January 16

DW: Other Lives

Hey Guys,
this radio play ‘Other Lives’ is the 77th adventure of the main range. It is not the next adventure with C’rizz but it is an adventure with C’rizz and Charley (in this article you find a short describtion to her – http://www.whovianandtvseries.com/doctor-who-scherzo/). The story plays in 1851 on the Great Exhibition (Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations – London, Hide Park – Crystal Palace). In the timeline it is after the haunting of Thoma Brewster and before The next doctor. For the 8th doctors timeline it lie after Scaredy Cat.
One notion before we talk about the radio play. On this radio play the ‘coming soon’ is before the story starts, which is a little bit annoying but yeah.

Again we meet

This is the first audio story featuring the Duke Welligton. The second is ‘the Curse of Davros’. In this two stories he doesn’t have a direction interaction with the Duke. But he met him before. First the second doctor met him in the year 1805 and 1815 (PROSE: World Game). Somewhere later on the Doctors timeline he visted the Duke and makes a trip to Brighton. The Sixth Doctor was at the battle of Waterloo (PROSE: Players).

In this story the Duke seems kinda inconsquence. It feels like he his two different persons. Sometime is a nice old man, who have an really sweet conversation with Charly and than he is like ‘I am the Duke. I can do what i want’. But mostly he is a nice man that help them.

Team Dynamic

I can’t say much about it. Because i didn’t heart the stories. But it seems a little bit like Charly and the Doctor are going of for adventure and C’rizz stay in the TARDIS. Okay it just started like it. The three are a good time, because everyone of them has the talent to find problems and bring them in worse situation. What i really like about the story is that all three have their fair share of the story and had an adventure of their own. They are not limited to the Doctor.

Doctor, the Husband

The Doctor gets so many problems. The couple de Roche are the victims of a assination act. The Doctor saved them and it seems like they vanished with his TARDIS. But the Doctor has now bigger problems. He get accused of being the one that tried to kill the couple. Before he got to trial, a woman Georgina Marlow, is saying that he is her husband. He seems to look like her husband and is drawn into a family problem.

Alone in the streets

Charly is an amazing character, who never should her mouth and this story so no exception. She has a big mouth that make her meeting with the Duke really amusing. When she saw the person with pistol, she goes to warn them. All it brings her in is that, she had to leave the Great Exhibition, when it closed and met a guy – Rufus Dimplesqueeze – who wants to sleep with her, because he things she is a prostitute. She ends up alone in the nigth on the street. She is searching help at the Dukes house and is drawn into a politics.

Like Zoo

C’rizz falls in the hands of a really bad man – Jacob Crackles – that take him to make him part of show of freaks. This is one of the amazing part is that this adventure is not just really in time. It acctually make the different appearing to an theme. Many time they let it slip under the carpet. Like Martha in the time of Shakesphere and so on. But here it is aknowledge that C’rizz is looking different than other and this is what brings him in the trouble. He is trying to keep his dignity. His cell companion gave it away already.
C’rizz is not working with our moral believes. He is ready to hurt people who hurt him.

I love this story. It puts everyone in a new position. It is a totally historic story and no big bad or something. This are stories i really really miss. It just happend a few things. I love how everyone have their own storyline and the Duke and Mr. Fazackerly are amazing guest stars. The only thing that is a little special is that the Doctor tell that he never saw himself as a family man. But he already had family…But this is just one thing. For everyone listen to it. It is amazing and fun and just life.

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January 11

DW: Illegal Alien

Hey Guys,
i finished all New Serie Adventure books that i have right now, so it is time to went on the Past Doctor Adventures and start with the fifth book of the serie – Illegal Alien. It good reprinted in the Monster Collection and features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. The Adventure took place november 1940 in London and Jersey. It seems that for the Doctors timeline it is set somewhere after the 26 season.

