March 30

DW: The Space Museum – rewatch

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to ‘The Space Museum’ is the first adventure of Doctor Who, which features an alternative timeline. The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vickie find themself at the planet Xeros. Ahistory places it around 2965 but there is no year given or much hints for what year it could be. They assume because of the ‘banded’ Dalek and not the ‘slatted’ one that it has after the fall of the Morok Empire (mentioned in ‘The Death of Art’).

The familiar bantering

What I love about the TV series is that we had 5 adventures with this group of people but when you watch it you have the feeling as if they travel for ever with each other. They grow very close and I love who good they know each other. It is always fun to watch them interact with each other.
I love these three companions so much. Vicki has a lot of screen time to show off her talent. This episode shows us again that the Doctor is not the one that does the saving. The companions save him so often and I love it.

Got to see us

Finally the four of them visit a museum – the Space Museum. From the start everything is a little wrong. Like the don’t leave footprints or can touch anything. They also find themself into glass cases. They have to change their future and get in between to sides fighting. Problems after problems for the four of them

The problem with the future

We have here the problem I like the most about knowing the future. The question the four of them ask them a lot. Were we suppose to do this. Is this action what brings us to the future we want to prevent? Or are we actually changing something? I like this idea a lot.

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March 28

DW: The Blue Forgotten Planet

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welcome to the 126th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Blue Forgotten Planet’ with Charley, Charley/Mila and the sixth Doctor. It ends the story of ‘Patient Zero‘. The story takes place on earth. There is no time given or any indication which year it is. Ahistory placed it in 2009. It has to take place before the mankind’s space age. With a few other pieces of the story there are just to times where it works without conflicts with other series. This would be 1930 or 2009.

The Virus

It is actually a little creepy that I finally find the time to listen to this story I bought like 2 years ago when the world goes crazy over the Corona-Virus. The scariest thing about this whole thing is the fear of losing our job or existence as a business. This story shows us a story about a virus. A world with a madness and somehow I feel like I live right now in a world of madness. It is another madness but still to close to home.
But that is something Doctor Who always could do really good.

Charley against Charley/Mila

Charley and Mila finally meeting each other and there is a lot of confrontation between them and between the Doctor and them. It is time for the truth and it is not easy to tell the truth when all you did was trying to hide it. Charley couldn’t let go of the Doctor and she had to lie to hold on to him. Mila needed to become Charley so she could travel with the Doctor. So what is truth? This is actually really great. India Fischer does a great job with the discussion between the both of the Charleys.

Goodbye…

This is an end of an era. I loved Charley, I got annoyed by her. She has a great chemistry with the sixth Doctor. Big Finish made me cry again. I cried for Mila, for Charley, for the Doctor… this story is really great. It hints to so much more and is also an end for a lot of things. I love it. Charley is great and this is a great end for her. I am sad that the sixth Doctor and Charley don’t have more adventures together. But I am also excited to were the Doctor is of to now.

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March 27

The Omega Factor: Let the Angel tell thee

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welcome to the second Box Set of ‘The Omega Factor’ ‘Let the Angel tell thee’. In this story you don’t really of a case. Anne is working with Edward Milton. After the kills in ‘Somnum Sempiternum‘ Edward Milton is the one that profited from it.
Adam is haunted by bees or wasps in his apartment. He moves to Anne and is plagued by nightmares and Morag who tries to tell him something.
Also Anne is getting lucky with man. She goes out with Edward Miltons uncle.

The normal week of Department 7

There is a lot going on in this story without a case. All the stories of course have something to do with each other. It is sweet to see Anne in with a man. She is kinda sweet and a bit shy. But what I love the most about it is the way she talks about Adam. The way Adam is jealous and protective. In the end it is all about the relationship between these two.

Morag is back

This sweet girl who get used by everyone. She is trying to warn Adam of what is coming. But it would be too easy when she just tell him. She speaks in riddles and he has no idea what she means. I hope that this girl at some point get her peace.
This is my favorite story of this Box Set. It is just like a normal week in Department 7 but in the end it is obviously more and plays into the big story. Also the story shows how deeply Anne and Adam care for each other.

