January 10

DW: Companion Chronicles – Star Born

Hey Guys,

here we go with the new adventure of Vicki and the first Doctor in ‘the Companion Chronicles’-serie. It is the 9th adventure of the 8th season and play in London early 20th centuary. In the timeline of the Doctor it most be shortly after Rome, that would be ‘the romans’. That means Ian and Barbara are on board of the TARDIS. This is one of my favorite travel group.

A story about Vicki

It is like that. Of course it is really good that Vicki has such a big role because it is her story, but Ian, Barbara and the Doctor completely changeable. The role are so little that it also could be Dodo and Steven… or someone else. But Vicki is really well written and can totally shoulder the story on her own. The Story is a nice idea. Vicki get warned that when she will step in the TARDIS again she will die. The person that whats to save her is nobody else than herself. Vicki is an interessting character and make that story work really nicely.

Time

The only point i have is the time thing. How much time did they spend on that planet to develope that friendship? For me this friendship thing is to fast and not really believeable for me. Also Vicki seems to know the Doctor very well, what is a little special because she doesn’t know him very long. ‘The Romans’ is the second adventure together and Vicki hasn’t seen many side of the Doctor at that time, but she knows him in that story good enough to know he will do anything to save them. This is what takes a little away from the story. But this can only be me.

Fazit

The first story read by Maureen O’Brien (DW: Frostfire)was for deficult to listen to. This story his more pleasant to listen too. It is a really good story and Maureen did a really good job reading the story. It is sad that the role of the other are so little but it don’t take anything form the story. Vicki is shining in this episode and i can recommand it. It is a really good story.

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December 27

DW: Last Christmas

Hey Guys,
i hope you all had a nice christmas. I found the time to watch the christmas special of Doctor Who and to be honest i don’t know if i like it or not. It has a lot good things in it and a lot things i don’t like. So it isn’t easy to decide. But let’s just start.

Dreams

The start is rediculios. Santa is crushing on Claras roof and than the Doctor is coming and they both go to the nordpol expedition with an alien problem. I just can decide if this is just so Doctor Who or rediculios or just both. But the idea behind all that is really good. I love this theme. What is reality and what is a dream and how can you know what is real. This is really interessting.

Movie hommage?

Everyone can see that this is Alien. The monster that is jumping at the face and everything, but it is nice to watch. There are few nice dialoges and i don’t think this is a bad thing. The dream in dream thing remembers me a little of Inception and by the ‘Hohoho’ at the end i must think about Die Hard ( but this is just me – i think).
All that is not a bad think but it left me with a feeling like something isn’t right – what is maybe the best think about it, but like i sad i am not sure.

Clara and the Doctor

I love the relationship between Clara and that Doctor. They don’t can with each other and not without each other. They are lying and playing each other, but deep down the love each other and wants to protect each other. This is so realistic. The scene in the slide is heartwarming and the best in the whole movie.
I think that Clara should have stayed old. It would be a good and very Doctor ending for her. The second chance just doesn’t feel right. It feels of and yes you can say it is a christmas wonder and that we needed after all that a good ending, but i don’t think this had to be a bad end. Because Clara is strong woman and she knows that Danny wants her to live so she would have an good life even without the Doctor…

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December 27

SJA: The Last Sontaran

Let’s start with season 2.

Marias father has a job offer in America and they want to go. This episode Maria is seeing what she is giving up and we see more about the wonderful relationship between Maria and Sarah Jane. But we also see this really childish side of Sarah Jane. I like when we see that side of Sarah Jane.

Luke and Clyde just have an amazing friendship and goes wandering in the woods. Sarah Jane don’t want them to do it but of course they do and find the spaceship. Sarah Jane is really afraid of this, because she knows which spaceship it is. A Sontaran.

Marias father is totally sweet. How he tries to  make Mr. Smith on. Also i totally love how he totally lives for Maria. But i don’t like this job offer because it changed everything. My ship sunk, also Maria will be gone. I don’t like they girl that take Marias place. But we will talk about it the other time.

