March 22

DW: Eight Doctor: The Time War Series 1 – The Conscript

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welcome to the third part of The Time War Series 1 The Conscript. In this story the Doctor and his group get separated. Ollistra is of course involved again. The group get questioned and the Doctor is sent to be trained for war.

The war training

The Doctor is in this training camp. For him it must seem more like prison. So he can’t leave because of a barrier that makes sure that the soldier are save. The Doctor is in the room with two other. The one is really serious about that training. She wants to fight in this war and believes in the stuff that her Captian says. The other is there to fight too, but he is more like a goofball. He likes the Doctor from the first moment. Wants to be like him.
The Doctor is in that mix and questioned everything the others believes him. He cause trouble.

Listing or not

I really like this part. The Doctor is so wrong in this place. He don’t believe in war or in the way they do it. It is not that he don’t believe the Daleks needs to be stopped. It is just… and exactly for that it is good to listen to this part. In The Conscript we see again that the war don’t really have good and bad. We see how war changes people. We see why the Doctor destroyed the time lords.

What I love about this story and about the stories of the war doctor, is that you understand why the Doctor needed to do this one so cruel thing. All this story makes it clear that he hadn’t another choice. I was never a fan of taking this away from the Doctor as Moffats did. Because yes the Doctor can do this. The Doctor is capable of doing this.

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March 15

DW: The Eight Doctor: The Time War Series 1 – Echoes of War

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welcome to the second part Echoes of War from The Time War Serie with the Eight Doctor. This story starts in the same point were The Spaceship Thesus ended. The Doctor and the little group survived the crash of their ship and are stranded on a planet.

Can you outrun the war?

The group of people wanted to run from the time war just like the Doctor. But it seems that you can’t outrun it. The Planet were they landed is already one of the victims of the war. There are Time distortions in the jungle and they need to get to the safe zone. I really get why the Time Lords decided to fight this war. But I think like Rupa. Why do they have to rip the universe apart by doing it. They destroying so much and most of it is destroyed because of the Time Lords.

Big surprise

The Daleks were form the beginning one of the biggest enemies the Doctor had. Again and again he stood before them and tried to fight them. The Eight Doctor is one of the most extreme Doctors with his opinion about Daleks. Daleks are bad and never ever can they be good. There is nothing left that could be good in a Dalek. A good Dalek is something he can’t exceped. But here they found a defective Dalek. This Dalek doesn’t rememeber that it is infact a Dalek. He just remembers that he needs to survive. That is the Doctor using and makes sure that Dal helps them get to the safe zone.
I really love this bit. Because the others have problems with it. Because this is a Dalek helping them. Is there really nothing left that can be good in a Dalek?

One Point

There is one thing that I actually dislike on Echoes of War. On this planet are creatures that seems to mean them harm. They took people from the group. But you don’t know what happend to them – not really. For me the part were the Doctor and the others are captured by them and how they communicate and all that is just missing and you get thrown at the end and you think what just happend…
but apart from this the story is good and solid.

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March 8

DW: Flip-Flop

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welcome to the 46th adventure Flip-Flop from the Big Finish Main Range. It is a story about the seventh Doctor and his companion Mel. It takes place on christmas in the year 3060 and 3090 at the planet Puxatornee. The Adventure has two parts. The first is the Black one and than we have the White one.

Peace at all cost?

The story is about a planet and his two groups of population of Puxatornee. There are the Humans that where there before and the Slithergees that needed a new home. The president of Puxatornee is making a deal with them, which changed the life on this planet.
Some people thing that this was a mistake. That a war with this species would have been better and what to use the TARDIS to change the past.

Change the past

This story is like already said about changing the past. Can you change the past and what happend when you do. What are the consequneces of this? The Doctor and Mel find themself of course in that trouble. They found themself in a circle that is changing again and again. Can this circle end and how does it end. Does the changes really changes anything?

