January 21

DW: Twice upon a time

Hey Guys,

i finally watched the Christmas Special of Doctor Who – Twice upon a Time. There are many reason that i didn’t watched it before. At first i just forgot my Laptop so i could watch at my parents. Than a friend wrote me that her friend watched and she said that it was full of misogynist jokes. So i just didn’t watch it. Also i had alot of fears about this story and Moffats made them all real.

My favorite Doctor

Truth be told when i got be asked who my favorite Doctor is i still say it is the Tenth Doctor but i love the first one. He was soo different and grumpy and old. He was just not nice. Hartnell was perfect in this role and i was really afraid of what Moffats will do to him. First i think the Actor David Bradley did a really good job. But the way he has written… oh my god… now i hate the first Doctor. In this christmas special he is an misogynist asshole… the jokes are funny. The words ‘young lady’ feel like a … i am missing the word…

The first Doctor was an grumpy old man. Yes but he never talked to Barbara that way. He never talked to Polly – in the episode i could watch – like that. He never talked to Vicki like that. The young lady was mostly for Susan – his granddaugther – when she didn’t do what he says. Was he overprotect of her and sometimes didn’t take her serious. Yes, but this had many reason one is that refused to see that she has grown up. For him she will was be his little granddaugther.

Regeneration

The next think i hate is the Regeneration… the first one didn’t refused to regenerate. He accepted his fate. He knew he was going to die. He died because of old age. He was ready and Moffats just takes that from him.

That Twelfth doesn’t want to regenerate is okay. That i can live with. Than there is this nameless Captain that get involved in all that. And i just liked the idea that this captain was just some guy. At some point the first Doctor asked ‘why he so important’ and the answer was every is important to someone and i really liked this. But than in the end… he isn’t just one random guy. No he is the grandfather of one of the most important person in the Doctors life. Someone that new so many of regenerations and were so good friends… no random here… of course not.

Story with an anticlimax

The story was really weak. I saw the twist with Bill from start and i hate the idea of Testimony. The only thing i liked about it was that there was no evil master plan… i missed this. But Testimony can bring everyone and i really dislike that. We are more than memories. Sometimes you just has to let go of people. It is hard, but YOU have the memories about them. There is no need to bring them all back like that. But yeah we cheated death again… and we could bring back Clara… and Bill. Don’t get me wrong i love Clara and i love it when they bring people back like memories or they met again…

But i can live with the story and i can live with Testimony. Also i can live that Bill and Clara were back for the goodbye of the twelfth Doctor.

Unnessassary

What is way harder to live with is the whole unnessassary bunch of stuff… like Rusty… it so doesn’t make sense. There was so much more but i forget about it while i was writing this stuff… but in the end it doesn’t matter. I really, really dislike this christmas special… oh yeah Polly and Ben were unnessassary too… i don’t mean the original part. I mean the three seconds with new actor who looks totally unreal? Like they are wearing really bad wigs…

So yeah back to what i was saying in the end i am just happy that is over. I wasn’t a big fan of the the Doctor is a woman idea. But i am so ready for it now. She is a great actor and i can’t wait to see what Chibnall is doing with it. Maybe… Doctor will really become one of favorite shows again…

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October 4

DW: Reign of Terror

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welcome back to the last adventure of the first doctor who season – Reign of Terror. Sadly to episodes of the story are lost. On the DVD these two episodes are reconstracted with animation. The fotoage is missing but both episode have the full-length audio soundtrack of the original. The animation is… I have seen why better animations. But the look of them are not bad. Just little passive? Just for information the missing episodes are the 4th and 5th.

The story plays in late July 1794. It tells us the Happings of the days before the 27th July. Ian finds out really fast that they landed in the France Revolution.

Welcome to France

I love stories like this. The Doctor and his companions are involved in this but everything would happen if they would be there or not. They don’t change history, they don’t save history or someone. Everything they do just is important maybe for the people around them. But the bigger picture is untouched by this. We learn about the down fall of Robespierre. There is so much information in this story about the history.
Also Barbara tells us something really important. Ian is quick to say ‘he deserved what he got’. Barbara points out that this is easy to say but not true. She makes clear that both sides have the right points. That you shouldn’t judge and with the knowledge they have the should know better. I really love her so much.

The End

This is the end of the first season of one of the most amazing series i have seen. I wish we would again get episodes like this. Episodes that just teach us about the History, about right and wrong and you time can change the view of it.

