November 4

Beijing: Shichahai

Hey Guys,

welcome to the next station of my beijing travels – Shichahai, which is a famous scenic. It is a little like two worlds met. The Old and the new and mostly the tourist. It is an amazing scenic and fun to visited at day but the best way to walk around the lakes is the night.

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Two worlds

The area is around three lakes Qianhai (前海), Houhai (后海) und Xihai (西海). The way around these lakes is full with little shops, bars, cafes, restaurants. You can almost find everything here. At light it is full lights and music and life. It is full of people and has just an amazing atmosphere.
Shishahi Night

But also this area has the best instand Hutongs. Hutongs is the name for the small alley with old houses. The look really beautifull i think.

Hutongs

Hutongs

Hutongs

Actually i think there is no more to say about it. Shichahai is something you has to see and feel not to read about.

If you want to visited Shichahai the simplest way is to just drive to the station ‘Shichahai’. This station is still in the built but can already be used. It starts at end of the lovermost part of the three seas and start with a beautiful view.

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October 30

A silent voice (Koe no Katachi)

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i want to tell you about the one Manga i bought on the Connichi that was for me the Manga of the year – A silent Voice. Normaly i don’t write about Manga. I don’t know if you can buy the Manga in your country, but i will inform me. So why do i write about this one, because this one is special. This one is breaking my heart, gives me hope and shows me how cruel the world is – how cruel kids are. This is not a fantasy, horror or scifiction it is not over the top dramatic. It is real life.

What is it about

It goes about a girl. This girl is really really strong – not in a physical way but in any other way. She is deaf. When we first met her in the story she is really young. She visit primary school and kids are cruel. She got mopped is a too soft word for it. The main actor is a young boy. He is weak and mainly just bored. When she came into their class. Everything changed. They had problems in lessions. Because she needed to much time to write her answer down in the talk round. Everyone in the class found special and thought that she was the problem. Also i must say that the teacher doesn’t handle her well. One of the teacher is making it worse because he make it seems like it is her fault.
So this one boy choose do to what everyone else was thinking. After he started mopping her everyone joined him. This is were the story starts. We follow these two people through her life. We see how she is dealing with what life is throwing at her and we see how he handles what he did to her.

This is about forgiveness

This story is not making him the bad boy. I mean i really don’t liked him very much obviously. But after he got the fault for everything that happend to her is life changed alot. He understood what he did to her and doesn’t know who he should life with that knowledge. When he met her again. We see they strength this girl has. She never gives anyone the fault. She doesn’t want to hurt people, she doesn’t want revenge. She has strength to forgive people. This girl handles life so much better than anyone else. It is so sad to see her sister and mother trying to protect her, when she don’t even need it. The way her mother treated her… and don’t understand how strong her daugther is. It is life in all his form. This is a story about a really strong girl.

Information

The story can be watched as Anime (which i didn’t watched) on crunchyroll.
Also it was published in America by Kodansha, in France by Edition Ki-oon, in spain by Milky Way Ediciones, italy by Edizioni Star Comics and in china by Tong Li Publishing. So go read it.

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October 29

DW: The War Doctor: Agents of Chaos – The Shadow Vortex

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i started to listen to the third box – Agents of Chaos – of ‘The War Doctor‘ and the first adventure ‘The Shadow Vortex’. It plays on earth. The Doctor and someone else who goes with the name Lara get arrested in East Berlin 1961. What is of course suitable with east and west are in the cold war.

The nameless name

This story is a typical Doctor Who episode. In this episode the Doctor is so much the Doctor. The Time Lords (Ollistra of course) is sending him to earth to stop the Dalek invasion. When the time war started a few planets got protected by the time lords. One of this planets was the earth. That is the reason the earth didn’t take place in the time war. But this is now in danger. Because the shield around earth got weaken and the Daleks are taking advantage of this. They send some one who did everything for the right price and she is really good at her job.
The Doctor take one of the stazi with him on this adventure to stop Lara. It is just like the old times. But i promise you this is totally and with everything the war doctor and that makes it such a good story. It is was so the Doctor and at the time everything he hates.

Listing or not

Yeah i know i write everytime less. But the war doctor story are all in the same way. This one is a little different because it feels like on old doctor who story. But it is like all the others in this serie a good story and i would say one of my favorite so far. So yeah go and listen to it. The other two adventures will follow.

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October 26

Veronica Mars: Season 3

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welcome to the third season of Veronica Mars and Logan and her actually stay together and don’t break up in the first episode. Which makes it for me a great season. But i am pretty sure it can’t stay that way.

Epic LoVe Story

This season shows us how much they love each other and how great the can be when just work a little for it. It shows us how bad they are for each other. Logan lost alot in the the seasons before. He is broken and lonely. He needs someone that believes him, someone who trust him. But Veronica can’t do this for him. Logan needs someone he can protect but Veronica can’t give him that. She can’t trust. She is controlling and needs to see things with her own eyes before she believes it. She is strong and can’t accept real help. She needs the danger and jumps right in, but Logan lost so much already he can’t lose her too. The are so good together and at the same so bad for each other. The constantly are hurting each other.
But this is totally the season for me. This what makes the season so good.