Changes

The stories are really simular to each other because it only changes small things about the Doctor and Mel. But it is really interessting that the circle is never ending. There are two person that fight against the Slithergees and want to kill the president to make sure that they go to war in the first place. But when they get what they want they find the world way worse than what they had. These two in the time were the president died. They work for the new president and what to go back in time to stop the murder of the president. When they get the new world they thing it is even worse than it was what they had.

Listing or not

Flip-Flop is an interessting story that doesn’t offer us any solution and no answer what the real reality is. So I really like it. It don’t know how it is on DVD because I just has the story as a Download. In the Black version are 4 episodes and in the White version are the same four episodes but the last two are the first ones. It functions perfectly well.

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March 3

Kuroko no Basket

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welcome to my not so popular opinion about Kuroko no Basket. Every where I looked people say that this is an amazing series and the best sport anime ever… Yeah… definitely not. I was really disappointed and thought about stop watching all the time. So for the information I watched all three seasons and so obviously it is not so bad.

Sport or Fantasy

The first reason I am not a fan of Kuroko no Basket are all the special powers the 6 miracles have. Let’s start at the beginning. The middle school Teiko had a legendary Basketball club. They won all games and get to be known as the generation of miracles because they are so much better than any other talented player. This was the first were I thought okay maybe I should watch something different…
The story is about the sixth man of the generation of miracles the phantom player Kuroko. Apparently he has so the little presences that people just over look him and forget him in no time. The people on the court are asking them if the player actually was on the court. Which makes him amazingly good in passes…
So like this it goes on. So every member of the generation of miracles has one ability like that. For me it is too much. Yes let them be better than anyone… but they are so overdramatic and for my liking to much in the direction of fantasy.
All of these sixth members chose different high school and are now all enemies. All the other miracles chose schools with good basketball clubs and Kuroko is the only one chosing a little school nobody really knows about.

Kuroko the only exception

All the miracles believe that they are so good that they don’t need another player to win. Kuroko is the exception. He believes that basketball is a team sport and want to prove this by defeating the other miracles. Here cames the reason I stayed with the series. He chooses a light. Kagami is a really talented basketball player who wants to defeat the miracles just because they seem strong. The relationship that developes between Kagami and Kuroko is really amazing. I love their friendship how the help each other and save each other from theirselves. These two and their team – with filled with great and sympatric characters – starting their fight against the miracles. This team is so sweet that you wish them that they win.

Wrong image

But here is also a point I dislike. This playing with injuries. Choosing basketball over getting healed… I hate that this series tells you it is okay to play with bad injuries. It is not okay and when you are injured you should stop playing. Animes should tell other that this is okay. This is destroying your body and we shouldn’t teach that to our children.

The other miracles

There were a second reason to watch the show ’till the end and that was ‘Kikasa’ – Kise Ryouta and Kasamatsu Yukio. Kise is one of the miracles and one of the best characters when he actually start accepting his team and the reason behind it is his captain Kasamatsu. Yes I totally watched the last season only for scenes with them. I love these two.

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March 1

DW: The Eight Doctor: The Time War Series 1 – The Starship of Thesus

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welcome I finally started ‘The Time War Serie’ with the eight Doctor and the first adventure is ‘The Starship of Thesus. I have to say when i bought ‘The War Doctor Serie’ with this I thought it would be just one adventure and not a serie. But I really love it. Not that it is very surprising. The Eight Doctor is not a War Doctor, he is different. He tries to run from the war so the stories are about not the war but how the war follows him.

Confusion

This story just starts like every other episode. Something happens and you don’t know what is going on and then the Doctor and his Companion arrives at a place and everything takes their way. But than something happens… it is really small at first. I didn’t notice it at first, but every time he says his companion’s name it is a different one.
This is so good thing about Big Finish Stories you are feeling as confused as the Doctor is. You don’t know what is going on. You just know that something is wrong. The first Story of the Box is about finding out what is it that is wrong in this story.

