December 15

DW: The War Doctor – Only the Monstrous: The Innocient

Hey Guys,

here we goes with the first Box-set of the Big Finish The War Doctor serie and we are talking about the first story The Innocient of this Box. What i think about the Box and if i will buy the others we will talk about it after i heart all three stories. So this Box like you can assume has three stories a 60 min. This are the three stories:
1.1 The Innocient
1.2 The Thousand Worlds
1.3 The Heart of the Battle

So in the next days i will write about the next two stories. One thing is clear John Hurt has an amazing voice and is perfect for a audio drama.

The start

We are in the middle of the time war. The Doctor already have done a lot of things that he is not prude of. He thinks about himself a monster and refuses to use his name the doctor. It is sad that we don’t now yet what makes him that way. But the Doctor has nightmares about this stuff so we maybe got to know more about it.
The first thing that happend is that the Doctor sacrifice himself to destroy the Dalek fleet. The time lords things that he is dead. I really dislike that start because it reminds me to much about the new Doctor Who seasons. But the story is good. The Doctor is badly hurt and a girl or woman is finding him and cares for him.

The nursemaid

She is nice and wants to help. The task to care for the Doctor is never an easy one. She is part of a peacefull civilisation that got attack be a race from their home planet they had to leave to hide from them. It is a little like the time war. The people had long forgotten what really started this war. The Doctor can just not stay away from getting involved in things like that.
I waited the whole time that this people are just fake or something bigger behind it and maybe there is but not in this story.

Nightmares

The nightmares are the most interessting part of the story, because it shows us what the Doctor became. He dreams of an accidient. The Daleks took innocient people as a shield so the time lords will not attack. Did the Doctor attack them? Did he make the choice to sacrifice a few for saving maybe everything else?

The first story is nice. But not just what i hoped for. I hoped for something dark and hopeless. But this story gives us hope and shows us that the Doctor is deep down still the Doctor. So we have to wait what the other stories had for us.

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December 5

UNIT: The longest Night

Hey Guys,
welcome to the best adventure of the UNIT serie and the sadest, because UNIT – The longest Night isn’t afraid of anything. So what do we have? This is definitily with a lot of Spoilers. Because i can’t tell anything about the adventure without talking about it.

For our people

This adventure is about a few bombing attack. The people that took the bombs are people that never have anything to do or contact with such extremes. It is really fast clear that they get brainwashed. This is the highlight of the serie. It is give us a conspirisousy that end in the last adventure of the serie. The story take loose ends and gave a few answers. It is not that i haven’t anything to criticize.

Jump and Jump

This is what really often happend in the Doctor Who Stories. But this is something i really dislike. That are the many jumps in scenes, places, times. They are so short scenes and it gets on my nerv. Also the news that are again and again in the story, getting on my nervs. It is in this story a working style medium but i hate this things. But this is just my opinion. But all that can not stop me from loving this adventure and a little bit hate because last point that will come now.

Spoilers

The Story starts with a big death or maybe death? Hoffmann have a great start and i love this character. He was strong, intelligent and reacted so fast. My thought was why we don’t get him or Dalton in the Doctor Who serie in UNIT. Now we know. We start with this sad death. I am very emotional after that. But it is not the only thing. Dalton has the whole adventure to play himself into heart and when he not already was there, he would after the singing in the car. So we get to see this sides on him, see him closer to his comrades, start to understand and love UNIT, we get to doubt him and we hope that he will the good and the living and it ends with his death.
Now i am a emotional tailcout.

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November 21

DW: Singularity

Hey Guys,
welcome to the 76 adventure – Singularity – of the big finish main range. It plays it the 21th centuary somewhere after Warchild and before the Seeds of Death. In the timeline of the fifths Doctor and Turlough it is somewhere after the Resurrection of the Daleks. I love this story from the beginning.

Turlough

He is one of the most interessting characters on Doctor Who. Is at the beginning unsympatic, always thinks first of himself, he does what is best for him, he isn’t into the magic around the Doctor, he is kinda bored the travling, the adventures. He changes the most of all Companions i remember. He got alot scene to show this to us. He is the one that talks Lena out of changing history. He is conaticing to these people. I love him. He is also one of the Companions that likes the TARDIS. He never saw her as a thing, he always saw her as a living creature. This is again in this Story showing.

Lena

Lena is the reason why i love the stories with the fifths Doctor so much. She is losing everything. Friends of her die because, they got involved with the Doctor. Because travling with him she got make choices nobody have. She is always struggling from the first moment she met the Doctor. She is one of the companion that is at a point where she wish she never met the Doctor. She is a person we need more on Doctor Who. Because she is right. Most times he makes a great mess without really helping. He wants to help but he not always really does. This is something we need to remember.

