May 16

DW: Legend of the cybermen

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welcome the 135th Big Finish Monthly Adventure ‘Legend of the cybermen’ with the sixth Doctor and Jamie. It also have a little surprise we also met Zoe. The story is placed in the Land Fiction. We know this Land from the story ‘The Mind Robber’.

Figuring out what is going on

This story is the last part of the three parter. So we find out what is behind all of it. The cybermen are invading the Land of Fiction. It seems logic… or not. All the people of the other stories were trying to help in the war against the cybermen. We have quiet a special group that is fighting here. We got Dracula, Alice and Artful Dodger that all fight together. Which actually on his own already create a great and interesting dynamic.

New questions

It seems logic that they all fight the cybermen and that cybermen found a way to convert the people of the Land of Fiction. But how are they came there and what do they want there? This the mystery we try to solve in this story. I really like how this whole adventure turns out.
I tried to solve this puzzle until the end and always thought of a new surprise.
There is a part where Jamie gets his memories back and I love what they did with it. How he questioned the Doctor. It is just single question that so many companions asked themself. ‘Why did he ever came back?’ It is not just Jamie and Zoe. He left Jo and Sarah-Jane… and he never got back. Once he left he never looks back.

Such a mess

I love the story. I love the silliness of all this characters fighting together and great to see the totally different characters in unlikely friendships. A friendship between Alice and Dracula? It is fun to see this. Zoe and Jamie back with Doctor is so great to see. You can hear how much he cares about these two. But with memories of Jamie it also creates a sadness about the reality of the Doctor. So yeah go and listen to the last adventure of Jamie, Zoe and the sixth Doctor.

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May 15

Torchwood: Deadbeat Escape

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welcome to the last adventure of the 4th season of Big Finish Torchwood ‘Deadbeat Escape’ with Bilis Manger. So you can imagine that this is one of the adventures I wasn’t that excepted for. I never really like the character or found him that interesting. But everything that Big Finish had touched so far turned to be amazing. So yeah this story is no different.

Do you really want to check in

The Travelers Halt is hotel shortly before Cardiff and have seen better days. What is the mystery of this hotel and Bilis Manger that will all know from the Torchwood story ‘Captain Jack Harkness’. Hywel Roberts wants to stay in the hotel for one night because of the pouring rain. He is on his way to see is ill father. Just to find out that he is stuck in a trap. The whole is a big trap.

The mystery of Bilis

Like I said before I never interested in this character. So maybe I also forget a lot about him. What I remember is that he got out and wanted to feed on people and so Jack gave his life. So for me he was just another bad guy. But was he really a bad guy. He doesn’t look like a good guy. But this story makes me thing that there is way more to his character than just being the bad guy and I find myself asking who he really is. Why he can travel in time and what he believes in and what fights for. I starting to be interested in his story, his background. What is the mystery of this man.

The reason I love this story so much is because you never know the role of Bilis. Is he the one who set the trap, does he try to help them or does he just use them to get what he wants. You never really know and that makes it so good.

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May 9

DW: The Wreck of the Titan

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welcome the 134th adventure of the Big Finish Monthly Range ‘The Wreck of the Titan’ with the sixth doctor and Jamie. Everyone that had listened to the previous adventure ‘The City of Spires‘ knows that this story will be impossible to place. It has a lot of dates but nothing is quite right.

The Titans

The story brings the Doctor and Jamie to the Titanic and of course exactly to the moment were the Titanic is about to hit the iceberg. But something is wrong on the ship. It seems to have only two people on board and doors lead to nowhere. Before the Doctor can find out what is going on, the land on the Titan. A ship that will crash with an iceberg.

New friends

The story has only a few characters on it. Mostly there are just four. Jamie, the Doctor, Tess/Myra and Teddy/John. It is really interesting to see the four of them interact. Jamie has a lot of time with Tess/Myra. It is so good to have Jamie back. I really love how easy Jamie can adjust to the situations. The world is new and changed but he just takes it and deals with it. He doesn’t know the words but he still understands what is going on. I missed him so much.

Listen to it

It is not just bringing back Jamie which is amazing but also the relationship he has with the sixth Doctor is so great. The story is such a mess. It is great to try figure out what is actually going on and how it all fits together. Also I am really excited to see where this all will lead. How they explain what was going on in these two stories and why Jamie still doesn’t remember the travels with the Doctor.

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May 8

Torchwood: Instant Karma

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welcome to the 23rd adventure of Big Finish Torchwood ‘instant Karma’ with Toshiko Sato. She developed algorithms to find patterns. This patterns lead her to a group of people.

