February 5

DW: Dark Eyes 4 – The Monster of Montmarte

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welcome to the second adventure of the Dark Eyes 4 Box The Monster of Montmarte. Again it is with the eighth Doctor and Liv which are now not searching for Molly but the TARDIS. So we are still in 1921 but they traveled to Paris. This story is bringing the first story into the whole Dark Eyes story. They are all conacted to a big story.

Welcome to Paris

Like I said before Liv and the Doctor are searching for their TARDIS. For that reason they split up to cover more ground in shorter time. When the Doctor met an artist which is telling him about the monster that is going around Paris and brings him to the Red Pagoda. Liv get followed by suspious peopel, which she of course notice every fast. They want to make a deal with her and the Red Pagoda is playing a role in it.
The Red Pagoda is like the moulin rouge and has this establishment something to do with the artists which vanish in Paris.
I can’t tell more about the story without spoiling the story.

Listing or not

I would say this is one of the weaker stories of the Dark Eyes Story. But Liv and Doctor have time to shine in it and go their own ways. The characters are nice and interessting. So it makes definitly up for the weaker story (it is still a good story). Also it makes sure to conacted the story of these box with the stories before. What makes the story so much better again.

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January 29

DW: Dark Eyes 4 – A Life in the day

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i finally got the fourth box of the Dark Eyes serie from the New Eighth Doctor Adventures, but know we can start with the first adventure A Life In The Day. It plays after the last adventure of Dark Eyes 3. Molly should be back in her right time line but still with Dark Eyes. This time is London 1921.

Alien

The Doctor is searching for Molly and is staying in London for that time. Liv is feeling quite alien, because everything is so different from what she knows. Like the coincidence the Doctor is finding trouble on his search. He visited Mollys old work place and find an man with serious problem. When he is around this man he find himself in a time loop for a few seconds. So he ask him to spend the day with Liv. When Liv and the man – Martin are around in the town. The Doctor and Martins sister Kitty are attack from people on the street. So everything is a mess, like always with the eighth Doctor.

Listing or not

The story is good and fun and everything a good story needs. Liv is still traveling with the Doctor they have a good chemistry. I still miss Molly. Molly is also the only thing that tells us that we are still in the Dark Eyes adventure. Apart from that it doesn’t seem like it is conacted to the Dark Eyes story. What doesn’t mean that it isn’t conacted, because so far every adventure were conated so i am sure that we will find the conaction to the other adventures apart from the search for Molly.
So yes this is definitly a go and listen to the story. But like you already know i always thing that Dark Eyes is one of the most enjoyeable stories so far.

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January 22

DW: Fear of the Daleks

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‘Fear of the Daleks’ is an adventure from the Companion Chronicles – the second of the first season. The Companion Chronicles are reading books. Every story has a Companion that is the main part of the story. We get little of the life they are living after the Doctor and an adventure that took place in their time together. The companion the story is about is reading the story. This time it is Zoe Heroit and the second Doctor – Jamie is standing on the sideline.

Zoe Heriot

Zoe Heriot is one of the most amazing characters. She is strong in many ways and is a genius. She is way more intelligent that the Doctor and is not showing off. She never looked down on Jamie how is way slower in his thinking what also is because he cames out of a time the technic wasn’t developed that way so all that technic stuff is all new to him. But this is not about Jamie. How thinks this is a story were all characters have the same among of story is wrong here. Jamie is of course part of the story but he is really just a background character. The focus of the story is on Zoe.
My problems with the companion chronicles is that it is a reading book. I don’t think that many companions have a reading voice. Zoe is one of the better but not as gripping as of example the Brigadier. Which makes it not so easy to listen to the story but the stories in this serie are to good to not listing to them. Zoes is adventures also of an overlapping story. What makes here story even better.

They are still people out there…

That doesn’t here about the Daleks and know that they never work with someone with out turning in the end of them? It is always a surprise to me when an alien race is making a deal with the Daleks to reach their goals. But a part from that obivious dumb idea.
We have a story about two races that want to make peace. Of course not everyone is working for that goal. Zoe and the others stumble in a peace conference. Zoe and the Doctor became really fast pawns in the game of one of the people that want war to overthrow the people in charge. Everything is okay to still the hunger of power.
But he has not the guts to do it himself. He has a maschine which can controll minds and make a copy of you in a different place and take your conscious in this copy and controll it.
Why all this is actually necessary is not logic for me but i decided to just go with the story and not thinking about the complicated way to do this.
The one that he chooses to be the one for the kill is Zoe. The story is about how she tried to fight against it.

