June 10

DW: Festival of Death

So guys,
after yesterday a really beautiful day. It was 36° and i was swimming in the pool and lying in the sun with friends and ice cream. I have found at the nigth time to read the end of ‘Festival of Death’. So, hear my opinion of the book:

It is the fourth book of the 50th Anniversary Collection (Past Doctor Adventures) and is featuring the fourth Doctor (Tom Baker).

The first thing i have to say is that the fourth doctor was totally not my doctor. I was really really happy when i could start with the fifth Doctor. I love his companions but he never really got into my heart. So here he is travling with Romana. I am not totally sure what version of Romana plays in this book, but i think it his Romana II (Lalla Ward). She is totally more my thing than Romana I. Lalla plays her a lot more relaxed. We meet also K9 and really is there someone who don’t like K9?!

But lets talk about the book. The start don’t get me. There is the Prolog, with the what is going on effect. Than we have the Doctor and Romana, than we have the Nyanna part and so one. For my the start is to erratic and you don’t know what happen, why it happen and who the people are, the good thing about the book is the Doctor and Romana are as clueless as you.

Then you have this ‘Beautiful Death’ Event. It is interessting theme. But i don’t get the people are doing it. They die and than came back. So they can see heaven. I am sure that i will go past this attraction.

You have no clue what is going on in the book and than it goes really timeywhimey. So don’t get what is happen. They exist in two time streams and also are going again and than going again back in time. As i know now the doctor goes at least four times back in time to do things and to save the people he knows that they have to survive. I didn’t really make sence to me but i hope to the end every thing is logic. But i don’t believe it yet, because everytime you think are coming to an end and the Doctor is not going back in time again, he hears that he is.

The book just had theme that i find really unlogic with time travel. There is no starting point and that is kinda … unsatisfying… but Romana as also problems with this idea and that is a reason i can live with it. I like the questions that are asked her. They know who dies and can they do something to save them? Have they the right to save them? But are they kinda at fault with they don’t try it? But it is sad they don’t have much time with this questiones. They are mentioned and they say such things about life and the posiblity to change your mistakes.

At the end I would say it is not a bad book but they better ones.  If you like this timmey-whimmey stuff and circles of no real beginning and so on, it is a really good book. But i don’t like this style of stories. For me such things don’t make sense in the end.

But yeah for everyone else a real good book 😉

Have a nice day everyone 🙂

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June 9

DW: The Stealers of Dreams

Hi Guys,
for me is nearlly midnight. So not look to close. After the disappointing book, i startet to read the next book of ‘New Series Adventure‘ with mixed feelings. I didn’t want to have to high expectations, but lets talk about the important things.
This book is featuring the ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Captain Jack Harkness. To take the main opinion first, i liked it.

For the most time all three are on their own. Jack is totally like we know and love him. He don’t need the Doctor to get shit done. So doesn’t Rose. Of course at the end of the day the Doctor saves everyone. But i think the book shown really good the strength and weaks of the the characters. Also it is one of the few books with really good secondary characters. They are not all sympatic but interesting.

The Story is not the best, but it’s kinda interessting. What fiction can do to us? Or what the absend of fiction do to us? That are the questions that came up in the book. Dreams are such a big and interesting theme and i like what they do with it. What is realty and what is a dream? I like how they play with it.  The end is a little bit hasted and anti-climatic. But on the other hand i can’t really imagine an other good end.

So yeah definitly not the best book but totally not the worst. I think it is a nice entertaiment.

Good night.

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June 7

DW: Attack of the cybermen

Hey Guys,

welcome to a new Story of the sixth Doctor. It is the start of the new season – ähmm season 22. One of the big changes are the format. I liked the 25 minutes episodes. You find every day 25 minutes to watch a episode but 45 minutes are a very different thing.  So i am not a really big fan of that change.

Soo a new episode with a new Doctor and old enemys. The cybermen are not my favorite but i like them. They are not so different from the Daleks.

The Episode starts with a thing i really dislike. He repairs the chameleon circuit and really the TARDIS isn’t the TARDIS with out her shape of the police box. But it seems that it didn’t work like he want. So the TARDIS is changing it’s shape but not like it should. Than the tour in the past goes on. He call Peri names of former companions and they visited Totter’s Lane.

Cybermen are back and with them a other old enemy – Lytton. He worked for the Daleks and know is working for the cybermen. But i just don’t get really in the story… it just don’t get me.