Anger

It is a group to help people who have this anger in them. But it doesn’t seem like it really helps them but that the leader is using them. I mean it is so easy. How many times were you angry at people. Go to the supermarket and there is a 50% chance that someone does something that annoys you. I work in the gastronomy. How time do I want slap our guest because they make a stupid comment or they be aggressive to you. This anger this story is about that is an anger that everyone knows.
Obviously we don’t want to kill them. But if you have this ‘gift’. So easy to give in to this anger. If you give in this anger. Anger can become so fast hatred.

The danger of charismatic people

This story is not just about anger but about people who are charismatic and tries to use this. People that can talk can be so dangerous. With this anger and charisma it is easy to make people follow you. Because they want to believe. But it is so easy to lose control. This story is so close to reality. I mean they have abilities but even without this ‘gifts’ it something that happens. charismatic people are out there using the anger, hurt of other people for their benefits.

happy endings

When you look at the stories of Toshiko Sato there is always such a sad end. She lost so much and still tries to believe so hard in people. It is a gift and a curse for Tosh. This need to help and save everyone and so often failing not because not good in what she does but because humans are not that good. I love her so much and I love that adventure.

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May 1

The Omega Factor: Drawn to the Dark

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welcome the last adventure of the 3rd Box Set ‘Drawn to the Dark’. I am really sad that the series end here. I informed myself that there is still one new adventure it is an audio book. As soon as I have new money I will get it. This is a really good last story.

Black Outs

Anne get asked for help. Grace has black outs. She doesn’t remember anything but comes back dirty and with strange bottles. It seems that something is buried and Grace is trying to find it. Adam has a bad feeling about it. Something is down there and it isn’t anything good. It seems that this something wants to break out.
This time Adam has to use his abilities different from before and even Morag has to use different approaches.

Doyle

Finally Adam and Anne realize that Doyle is acting weird or weird than he had in the second Box Set. I really wished we had seen how Doyle had handled all that but Vanessa has her own plans. She also seems to know what is buried down there and she wants to use it for herself.
Maybe this is the thing about Omega, that everyone actually just wants the most power for his own. It doesn’t feel like the group is holding together. It is more like everyone working for himself.

The Darkness

This time our friends are up against the Darkness. It really feels like the great showdown. A few mysterious are coming to light. It is not an end. It gives us so much more questions and possibilities. There is so much more ahead. I still hope that Big Finish will at some point bring it back. There are so much more stories left to tell. So many things happened at the end and I want to see how they handle the consequences of this adventure. But it is also end you can live with…and sadly has to.

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April 28

Lethbridge-Stewart: Mutually Assured Domination

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I finally came round to read the fourth adventure of Lethbridge-Stewart ‘Mutually Assured Domination’. Yeah I know I get really confused with the order of the books. This book takes places after ‘Beast of Fang Rock‘ and before ‘Moon Blink‘. This time Lethbridge-Stewart is facing the Dominators which we know from Doctor Who ‘The Dominators’ with the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe.

Old acquaintance

In this adventure our Brig works with an old acquaintance that we also know from Doctor Who ‘The Web of Fear’. The Brig doesn’t have a good opinion about the journalist Harlod Chorley. But Chorley stumbles over a few coincidences that all seems to conact to Dominex.
I really like the dynamic between Chorley and Lethbridge-Stewart. The gone both through the same together and handle it really differently. I kinda hope to find them working together more often. Sadly Bill Bishop at in this adventure a really small role.

Dominex

Dominex Industries is a nuclear waste firm that promise cheap energy. People in high places are blended by this promise and make it really hard for the Brig to act against them. The story itself is not one of my favorites. But I love the characters and how the interact with each other. I love to see the Brigs calling friends that are ready to fight with him without much question asked. They are great characters and I love how the old chaps are ready to follow our young Lethbridge-Stewart.

A win

Finally we are at the point were Lethbridge-Stewart is official starting to built UNIT. He is choosing his team and I am real love to meet all this characters again. I already love his team so much. So yeah I will start read the next book as soon as possible. Hopefully I will read the right one next.

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April 25

DW: The Architects of History

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welcome the 132nd Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Architects of History’ with the seventh Doctor and Klein. The story takes place in 2044 in an alternate reality. Klein used the TARDIS to build a new Reich by creating new time lines again and agin until she likes it.

The web of time

Klein is using the TARDIS to eliminate traitors or other threats before they come up. She abusive the power she got. She had built a new Reich but it is never quiet right so she never stops. But in this story so many things happen that she hadn’t seen in the future. There are two ‘rebels’ that worked against Klein. We have the Doctor in a cell and three big ships of the Selachians. But the biggest problem for Klein is that the TARDIS gets destroyed.

The dark in the people

This story shows us again new sides of Klein. Who she is and who she became to get want she wants and never quiet get it. But we also get to see the darkest sides of the Doctor. How he manipulated and make alliance with people he shouldn’t. It even makes the Doctor uneasy. He doesn’t want to be this person. But in the end it is him. It is a part of him and he can’t erase it. He can and most likely will fight against this side over and over again.