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March 23

DW: Agent Provocateur

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welcome to the IDW DW mini-series #1 ‘Agent Provocateur’ with the tenth Doctor and Martha. While I love Manga I always had my problems with comics. One of the problems is the drawing. I would never say that this comics is bad drawing but it is not my style. I bought a bunch of comics a while ago. For just one story and I don’t even remember which story. Now that we all have a lot of time at hand. I start to read them.
‘Agent Provocateur’ plays in three different times and a lot of different places. We have the 1957, 1974 and 4.999.999.999.

Best milkshake

The Doctor is still trying to give Martha the best milk shake ever when they ran into a Sycorax who hunts for the last of their kinds. So the Doctor as the last of the Time Lords is obviously on the list. This is where the story starts.
Truth be told I couldn’t follow what this story has to do with rest of the story. We find out that on a few planets the whole population except one individual disappeared.

What is going on

My biggest problem with the story was that I didn’t get the jumps. From were the one chapter ended and the next began. Sometime it gets explained later and I think ahh.. that is why it starts there but other times I still don’t get it. Maybe it is just me or I was to sleepy to understand it. The story was not bad it remembered me a little of the end of season 4 with the aliment planets.
The interesting part is actually this group of creatures that are trying to manipulated the events around the Doctor.

The end of this story lets somethings open and I think at we will see a few of the characters again at some time. Maybe I even have some of them. I will see what I find in my bundle of comics.

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March 20

DW: Paper Cuts

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welcome to the 125th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘Paper Cuts’ with the sixth Doctor and Charley/Mila. The story takes place in 2090. The Doctor says it is 60 years after he visited Draconia but the Mother Queen means it is just 50 years. It is not said which incarnation had visited 50/60 years before. The book ‘Doctor Who and the Space War’ says it was the second one, but the booklet shows the first Doctor.
The story starts where the last story ‘The Patient Zero‘ stopped sadly the action of this story doesn’t have such big impact on the story that I hoped.

Summoned to the fuernal

Charley/Mila finds a summoning of the great emperor of Draconia. The Doctor followed this summoning and finds out that the emperor is dead. This emperor seems to had made a few difficult decision that doesn’t go well with the a few people like the priest or his son. But more important is that there is ritual that has to take place so the son can become the new emperor. For this ritual are four people summoned the Doctor, the son of the emperor, the soldier and Gomori.

Paper warriors

What would a funeral and ritual to become a new emperor without killing paper Sazous? It is hard to say more about the story without spoiling everything. But the more interesting storylines all start later. What is the meaning of the ritual and the after life. It is about revolution, about change and about playing chess. About planing at least two move ahead.

Listen or not

The story is really good. I really like it. The relationship between the Doctor and the dead emperor is interesting and I loved to see more of this. Like I sad before the Mila story doesn’t have a big inpact. Most of the story is like a normal Charley Doctor story. I hoped that Mila would have a bigger role instead of just being Charley. But maybe all that comes in the next episode.

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March 20

The Omega Factor: The Changeling

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welcome to the second story of ‘The Omega Factor‘ Box 2 ‘The Changeling’. I really like this story. Adam is undercover in prison to investigate a few death. Anna is searching for information on the outside. In this story there is not much Anna and Adam interaction.

Mysterious Death

A prison guard dies in prison. They have filmed and nobody killed him or came near him. The prisoners are all in the cells. Still the kind of death is suffocate. The prisoner they investigate killed his best friend in the same way. Also he was the prisoner that talked to the guard when it happened.
Adam feels something odd when he sees and hears this video. So he decide to go undercover to find out what is going on with him.

The outside world

Anna is trying the same thing on the other side. She is obviously worried about Adam. She is searching information about Reaver – the prisoner in question. So she tries to talk to the psychiatrist of Reaver and the mother of the best friend.