Change of atmosphere

The Story has a dramatic start and then it is a light story about the Doctor and his companion fighting monsters. It feels just like always. It is nothing special. It is just what we excepted from the Doctor. But this changes slowly. With everything that feels wrong the atmosphere changes and it got darker and darker every time. I really like it. The story feels wrong and right at the same time.

Listing or not

First things first of course go and listen to it. It is amazing and if you love the eight Doctor and the stories around the time war, you are totally right here. But there is one important thing to know about this story. I think you can’t even buy it without the other adventure – by the way the Box ‘The Time War Serie’ has 4 adventures and after the stories you will find the soundtrack of the story.
So what I want to say is that this are not 4 adventures. It is more 4 parts of a story. So this story can’t stand alone. You have to listen to the other 3 too. The Starship of Thesus is the first part of the bigger story like a Prolog.

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February 22

Torchwood – The Dying Room

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here we are with the final of the third season of Big Finish Torchwood – The Dying Room. I must say that this story is the weakest, but still amazing. The story is not bad and i like the idea of telling the story.

Biggest and only problem

The problem I have with this story are the characters. We have 4 persons in this story. The two main characters. The first one is an SS-Offizier and the other is a man who get questioned by the SS. The whole story is about this and the story that leads to this. In the story that leads to this we have two more characters. Gabriel the son of the man and a lady the man met. But none of the characters get me. I don’t developed any feelings or likings for a character. That is why the story lost for me. Because no matter how good the story is when the characters are not sympathic than it is no good.

Story flow

The story is told in two levels. The first one is the interrogation and the second one is what the man tells his Interrogator. The first time I listened to the story I was really tired and got a little confused but when you listen to it when you are awake than it is really easy to follow. Like all the other Torchwood stories this one as a surprising turn. There were actually a few things that were clear for me but other stuff I didn’t thought of.

Listen to The Dying Room or not

Definitely go listen to the story. Yes it couldn’t get me but I still think it is a really great story. Also it is Torchwood so there is no reason to actually not listen to it. I am really excited for the next season. The have a few really promising combinations like Ianto and Owen but my favorite will be Andi and Norton.

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February 15

Torchwood – The Office that never was

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welcome to the next adventure of Big Finish Torchwood – The Office that never was with Ianto Jones. An Adventure with Ianto Jones as a main character can’t be bad. I am still not sure about what to thing about it. The story play in the 2000s obviously. But i don’t know were it plays in the serie… i would say somewhere in the second season.

Hunting Ghost

Ianto investigate an abandoned building. A Building that don’t like Ianto. Which sounds really stupid, but it is kinda fun at first. Lights not going on for him or lifts don’t let him enter. He met a woman in this building who can’t even remember her name. They try to find out what actually is wrong in this building and later to just leave the building.
I got really fast clear that someone has a problem with Ianto and it seems that what ever happend, he don’t remember anything.

Listing or not

It is an Ianto Jones adventure so totally yes. The story is good. We slowly find out what actually happend in the past. Ianto Jones has a darker side and this story is a little playing with it. The darker Ianto. When I think about the story the Adam story comes to my mind. It has not much to do with each other but it still seems conacted. Sometimes i forget the dark side of Torchwood. They never had a perfect solutionen. There are so often sacrifices. This story remembers me of that dark side of Torchwood. A side we schould never forget.

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February 8

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I listened to this adventure of Big Finish Torchwood before but I got not around to write about it. Torchwood_cascade_CDRip_tor is a really different story. I actually can never decide if I love this story or hate it. This is another adventure with Toshiko Sato, who get a phone call of an old friend from Torchwood. It plays in the 2000s in London. It actually plays a few month before the final of season two.

It is really hard to listen to

What makes the story so special is also what makes it so annoying. The story is about a computer virus. So your CD is not broken. All that sound fluctuations and the scenes that are mixed in and all that other stuff is intentional. It makes it really, really hard to listen to. But it also created a total different atmosphere. Truth be told I hated that way of telling this story but with the end… it is just kind of perfect. I love Tosh so much and this hurts really.