Listen or not

I love it. The fight inside the Doctor. He wants to save everyone but he also need to repair the damage Klein did and he can’t do both. It is great. Klein and the Doctor trying to out smart each other. Both always on their heals to be not manipulate by the other. It is a really good story to end the story around Klein.

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April 24

The Omega Factor: Phantom Pregnancy

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welcome to the 3rd adventure of the 3rd Box Set ‘Phantom Pregnancy’. This is a really good story. It is shows us so many sides of our characters. They found a woman levitating. She is a refugee and comes to Department 7 because of the levitating.

Scientist

The woman Tatara is not only levitating but also caring a child. Anne things that she only have the power because of the pregnancy. She is really excited because she feels like there are shortly before a break throw. That are the reason Anne lost herself a little in her work.
Adam on the side is on edge the whole time. He is always tiered and looses his temper and has cramps.

On edge

The interesting thing about the story is the tensions between Anne and Adam. They have really different approaches. They worked very well together the last times. But she scientist and he just want to save and help people. You got the feeling that Adam is becoming unsatisfied with his situation.
Morag also have not an easy job protecting Adam. I like that Morag and Anne just would do everything to protect and save Adam. He is so important to many people.

I really like the episode. Like I said before this Box Set has only great episodes. This is actual my favorite Box Set. The atmosphere is not always dark but it always get that dangerous vibe at the end. That something is coming, like the end is near. In a way it is right since this is the last Box set and the next adventure the last.

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April 21

DW: Ripper’s Curse

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welcome to the IDW DW Vol 2 ‘Ripper’s Curse’ with the eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory. This story takes place at the 30th September 1888 and 9th November 1888. Like the name says it is about Jack the Ripper. The story goes over three chapters. What I like the most about this story are the drawings. I really like the style.

A typical Ripper case

Jack the ripper is a really interesting murder case. There are so many different takes on what happened and who he murder was. I think almost everyone had seen the movie with Johnny Depp ‘From Hell’ but this is just one of the many movies, series and books that had used the mysteries around Jack the Ripper. Now it is Doctor Who turn and sadly I am disappointed.

I don’t to say much about the story of this comic. Because everyone know the story. The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive when the third victim was found. The Doctor actually find out really fast what is going on. There is no investigation to find out found is going on. They just throw a few names around. Also the dilemma of letting a person die to protect the bigger picture… to protect the web of time, doesn’t have a big role.

The don’t take time to explore this feeling of guilt or the consequences Amy’s interference had. No they just let it slide with sometime times just heals themself. I had hoped for something like in the episode ‘Rosa’. That you actually see and feel the emotions the regret, the curse of doing nothing. Sadly nothing of it comes here into play. The ripper case is closed.

Sadly for it wasn’t the best take on this story. I have seen a lot better versions. But did I told you how amazing the drawings are? They are really lovely.

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April 18

DW: Survival of the Fittest

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welcome to the 131st Big Finish Main Range Adventures ‘Survival of the Fittest’ with the seventh Doctor and Klein. Before we get the main story there is a short story about Kleins history. We find out what let to the events of ‘Colditz‘ and give us an idea of what had happened in this story. This story takes place in 1962 and 1965 in Klein alternate timeline. The ‘Survival of the Fittest’ is placed around the year 2440.

Kleins Story

We get the story behind Klein. So even without ‘Colditz‘ you understand the story and her. You get a really good take on her character in this story. I really like it that we get so much time on her back story. We find out how she come to use the TARDIS and what Johann Schmitt had to do with all of it. The story not just give us a great picture of her, it also shows us a side of the Doctor that I love and many people like to ignore. His dark side.

The Vrill and Winterlack

The Doctor and Klein arrive in a cave and find a species that is like big insects that communicate by smell. Thank god that the TARDIS can even translate this language. The Vrill have two big problems. The first is a Vrill warrior that kills everything in his way also the new hatchlings. The second is the winterlack. Nor Klein or the Doctor know what the winterlack are but it killed so many of the vrill. It seems like only 4 Vrill have survived the winterlack.

On their own

To call Klein a great companion would be wrong, but she is amazing and really interesting. She can analyse a situation and knows to hold herself against the unknown. You never quiet know what she is up to and if the concern for the Vrill is true. It is really hard to tell if she learnt or just waits. But that makes her such a great addition. The Doctor is way trusting even with not trusting her.

Listen or not

I really like this story. The story around Klein is really interesting and can’t wait to see how this all works out. Also the Vrill are really sweet. The name giving is great. Butterfly for a warrior this is so the Doctor. Let’s go and listen to this great story.

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