December 8

DW: The Natural History of Fear

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welcome to the next adventures of Charley, C’rizz and the eighth Doctor in the 54th adventure of Big Finishs Main Range – The Natural History of Fear. The story takes place in the Divergent Universe. I really like C’rizz and the new dynamic he brings in between Charley and the Doctor. Like many stories in the Divergent Universe you are totally confused at the start of the story.

Is this still Doctor Who?

Yes of course it is. One thing that Big Finish always does amazingly is creating Doctor Who new. The story start with the three of them doing something they are not so sure about anymore. Following by a replay of the scene between the Doctor and Charley in the story ‘Zagerus‘. Than there is a cut and the voice of Charley is talking about a TV show. It isn’t Charley…or is it? If she is does she remember? C’rizz and the Doctor also speak characters that doesn’t seem to be the usual persons. I was utterly confused but you just have to let go of all this and just listen to it really carefully because it gets more confusing.

A new world

The world that is created here is a very cold and lonely world. Questions are forbidden and it seems like people can be overwritten. There are really strength rules. It remembers me a little bit about Psych Pass. But this story seems to want mainly just to confuse you and that does it brilliantly. We don’t know what happened to the Doctor and his friends, what is the meaning behind the story and how does this world is built. So many questions you are not allowed to ask.

Listen to it or not

The story is part of the Divergence universe. A small part to the big picture they are trying paint here. I was just confused the most of the time and the spark just didn’t sprung over. I still would listen to it because of the bigger picture of this whole storyline. But in the end I didn’t like the story very much.

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October 24

DW: Zagreus

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welcome the 50th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – Zagreus. This story is set directly after the adventure Neverland, which means this adventure is with Charley and the eighth Doctor. It is an adventure to celebrate the 40th birthday of Doctor Who. It is 4 hours long and so lot longer than the other stories. Another special part is that all the companions that worked for Big Finish are playing in the story but most have a different part than we know.

Special Guest

It is lovely to have Romana II in the story again. After Neverland she thought the Doctor and Charley are dead. But she finds out that she was wrong. Leela brings her a message from Rassalon and they start to travel to the Dark Tower. It is the first time Leela and Romana meet and the start of great friendship. But I am really annoyed how they adresse Leela in the story – Savege. Even when I never was a great fan of Leela and the fourth Doctor but she is a great Companion. She is intellegent and lovely.

The Brig is back

Or is he. The Brig has a really big role in this story. But he is not really the Brig. The TARDIS – or a part of the TARDIS – takes the shape of the Brig to help Charley to find out what is going and how they can help the Doctor. They live through certain parts of history that have something to do with the Divergence.

Am I Zagreus

The Doctor is going crazy. The Anti-Time in his body forms the personality of the Zagreus. Zagreus and the Doctor are fighting for the upper hand and try to find out what is going on in the TARDIS. The story is quite confusing and you slowy unwrapping what is going on in this story. I think there is a lot going on in this story. It is about what the differents between love and friendship. It is about the pain about having the feeling to be left alone.

Listing or not

Zagreus is a good story that explains everything that was unclear about the overcasting story. The end set us up for new adventure in another Universe. It is lovely to hear all the familar voices and who they play with it. I like the theme friendship and what it means to the Doctor and the TARDIS. Because most part of the story are about these two. In the last part I am annoyed by Charley. I hate it when you can do something but you start judging others doing the same. But yeah go and listen to it.

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October 10

DW: Davros

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welcome to the first apperance of Davros in the audio plays. It is the 48th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range with the sixth Doctor. He is traveling with Peri but she is for this adventure on the other side of the galaxy. Ahistory places it around 4600 after the Revelation of the Daleks.

A new man

The main story is really easy explained. Humans are idiots. Okay, let’s get a little bit in details. The CEO of of TransAllied, Inc. and his wife that is a historican that believes in the good of Davros are searching for Davros corpse and bringing him back to life. They want him to work for them. This would be so fun. Davros working for a human that wants money. You can say a lot about Davros but something as trival as more money was never anything he wanted.
So for us it is really fast clear that Davros is having different plans.