Ace and Cody

Beneath the Doctor this are two of the characters that have a bigger role in the story. Ace of course because she is the Doctors companion. I am not a big fan of her, but she is an interessting and unique character. For me she is a little too much into explosives. Yeah, this is special were i often love characters, who love gun (i myself hate guns – don’t ask why…). But maybe it is because she is doesn’t seem to know what she can destroy with it. Also somewhere in the book she said that she like the The Blitz time. What takes her into a position i don’t understand and don’t want to understand. But her journay on the book is a good one. She is confronted with reality and death.
Cody is a private detective and not really sympatic. He is not friendly and has a death wish. I get me totally on the wrong food and i don’t even thing he is a good detective. It is sad that they gave him such a big role. When characters like Mama doesn’t get enough line but still are in our heart.

Rogue Time

The Story is about cybermen. One of the most used monster. Yeah i like them and here we have a rogue cybermen. It seems like this cybermen is search for blood and kills like everyone is remembered of the Jack the ripper cases. It seems like the humans always wants to become cybermen for winning a war. It is always the same. The worst in this story are not the cybermen it is the humans that betray each other, kill each other and toture each other.

The book is not my favorite. It is not my companion, not my story. It was for me just boring.

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January 2

DW: Cryptobiosis

Hey Guys,
this is the third adventure of the special subscriber releases. At first it was only available for subscriber that get ‘Other Lives’ but now everyone can buy it. It is a nice adventure with Sixth Doctor and Peri in 1901 on the ship Lankester.

Sometimes i forget

You all remember that i am not a big fan of Peri but she is a good character. Which has a lot screen time in this adventure. She is one that just is amazed by the miracles of the nature. When she met a mermaid, she just want to help her. Peri always want to help. She makes fast friends. But not all are like her. This adventure is about human nature. A guy wants to get rich for selling the mermaid. This happens when people she something amazing. Not just that he wants to do this, we also see how far he would go to get what he wants – like murder.

The Doctor and the Captain

At first the adventure doesn’t seems not very logic and the character dump. There is a murder on the ship and the captain arrest the Doctor even when he could be the one. I don’t understand why he did this charade because this isn’t making much scenes for me. But this is the only thing that is here not right. Like i said before it is a nice adventure for now and then.

Are other species better

Peri is a good human. She has a really good heart and doesn’t want to let anyone die. We all know how humans mostly just save their own skin. But are other species better. The mermaids are not. They want to let everyone die, so they are save. Does Peri get them to change their mind.

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December 19

UNIT: The Wasting

Hey Guys,
welcome to the final part of this UNIT serie. This is one of the weakest parts of the serie and even more as the showdown. But the weak points will be forgotten by the many fanservice.

Weak Story

The Story before was so good and now that all is out in the open, everything seems forgotten. It goes about a virius that never get mentioned before and the rescue of Colonel Wood. We got no really answer what has the real reason behing everything, the grand plan or how they did it. We got something totally new. But the virius storyline is just for fanservice. We don’t really searching for a solution. The Brig let search. We don’t have anything to do with it not the Brig or UNIT. But we got fanservice. The best fanserves ever is the Brig himself. He let forget alot of weak points just for being part in it. But also he is calling Sullivan and mentionend Benton and Mike. It is really fun to hear him in action again.

Get us a doctor

Sadly we don’t get ‘The Doctor’ in the story, but we got a doctor. David Tennant is playing Colonel Wood. I really love his voice. You hear that he has fun to play that role. Listen to him is making me forget a lot points, because he just can caught.

It is really fun to hear the Brig and the colonel Wood. All the mentions of old things is amazing but the story is really weak not perfect for a showdown and last part. It is to sad for so many good characters.

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December 18

Torchwood: One rule

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it is a little late, but i got so many new radio plays that i doesn’t know were to start and end. Also it is totally the christmas caos getting the best of me. So here we go with the new big finish Torchwood ‘One rule’.
When i first heart about this radio play i was disapointed. There is no of our Torchwood members, but it is one of the best. It takes place before the Canary Warf accidient. Obviously because Yvonne Hartmann is still alive.