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September 20

DW: The Sensorites

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welcome to the next adventure in time and space with the story – The Sensorites. The Sensorites are an interessting alien race. In the future story ‘Planet of the Odd’ hinted at a possiblity of kinship. The story keeps place in the 28th centuary. There is no exact date give. In two of the episode we sadly has to do without Barbara because the actor was on holiday.

What is going on

The Doctor and his friends lands on a spaceship from earth. This Crew is in a ‘war’ with another alien race – the sensorites. The Sensorites are a kind race that didn’t know mistrust and murder. But when the humans arrive everything changes for them. This story is about fear and distrust and courage.

Susan and the sensorites

The Sensorites are a telepatic race and it seems like susan is very sensible in this kind of area. So she tries to talk with them. She tries to take the place normally the Doctor take. The Doctor doesn’t like it very much and i don’t think she is really good at it but you only learn by doing.
At some point Susan says that trust has to be earned and of course she is right but on the other hand why mistrust people how never gave you a reason to doubt them? Why is it wrong to trust? To have this trust in everything. In all the time before the humans came to the Sense- Sphere, there was no lying, no power fights, no murder. So why distrust his people?

Watching or not

I am not a big fan of the Sensorites and many things are very clear from the start. There is little in it to surprise us. But on the other hand is a solid story about what fear can do to a race. This story shows us how a race can change, how the human race brings out the worse in everyone. So yeah it is still a good story.

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September 6

DW: The Aztecs

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here we go with a new historic adventure – The Aztecs. It takes place somewhere 1430 – where Yetaxa died and was – and 1480. You can find different dates but the book of my trust is setting it around 1454.

How the story goes

Like the title says the story goes about the Aztecs. The TARDIS lands in a tomb of Yetaxa. Barbara had written about the Aztecs and is faszinated. She leaves the tomb and her comrads follow her. Just to find out that it is a one way door. You can go out but not in. So they have to find another way to get back to the TARDIS. The Aztecs think that Barbara is a recarnation of Yetaxa and that brings Barbara in a situation were she tries to change the future and stop the human sacrifices.

Changing History

The story is a really interessting story but changing time. Can you change the future or not. Barbara is at that point were she tries to change the outcome. Every companion has the moment. Barbara is one of the companions that doesn’t want to change the outcome for herself. Rose for example tried to save her father. Donna tried to save all the people of Pompeji. But Barbara didn’t know the people she tried to save and there were no big event like the volcano. She is faszinated by the Aztecs and wanted them to change to stop unnessassary sacrifices.
I really love Barbara for it and i love that the relationship between Barbara and the Doctor revivels so much about the Doctor.
The Doctor become more open and friendly and is fun to see him change and grow closer to the people around him.

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August 23

DW: Keys of Marinus – Rewatch

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welcome to the next adventure of the Doctor and his new family – Keys of Marinus. Sadly it is not really the next story. Between this story and ‘The Edge of Destruction’ is the story ‘Marco Pollo’. This story is not out on DVD. The story got lost over the time. Hopefully the will find it somewhere. Here in this story. The Doctor and the Crew are already friends and respect each other after the action of ‘The Edge of Destruction’.
Again this story is hard to set in the time line. There is no date given and also there is no indication were it might happen. My trusted source is setting it in the Prehistory time. For everyone that wants to know alittle more about it, i will writte about it in the last point it holds spoilers to future stories.

You need to help me

This story is built up a little different than the others. The Crew get asked for help and when they refuse they got backmailed. Our crew is send out to find the keys that got hidden in differents places. So this adventure has many mini-adventure and two of them are without the Doctor, because William Hartnell had a two-week-vacation. The story is alot faster than before and the last part comes a little short.

New pace

The story is really good. The whole atmosphere is different. Barbara and Ian stopped talking about going home. Barbara and the Doctor starting to become really close. We see a family growing together. It is fun to see them growing closer.

The History of Marinus – might have spoilers

There is a really interessting part of dating this story in a time line. Future stories about Marinus give the planet an interessting turn in History. The story ‘The World Shapers’, which is a comic strip from the ‘Doctor Who Magazine’ reveals that it has a big role in the History of another big monster in the Doctor Who Universe. Marinus will become Mondas the home planet of the cybermen. I don’t know if there are any indications for the time in Doctor Who (2005) Season 10 but before that the time is a wild guess. My source is saying that the story of ‘Keys of Marinus’ just make sense after the first rise of the cybermen in the story ‘The Cybermen’ and of course before ‘The World Shapers’.

