August 1

Torchwood: Broken

Hey Guys,

Big Finish showed me again why i love them so much the newest Torchwood adventure Broken is what i waited for. The first season of Torchwood is leaving so much holes. Sometimes you ask yourself what happend between the episodes. Their is a book ‘The Torchwood Archieve’ that gives us a little more background information about what happend between but it was never enough. But here we get everything that happend between Jack and Ianto.

Jumps

Normally i am not a fan of time jumps. I think it destroys the flow. But here i really like it. It starts after the episode with Lisa – ‘The Cyberwoman'(Episode S01x04). It plays after my favorite episode ‘Countryside’ (S01x06). Most of the story plays after ‘Greeks Bearing Gift’ and before ‘They keep killing Suzie’.
It shows us how Ianto is trying to deal with Lisas death and come to terms with working with Jack and actually start sleeping with him. We got so much more inside of Ianto Jones and that is always good. Because Ianto is so precious.

New friendships

Ianto find himself in a bar and talking to a bar maid – Mandy. She becomes someone he goes for advice. We see him deal poorly with what happend. He founds himself in a really dark place. We not see often that dark side of Ianto Jones. I actually don’t want to tell more. That just they are investigating missing people and it is just awesome.
Just get the adventure and hear for yourself. This is an amazing story about our broken Ianto Jones and how he get ready to fall in love with Jack. This is were they really start.

Ianto Jones and Jack Harkness forever. I always gonna miss them. I always gonna miss Ianto Jones. He saved Jack in very special way and his death has utterly broken him. I will always find tears for them.

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June 10

Torchwood: Moving Target

Hey Guys,

welcome to the newest Torchwood adventure – Moving Target.This is adventure is with Susie Costello. I never liked her and i don’t thing the adventure will change that but we will be open about it. The story is obviously playing before first season were Susie is still alive on earth.

Before she fall

The Comettee is giving the earth free as hunting ground for aliens. The whole earth seems to stand still. Just Susie and a other woman seems to can be moving. Susie seems to be an accident and the woman is the person that is hunting. Susie and Alex – that is the other woman – are teaming up. This is not just before season one that is in a time she lost her believe in the humans, before she lost herself to the unkown. Alex is a completely different person than Susie. She is not having much self-esteem. She tries to make herself important through a husband and kid… she is using the still stand of the world to do everything. She sees it as an opportunity to be free of everything and do stuff you would never do.

What makes this is a great story is that we see the Susie Costello we all know in the end or a part of this person she will become like the robot that is always around tells us. Now we understand the future a little more.

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May 31

Torchwood: Ghost Mission

Hey everyone,

something that “Big Finish Torchwood Adventure” always seems to do is that the adventures that i am the less excited about, are one of the best. Ghost Mission is an adventure with Andy Davidson and a new character Norton Folgate which hopefully will be in more adventures. These tow rock this adventure. It plays after Gwen got Torchwood started again. So i asume that it takes place after “Torchwood – More than this“.

Dream Team

We all know who Andy is. The little sweet police man that always stands on the side. He wants to be Torchwood and want to be part of the bigger picture. Norton is a sarcastic commentator. He always has to say something. Andy is always more gabbling than real taking and Nortons comments are always on point and sharp. They has so much chemistry.
To be honest i am shipping this two so much and hope that we will have alot more of this team. The first thing i did was search for not existing fanfics about them.

Let’s go on Mission

Norton is from the past and is like a ghost in the present – some alientec that is explained in the story but things like that just don’t stay in my head. He can’t touch anything and that brings them in a lot of funny and dangerous situation. Actually the whole story is about Norton testing Andy if he is good enough for the new Torchwood. This is how they do things now. He can’t really help Andy because of the touching thing but his comments always hit the right spot and always making me grin.

So much fun

This story has a really interessting dynamic. It is about the question why you would join Torchwood. It is about the feelings of Andy and it give us a part of the bigger picture of the whole Commitee story. The story is deep and dark in away, but the two characters make the story light and fun. You can listen to it and love and feel helpless with Andy get annoyed be Norton or laughing at Andy.

So everyone listen to this amazing story. I really love every bit of it and needs so much more material of these two characters together.

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April 10

Torchwood: The Victorian Age

Hey Guys,

so I am back from my vacation in Prague and here is already ‘Zone 10’ waiting, but i never wrote about ‘The Victorian Age’. So here we go with the first Episode of the second season of Big Finish Torchwood adventure. Here we have Captain Jack Harkness again and Queen Victoria. It plays on the 17 May 1899.

Alien Hunt

This episode is a hunt through London. Jack is hunting down an Alien that should have been died and broke out of Torchwood when the Queen is there to inspect the Institute. The fun in this Story is the Queen that is going with Jack on the hunt. She is a great character. She sees the world in a different way and is desperate to help her people. She is not running after Jack, most of the time the Queen is running into the action and Jack needs to follow. It is a great dynamic between them. It seems like her walls are coming down and she has fun on the adventure with Jack and on the other hand is shocked from all the pain and death she sees and want to close Torchwood down. They seem close in some scene but there is always a distance between them.

It is a really great story and it is fun. It has humor, really great music and i can just recommand it.

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February 14

Torchwood: More than this

Hey Guys,

here we go with the last Big Finish Torchwood adventure – More than this – of the first season. It takes place after the 3rd adventure ‘Forgotten Lives‘ of this season. Gwen is actually doing what Rhys told her to do. She starts Torchwood again.