He found me a story

Willis a journalist that is trying to stop the CEO of TransAllied and calls the Doctor for help. That is actually why the Doctor is there to find out that they brought Davros back. He starts working at TransAllied and works together with Willis and Kim – another worker at TransAllied.
Both characters Willis and Kim are really great. I like them and I followed their story with great interessted.

The Past always follows you

Since Daleks are my favorite monster. Davros is part of it. I find that he is a very interessting character. He is obvisouly bad and crazy. But he wanted to save his people. He was scientist and searched for knowledge. A characters that is so obessed with strenght and driven by fear to be normal or not the best. Full of fear that he could be weak. We see more of this character also a few stuff about his past that is hunting him.

Listing or not

It is Davros and the sixth Doctor. So yeah go and listen to it. It is great and the characters are great too. There are scene that are just so amazing – like Davros and the Doctor ‘forced’ to work together. Now I am thinking again about listing to the story I, Davros.

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October 3

DW: Omega

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welcome to the return of Omega in the 47th adventure of Big Finish Main Range. Omega plays in The Sector of Forgotten Souls with no date given. Ahistory places the story into the vulgar end of time – I didn’t find anything about it on the other sites so I am not sure what a time this describes but it seems to have is origin in the story The One Doctor.

Doctor on his own

In this adventure the fifths Doctor is on his own on a holiday history ship. It is on his way through the story of the time lord Omega. So obviously this is the story about Omega. We find out the really story behind this man. He wants to go back in his own universe where he tried to escape from.
It is an interesting story about a man who didn’t wanted to be known. He wanted to give all time to the Time Lords. He became the bad guy in his own tragic story.

What is going on

Most of the time you just think what is going on. Who kills who in this story? What are the real plans? Or does he just want to go home? The first part I personally don’t find so interesting but the characters grown on me. Daland for example on of the actors of the cruise is really growing on me and the old ladies are going on my nerves. It really gets better.

Listing or not

Omega like I said before is at first not mine. But the story about Omega is really interesting. How time works? How time changed the way we see history. The second part of the story is amazing and I love it. I also fall in love with this idiot Daland and he really is an idiot. So go and listen to the story of a foolish and a very powerful time lord who did a terrible thing and the heroic time lord how discovers what he did.

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September 26

DW: Project: Lazarus

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welcome the second part of the Project-Trilogy(Project: Twilight, Project: Destiny). In the 45th adventure of Big Finish Main Range Project: Lazarus Evelyn and the sixth Doctor are going to save Cassi. The first to episode are about this three and the second two episodes are with the sixth Doctor and the seventh Doctor.

According to Professor Harket’s journal the story takes places on the 18th July 2004. It is a little different to say. Because it plays a few years after Project: Twilight which is set 2001. Later Nimrod says it would be five years… what would make 2006.
The second part of the story takes place three years later this would mean 2007.

The Forge is back

The Doctor and Evelyn are going back to heal Cassi from her vampire existence. So she can go back to see her son. Her son is actually Thomas Hector Scofield. The seventh Doctor meets him and travels with him and Ace under the name Hex.
Of course it is not so easy. The Forge already had their claws in Cassi. Also the Forge wants to experiment with the Doctor and his regeneration.

The Doctor working for the Forge

In the second part of Project: Lazarus the seventh Doctor arrives at the Forge and meets the sixth Doctor. Apparently he works for the Forge. You don’t know why or what happened to Evelyn. Even the seventh Doctor doesn’t know what is going on. So he tries to find out and save everyone.

Underlining sadness

This story has again this underlining sadness in it. It is no wonder that Evelyn is so tired. She goes through a lot in this last adventure with the Doctor. Like the last adventures there is a certain darkness to their stories. It breaks my heart.
The second part is harder to describe. The Doctor is on is own and the sadness is not from the beginning in it. But it starts crawling back and in the end the Doctor seems tired like Evelyn was.

Listing or not

Project: Lazarus is not what I excepted. I hoped for a different story for Cassi. So I am a little disappointed in the story. It is not a bad story but I don’t get warm with it. Cassi is such a great character and it is sad that her story only goes over the first two episode and the last are just about the Doctor. So I don’t know. Listen to it or not… it is part of the trilogy and so I need to her it.

