a lot different. She start a discussion with a cybermen. But here he just seems to scream and being frightend.

New Companion

The second and third episode are … crazy. But it is also fun. The Doctor and the others got into costums and do a little roleplay to capture the mad scientist. Yep you read right. They land on Atlantis. The people there believe that a scientist can make Atlantis rise again. This scientist things it is a good idea to destroy the whole world. It is fun to see the four of the interact with each other. The best thing are the comments of the Doctor. There is something else new in this episodes. Finally Jamie is here. Jamie is diffently one of my favorites. They met him in ‘The Highlanders’ and he will develope are really great relationship with the Doctor. Jamie is the first companin that came from the past and he takes the time travel really well.

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May 22

Torchwood: Night of the Fendahl

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welcome to the first adventure of the 5th season of Big Finish Torchwood ‘Night of the Fendahl’. It is the 25th adventure in total and it doesn’t feel like it is going that long and that I listened to so many of them. They were all so great. But back to this particular one. It is with Gwen Cooper and it is a sequel to the old story ‘Image of the Fendahl’. The story place at some point after she got her kid. So I would image it is after season 4 of Torchwood.

Hello I am your victim

That is how the story starts. I was what is going on. They are going to film a snuff movie and Gwen is playing the victim in it. This brings us to the question what is wrong with Gwen. Because she would never take part in such a thing. You all know that I am not a big fan of Gwen. But she is strong and will never act like this. So something seems to posses her.

Dark…

The story is a really dark one. You can see the dark night in front of your eyes, the rain pouring down, thunder… it creates a really dark and cold atmosphere. Than there are the four man who are up to no good. It feels like the danger is right there to grab. Actually I feel really uncomfortable when I heard the adventure. It is like you just want to turn around and run far away. But you can’t. You know that Gwen wouldn’t run. You know that Gwen will not bow to anyone but somehow it is not Gwen so you don’t feel so secure. So everything can happen to her.

Phil the good one…

Three of the man feel like aggressors. The fourth Phil feels different. He seems trying to help Gwen, to make her leave but just with words. But he is not going… he is still going through with it. But it doesn’t really feel like he is forced to be there. He may not really want to be there but one the other hand he wants to. When she doesn’t run, he is starting to blame her. On the first one he looks like is better than the others but I think in the end he is as bad as all of the others.

It is great and dark and it feels so uncomfortable but still go and listen to it. It is a great story.

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May 18

DW: Power of the Daleks

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welcome to ‘Power of the Daleks’. It is the first adventure with the second Doctor and the 3rd adventure of the 4th season of Doctor Who. After the Doctor met before his death the cybermen, the first enemies he meet are the Daleks. Sadly all 6 episodes are missing. So they had reanimate all of them. The Daleks look great. But the animation itself is not really good. The motions are looking wrong and every character looks like they hate the world and want to kill everyone.

The earth future

Vulcan is a colony of the earth. The dating is difficult. In the story itself is no date given but in the trailer it is said 2020. Since none of the people knew what a Dalek is it has to be before ‘The Daleks Invasion of earth‘ which is in 2165. Maybe it just feels so wrong because we see it from our eyes.

Daleks and a murder

The Doctor is a little… he still is trying to find who he is now. Polly and Ben also have to find out how to deal with all this. When the arrived the Doctor finds a dead person and got attack. The Doctor is acting as if he has that dead person and takes the role to find out what is going on. The humans are working on capsule with three Daleks in it. The Daleks are out of Power and the people have nothing better to do than to give them power again. Even when the Doctor warned them.

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May 16

DW: Legend of the cybermen

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welcome the 135th Big Finish Monthly Adventure ‘Legend of the cybermen’ with the sixth Doctor and Jamie. It also have a little surprise we also met Zoe. The story is placed in the Land Fiction. We know this Land from the story ‘The Mind Robber’.

Figuring out what is going on

This story is the last part of the three parter. So we find out what is behind all of it. The cybermen are invading the Land of Fiction. It seems logic… or not. All the people of the other stories were trying to help in the war against the cybermen. We have quiet a special group that is fighting here. We got Dracula, Alice and Artful Dodger that all fight together. Which actually on his own already create a great and interesting dynamic.

New questions

It seems logic that they all fight the cybermen and that cybermen found a way to convert the people of the Land of Fiction. But how are they came there and what do they want there? This the mystery we try to solve in this story. I really like how this whole adventure turns out.
I tried to solve this puzzle until the end and always thought of a new surprise.
There is a part where Jamie gets his memories back and I love what they did with it. How he questioned the Doctor. It is just single question that so many companions asked themself. ‘Why did he ever came back?’ It is not just Jamie and Zoe. He left Jo and Sarah-Jane… and he never got back. Once he left he never looks back.

Such a mess

I love the story. I love the silliness of all this characters fighting together and great to see the totally different characters in unlikely friendships. A friendship between Alice and Dracula? It is fun to see this. Zoe and Jamie back with Doctor is so great to see. You can hear how much he cares about these two. But with memories of Jamie it also creates a sadness about the reality of the Doctor. So yeah go and listen to the last adventure of Jamie, Zoe and the sixth Doctor.

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May 15

Torchwood: Deadbeat Escape

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welcome to the last adventure of the 4th season of Big Finish Torchwood ‘Deadbeat Escape’ with Bilis Manger. So you can imagine that this is one of the adventures I wasn’t that excepted for. I never really like the character or found him that interesting. But everything that Big Finish had touched so far turned to be amazing. So yeah this story is no different.