Yvonne Hartmann

Yvonne Hartmann is a really interessting character. She is not the typicall good character. Her moral is more than questionable and how she handles problems are too. But she has really good intentations. She wants to protect England. I never thought i would say it but i would love to her more of her story. There is much potential. Also she seems to know alot more about the comitee than anyone else from Torchwood Cardiff.
She also brings as a new way of getting more of Ianto. Because he is working for her.

Monster in Cardiff

Cardiff is standing shortly before an election for the new major. This monster is killing people who wants that job. The story isn’t a very special or new story nor is it very surprising but the character totally carries the whole story. They way she interacts friendly with Helen Evans and angry with Barry Jackson. It is very interessting to see the different facetts of her character and the story gave her enough room to show many of them too us.

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December 18

SJA: The Nightmare man

Hey Guys,
this is the worst season ever… of Sarah Jane Adventures. This episode started the worst thing happen in that serie but the episode is one of the best. Luke is going away to University.

Best friends and mother and sons

Luke is going to be afraid that everything changed. That his mom is not going to miss him, that he will lose Clyde and the same thing is Clyde afraid of. Clyde is feeling like losing a friend is closing up and hope that it will not hurt that much.
When Luke gets prison in the dream and get to know that the others are here he got hope and calls for him and Rani. So the can be together like always. Luke is so afraid of him but with his friends and for his friends he always find the strenghs to fight the fear.

Clyde and Sarah Jane

For Clyde Luke and Sarah Jane are really important. He has a really good mother but he has special conaction to her. The moment Sarah Jane told him that he isn’t so good as her Luke. He knew it was a dream. This is so amazing. Her opinion is so important to him and he is so afraid that she thinks like that about him, but he knows she never will.

But why is Russel always doing that? Always! I hate it. Want Luke back with my Clyde.

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December 17

DW: The War Doctor – Only the Monstrous: The Heart of Battle

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here we go with the last part of the big finish ‘the war doctor – only the monstrous’ adventure ‘The Heart of Battle’. You can see this as a self-contained story but as far as i know big finish that it will be conacted to the other the war doctor boxes.

Paece with the Daleks

Seratrix believe that he can make peace with the Daleks. We all know the Daleks and know that this seems impossible but on the otherside is Seratrix not wrong. The War can only end in destruction of the universe and the Doctor is know for making the impossible possible. So why not peace?
What i like the most of the story is that on the surface you can agree with Seratrix but when you hear what he is ready to do for it. What is peace offering means. He is giving them thausand planets.

Sacrifice

What is okay sacrifice for the greater good? This is something we meet alot in Doctor Who and Torchwood. The Doctor had to make that call a few times, like Pompeiji, or in the genesis of the daleks. What the Doctor did in the time war – like we know out of his dreams. Isn’t what Seratrix did the same that the Doctor did? Or are this to many people to sacrifice? Does it really makes a different?
Do you need to be monster to do this decision? If you make that sacrifice are you monster. Can you be still a good man? This are so many questions that story throw up.

Will you be a coward or a monster

When i heart that question i had Christopher Eccleston in my ears and eyes. He is standing there and the villian is asking him this question and we see the Doctor stand there looking at us and see the battle in his eyes. ‘Coward any day’ That is the totally different from what he did in this story.

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December 16

DW: The War Doctor – Only the Monstrous: The thousand worlds

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here we go with the next part of big finish the war doctor – only the monstrous ‘The thousand worlds’. Of course the first adventure had to do with what follows. This story is taking place in the future of the nursemaid, where the Daleks and they enemies of the nursemaid race ‘the taalyens’ conquered Keska of her.

The new mission

The Doctor got send on a mission with a team form the Time Lords. In the first adventure the Doctor saved two time lords that voluntiered to the suicide mission the Doctor take over and told them that someone made sure that these two get that mission. So the question is what is it with the two of them? Someone want them dead. We know nothing about it just that them were part of special mission. I am sure that this special mission is having a bigger mean to the story. I would love to listen to the Doctor working with this two, but of course that is not we get.
The Doctor is abandoned the team and goes alone to the so named ‘Null zone’ to save an important time lord from the Daleks.