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September 23

Hunter X Hunter

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welcome to one of my favorite Manga series finally on DVD in Germany – Hunter x Hunter. There are two versions of this series. Nippon Animation produced in the year 1999 62 episodes of the Manga-Hit. Personally I like the old series more than the new on from 2011. Madhouse produced them and made 148 episode which includes every Arc from the Manga. Here we are talking about the new version of Hunter X Hunter.

Better than nothing?

Like I said before I love the first version of the series. It is not sooo close to the Manga than the new one. The old series played a little more with the scenario. I loved the other parts of the exam. The new version is not bad. The Animation is great and the story is great too. How could it not? Because this new version is a lot closer to the original than before – sadly they kinda left the whole part with Kaito out . We see the characters we love in exactly the same situations, with the same reaction that we loved. So the story is still great and made me want to reread the Manga.

Gon and his amazing journey

Hunter x Hunter is the story about Gon and his friends. Gon is a young boy who wants to find his father. Kaito is a Hunter Gon meets and who tells him that his father is a Hunter and still alive, but that he doesn’t want to be found. So Gon declares that he will become a Hunter and find his father. On this way Gons nice and also a little naive character makes it easy for him to find friends. Once a friend Gon will give everything for them.
In the Anime sometimes you think ‘Gon your are a Mary Stu’. But you just have to love him.

Friends for ever

Gon is not alone on his journey. On the first test he meets Leorio and Kuparika. Leorio wants to become a Hunter to get money. Really fast you find out that Leorio has a good heart and is a lot more than he lets on. From all the people we met in this adventure Leorio is the most normal person but that doesn’t stop him. Kuparika is the only survivor of his clan. He wants to become a Hunter to get revenge. These three built a team from the start and I love them and the trust and respect they develop really fast for each other.
Later there is another person that becomes a part of the team – Killuah. Killuah is in the same age as Gon and likes him from the start. He comes from a family of assassin and his already a really good one. He gets really fast bored. When he meets the group Killuah wants to be more than an assassin.

Watching or not

I just have the first Box-Set with 13 episodes. But they are good and solid. The characters are great and have amazing chemistry between them. I think that the Anime is worth watching it. Maybe you like the new one more than the old one or the other way around. But one thing is clear the story is amazing. So watch the series or read the Manga. The story is totally amazing. I love four babies and are happy to follow their adventures on their way to fulfill their dreams.

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September 19

DW: And the Pirates

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welcome to most ridiculous, musical and heartbreaking story I heart in a long time. Doctor Who and the Pirates is the 43rd adventure of the Big Finish Main Range with the Doctor and Evelyn. This story is playing in the Caribbean Sea in the 18th century. Ahistory is placing it around 1705 and also it takes place in London 2003.

Tell me a story

And the Pirates is a little bit different from the most Doctor Who stories. Evelyn is visiting one of her students, which is not very happy about her visit. She starts telling her a story about pirates. The Doctor later helps her to tell story.
It seems that something bad is happening in this story. Because Evelyn has trouble telling the story. She seems sad and tired. So the Doctor decided to lose the dark touch and starts to sing parts of the story.

Roller coaster

The banter between Evelyn and the Doctor when the try to tell a story. The way the change the story and discuss it is quiet fun. The atmosphere is amazingly funny when the Doctor starts singing. But the in between is dark and sad and hard to describe it is more in the background. You can’t really understand what this sadness is. But is still there the whole story.

Listing or not

And the pirates is an amazing story. I love every single bit of it. It is ridiculous at some points. Evelyn trying to make different voices to tell the story or the Doctor singing. It is so much fun to listen to the story. But still you can’t lose this feeling, this sadness. You asked yourself till the end why the Doctor and Evelyn tell her student that story.
Just listen to it. It is an amazing sad story with fun parts.
And the pirates is a story about life without any excuses. It is sad, it is fun and it ends just like life.

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September 12

DW: Jubilee

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welcome to the Jubilee with a big firework and an execution of the last Dalek in the story Jubilee. It is the 40th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range with the sixth doctor and Evelyn, who lands in 2003 in a divergent timeline.
This story is later used by Robert Shearman as basis for the story ‘Dalek’ in the Doctor Who TV series.