Computer Virus on the lose

So like I said before the story is about a computer virus. This computer virus is targeting people who are downloading stuff illegal. Steven an old Torchwood worker who can’t stop looking out for this stuff. Find these people dying and calls Toshiko for help. Toshiko obviously goes and help him. The chemistry between Tosh and Steven is really good and it brings back all the old Tosh/Owen feelings. This story is like all the other stories and works on his own. But there are so many little stuff in it that makes it so amazing. We hear Yvonne and we hear stuff that happened or will happen.

Listen or not

Yes please go and listen to this amazing story. This story is an amazing annoying masterpiece. It is everything. The story is full of love and feelings. Feelings of Tosh and Tosh feelings. Tosh is amazing and I really love her and this story.

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August 6

Torchwood: Corpse Day

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welcome to the third and at the time best Torchwood adventure this season ‘Corpse Day’. This is the first Owen Harper adventure and i was really excited about it. Owen was the only one that wasn’t back yet. But it is not just Owen. In this adventure he teams up with Andy what actually is a great combination.

Owen and the Corpse Day

Corpse Day is a day were Torchwood offers their help to the police. What most of the time don’t end well. Jack thought it would be funny to send Owen for this corpse day because he is a corpse. What actually makes it really clear at which time this is playing – between his two death.
After his death he got even more – i don’t find the right word for it.
We all know Owens history. We know that he was a doctor and what he lost and how he stopped believing in a good end. He is eaten up with the life.

I love Owen because he is for me a person were all the oppesits united. He is eating up about life but also has so much respect for life. He has hard and sarcastic shell and inbetween he is slowly dying because of his inability to save people.

Andy surprises me

We don’t know much about Andy and this story shows us another side of him. I don’t want actually say to much but i was surprised by Andys reaction. I would never thought he would reacted that way, but when you think about it, it is logic. It is Andy. It is a side we didn’t see because he never had a big part in Torchwood before. Here we see more sides of him. To pair Andy and Owen together with that kind of story is a masterpiece. They are the oppists of each other. Owen shows us a darker side of Andy. They made the character flaws of each other more visible.

The way it goes

I don’t want to say much because the story is great and not what you thought at the beginning. You can piece it together a little faster than Owen but it still goes in a direction i didn’t thought of. It starts as fun part because really Andy and Owen… but don’t except a funny and light story. The gets really fast really dark.
It is such a cruel and real story. It left you with a lost feeling. It leaves you with alot to think about.

Really this for now my favorite Torchwood story this season and here i really love the way they tell it, the way the leave the end. It is just all we need to make our own thoughts and our own decission about what this end is.

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July 30

Torchwood: The Dollhouse

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welcome to another adventure of Torchwood – The Dollhouse. Like every season there is at least one adventure about a person you don’t know or barely now. So this adventure is not just with persons we don’t know, we also leave the country. This story is taking place in America Los Angeles in the year 1970 with the three angels.

Charlies Angels

The whole story is built like ‘Charlies Angels’. I never saw the original serie but the movies. The movies starts with telling us the background story of the three angels and this is totally what happend here. So this is fun but also i wasn’t a big fan of the idea but it turns out to be really good. What i like is that here the unfair and hard reality that always was in Torchwood is still part of it. Torchwood is no fairy tale and the angel can not mysterical everything. They are so human in everything they do. I fall in love with this three people so fast and the best thing is the last scene. That is how the movie should have ended.

Do you want to be an actress?

The story is good. Young girls disapear and all of them wanted to be an actress. They all are by the same agent and a word in there files ‘Dollhouse’. Like i said the story is good. It is built so you just know as much as our angels. It has a little action, a little humor and a little dramatic. It has everything a good story needs. What i think is that they could have had a little more time on the topic what actually is going on. But that is just me and the more i think about it is maybe better that the gave a us just what they gave us.

So of you go to fight with our three angels.

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