The changeling

I really love the story. It turns out different from I thought. The back story of Reaver is really interesting. I love how Anna is leading the investigation and Adam is amazing how he tries to understand what is going on with Reaver. He has a lot of compassion and a trust in his feelings. Also it is interesting to see how this story plays into the big story. Banks is in all the stories even when it is just in the background.

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March 13

DW: Patient Zero

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welcome to the 124th Big Finish Main Range Adventures ‘Patient Zero’ with the sixth Doctor and Charley. Patient Zero is hard to place in time. In this story they talk about traveling ‘so far into the past’ but the story ‘To the Death’, which is shaped with some of the consequences of this story, claims it takes place in the future. So Ahistory put it around 7190.
This story is also concluding a story that started with ‘Urgent Call‘ (Bonus Story of ‘I.D.’) and plays also a part in stories like ‘Urban Myths‘ (Bonus Story of’Exotron’), ‘The Vanity Box‘ (Second Story of the Wishing Beast) and ‘Mission of the Viyrans‘.

The Amethyst Viral Containment Station

The Doctor finally demands answers from Charley but before she can give them she fades in and out of existence. She caught a virus, which itself seems to be a problem, because the TARDIS seems to protect them from this stuff. The Doctor tries find to out how to save Charley. The search leads him to the Amethyst Viral Containment Station. This station works for the Viyrans. But we also meet the Daleks again.

Daleks and time

In this story the Daleks ask for things and don’t shoot first. They traveled in time and seem to be aware that time is a very delicate thing and are not shooting without thinking it through. That is actually something new about the Daleks. The Dalek search for a Patient Zero and they are not willing to give up. It is what I really like in this story is that the Daleks are acting with content and the Doctor using the Daleks. ‘Know your enemy.’ It leads to a very great end and I love it.

Blind Passenger

We also have a blind passenger on board of the TARDIS or maybe she is just a imagination of Charley. The girl is a little fangirl of the Doctor and claims to be his companion and that she is a long time with him when he still had gray hair. This leads to a very interesting story. That will be influence the next stories very much and I am really excited to find out where it leads to.

Listing or not

Definitely listen to it. The sixth Doctor and Charley has such a great and easy chemistry. They had fallen in place so easy that even the Doctor himself finds it weird. He can’t let her die and he doesn’ t understand why it is so much more important to him than everything else. He has to deal with her and his feelings, with the Daleks and Fratalin and nobody helping him.

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January 18

DW: The Company of Friends

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welcome to the 123rd Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Company of friends’. Here we have four stories with the eighth Doctor and four different companions. The first story is with Benny which takes place around 2609 (Ahistory) and fifty million years before. Ahistory puts the story in the 10th season of Benny. The second story is with Fitz and the third with Izzy. Izzy’s story takes place on 8th April 1988. The fourth story is with Mary Shelley and takes place in June 1816.

Benny’s Story

I think most people know who Bernice Summerfield is. She is an archaeologist and a companion of the seventh Doctor in the books. Later Big Finish made audio dramas around her. Here we get a short summary of her life. Even if you never heart of her you got a good grip of her. I like her. She is fun. In this story she is working for a woman who is searching for something. It turns out it is TARDIS key of the Doctors TARDIS.
The atmosphere is light and fun with a little action in it.

Fitz’s Story

Fitz is also a companion out of the books. He has a complicated story. I myself don’t fully understand because I just read the summary of his story. Ahistory hadn’t placed the story in time and there is no time given just the planet Entusso. This story is about the private Alien Device Incorporated that used the Doctor in their commercial. So the Doctor starts investigating. Like the story before it is a really light and fun atmosphere.

Izzy’s Story

Izzy is a companion from the comics. I never of her before. In this story she seems young, loud and having always something to say. She is kinda a geek. This story is about Izzy wanting to know what happened in the last volume of one of her comics, that just seem to have vanished from every place. The atmosphere is crazy? I think it is actually crazy. It has a lot of aliens in it and really special comic ‘heroes’. This is the story I like the less of all of them.
Also I really dislike the ending and I am totally the Doctor in this one… I really don’t understand her.