Split up

The TARDIS isn’t working probably. The Doctor and Evelyn gets in a way split in two. The story plays in 2003 and this is were the Doctor and Evelyn land. But when they left the TARDIS she vanished and reappear in 1903 when the Daleks tried to invade the earth. The problem with that is that another version of the Doctor and Evelyn are in there and prevent the invasion. The united Kingdom become ruler of the earth. Which change the whole timeline.

All crazy

This story Jubilee is crazy. All the characters excepted the Doctor and Evelyn and the Dalek. Everyone else is mad. There is not on character you can indicated yourself. The way the people sees the world is crazy and wrong in so many ways. The story is about torture and it is just not mine. It has a lot of strong parts. Evelyn talking with the Dalek is amazing. The Doctor holds a speech at the end and this is just amazing. But everything around it is just to crazy for me.

Listen to it or not

Jubilee is difficult to decide if I want to recommend it or not. The storyline of the Dalek is amazing and I really loved the TV series episode ‘Dalek’. It is amazing. I really loved these parts but then there are all the other characters that are all just mad. It is really hard to listen to it. So if you liked the episode ‘Dalek’ and can deal with madness go and listen to this story. Be excited for the Jubilee.

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September 5

DW: Neverland

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welcome to the land that never was with people who never were in the story Neverland. The 33rd adventure of the Big Finish Main Range the eighth Doctor and Charley meets President Romana II who wants to stop the Time Crisis which started with the survival of Charley on the R101 (Storm Warning).
This adventure is just the first part and will be continued in the story Zagreus.

Team up

I am a big fan of Romana II. How much I loved her in the classic stories and I love that she become President. Her adventures as President (Gallifrey) interest me and even more after I read the book Shadows of Avalon. Now we can listen to her meeting the eighth Doctor and Charley. It is so much fun to listen to them working together. Also there are more Time Lords involved in this story and you all know how much I love stories with them.

AntiTime

It is way to complicated to explain the whole theory of AntiTime in my own worlds. But there is this sentient that comes into our universe through a gateway and destroys the boundaries of time. This gateway is Charley. So Romana plans to go through this gateway and fight these people there and maybe even find something important to the Time Lords.
There is a lot that is different from what seems at the beginning of the story. We will find out another dark chapter of the Time Lords.

Listing or not

By Rassilon go and listen to the Neverland. It is so good to listen to Romana and the Doctor working together again. The mystery around Charley Pollard started with the story Invaders of Mars is getting explained and maybe the story will end well or it will end in a disaster. We will find out in the second part of the story Zagreus.

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August 29

DW: The Time of the Daleks

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welcome to the new history with the Dalek as the ruler of earth in the 32nd adventure of Big Finish Main Range – The Time of the Daleks. It is another story with the eighth Doctor and Charley. It takes place in London, New Britain in the years around 2050s. Also it is the fourth part of ‘Dalek Empire‘. You don’t need the knowledge of the other stories but it is part of a four episode long Story (The Genocide Machine, The Apocalypse Element, The Mutant Phase and The Time of the Daleks) and get it own spin-off.

Shakespeare biggest fans

The story starts with the Doctor find out that Charley doesn’t know who Shakespeare is. We remember that in the story ‘Invaders of Mars‘ Wells didn’t know Shakespeare either. So yeah this is the story were a lot of the hints get explained. The leader of New Britain Mariah Learmann makes a deal with the Daleks. The Daleks are apparently fans of Shakespeare. So Learmann helps them to repair their ship and they help her save Shakespeare.
That sounds like fun, doesn’t it?!

A nice change

The other stories were quiet dark. This is not a light story but it is more fun the others. Just the thought of Daleks being fans of Shakspere or Daleks moving around and quote him. It makes the story lighter than the others before. Because the rest is obviously rather serious. Also in this story is a little bit more action than in ‘Embrace the Darkness‘. Daleks don’t talk long they just act. That is one reason I love them. Most bad guys just talk and talk and you think that if they would stop talking they may succeed.
In the TV-series I often found myself thinking that Daleks became a joke. But here the Daleks are rather out numbered and out gunned but they not afraid because they are still superior. You don’t need an army. One Daleks is more than enough.

Listing or not

‘The Time of the Daleks’ is a good story. It makes clear that there is a bigger problem and the Daleks are using this. The Daleks are on their best. This makes fun to listen too. Daleks quoting Shakespeare made my day. So yeah go listen to it.

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