Story

The Story is really good. We have amazing characters that works very well in the storytelling. The bad guys are not really what they seems like. It is a little surprising and it is bringing the question up of punishing for a crime before comitted. For me this is a pretty good story.

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November 7

DW: Unregenerate!

Hey guys,
Wecome to the 70 big finish main range with the seventh Doctor and Mel. This Story take plae in London 1957 and 2007. In the Doctors time line it is somewhere after Time and the Rani. It must be shortly after the regeneration. This Story seems to have some significant to ‘The Doctor’s Wife’.

Starting

The beginning of the story is quiet irritating. We have a few jumps to people and situations we don’t understand yet. Their is someone making deals with people – like the devil – for research.
The doctor seems like also be test subject and he and mel are apart from each other.

More irritating

The voice kinds of irritazed me alot. Mels voice os very different and also the voice of the doctor is unfamiliar. In case of the doctor is because of the situation he is in -like he is crazy. But mels voice seems so different. For everyone who wants to know it is of course the same voice. But they somehow really feel different.

The end justified the means

This is what the story is about. The scientist want to create something new, for the safety of her kind and all time. Time Lords often have a special way to justify the means or just looking. These people know Time Lords or are they Time Lords? The Doctor is here the bad guy for them. Is security justify these experiments? Louis is an really interessting character which thing that the end is not always justify the means, but sometimes it does. His change and grow is good and he would be a good character to bring back.

After this story i think that i will start the Gallifrey Stories. They are just having the interessting themes.

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October 31

Hamatora: Season 1

Hey Guys,
when i visited the Connichi 2015 i looked into the serie Hamatora. The first to episodes were alot of fun and seemed like it could become very dark. So i bought it. If it really holds what i thought it promised me we will see here.

Simular

The first thing that came to my mind was that it is very simular to Get Backers. What is actually not a bad thing. I loved Get Backers. It was a funny serie with amazing characters and a very dark theme. Everything a story needed the only thing that was bad about Get Backers was the fanservice and that sometimes the sidecharacters had more story than my favorite maincharacters.
The setting is very simular they seem to be bancrot all the time, have mysterious powers and have their office in a cafe and are detektives. Even the two main characters are simular. Nice is a lot like Ginji. He is sweet, don’t care about money, he cares about people, and seems a little unwordly but just at the first look. Behind that they have a deep life experience and knows that he is important.
Murasaki is the one that looks at the money and is cool and don’t show much of his feelings, but cares alot behind that mask.
From the way the ‘enemy’ is acting it reminds me of Psycho Pass and that is not a bad thing either.

Two teams

So there are these one team Nice and Murasaki. Hajime is a girl that is often with them. She is always eating something and is the reason for alot of funny scenes. I am sure that she has powers too, but in the first two episode is nothing seen of it.
Than there is another Hamatora team – Bithday and Ratio. The team dynamic is simular. Birthday is the one that is always wants fun. He is flirting, eating and making magic tricks. Ratio is the silent guy that has problems showing his feelings – like they are alien to him.

Minimum Holder

That is the name for the people like the Hamatora crew – people with powers. It seems like these powers are no secret. Some people have this power and are so different to the other peoples. It also looks in the first two episodes that a few doctors seems to work with them. Which mostly isn’t something good. There are people like the Hamatora crew that take these powers to do good things and of course people they always met that using them to do bad things. So at first it looks very simple and the cases in the first to episodes seems more like fun cases but the cases in the second episode makes a turn and become very cruel. Also we learn from the first episode on that there is a serial killer that kills only Minimum Holder. So alot of potential to become more.

The Enemy

The one that seems to be responsibly for many things like the synthetic minimum holder going on his account. But is he responsibly for the murder? He is a little crazy but this is what makes it so interessting. He is working for a world were everyone is the same. He wants to make people stronger. But he opinion about strenght is not really right. For him people how can kill people are the strong ones and the people who want to punish them are the weak.

Relationships

Birthday and Ratio are pretty good team and always together. They have a conaction… they depend on each other. Ratio needs Birthday to live his life the way he does. Without Birthday he want fall into the deep black.
Alot of the stuff that is spoken about is about sameness, about being equal in their abilities. Can someone who is not a minimum holder be equal to a minimum holder and can they be friends. Can they conexist and give each other what they need? This is what this is all about. Art seems to not have minimum and is Nice friend. Sadly we don’t have much about the relationship between these two. I really hope we will have this relationship explored in season two.
Murasaki and Nice has also a really interessting dynamic. It seems like Murasaki is fighting to get Nice attention. Murasaki was always the best and than Nice came. Here again it is sad that we didn’t saw much about the relationship between them.