Mary’s Story

Mary Shelley is a companion that appears in a book and a few audio dramas. Here in this story we have her and a few of her friends to kill time. It is the first meeting of her and the Doctor. It is also a story about how Mary finds her idea to her book Frankenstein. What I like about the story and why I really want to listen to more stories with her is that she is a companion that really existed. This is the only story that is really dark. Mary is like the only light in this story.

Listing or not

The most stories of the eighth Doctor are dark and sad. This Doctor has so many scars on him…he has always that shadow over him. But in this stories we see a lighter, funnier Doctor. He is with people who are so fully of life and hope and optimism that makes him look not so troubled. So yeah differently go and listen to this.

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January 11

DW: The Angel of Scutari

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welcome to the 122nd Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Angel of Scutari’ with the seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex. It plays for our friends directly after ‘The Enemy of the Daleks‘, where Hex questioned if he is ‘made’ for this. So the Doctor brings him to met Florence Nightingale. So the story takes place between 25th September to 19th November. This is a historical story and so all the dates are being giving to us in the story. Also we have the third part of ‘The Three Companions’.

Hex in his element

It is really nice to see him in his element. He not just is a nurse but he also loves his job. In Scutari he can help ‘simply’ with trying to hold everything kill. Doing the job that Florence Nightingale did. She was one of the first people who took the enviroment into account for the healing of the wounded in time for more people died in the hospital bed than on the battle field.

You shouldn’t meet your heros

That is what people say. It didn’t work out for the Doctor with meeting his heroes. I think that is always a problem because we forget that their more than their work. Hex got really flustered when he meets her and it is endearing. I really love this story who Hex is charming this people. In a month people learnt to trust and respect him. It is so good to see him like this. I also love that the Doctor know Hex so good and he got a lot better in helping people than he was with Ace.

A little confusing

The story is a little confusing. It has a lot of time jumps. So you really have to think about when what is happening. All three of them are on their own and we jump between their stories and times around. The Doctor is captured for treason and Ace got badly hurt and is in prison. So they all have to make their own way.

Listing or not

I love the story. You all know I love historical and this is no exception. It is good story that tells us a lot about the time and this war. We see how close they got even when they are not together. I love it when they show us a little more of the relationship between the Doctor and Hex. Most times we have the Doctor and Ace or Ace and Hex.

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January 4

DW: Enemy of the Daleks

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welcome to the 121st Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘Enemy of the Daleks’ with the seventh Doctor and Ace and Hex. Ahistory is placing the story around 2560 during the Daleks Wars. This and the name of the story are promising us another Dalek Story. This story contains also the second part of ‘The Three Companions‘ were Polly tell the Brigadier a story about their adventures.

Welcome to war

This is a war story. Do I have to say more? The humans are fighting against the Daleks for years now. There is a desperation in them. They know the enemy, their the cruelty. A group of survivor of a Dalek attack flee to the planet Bliss, where they find a science base. All is set for a good and cruel war and action story spiced with war crimes.

Like the cybermen?

This is actually the first time that Hex encounters the Daleks. He thought that the cybermen were the worst the universe has to offer. Now he learns about the Daleks and it scars him. You all know that I love Hex and even more this whole combi of people. But Hex is different… he wants to see the world and loves adventure about he is no soldier and he is breaking by all the bad things he is witnessing. What I love so much about him is who he always tries to protect, to save people. How often do we see Companions standing up to Daleks to protect people he doesn’t even know?

Everyone in his element

Hex story part is about him being a nurse. The Doctor left him to look after the wounded and the patients that are infected by a ‘virus’.
Ace on the other hand is with the soldiers and can work with the big guns again.
That leaves the Doctor to deal with the scientist, the war crime and the question the Doctor has to answer in many incarnations. Is genocide something he can, shall and will do?

Listing or not

I like the story. War stories are always so dark and cruel and bloody… and this is no different… there is no real happy end. I am not such a great fan of these stories… but Big Finish always make it work and they are great. This particular works for me because of the combi of characters in the story. So yes listen to it. But you will not find humor in it or light conversation but it is totally worth it.

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