So the cybermen entered the TARDIS, how ever they did it. But we see a new race. The look kinda interessting. Also it seems that Lytton have after plans. The Doctor is a prisoner of the cybermen and yeah… not my story 😉

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June 6

DW: Dark Eyes – X and the Daleks

Hi Guys,

welcome to the last part of the ‘Dark Eyes’. So i am even more excited to hear the ‘Dark Eyes 2’.

So the Doctor is slowly seeing the whole picture. Everything is leading to the climax. Doctor and Molly get separate and she has a moment she can demonstrate her strength and the Doctor get help from a man Nadeyan.

Molly is totally a good character. She is a strong person and see things like they are. They are talking about trust, about sacrifice and what a good life is. Molly talks about her life and she want to do the right thing. She sees through the Doctor like she knows him. She sees his broken heart and everything she does is healing him without anyone is knowing it.

Oh and i haven’t said anything about the music. It is really good and emotional music. It is amazing what you can do with music.

The enemy is chatty like the most of them. A time lord against the other time lords and again the time lords interferring and i don’t know if they ever do something really good. But that makes them so interessting. They are a perfect gray. Are the better than the Daleks? Are they worse? That question is growning in us. The Doctor have a answer but do we have also a answer to that?

We are hearing the Time Lords tell Nadeyan what he done. But Nadeyan save Molly. He descide to be a better person and the time lords don’t really to understand it. Of course the Doctor understand but that is the Doctor we know.

Also we can see how people can change. We have a regeneration against regeneration and that is really amazing thing. If you will met your pastself what would it think of you. Would it like the changes you made or will it be disappointed. That is a really interessting question and a little bit depressing.

The End is a little sad and really good. Molly left the  Doctor to be where she belongs and the Doctor is alone again. But luckly she will be back in season 2. Because she is really amazing and i will hear more adventures with her.

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June 5

DW: Dark Eyes – Tangled Web

Hi Guys, lets start with part 3.

So we learn more about Molly and her past and a little bit of the one who works with Daleks. It is really interessting what alliance were made.

Molly is a little bit nostalgic and she talks about her mistress, her best friend, her family… mostly it goes about hope. Hope is a very big and complicated theme. But than the Doctor is becoming weak or ill.

Also there is a very interessting scene with the Time Lords. You never know what they are planning and than something happend. Daleks are just not like what they seems. They seems to be good and evoleped to creatures without the shell. Just that is for me an interessting maintheme. But Molly also questioned the Doctor. She questioned his morality( this is not quite the word i searched…), she want to see good in everything even the Daleks – something the Doctor never could believe in that. Molly was actually pretty good points and she is totally not wrong. She says that the Doctor and the Daleks are two sides of the same coin. That is a theme that is really often in Doctor Who. How different are the Doctor and the Daleks.

Also the ‘good’ Daleks are for referring to the great war…that makes it so good. I love to see this as the start of the great time war. Soo~

Bye

 

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June 4

DW: Only Human

Hi Guys ,

we have the middle of the week, yeah. Not long and it is weekend a long weekend in germany because it is Pfingsten.

But now the the next book of the ‘New Series Adventure‘ it featured the ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack Harkness. I love Jack so i was really happy to see that he is part of the crew in this book – I am also a big fan of Torchwood. But he doesn’t have a real role in this book. They let Jack stay behind, have the adventure with out him and than take him back. Also the few scenes with him are not the Jack i love. He is too judgmental about looks. For me that is totally out of character.

So the Doctor and Rose are having their adventure. There is so much you could have done with this stuff. But it is just the ordnary story and i don’t like how modern the talking in 26185 BC. They are so much things in this story that good give a great story, but the take the must rediculess part of it and give it so much time.

What else can i say… i don’t like the book very much.

 

See ya

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June 3

DW: Dark Eyes – Fugitives

So Guys,

my parents prestend my the season 2 of ‘Dark Eyes’ and i am really excited to hear it. Even morenow that i know that there will be a part 3. But before i will talk about ‘Dark Eyes 2’ i will talk about the other parts of ‘Dark Eyes 1’. So here is part 2.

The first part ends with the attack of the Daleks.  So this starts with a woman, how is working with a secret computer and reciving a message from the Doctor. I was really confused at first but than we are back at the Doctor and the attack. Molly is really amazing. I love how she not totally trust the Doctor. Also i like her reaction of the TARDIS. She don’t take shit from everyone.