Do you really want to check in

The Travelers Halt is hotel shortly before Cardiff and have seen better days. What is the mystery of this hotel and Bilis Manger that will all know from the Torchwood story ‘Captain Jack Harkness’. Hywel Roberts wants to stay in the hotel for one night because of the pouring rain. He is on his way to see is ill father. Just to find out that he is stuck in a trap. The whole is a big trap.

The mystery of Bilis

Like I said before I never interested in this character. So maybe I also forget a lot about him. What I remember is that he got out and wanted to feed on people and so Jack gave his life. So for me he was just another bad guy. But was he really a bad guy. He doesn’t look like a good guy. But this story makes me thing that there is way more to his character than just being the bad guy and I find myself asking who he really is. Why he can travel in time and what he believes in and what fights for. I starting to be interested in his story, his background. What is the mystery of this man.

The reason I love this story so much is because you never know the role of Bilis. Is he the one who set the trap, does he try to help them or does he just use them to get what he wants. You never really know and that makes it so good.

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May 11

DW: The Tenth Planet – rewatch

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welcome to the 2nd adventure of the 4th season of Doctor Who ‘The Tenth Planet’. The first Doctor is traveling with Polly and Ben. The 3rd season had a lot differnet Companions but in 4th season we got the biggest change. What actually for as makes Doctor Who what it is today. Willam Hartnells Doctor died and regenarted. ‘The Tenth Planet’ is the last adventure with the first Doctor. Polly and Ben will stay almost the whole season.
The story takes place in 1986 in Antartica and introduced another long lived enemy of the Doctor the Cybermen.

Mondas

The history of Mondas. Earth twin brother that drifted away. The story of the cybermen is not really different to the story of Daleks. There are a few mayor difference. The cybermen bringen Mondas back in our solar system to get the energie from earth. Pure survivle with no understanding for life or compassion. Polly tries to talk sense into the cybermen. That is something not many companions would do.

Polly and Ben saving the day

Sadly the Doctor don’t have much screen time. William Hartnell was ad bad health and has absend from most of the adventure. But so everything is up to Polly and Ben. There is no Doctor telling them what to do. They have to make the decissions on their own. They handle themself has good as the Doctor by messing everything up and get captured before they get out of there alive.

Reanimation

The last episode is sadly lost. But the reanimation of the episode is one of the better ones. It is detailed and you can see the typical emotions of our heros on their faces. Also it kinda suits the emotionless cybermen. I am more than happy that they did reanimated this. I love the story and it is such a important story for the Doctor Who we know and love.

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May 9

DW: The Wreck of the Titan

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welcome the 134th adventure of the Big Finish Monthly Range ‘The Wreck of the Titan’ with the sixth doctor and Jamie. Everyone that had listened to the previous adventure ‘The City of Spires‘ knows that this story will be impossible to place. It has a lot of dates but nothing is quite right.

The Titans

The story brings the Doctor and Jamie to the Titanic and of course exactly to the moment were the Titanic is about to hit the iceberg. But something is wrong on the ship. It seems to have only two people on board and doors lead to nowhere. Before the Doctor can find out what is going on, the land on the Titan. A ship that will crash with an iceberg.

New friends

The story has only a few characters on it. Mostly there are just four. Jamie, the Doctor, Tess/Myra and Teddy/John. It is really interesting to see the four of them interact. Jamie has a lot of time with Tess/Myra. It is so good to have Jamie back. I really love how easy Jamie can adjust to the situations. The world is new and changed but he just takes it and deals with it. He doesn’t know the words but he still understands what is going on. I missed him so much.

Listen to it

It is not just bringing back Jamie which is amazing but also the relationship he has with the sixth Doctor is so great. The story is such a mess. It is great to try figure out what is actually going on and how it all fits together. Also I am really excited to see where this all will lead. How they explain what was going on in these two stories and why Jamie still doesn’t remember the travels with the Doctor.

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May 8

Torchwood: Instant Karma

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welcome to the 23rd adventure of Big Finish Torchwood ‘instant Karma’ with Toshiko Sato. She developed algorithms to find patterns. This patterns lead her to a group of people.

Anger

It is a group to help people who have this anger in them. But it doesn’t seem like it really helps them but that the leader is using them. I mean it is so easy. How many times were you angry at people. Go to the supermarket and there is a 50% chance that someone does something that annoys you. I work in the gastronomy. How time do I want slap our guest because they make a stupid comment or they be aggressive to you. This anger this story is about that is an anger that everyone knows.
Obviously we don’t want to kill them. But if you have this ‘gift’. So easy to give in to this anger. If you give in this anger. Anger can become so fast hatred.

The danger of charismatic people

This story is not just about anger but about people who are charismatic and tries to use this. People that can talk can be so dangerous. With this anger and charisma it is easy to make people follow you. Because they want to believe. But it is so easy to lose control. This story is so close to reality. I mean they have abilities but even without this ‘gifts’ it something that happens. charismatic people are out there using the anger, hurt of other people for their benefits.

happy endings

When you look at the stories of Toshiko Sato there is always such a sad end. She lost so much and still tries to believe so hard in people. It is a gift and a curse for Tosh. This need to help and save everyone and so often failing not because not good in what she does but because humans are not that good. I love her so much and I love that adventure.

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