Null zone

When the Doctor enters the Null zone he arrived at Keska in a time where they are conquered and the nursemaids race slaved. So the Doctor is meeting her again and start working together. The Doctor finds the time lord he searched for every easily but it seems like he is not prisioner. The Daleks answer to him and he tells something about peace and the Daleks time.
So the question this adventure throw up is what is the plan the Cardinal Ollistra have.

This story is not bad. But i can totally just really get opinion with the last adventure. Because it is all about the bigger picture.

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December 15

DW: The War Doctor – Only the Monstrous: The Innocient

Hey Guys,

here we goes with the first Box-set of the Big Finish The War Doctor serie and we are talking about the first story The Innocient of this Box. What i think about the Box and if i will buy the others we will talk about it after i heart all three stories. So this Box like you can assume has three stories a 60 min. This are the three stories:
1.1 The Innocient
1.2 The Thousand Worlds
1.3 The Heart of the Battle

So in the next days i will write about the next two stories. One thing is clear John Hurt has an amazing voice and is perfect for a audio drama.

The start

We are in the middle of the time war. The Doctor already have done a lot of things that he is not prude of. He thinks about himself a monster and refuses to use his name the doctor. It is sad that we don’t now yet what makes him that way. But the Doctor has nightmares about this stuff so we maybe got to know more about it.
The first thing that happend is that the Doctor sacrifice himself to destroy the Dalek fleet. The time lords things that he is dead. I really dislike that start because it reminds me to much about the new Doctor Who seasons. But the story is good. The Doctor is badly hurt and a girl or woman is finding him and cares for him.

The nursemaid

She is nice and wants to help. The task to care for the Doctor is never an easy one. She is part of a peacefull civilisation that got attack be a race from their home planet they had to leave to hide from them. It is a little like the time war. The people had long forgotten what really started this war. The Doctor can just not stay away from getting involved in things like that.
I waited the whole time that this people are just fake or something bigger behind it and maybe there is but not in this story.

Nightmares

The nightmares are the most interessting part of the story, because it shows us what the Doctor became. He dreams of an accidient. The Daleks took innocient people as a shield so the time lords will not attack. Did the Doctor attack them? Did he make the choice to sacrifice a few for saving maybe everything else?

The first story is nice. But not just what i hoped for. I hoped for something dark and hopeless. But this story gives us hope and shows us that the Doctor is deep down still the Doctor. So we have to wait what the other stories had for us.

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December 5

UNIT: The longest Night

Hey Guys,
welcome to the best adventure of the UNIT serie and the sadest, because UNIT – The longest Night isn’t afraid of anything. So what do we have? This is definitily with a lot of Spoilers. Because i can’t tell anything about the adventure without talking about it.

For our people

This adventure is about a few bombing attack. The people that took the bombs are people that never have anything to do or contact with such extremes. It is really fast clear that they get brainwashed. This is the highlight of the serie. It is give us a conspirisousy that end in the last adventure of the serie. The story take loose ends and gave a few answers. It is not that i haven’t anything to criticize.

Jump and Jump

This is what really often happend in the Doctor Who Stories. But this is something i really dislike. That are the many jumps in scenes, places, times. They are so short scenes and it gets on my nerv. Also the news that are again and again in the story, getting on my nervs. It is in this story a working style medium but i hate this things. But this is just my opinion. But all that can not stop me from loving this adventure and a little bit hate because last point that will come now.

Spoilers

The Story starts with a big death or maybe death? Hoffmann have a great start and i love this character. He was strong, intelligent and reacted so fast. My thought was why we don’t get him or Dalton in the Doctor Who serie in UNIT. Now we know. We start with this sad death. I am very emotional after that. But it is not the only thing. Dalton has the whole adventure to play himself into heart and when he not already was there, he would after the singing in the car. So we get to see this sides on him, see him closer to his comrades, start to understand and love UNIT, we get to doubt him and we hope that he will the good and the living and it ends with his death.
Now i am a emotional tailcout.

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