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

Hey guys,

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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January 4

Person of Interest: Season 2

Hey Guys,

welcome to the second season of Person of Interest that is even better than the first one (PoI S01). Truth be told i am sitting here right now writting about the second season when i wait that the fourth season arrives at my home. So i hope i don’t mix the season up. But the serie made me totally addicted to it. I stopped watching everything else and wanted to throw my social life away (what of course i didn’t do). But let’s go to bussiness.

Not with out Harold

The first season ended with Harold in the hands of Root and John at the search for them. John asking the maschine for help. This is actually the main reason why i love the second season sooo much. We see so much of the relationship between John and Harold. These two and the cuteness of them towards each other is killing me. They are like a married couple and would do just anything for each other. To see the trust that John puts in Harold and the trust that Harold puts in John is amazing and is following us through the serie. This friendship is what makes this serie so amazing.
Also John adpoted a dog Bear – which is so a great new Team Member and i love Bear over everything – so these to take care of Bear together. Like a little family. Yeah i am crazy about these two.
Also we see a little more about the past of Harold and John. We will see that the lifes are more connected than we thought.

New characters

We not just get Bear as a new character. Root will be a guest that will be in the play for the season. Also will get the other character i thought the show was about – Shaw. Shaw is a great character but in season two i wasn’t such a big fan of her. I just didn’t care about her that much, but she grows on me every episode i watched and the most important point she loves Bear.
Carter gets a bigger storyline and can interact alot with John.
Lionel sadly is a little in the background, but we will see alot more about the team Lionel Carter. Which is really amazing too.
But we don’t just get more amazing characters. We also get alot more of the ‘bad guys’. We see alot more of the different groups that are acting with the maschine or want the maschine.

Don’t even bother with that question. I think everyone totally knows my answer to it. Nothing else to say… go and watch that damm serie it will get better and better.

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December 21

Person of Interest: Season 1

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yeah i know i am really late with watching this show Person of interest. Everywhere the pictures of Root and Shaw were hunting me. When the final of the last season aired, everyone was talking about how perfect everything were. So i thought why not. I quite like both actors of this too. So i thought hey i will look into it. It turns out, that it is nothing like i thought.

Main Characters

So i thought that these two woman Root and Shaw are the main characters of the show. To clear that up tumblr is lying. Shaw doesn’t even play in the first season and Root is just apearing at the end. So yeah the show is totally not about them or at least the first season isn’t. So what is this serie about. We have 4 people that are important in this serie and i love all four of them. At first we have that soldier guy – John Reese. This is not his real name but at the start we know not much about except that he was a soldier and that he is good at killing people but he just wants to help people. That is the reason why Harold Finch – mostlike not his real name either – hire him. Harold is good with computers. After 9.11 (for germans 11.09) the goverment wanted a maschine who can see everything. This is what Harold and his best friend built. This maschine sees everything. It can see terroist acts and murder. Everything that is planed in some way the maschine sees. Because there are so much crime on earth and also the goverment just cares about the terrorist, every ‘normal’ murder is going on a unrelavante list. After Harold lost everything he decides to take that unrelavant list and help those people with John Reese help. Later more to that.
The other two persons are cops. Joss Carter is a really good cop, who can connect John after the first meeting with alot of crimes. But John is like ghost. So she starts chasing him.
The other cop is Lionel Fusko. He is a corruped cop and John spared his life. After that Fusko is working for Finch and John.

The Maschine and other mysteries

Finch is getting a number from the maschine. This number is the social number of a person. He doesn’t know if the number is from the victim or the perpetrator. So they try and find out more about this person and protect him or his victims from them. But that is not what makes the show so good. What stands behind it does. We know nothing about John Reese or Harold Finch. But the friendship that is starting building between them, the chemestry, the truth and distruth in each other is giving the show life. Also of course the mystery of the past of both of them. Both lost everything in one way or another. Slowing step for step we found out more about these two characters. Apart from that Carter and Fusko are easy to read. There is not much about their past as secretive as it is with the other two. But it is a nice contrast. Carter is the cop that takes her job serious. She believes in her job and in the law. Fusko doesn’t. But both are just want to help people. These two make a great team. So we have two great teams.

Watching or not

For the first half of the season i would have said no you don’t have to watch it. It is nice but nothing more, but that the episode became better and better. The characters grow on you and you want to know what is behind all that. The second part of the serie is so good. I watched none stop until i could held my eyes open anymore. So yes it is definitly a go and watch this serie. It is amazing and the final of the season only promised a even better season two. Which i will start right now… no i don’t have a problem and i am not addicted to the serie… maybe alittle.

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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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December 7

Touch: Season 02

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After the first season wasn’t my thing, i still watched season two. Season two is totally different than season one. It even got more like 24 with alot more supernatural. For me it lost the little bit of what it had here.

On the run or not

Jake and his father are on the run at least the first episode. Than they met the mother of Amelia and they start working with each other. They live in a house and try to find Amelia and Jake starts getting to school. It seems like totally normal life. The helping other people get lost in the background. It is more like find evidence against them and find Amelia.
Also the numbers get to much in the background for my liking. They are still there but more like a reminder or like oh yeah i need to open a door… what numbers showed Jake to me be crashing the microwave…

Big conspiracy

It seems like everyone is working for someone. There are at least four parties that are at work here. It all goes around the 36 – that are people that are like Jake. The police is also working with them and is no real help. So yeah… they fight against the big conspiracy with to girls and a news agency.
Also it seems like once the 36 made contact with each other the can talk with each other telepathic. The numbers will protect… I don’t know i like that concept.
I liked that he just sees everything in numbers and sees how they are connected. I miss the handy that has so many different videos on it from all over the world.

Watch or not

It is totally a don’t watch from me and i am really happy that Jake didn’t had time to tell us more… No third season and this is a good thing. But this is just my personal opinion. If someone watched the serie and has another opinion i would be happy to hear it maybe you can open my eyes and let me see a aspect of the serie i didn’t saw.

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