 

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December 22

SJA: The Lost Boy

Hi,

Maria has to deal with her father worring about all that aliens things. Also there is a family searching for his son, that seems to be Luke. Marias Mother called the police and they took him from her.

Mr Smith conformed that Luke is the boy that are missing. So Sarah Jane trying to let go of Luke, but Luke don’t want to be with this family. He wants back to his mam. Also we see that the parents aren’t normal. But Clyde and Maria don’t want to give Luke up. So they try to visit him. Clyde thinks the thing stinks and get to Sarah Jane to analyse the picture and Clyde find out that Mr Smith is part of everything. Clyde is in Mr Smith and tries to tell them what is going on. He made contact with Allan.

The only thing i don’t like about the serie is that the Slytheen. The are a really weak monsters. But the begann to work together against Mr Smith.

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December 20

DW: Destiny of the Doctor – Babblesphere

Hey Guys,
so here we have the fourth adventure of the ‘Destiny of the Doctor‘-serie with the fourth doctor and Romana II read by Lalla Ward and Roger Parrott. It plays on the planet Hephastos. Also with all the hints from the story it seems that the story plays after the episode ‘The Leisure Hive’ before Adric is joining the group.

Story about our own world

This Story is about something that is called the Babblesphere that also could be called internet. Of course here in Doctor Who, the babblesphere is a room, where your conscious mind is and you can’t just go out anymore. No thought is private. For me it is like the internet just a little bigger and so on. They tell the story how everyone lost themself on this babblesphere. They just stopped wanting doing something else. The stop going to work and just shatter in the babblesphere.
There is going something more on, because at the start of the story someone get killed by the programm. Also it plays with the theme of computers take the power. The people built this programm to overview the babblesphere but this programm begann to think that he don’t know this people anymore.

Play a game

Romana is lovely and i think the characters are really well written. Romana have a lot of action the first part is mostly about her and this is a really good thing. Also it is fun to here they play that game. They play the game lists of 5 things to overwheel the programm. They are a few fun things in it. Romana list the former presidents of gallifrey or the 11th doctor give a list of his favorite foes and so on. It is fun.

Fazit

It is a nice story and it has some really atcual theme but i find at really hard to listen to it. I don’t know what it is but i always almost start sleeping when i am listing to it or i just began to blend the voices out. I need to hear it three times before i had the whole story. So for me it is one of the weekest part of the serie.

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December 18

DW: Destiny of the Doctor – Vengeance of the Stones

This audio book is the 3rd part with the third doctor of the ‘Destiny of the Doctor‘- Serie and it is read by Richard Franklin and Trevor Littledale. It plays in the Doctors UNIT time and i would say it plays after Liz is going to leave the Doctor and before Jo will take his part. This is the story how the Brig and the Doctor will meet Mike Yates. Bentons role is sadly not big.

UNIT is needed

UNIT get called after two jets just disapears. Of course the Brig and Doctor are on the scene and they work really closly with Mike Yates – who we all know.
The most fun of this story is the relationship of the Brig and the Doctor. The Doctor is saying something and the Brig let him do what ever he wants and than behind the back of the Doctor he is doing the opposite. This is who the work and why we love them so much. So the audio book is doing a good thing here. The characters are in Character and lovly as ever.

Aliens against humanity

The Doctor founds out about the stone circle and the alien that are behind it. This aliens take Mike to get information to fight against the human. They hate them and want revenge for all the people that died thousands of years ago. The Doctor is trying to talk them out of it. Because all that humans that did this are not alive anymore. But when he had a step forward UNIT is stepping in and is ready to take weapons to save Mike.
This is where everything will go complicated.
They are UNIT which wants to save the earth and do this with fighting against this aliens and the aliens what to fire their superweapon at the humans. But the Doctor get form himself the job to find another solution.

Fazit

It is on of the best of this serie. The characters are fun and everyone that love Mike Yates most hear this audio book, because this is the beginning of Mike Yates in UNIT. I can only recommand that.

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December 8

SJA: Warriors of the Kudlak

Children went missing and Sarah Jane tried to investigate.