The End (with spoilers)

The serie is about tolerance, about being different and what it can mean. It is about human nature, about power and what to do with it. It is about choices and the serie is making a job. The serie is fun and gives us themes to think about. It is honest and warm and also cold and real.
It is sad that the relationship did come a little short but i hope this will come in season two.
And this season i need to watch now -right now.
How could they let it and like that? To everyone who had watch it (no spoilers for season two please), why do you think Art shot him? Do you think he really shot him? Why is Art still alive?

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October 24

DW: Arrangement of War

Hey guys,
Here we go with he 57 advenure of big finish main range.It takes place somewhere between the stories ‘Rain of Terror’ and ‘Ticker than water’. I actually would say that this takes place for the sixth Doctor after Peri and before Mel. He travels with Evelyn a character big finish created.

Evelyn

Evelyn is a companion i would love to see in the tv serie. She is an old professor of history and apears the first time in the big finish main range adventure “The Marian Conspiracy”. The relationship between her and the doctor seems complicated. I read a summery of her story. I understand it like someone tried to remove her family from existince. In order to save her the doctor tried to eliminated the influence and she somehow created a paradox.
But she starts traveling because she wanted to learn more and see the history with her own eyes. Important to know is that before this story the Doctor could save a girl and that is something Evelyn is carring with her.

We are not getting involved

The doctor promiswd evelyn that this time everything will turn out okay without their help. Evelyn need time without saving tje World, without the doctor. Of course it is impossible for the doctor to keep that promise. It started so small. He just gave a man an adivise.
But these advise can lead to war and invasion. So the doctor starts a dangerous play which of course goes wrong.

What this is really about

This story is about relationships. How do you make a relationship work? Can we change? Should we change? With what decisions can we live with and with one we doesn’t. Can we give up our love, because it would better for the country? Can we acctually live with that consequences? What is more important love or the country and how can you make that choice.
Evelyn is struggeling with how the Doctor handles things, who he let not show how it hurts him. She is not sure she can live with the consequences anymore. She can’t change him and she can’t change herself. She realize that they have to find a way to live with each other.
We also see the Doctor break down and this is one of the saddest thing that happend. The way the love story ends. The way the Doctor reacts to tragic events, how Evelyn get how the Doctor works and what he needs. They learn to understand each other better. This story is just the life.

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October 22

Torchwood: Fall to Earth

Oh my god guys,

this new story ‘Fall to earth’ of the big finish Torchwood serie is amazing and our lovly Ianto Jones is back. My life is back to perfect. That Torchwood and Ianto is back and i waited for it since the moment he…
The last time i thought about were the stories are taking place. Now we know that Tosh and Owen are also still there. From what Ianto tells it has to be somewhere in season one after Lisa.

Ianto on his own

Like Jack told them in the first adventure, he left to actually go after the conspiracy. The others are left to do the normal Torchwood stuff and Ianto is alone trying to find something important for the Conspiracy. Of course everything goes wrong. Why did he do it? Because he wanted to be accepted by the other what is one indicator for season one. Also he kinda want Jack back – even when it is not really told in this story. But when his phone ring he assoumend/ hoped that it would be Jack.
So he is on Board on a spaceship with all the other passngers died and something is really wrong with the ship. Ianto is trying to get the ship back undercontroll, but of course he has no idea how to do it.

Lucky accidents

Just right on time Ianto got a call from the call center. The woman Zeyneb wants to buy him insurance. Ianto get her to help him. Together they face a lot of trouble on the way. They have an amazing chemistry. She and Ianto have alot in common. So just the two of them works really well. It is much fun to actually listen to them. I want so much more of Ianto Jones right now.

I don’t want to say more, just listen to it.

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October 10

DW: The Axis of Insanity

Hey Guys,

so ‘The Axis of Insanity’ is the 56 adventure from the main range. The Story takes place somewhere after the ‘Resurrection of the Daleks’. The fourth Doctor is traveling with Peri and Erimem. I excatly not pretty sure when this story or all the Erimem stories are set in the timeline after the Doctor. It seems like it has to be after the goodbye of Thourlough. If someone knows better tell me.