Also we have another Time Lord and a TARDIS. I like it when we have more Time Lords. The Master and the Monk are just perfect. I like them really much. The Time Lords are totally forever deep gray. So you never know excatly what their attention are.

So i must say there are a few parts in this part that are a little confusing. The talk with the time lord for example. Did he remember, when did it happen and so one. It is for me a little difficult to follow sometimes.But this is the only weak point on that story.

I like the maintheme. The war, hope, the nature of human and time lord or the nature of he Doctor. Also the nature of the Daleks. That is what a really interessting theme. I like the Daleks. They are one of my favorite monsters on Doctor – but i don’t like them in the Moffats-Era. But that is a different theme and we will discuss this on a other point i am sure of it.

Than we came to the fun part. We hear Mollys really ernest characteristics. But she also can be fun and i love how she gets excited and have fun. She is really amazing and they will also have this litte things that  seems not quite right. How she didn’t understands the aliens.  There is a mystery around her.

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June 2

DW: The sixth Doctor has arrivied (Twin Delimmea)

Hi Guys,

the first look at the Doctor he don’t really seems sympatic but his mimic is grandios. He is more serious than the others. He has this ‘fits’ where is quite parnoid and kinda violent. He is rude and very touchy. The style of his clothes are different and against how serious, arrogant and dark he seems, his clothes are patchworked and colorful. I like the contrast and the mimic of him. A darker Doctor could be really interesting and excatly want we need now. Actually he isn’t the nice trusting guy anymore is paranoid and kinda cruel with his choice of words.

Peri seems to have problems to come to therms with this Doctor. Peri isn’t my favorite Companion. I didn’t like her very much but that conflict between her and the Doctor are really interesting.

So i stared episode 2 and i must say i really like the new doctor and at the same time he totally annoys me. I like the scene where he call Peri Tegan and his look on the face. The episode have a interessting twist . maybe everyone would see it but i didn’t remember that face, so for me it is an interessting twist. I like to see the Doctor to became mixed up in the Story.

Let’s start with episode 3. I like Lt. Lang. But i don’t know what i think about the Story. I really like the characters and there interaction, but everything else is just… i  don’t know. I don’t like how the doctor give peri the fault for everything, but Peri is fighting back and that makes her more sympatic to me. But when i think that i don’t like that Doctor, than he makes something that i think that i love him. I have that feeling that this is something that will stand for the sixth Doctor eternal struggel and i kinda like that struggle.

The last Episode started and i don’t know what i think about the Story… an endless struggle. The Characters are really good. Lt Lang is quiete a nice character and the Doctor is refresshing. The End could have be more dramatic… i didn’t feel much of this at the sad points… the atmosphere didn’t match what feelings you should have. I hope you understand what i want to say.

But as the Doctor said ‘I am the Doctor, if you like it or not’.

 

So i want to know what your favorite Story of the sixth Doctor is.

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June 1

DW: Winner takes all

Hi Guys,

here cames again a book  of the ‘New Serie Adventure‘ i read a while ago. It featured the ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith.

I like Mickey so i have really happy to have a little action  with him in the book. The characters are well written. So the best about the book is the interaction of the ninth Doctor with the others.

The plot idea is not a new one and i have read a lot of books with this plot idea, some was of them were better and some worse x But I think the plot works well. Just a few things could have gone little bit deeper. The whole story is just scratching the surface of the potential of the story.

Just one think really annoys me. At some point in the story are parts written from the perspectiv of a young boy and he just let is imagination run wild and thinks of himself as the choosen one. I like the conflict they want to show with that but not the kind it is written…it just got on my nervs.

 

Have a nice Sunday 🙂

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May 30

DW: The Monster Inside

Hi Guys,

here you find my really short opinion on the book ‘The Monster Inside’. I read it a while ago, so it is a really short text. The new books i read, i will try to recommend longer .

I started to read the ‘new series adventure’. It is the second book and featured the ninth Doctor (the reason i bought it) and Rose Tyler.

The most time Rose and the Doctor are seperate. This is a good thing and a bad thing. Bad because we have little interaction between these two, the good one is both parts have their action. Rose has to o things on her own and can’t relay everystep on the doctor. But this is the only good thing i can say about the book. Both are meeting an ‘old enemy’. I was excited which one they wil met, but the ‘old enemies’ of the doctor are a let down. I really don’t know why they are so often in the first season and also find their way in the SJA.

Nice try but not more of it.

 

See ya!

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