February 14

Torchwood: More than this

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here we go with the last Big Finish Torchwood adventure – More than this – of the first season. It takes place after the 3rd adventure ‘Forgotten Lives‘ of this season. Gwen is actually doing what Rhys told her to do. She starts Torchwood again.

Seasonfinal – ordinary day

This isn’t a season final like we know it from TV stories. It is just a story like all the other. No big cliffhanger or something really game changing. But it is a start for the surviving of Torchwood. This is a story about Gwens ordinary working day. She is trying to rebuilt Torchwood and want a place to store all the aliens things. So she has to work with bürocrates and to explain what Torchwood is about. Gwen chooses the only way that makes sense to her and take the bürocrate out to work with her a day. So they met alot of different aliens. It is nothing special just an ordinary day what makes it in the end so special.

Special Guest

Gwen is this time alone with the bürocrates. But of course Rhys is still having a part in it. So they meet in some places Andi and we all know Andi, do we. In the end everything is about the bürocrate. He is telling us the story. He is lonely and he feels like humans are small and not insignificant. He lost his love and he doesn’t have faith anything anymore. It was just a accident. He forgot how precious life can be. This is a story about dealing with the pain and the ordinary day. About that we are not insignificant.

In the end i am really excited to listen to the next season. I hope that they are many to follow. Because this adventures are really amazing and i love all of them that are out now. So go and buy it and than listen to it and fall in love with Torchwood again and again.

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February 13

DW: Night Thoughts

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here we go with next adventure of big finish main range number 79 – Night Thoughts. This time we have the seventh Doctor with his companion with Hex and Ace. It takes place in Schottland 2006 after ‘Human Resources’. In the Doctors timeline would have been behind Survival (TV Serie). This adventure was the first adventure from big finish that was after a scrpit of the TV-Serie but never was filmed. After that big finish started the serie of Lost Stories. We start with a little information about Hex. This is my first adventure with him so lets see how he is.

Thomas Hector Schofield

His first appereance was in the 58 adventure ‘The Harvest’. He is human and works as a Doctor. He met the two when they came to investigate alien aktivity on the hospital he works. It seems like he saw Ace got into the TARDIS and want to know about it. Ace is showing him and is convinced the Doctor to take Hex with them. This is the fourth adventure with them so there is not much to know.
In the first two episodes i don’t think what i would think about Hex. He got scared and he is having this nightmare. But he made a few dump comments to and about the girl. So i did thought really highly of him but he changed my mind. He is actually really lovely, has a kind heart and his giving out hugs if they needed. So yes i am liking him.

Happy the rabbit

This episode is really good. Actually i would have loved to see this as an episode. Because this would made a perfect horror episode. All that amazing effects how could made with just so little… just that girl with the rabbit. This is really good stuff. Big finish did a really good job with the effects to create this horror atmosphere. First i thought the story would go in a different directions. We have Hex having a nightmare about a OP and Ace almost drowning in the river. This lead the three of them to a house somewhere in the nowhere. With 3 man and 2 woman and girl. There is going something going on. Someone is dying and that is just the beginning. Of course all are mistrusting each other, people get attack and so on. The Doctor is in the middle of it with his wondefull coments and ironic way of dealing with everyone. I can’t say anymore with out actually destroying the story for you.

This Story is amazing. One of the best horror stories in the last time. Just listen to it.

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January 30

DW: Pier Pressure

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welcome to the Big Finish main range vol 78 ‘Pier Pressure’ it featured the sixth Doctor and Evelyn (Infos about Evelyn). It plays in Brighton in the end of 1936 and takes so place after Players. In the Doctors timeline it is betweeen ‘Thicker than water’ and ‘The nowhere place’. I promised me alot from that story because Evelyn is playing in it, sadly in the first two parts she got to sit on the sideline. But actually the guest stars are fun. The voice of the character Albert reminds me of David Tennant.

We will have enough time for this

The six and the seventh doctor are gotten darker again. When we got to know Albert and his girlfriend Emily, Emily said that they had enough time for all that nonsense. So my first tought was that Albert will not survive it. Albert is cocky and jumps to every possiblity to prove himself. He wants to get to Warner Brothers. Emily on the other hand is the voice of reason. It is important to have a job and don’t play around.
I really like these two and so i like that they are in the action with the Doctor, but why does that mean that Evelyn has to sit in the TARDIS.

He will come around

This is the first time i am a little annoyed by Evelyn. In the first episode she gives the Doctor shit and don’t take any shit from him. That is the Evelyn that i love. But in the second episode the Doctor send her with Max Miller to the TARDIS and she is just going. Because the Doctor knows what he does. I think it is established that the Doctor never knows what he does. This is something that Rose would do… (Don’t get it wrong i love Rose). But why does anyone does that?

The evil

This story is dealing with a darkness that is amazing. I love storys were you don’t know if you have a happy end or not. If it is just an endless circle or will be there a winner? Where light is has to be a shadow. That are the best stories. I don’t want to tell you more than this because the end needs to be heart not read. Just one thing this story has a darkness I love about he sixth doctor. There is no holywood solution just the truth. I promised me more of Evelyn but it is an good story and hopefully we have alot more stories were Evelyn got more to do.

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January 22

Torchwood: Uncanny Valley

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welcome to the 5th big finish Torchwood adventure ‘Uncanny Valley’, which is a typical season one adventure. This was the weakest story so far but that doesn’t mean that it is a bad story. The Story is playing after ‘The Conspiracy‘ but i am still not sure when it should play.

I know what you are thinking

Jack is like the last time telling the story directly to us. This time it is not explained like the last time with a phone call, what actually a little sad but it doesn’t really matter. The kind of narration is placing you in the story and it gets you. It is a really good story for Jack Harkness. I for myself have enough of all the sex in the tv shows and i don’t want to tell to much but we have some here. Big Finish is here again remembers us of one thing that got a little lost in the fourth season. Jack Harkness is not gay. He likes guys, women, alien, anything you can have sex with and that was always why i liked him. Because he doesn’t care about something like race or gender. Also his way of seeing beauty is not bound to our sight. It is good that this is not forgotten.

What makes you human?

The story is nothing new but Torchwood don’t has any rules or no goes. So this is a story about someone that get something like a robot. This is a copie of him, which should do his life in the world for him because after a accident that put him in wheelchiar. Of course in this story it goes how this robot becomes kinda like human. It is his job to become like his owner but when you see them interacted or acted. They are very different from each other. But this is not what the story is about. It is more about how life can change you and that everything can turn against you. Even the comitee is not on the focus here. The Robot has to do with comitee, but we never got real information about what their plan is or what they are. It is more a drawing of a relationship that grows and breaks in the end. It doesn’t ask big questions. It makes all this question seem like it is totally normal.

It was fun to listen to John Barrowman again. Can wait for the next episode and the second season!

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January 16

DW: Other Lives

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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

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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

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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

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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 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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