Listing or not

For me this is the weakest Zoe story i heart until now. The other i heart were Memory Cheats and Echoes of Grey which are both better. But it is still a Zoe story and this is still something good. So everyone that loves Zoe should totally listen to it.

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January 16

DW: The Resurrection Casket

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welcome to the 9th book of the New Adventure Serie The Resurrection Casket. I am happy and sad that there are only three books of Rose and the 10th Doctor left. I love these two together. But i also love to have Martha back. She is one of my favorite companions of the Doctor. But back to the theme at hand. This book is like already said with Rose and the 10th Doctor. The guys of AHistory place it around the year 3906 in the time of the Galatic Federation and would take place between the events of The Infinite Quest (an animated Doctor Who story) and The Pirate Loop (NSA#20). In this story are no idication when in the time line of the Doctor this take place. So i thing it plays after the book The Feast of the Drowned and obviously before the events of the TV-Episodes Army of Ghosts (Final of season two).

The big time of the pirates

Isn’t it one of the biggest dreams to be a space pirate. What kid didn’t wanted to be a pirate (i didn’t)? But many people in stories dream about it. About the freedom and the adventure that it will bring. In this story we will met such a boy. A boy who dreams of big adventures and treasures. But we all know that a life of pirate is more than adventures and treasure. A life of a pirate is about blood, death and fights. Every freedom comes with a price. Of course there is a legend of a big pirate and his treasure that got lost in the Zeg. The zeg is a zone in space where all that technic schnick schnack doesn’t work. Steam is the only mechanic that works there. We all know that behind story there is always a truth. So it seems that the legend of the dark shadow is true. If someone put the dark shadow on you, he will kill you.
In all that legend and stories the Doctor and Rose stranded. Because the zeg is also shuting down the TARDIS.

Reading or not

The story has is ups and downs. The first part is kinda boring. I mean Jimm the boy is sweet but he is so blind for the dark sides of the world that it is hard to don’t want to struggle him. At first i thought that the story is very obvious but in the end the twist make it worth it. It is just not like it seems. Even when i am pretty sure most of you can work it out before the Doctor explains it. But the second part of the book is fun. The travel group brings me joy and tears. Just a hint the story is about something i really love. The question what makes us evil and what makes us good. Are we born the way we turn out or can we change. So yes definitly go and read that book. I love it.

The next book on my list is ‘The Shadow of Avalon‘ because the next books of the New Adventure Serie are not bought yet. But yeah i am sure that it doesn’t take long to get them.

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January 15

DW: Return of the Daleks

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welcome to the bonus release of big finish – Return of the Daleks. This release was given away with the adventure ‘Year of the pig‘ as a gift to the subscriber. It is the 5th bonus release and can be bought alone now too. It is adventure with the seventh Doctor and place in the 42th century on Zeleria (which is hinting at the story ‘Planet of the Daleks’. The Doctor is traveling alone but he is referring to Ace, Hex and Mel at the start of the story.

Doctor the side character

This story is a little different than all the others. It is not just playing over a time span of severly years without time traveling it is also a story were we follow not the Doctor around. The story is about Kalendorf and Susan Mendes. This are characters that are take place in other stories of Doctor Who – like the Dalek Empire.
They are the people that should orginaze the rebelion against the Daleks. But the Daleks made a pact with them and vanished for a long time before they returned.
The Doctor is there to warn them and later he will take place in a few actions. The sixth Doctor is a Doctor that sit few things out.

Listen or not

The story is good. I like it and it is nice to listen to it. I think when you hear the other stories – at one point i hopefully will listen too – it will be even better and would be give us a better inside in the characters. But truth be told. I would buy it. I got at a gift for the subscribetion and than it is amazing. But otherwise i would not listen to it.