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August 9

DW: The Edge of Destruction – Rewatch

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welcome to the two parter ‘The Edge of Destruction’ from Doctor Who. You can say much about it because it is a really short story. It is a little overacted but i really love the story very much. Because this story sets the whole way of the serie.

Let’s talk a little more about the story. Again we see alot of the TARDIS. The whole story play in the TARDIS and there is no monster in it. There is a problem in the TARDIS and nobody knows what is going on what leads to struggle between the crew.

This is totally why i love this episodes so much. In the other stories is alot of distrust between them. The Doctor brings the others in danger because he wants to explore. They don’t work with each other when they not are forced to it. In danger the work together.
Now that there is no evil force the can see all that distrust and anger is coming out. I really love it. Because Barbara speaks her mind and the Doctor does to.
Also Barbara has the most action in this story.

This story sets the developement of the relationship between the crew. We see them fight and all parts don’t back down.

This is the first step for the big family the Doctor will built for himself in the future. It all starts here in this epsiode.

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July 26

DW: The Daleks – rewatch

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here we go with the next adventure of my rewatch of Classic Doctor Who – The Daleks. Like the title says the story is about the Daleks. It is so much fun to see the history of the Daleks and the Doctor. This are still the Daleks i learnt to love.
To set the story in a time line seems complicated. There is no date given in the story itself and everyone is setting the story in a different time. My source is setting it around 2250 but it is just a wild guess with all the clues from the other stories.

Everyone for himself

Nobody on the TARDIS is a team right now. Not totally true. Ian and Barbara are a team. They are still focused on getting back home. They are good people and wanting to help but they also forget sometimes everything when the other is danger or wants something or focus to much on getting home. They don’t start to see beauty in this adventures.
The Doctor is just wanting to see everything. He doesn’t care for the safity of them. He wants to see things. He lies to them to get his way.

More about the life in the TARDIS

I love that we see more of the life inside the TARDIS. In this story the Doctor shows us for example how they get something to eat. This is something i miss in the new seasons. Here we see parts of their normal lifes between all the adventures.

The Daleks

This is the first time my favorite Monsters apears. I really love it. They are already the enemy but we got the story how they develope. This wasn’t an evil masterplan or anything. It was just the logic developement to survive.
But what i love the most of it is that there is no evil and dramatic over saving the world. Yes the Daleks want to exterminate the Thals. But the Doctor is not needed there and he doesn’t try to save anyone than himself and Susan. Also he had no problem with the destruction of the Daleks. He is responsible for the death of all Daleks in the city.

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July 17

DW: The Girl who loved Doctor Who

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I couldn’t resist and bought me bundle of digital comics of Doctor Who on Humble Bundle and one of the comics were ‘The Girl who loved Doctor Who. This comic is with the 11th Doctor. It is a titan comic by Paul Cornell and drawn by Jimmy Broxton. The Story is 40 pages long and is a story stands alone. It takes place somewhere after the goodbye of Amy and he doesn’t have a new companion yet. So it is somewhere before Clara or when he already met her but not traveled with full time.

Thats how the story goes…

The story is quite easy and actually nice. The Doctor has again problems with his TARDIS and lands in a parrallel universe. This parallel universe is our real world, where the Doctor is just a story, a TV-Show. Everyone is thinking of him as Matt Smith. There is a 10 year old girl, which met him and take him home to show him everything. She is angry with him because she knows the Doctor is not real and want that Matt Smith stops playing. This girl is a full time fan. Because she watched and have every episode of Doctor Who even the classics. Of course there is monster and also the little girl gets bullied by a few boys.

Reading or not

You can read it. The story is sweet and nice. But it is nothing more than that. The story is not really deep. I mean the plot is promising and could have been really deep about facing your problems and things like that, but it isn’t. This story could be alot better when they got deeper into it. Also i have a problem with the drawings. Truth be told i like the Manga drawings and Comic drawings are quite different. But here my biggest problem is that this girl doesn’t look like 10 years… she looks so much older at times and i really dislike it. But that is just my taste.

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July 6

DW: Season 10

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this season of Doctor Who started really good. The stories were not bad and Bill is an amazing companion. But than again there is the big storyline and again it is about the Master. Sorry i really loved the Master and i loved Simms Master but this Missy story got on my nerves…
Make the Master good… really why… Simms Master already had his moment of change. It was when he died for the second time. And i was already annoyed that they brought the Master back after that but just to tell the story again?