Seasonfinal – ordinary day

This isn’t a season final like we know it from TV stories. It is just a story like all the other. No big cliffhanger or something really game changing. But it is a start for the surviving of Torchwood. This is a story about Gwens ordinary working day. She is trying to rebuilt Torchwood and want a place to store all the aliens things. So she has to work with bürocrates and to explain what Torchwood is about. Gwen chooses the only way that makes sense to her and take the bürocrate out to work with her a day. So they met alot of different aliens. It is nothing special just an ordinary day what makes it in the end so special.

Special Guest

Gwen is this time alone with the bürocrates. But of course Rhys is still having a part in it. So they meet in some places Andi and we all know Andi, do we. In the end everything is about the bürocrate. He is telling us the story. He is lonely and he feels like humans are small and not insignificant. He lost his love and he doesn’t have faith anything anymore. It was just a accident. He forgot how precious life can be. This is a story about dealing with the pain and the ordinary day. About that we are not insignificant.

In the end i am really excited to listen to the next season. I hope that they are many to follow. Because this adventures are really amazing and i love all of them that are out now. So go and buy it and than listen to it and fall in love with Torchwood again and again.

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January 22

Torchwood: Uncanny Valley

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welcome to the 5th big finish Torchwood adventure ‘Uncanny Valley’, which is a typical season one adventure. This was the weakest story so far but that doesn’t mean that it is a bad story. The Story is playing after ‘The Conspiracy‘ but i am still not sure when it should play.

I know what you are thinking

Jack is like the last time telling the story directly to us. This time it is not explained like the last time with a phone call, what actually a little sad but it doesn’t really matter. The kind of narration is placing you in the story and it gets you. It is a really good story for Jack Harkness. I for myself have enough of all the sex in the tv shows and i don’t want to tell to much but we have some here. Big Finish is here again remembers us of one thing that got a little lost in the fourth season. Jack Harkness is not gay. He likes guys, women, alien, anything you can have sex with and that was always why i liked him. Because he doesn’t care about something like race or gender. Also his way of seeing beauty is not bound to our sight. It is good that this is not forgotten.

What makes you human?

The story is nothing new but Torchwood don’t has any rules or no goes. So this is a story about someone that get something like a robot. This is a copie of him, which should do his life in the world for him because after a accident that put him in wheelchiar. Of course in this story it goes how this robot becomes kinda like human. It is his job to become like his owner but when you see them interacted or acted. They are very different from each other. But this is not what the story is about. It is more about how life can change you and that everything can turn against you. Even the comitee is not on the focus here. The Robot has to do with comitee, but we never got real information about what their plan is or what they are. It is more a drawing of a relationship that grows and breaks in the end. It doesn’t ask big questions. It makes all this question seem like it is totally normal.

It was fun to listen to John Barrowman again. Can wait for the next episode and the second season!

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December 18

Torchwood: One rule

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it is a little late, but i got so many new radio plays that i doesn’t know were to start and end. Also it is totally the christmas caos getting the best of me. So here we go with the new big finish Torchwood ‘One rule’.
When i first heart about this radio play i was disapointed. There is no of our Torchwood members, but it is one of the best. It takes place before the Canary Warf accidient. Obviously because Yvonne Hartmann is still alive.

Yvonne Hartmann

Yvonne Hartmann is a really interessting character. She is not the typicall good character. Her moral is more than questionable and how she handles problems are too. But she has really good intentations. She wants to protect England. I never thought i would say it but i would love to her more of her story. There is much potential. Also she seems to know alot more about the comitee than anyone else from Torchwood Cardiff.
She also brings as a new way of getting more of Ianto. Because he is working for her.

Monster in Cardiff

Cardiff is standing shortly before an election for the new major. This monster is killing people who wants that job. The story isn’t a very special or new story nor is it very surprising but the character totally carries the whole story. They way she interacts friendly with Helen Evans and angry with Barry Jackson. It is very interessting to see the different facetts of her character and the story gave her enough room to show many of them too us.

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November 17

Torchwood: Forgotten Lives

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welcome back to a new adventure of big finishs Torchwood ‘Forgotten Lives’. This time we know when it takes places. It plays five years after The Miracle Day and Jack is away for that time. Rhys and Gwen are living a good and normal life until an old Woman calls and talk about Jack.

Good pair

I am not a big fan of Gwen and i will never be ready to love her like i do all the others on Torchwood. But Rhys and she became a real good team and that is really amazing. I like these both together. Also i love Rhys. Rhys is someone that never really agreed with Jack and that is what he does it here again. What is really good to listen too. This adventure is different ot the others. The first two had just one of the Torchwood team as a acting character. Here we have Gwen and Rhys. But here we also have Captain Jack Harkness not has John Barrowman but has a role in it.

Like Sense8

The idea that is played with here is simular to the idea of Sense8. It is that people can jump into other bodies. The can’t stay in one. It is like you are every day in a new body. The race that has invented that, doesn’t ask other races if they want this, they just do it to them. They thing that they are the good people, that they are so protecting the weak. I think we can discuss about it. But to be sure is that, doing it to them is not the right thing.

This story is not bad for a Gwen Story and the end is like a goodbye to Jack but also a new beginning. A new beginning for a new Torchwood.

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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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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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