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January 8

DW: The Sandman

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welcome to the 37th adventure of the big finish main range – The Sandman with the sixth Doctor and Evelyn. The story plays at the Clutch, which is a fleet that is always in motion in 27 century. This story is of the Doctor being the nightmare of a race he defeated in a war.

I am your sandman

For the Galyari the Doctor is a monster that is holding his hand above them. The picture and the story they have to tell about the Doctor show us a monster. But it is not just what happend long ago in the war. It seems like the Sandman took the children and kill them. The Sandman and the Doctor are the same thing. Or is it?
We see here a darker side of the Doctor and the sixth Doctor is totally the right Doctor to let you believe that he would be capable of doing horrible things for the right reason. This Doctor is ready to do things…he is the one that is the closest to the war doctor. Which makes the story interessting to thing about what the Doctor were and what is just a story or someone else.
How far would the Doctor go?

Listen or not

I can’t tell you much more about it, without giving to much away. In the story is a part were the leader of the Galyari is telling what the Doctor had done in the war. Later in the story the Doctor is telling the story again a little different. Which is a little annoying. Who reads more of my articles knows that i dislike stories like that. I am bored by always hearing the same story. But i am a fan of Evelyn Smythe stories and she is who she is – brilliant. So yes it is definitly a listen to it. The story is worth it.

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December 18

DW: Bloodtide

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welcome to the 22 adventure of the big finish main range – Bloodtide with the sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smithe. The Doctor want to surprise Evelyn and brings her to the Galapagos Islands to met Charles Darwin. It a time (1835) he will evelope his evolution theory. The Silurians plays a huge part in it.

Evolution

Like i said before this is a story about Evolution and Silurians. The Silurians are like always trying to eliminate the ape-creatures. They want their earth back. The Galapagos Islands is a prison and this give the Silurians enough guinea pigs for their virus to eliminate the apes. In all that mess is Darwin trying to explain the behavier of the birds.
Evelyn is running around with Darwin and sees how he develope his theory. It is really nice to see her interact with one of her heros and to see Darwin struggling with his religion and convictions to come up with his evolution theory.

Nothing new

Sadly it is like every other Silurian story. The Silurians try to kill the apes. The Doctor and the apes are trying to stop them. At some point there is virus and death – a lot of death on one side. The story is not really surprising and you had it at least three times already… it is really sad that every story is so simular. This adventure is not bad writen or boring. It is solid story and amazing characters that made it fun to listen to it.

Listening or not

If you listen for the story and to hear something new, than don’t listen. If you want a solid story and amazing characters listen to it. The characters make the story interessting to listen to. The story is good just much surprising but it don’t think that this is nessassary to be an amazing story. The characters can totally carry the story.

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December 16

DW: The Feast of the Drowned

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i actually get to read the 8th adventure of the New adventure serie – The Feast of the Drowned – with the tenth Doctor and Rose. It place in the present (2007) when Rose is visiting her mum again. For Mickey and Jacky this is taking place after The Stone Rose (NAS#7) which also after the christmas special- The Christmas Invasion and place before School reunion.

There is always another explaination

Is there something like ghost? The brother of on old friend of Rose died. He was working on a ship that sunk and he and all the other crew members drowned with it. After three month the parts of the ship got transfered to London and this is when the ghosts start apearing. But even when they found the ship, they didn’t found anything of the crew. Of course the Doctor and Rose with the help of Mickey start investigating.

The little things

What i really like about this story are the little things. Like the mentioned the time Rose was away. Her friends that believed the first and how everyone gave Mickey the fault for her absence. I think that Rose never really thought about what her friends or Mickey had been through. She just always forget about this time, because it is just the best thing in her life. She lost kinda contact to her life when she starts traveling with the Doctor.

Reading or nor

The story is solid but not superb. I read better and way worth. What makes the story so good is Rose life. This story shows us what Rose did to the people around her and how she forget about it. We see a Rose that we would say should grow up but on the other hand we see a grown up Rose. A Rose that would sacrifice herself to save people. A Rose that will never give up. We see what the travels did to the persons near to her but we also see what the travels did to her and that is why the story is a yes to reading this book.

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December 11

DW: Sirens of Time

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welcome to the very first adventure of big finish – Sirens of time. It is not just the first adventure of the main range, it is the first episode they produced. This is the start of amazing stories. They start with three Doctors in one adventure. We have the fifth, sixth and seventh Doctor.