I actually don’t want to say to much about this season. Because of the reason that i just don’t have much positive things to say and i hate my own negative. Also i already said all that stuff in the last season. Because it is all the same again. But at least he didn’t destroy the cybermen further.
But than again there was an easy way out. I don’t get why he always brings Companions in situation were there is no way out to just find a way to reverse it. There is not always a way out. Sometimes people just die… that is live and you have to deal with that.
I really hope that the next season will be better.
Even when i am sad that we have to deal with a new Doctor, a new companion and a new writer.

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April 23

Doctor Who: S10x01/02

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Doctor Who is back on again. I wasn’t really excited about this season. Truth be told i thought about not watching this season and just start when Chris Chibnall is taking over. Season 9 of Doctor Who was soooo bad and the two christmas special were soo boring that i had very low expections.

So why watching this season when i am so disapointed in Doctor Who for seasons?

Because i am one of the watchers that don’t think you can start with any season. I am a watcher that think that Everything the Ninth Doctor was he was because of the War Doctor. Everything the Tenth Doctor was get backs to what the ninth Doctor was going through and so and so. I am not a fan of Matt’s Doctor but he was the logic developement from the Tenth Doctor.
I think that everything that makes the Doctor the Doctor is found in the season before. So if i just don’t watch a season i miss a part of who the new Doctor will be and i just can’t do this. I watched every freaking Doctor and i didn’t love all of them but i always loved the show and Moffats nearly ruined it for me. I know there are people out there who loves what Moffats did to Doctor Who and that is there right. Also i don’t think that he is a bad writer for single episodes i just don’t think he can write an overall story i like. Also he has a different way to see the Doctor than me.
For me the Doctor never was a hero… for me he will always be the grumpy old man, who run away with his granddaugther and learnt from two amazing teacher that you should help people. He is deep down a good person. He believes in the good but he also knows how the world function. He knows that sometimes there need to be sacrefices. He was a person who never looked back on the sacrefices he made to save himself and his companions or he couldn’t stop looking back.
Sometimes he is a lonely god… but never a hero – or at least not in the way most people use it.
There was always a time something doesn’t sit right with me. I disliked the third Doctor but the way he was with his family with UNIT made him grown on me even when i disliked his character. I was so annoyed by the fourth Doctor. The way the epiosdes with the sixth Doctor was made was just horrible and boring to watch.

I never stopped watching i don’t stop now and i got surprised

Like i said i had so low expections. But episode were not bad. I was surprised in a good way. There is a few stuff i don’t get or don’t remember. That promise thing. Who did he promise to stay on earth – i tried to remember if he promised Clara or Me – but after that he already traveled with River and with Nedal. Soo i just feel like i forgot something.
Apart from that the first episode was really not bad. Losing Clara and River had changed him and i like the way he tries to make Bill – the new companion – stay save. Of course it never is going to work. Both stories function pretty good and the best thing about them is there is no big bad thing. It is just different.

A new student

I liked Bill from the start. She is totally sympatic and speaks her mind. Sometimes there are silly questions and she get stuck on the smallest things but that is what i love about her. We are in a colony away from earth with emoji robots with out any sign about life and she hangs on the fact he has two hearts. So yeah i really like her. Everything i heart about her before was that she was a lesbian – point taken i didn’t informed myself about anything about the season. The first lesbian in the TARDIS as a companion. My first thought was that why the first one? Doesn’t nobody remember Tegan and Nyssa?! But yeah they never said that they were together. They just always seemed like it.
My second thought was who cares. Don’t get me wrong this isn’t about the fact that she is a lesbian. This is about the fact that it was said like it was a characteristic. With Clara there were words like smart, adventures… and with Bill lesbian? If she likes man, woman or both has nothing to do with her character and that is what didn’t sit right with me – like i said i didn’t informed myself so maybe there were really characteritcs know.
But Bill is amazing and her character is great.

The episodes

The story of ‘the pilot’ was good. I liked it. What i didn’t liked was the way the Daleks were used. It was just unnessassary and doesn’t make them scary again. Also i am happy that they are not more in the episode because i am afraid what Moffats will do to them next. He ruint my favorite enimies and make them a laugh number. He rewrite the story to make Davros bad… and totally changed the way the Daleks were made… but this is another theme.
Beside the Daleks the story were great.
The story of ‘Smile’ was good too. I hate the idea of the emoji-robots. I am really annoyed by the emojis in general. But the idea is great and like the way it is told. It has no surprising turns but it is sad and human. The robots reacted more human than it is said in the story. Feelings are always very difficult and the way it is dealt with in this episode is good. It will never be one of my favorite but i would watch the episode again and have fun doing it.

In the end…

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