Luke tries to be funny and makes fun of a name and this is the child that went missing. So Luke things that what he did. We see here Clyde and Luke boned more and more. Clyde goes after him to be there for him and also he calls them friends. So we have a typical groups. Luke and Clyde and the second Maria and Sarah Jane. Maria and Sarah Jane are investigating and Clyde tries to explain the world to Luke. There is a lasertag game and Clyde just shows him, what it is like by going to it. Luke has pretty good reflexes and is really good at that game a lot better than Clyde. But the make a good team.

Of course they are so good that the get to the spaceship. Sarah Jane and Maria finds out what Kudlak is doing on earth. Kudlak, who take the children, is fighting in a war and they needs new soldiers. Childs like to play war games so it is totally okay to but them in a real war.

Clyde is the one that talks and Luke how tries to figure things out. It is really fun to watch them.

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December 5

SJA: Eye of the Gorgon

Clyde brings them to a hunted house. Maria is at home and her mother is visting again. So she fights with her mam. Her Mam don’t want her to not hang out with Sarah Jane and Luke. Her father tries to be there for her and she is angry because he is just so calm about it. He is finished about it but Maria is not. That is what i love about sience fiction series. The real world problems. It is not easy to go through the divorce and this is really good shown in here.

When her father is turned to stone and Maria lose it. She was so strong all that time and know she lose it and gave Sarah Jane the fault for it. Of course she doesn’t really think that but is so human and it is really amazing.

Clyde and Luke beginn to form a friendship. They have totally different ways to deal with things but i think that makes them a really good team.

 

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November 28

SJA: Revenge of the Slitheen

So,
Maria and Luke go to the new school. Luke is of course the boy from the first episode Sarah Jane adopted. Luke is totally clueless. Clyde is a boy from school, who is interessted in Maria, but Luke is part of it.  Clyde found Luke special.

Luke feels like he don’t fit into all that. He don’t like school and want to stay at home. This is a problem many people have. He don’t fit in and that is a real society problem. I like Clyde but people like him make it for many people really difficult. But also he is totally interessted in him. He tried to talk with him, but Luke is just special. He doesn’t know anything about society. He has to learn all these things.

Science problems are interessting for him so. His first action on school is to give the Slitheen the solution for there problem.

Clyde  found about the aliens and handle it pretty well. Also he is actually pretty good at seeing the little things.

Sarah Jane did something we know from the Doctor, give them a chance to turn away.

In this episode you see why it is so much deeper than a few Doctor Who epiosdes. The Slitheen has a child with them. At the end they are trapped in the door and will die. The father is begging for his sons live and Sarah Jane wanted to save them. When Clyde was happy that the win, she is saying that it was a child. That is the amazing thing about Sarah Jane Smith.

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November 25

UNIT: Time Heals

Guys, i did it, i listend to the first volume of UNIT and i love it. I started it a few times before but everytime i lied down to just listen i begann to sleep. But not today i was awake to hear that really good audio play.

The Brig

I of course borght it because the Brig is having a part in it. I love the character and i totally love his voice. The role of the Brig is not that big. He wants to enjoy his retierment. But he don’t never just sit still when something happend and he did really good work. We can saw he sees things. Things the other don’t see so fast, because they don’t have his experience.

The changes at UNIT

UNIT is in a complicated position. IRIS are making their own thing and are the enimey for UNIT. The Miltary wants his own investigation team under their comant and the public wants to know everything about UNIT and the things that are going on. It makes it diffecult to interact like they did before. When this exident happend the CEO of UNIT got missing and the became someone new. Someone that knows the former incommant woman of IRIS. Someone that don’t believe in the impossible. Someone that wants answers but is not ready to except them.

This could make a difference

We have these two scientists that are investigate a mashine/spaceship. What they did have mass influence of the surrounding. They talk about sacrifice people for the greater good – for their scienes. Sometimes it could be worth it. But is it ever worth it? This scientist are working for IRIS and they decide to sacrifice people so they could do their job.

So yeah i love it, because it has the Brig and UNIT and yes the story is something new, but what is new. I hopefull find the time to hear the second volume.

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