Always the time lords

They time lord see themself facing a enemy that is uncredible strong. It seems like they are totally powerless against this enemy. But they find out that the Doctor is involved and send warnings to him or are they are trying to kill him? Both is possible and believeble. The three Doctors faces all their own adventures.

Seventh Doctor

The seventh Doctor seems to be travling alone. The story of the Seventh Doctor is playing in the year 3562 on a not existing planet. The Doctor saves a girl – Elenya. Everything doesn’t seems quite logic at the beginning. On this planet is also living a man and woman. The woman needs to take care of the man. But she is not satisfied with this work and tries to make a deal. A deal were everyone will die.

Fifth Doctor

The fifth Doctor is traveling with Tegan and Turlough but they don’t have a big role. This adventure takes place in 1915 on a submarine. He gets closed of of his TARDIS and met a girl – Helen. The submarine got attackt and the a german submarine is saving them. It seems like someone is trying to take controll of the crew members and try to kill the Doctor who seems to thing the time lords are behind it.

Sixth Doctor

This story of the sixth Doctor is playing in the year 3562 on a spaceship. There is a conferance at that spaceship. His TARDIS get caught in an explosion and he strands on the spaceship. There he mets a girl which get him in the conferance room. A time distortion gets everyone in trouble.

Listen or not

The story is really not my thing. It all ends of course in a big story but the story are to short for my liking. But this is totally a listen to it story because the three Doctors are working together and that is the best. This three Doctors are not my favorites. I mean i love these three but my favorite Doctors are the tenth, first and second but these three together have just the best chemistry with each other. It is so much fun listen too them. This story also made very clear that the Doctor is the same in all incarnations but also shows us all the differents between them and they are very different. It is really lovely to listen to so well writen Doctors.

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December 8

DW: An unearthly child – rewatch

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I started my rewatch of Doctor Who and of course i start at the beginning with ‘An earthly child’. Just the first minutes were enough to remember why i don’t like Susan and love Ian and Barbara. Truth be told the first episode was kinda boring. Of course it is iconic and i love it but the first thing that i had problems with was the tempo of the stories. This is the reason why i say the first episode of boring. When we watch new series there happens so much in the first episode. Here just happend nothing. It is not a bad thing. I needed a few stories but i begann to love it. The story has enough time to evelope and the characters has so much time to shine.

The characters

They are so many things why i fall in love with the classic stories and almost everthing is already in the first epiosde. First of all the characters. I love a full TARDIS. So many people. I am not a big fan of Susan. She is the granddaugther of the Doctor and is almost everytime screaming…
Ian and Barbara are teachers. I love them so much. They stand on their own feets and have their own opinions. They stand up to the Doctor and don’t take any of his shit.
The second think is the Doctor. He is not nice or a hero. When the serie started he is the opposite. He is grumpy and just want help himself. Everything the new Doctor is started here with Ian and Barbara that teached him this.

They said that the Doctor always has the same character traits but that is not complitely true. He become that man because he captured and took Ian and Barbara away with him. He wanted to protect himself and got family. But it is a really hard and long way. Especially Ian and the Doctor are always fighting with each other. But they change each other. But this is a little forward for this story. With the knowledge what is to come and everything else you can see all that stuff already in this first adventure.

Watching or not

The story is not the best. It started with a story of cavemen that search for a way to make fire. It gets harder to find something to eat and who can make fire is the leader. The tribe our friends met or get captured by has took in a outsider who wants to become the leader too. So the son of the old leader are fighting for this place. The story is developing slow and most of the time our friends get theirself captured again and again. The story has a few strong points when you get to see more inside of our characters but apart form this the story doesn’t have much to offer. Just look it and enjoy that the Doctor is so totally differnt form the NewWho.

That is also the reason i will every Fan of NewWho tell that they should go and watch the classics. Because this is the journay that made the Doctor the person he is now. It was a developement. Everything that happend to the Doctor is changing him. Every companion has their influence on him. But Barbara and Ian are the most important. They teach him to care about other, they teach him to help. This developement is so amazing to see. So go and watch the classic who stories.

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