Erimem

So what do we need to know about this companion? She appear the first time in the story ‘The Eye of the Scorpion’, which is the 24 adventure of ‘Big Finish Main Range‘. She is an uncrowned Pharao from the ancient egypt. When she started traveling with the Doctor at the age of 17. She as a great wisdom and wants to learn more. The Doctor offered her the chance of doing that. Along the travels with the Doctor she and Peri built a strong bond like sisters.

Mistakes of the Time Lords

This story is one of the most interessting. I love all the theme about Time Lord and their mistakes. This Story tells us what happend to the part of history the Time Lord changes. The mighting Time Lords are making mistakes that left their traces. We learn about the way Time Lords deal with their mistakes. They hide them and lock them away. It shows us a side of the Time Lords that they try to hide.
Also we see the graveyard of the TARDIS’s. The way they create the atmosphere is really amazing. I could see it before my eyes the way Erimem sees it. Beautifull and so sad.

Insanity

What is insanity or what sanity? The story apart from the really good theme about the Time Lords is really insane. Many parts of it seem unreal and crazy and other way to much real. It is life and it is fantasy. It is a special mix that defines the whole story. First it seems like only the Doctor get screen time but than Peri is out of the TARDIS searching for her. And the two first episode you think that Erimem is just there. But than she can shine too. Erimem had too little time but that time she has were really strong and good stuff.

In the end i really like the crazyness and the reality of the story. I like the way Time Lords play there part without being really a part of the story.

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September 26

DW: The Creed of the Kromon

Hey Guys,
here comes ‘The Creed of the Kromon’ the second adventure in the Divergent Universe with the eighth Doctor and Charley (Sherzo was the first adventure). It is the 53 part of the Big Finsh main range and plays somehow after Sherzo.

New Characters

The Doctor and Charley get to know alot of new people. One of the C’rizz is a future companion. C’rizz is a really interessting character. He is loyal and intelligent. He do stuff on his own and don’t wait for the Doctor and his plans. He is not impressed with the Doctor talents, he just like him. The most i love his sacrsm. He is ready to do would has to be done. The Ooorg is another friend. That is a big help for them in the story.

Kromon

The Kromon held other species captive and make them their willing slaves with a fluid they have to drink. They let them work for them and breed for them. C’rizz escaped from them and met the Doctor and Charley. But he is not long free. The Kromon capture them all. The Kromon is a specie that is from the structure totally defierent from the humans. So the do alot of science. The planet they are living on has not enough water for the Kromon, because of the twos suns they have. So they want travel in Space and they also make experiments to clone them.

Break out

The story is alot about break out, get captured and break out again. All three characters have a lot time to shine and their own. Even when it is the same in the episodes it is never boring. C’rizz is making the story really interessting. This story shows us again that Doctor Who doesn’t live because of the Doctor. This story is carried by C’rizz and his interaction with the Ooorg and Charley. The chemistry between them is really amazing and also the chemistry between him and the Doctor is working really good. So we will have a lot of fun with these three characters.

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September 16

Torchwood: The Conspiracy

Hey Guys,
today the first adventure of the big finish Torchwood story ‘The Conspiracy’ arrived and ineeded to write about it right now. Because nothing is more lovely than that. Oh yeah it is, because they had anounced that Ianto will be back. Everything is perfect. So lets actually talk about what the first adventure holds for us.

See again

First of all the first adventure is just with Captain Jack Harkness. We don’t have anyone else the team. But it plays when there still was a team. He talked to Gwen on one point. I am not sure when it plays. Torchwood seems to still exist and Gwen is part of it. So technically it had to play before Children of Earth. Which would mean Ianto is still alive. But other than that i don’t know. I am listening again right now to find a date.

Back to old times

It started like we all know Torchwood ever start. So you are from the line totally back into Torchwood mode. They way the adventure is built is a little special. I don’t like the way. Jack is talking to us. He is telling as happend and there are just scene played by them. We have Jack talking than a scene and than talking again. Than we also a youtube blog between the interview Jack is holding. It’s not a real flow. But that is just my liking. And to be honest it give alot worst than listening to Jaohn Barrowman.

The Commitee

I don’t want to talk to much about the story. Because you all should be buy it and hear it for yourself. But we have talk about it a little bit. So it goes about a guy named George Wilson. He talks about an alien invasion form the inner circle. There is theis group -the commitee – that will destroy human race and take the earth. There are not coming and attacking with spaceships. They are doing it buy getting their man into all positions like in the goverment and so on. So it will be a big story fight them. Which could really interessting and worthy opponent. There is not much happing in the first adventure. It is just like a long prologue for a bigger story and you just got the important information.

I can’t wait to hear the next adventure. The next adventure will be out in october.

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