Great Story

This season the big case is the rape that already became a theme in season two. The case as alot little sidestories. Sadly a few thematics didn’t get enough time. But it is a really good story with really bad guys and not so bad people doing really bad things. It has alot of gray characters and this is what i likes the most. Sadly the story doesn’t goes like all the other over the whole season. The last few episodes are showing us something bigger something i really want to know more about but we don’t get it. Sadly the second storyline is ending with the serie and doesn’t give any answers.

So except for the ending that was really horrible because this is no way to end a serie. The season is as good and amazing as the other two season and should be watched. Now i just have to watch the movie.

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October 25

The Torchwood Archive

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it is here The Torchwood Archive. I must say that i was a little disapointed when i saw the how small the CD is. The Cd box is really small and i also dislike the way the CDs are stored. But apart from this CD box is beautifull. It is totally Torchwood and embossed silver. Look at it your self.
Torchwood Archive

What is Torchwood

This is a story about the History of Torchwood. The Basic of this story is that Jeremiah – just one guy from a future – that is visting the Torchwood Archive. He is there to shut it down but before he does it he wants to know what Torchwood and Object One is.
So he got lead through the archive by our love Andy which promised fun. But before that he also met hologramms of Ianto and Jack. Which give me so much feelings. This hologramms – more like computerprogramms – are so much like they original were.
But back to the story. Andi is leading him through to different scenes that are explaining what Torchwood is and what that Object One is. So we got scenes in different times and different characters. Some scene are really short others are longer, some seems so useless but everyone is amazing.

What we got

We got a story that i think almost everyone can listen and understand without knowing everything else, but it has so much goddies for the fans. Really got Captain Jack Harkness in his best form. We got Ianto Jones and we got both of them together. We got Gwen and Rhys. Also we have Suzie, Yvonne, Andi, Tosh and many others. Also we get my new favorite Character Norton.
But we got so much. We got an idea of what Tosh and Owen could have been. We finaly got a picture why Hopkins has killed everyone in Torchwood. Also we got a few Information about the Committee. We just got everything you need to love the story.

There is not one thing that i would change about it or what i would bad or could be better. It is just everything. You got the characters you love, get more background stories, hints future stories. One of the best thing was Yvonne scene were the Torchwood Archive couldn’t give information out because it is classified for Torchwood. I just can’t wait for the next adventure with them. The only thing i still need is Owen Harper back.

Listing or not

Suprise, suprise The Torchwood Archive is for me a totally listing too. I mean not tha i every said something else about the Torchwood stories. But none aless this is an anniversary celebration how it should be. It was everything in it. So go and buy this Cd and celebrated the 10 anniversary of Torchwood. It were amazing 10 years with amazing stories. So why are you still reading this, go listen to this story.

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October 23

Class: Episode 1-2 (Doctor Who Spin-Off)

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everyone i am sure heart about the Doctor Who Spin-Off Class. Actually i loved many spin-offs. Torchwood was an amazing and really crappy show in the beginning. The first episode was the worst i had seen in a while. As i remember correctly the first episode i liked was the fourth episode. I also loved Sarah Jane Adventures and i have to say here i fall in love way faster. It had an amazing friendship between Clyde and Luke and it had Sarah Jane. Some episode were way deeper and more horrible than Doctor Who and it didn’t even try to be such dark show.
So with all that and the fact that Doctor Who just lost so much for me in the past years, i was really excited about this new Spin-Off. I am not sure what to think about this serie but it did a lot right and also wrong.

Can a Spin-Off work with out the Doctor

Let’s start with the point i disliked about the first episode the Doctor. It is not the Doctor per se. I love the Doctor and i love Capaldi and he does a good job in this episode as the Doctor. But i think the Spin-Off would have worked fine without him. I hate the i make you to the protect of that rift… this is stupid and they are just teenagers. He is like ‘hey guys, aliens that want to kill you will come throw that thing and you will deal with it and protect the others. Use your heads.Bye.’ How stupid is that? They know nothing about aliens about aliens or how to fight them, how to get information about them. Nothing. UNIT, Torchwood, Sarah Jane they all had sources and stuff to figure things out… but teenagers don’t need any of this just use your heads?! Sure this is what makes this so bad…

The choosen group

I like for now everyone of that group especially Ram and Tanja and their friendship. Is it to much to hope that they just stay good friends? Tanja is the brain. She is intelligent and way younger than the others. Ram is the sportsman, which have to deal with a robotic leg. These two were be friends before all that stuff happend. I think they didn’t talk in school about when they are at home they are chating and talking alot. Than we have April the nice girl. She is dealing with that crap alot better than others. Because she has a great role model. She just accept that there are things you have to take because you can’t change them.
The last two are aliens. Charlie is a prince of a race that good murdered. He and this protector are the only ones that survived. He is the nerdboy that doesn’t know anything about the world. Luke asked his friends and Charlie is googling everything he don’t understand. The last of the group is Ms Quill. She is the protector or slave of Charlie. Even when i think she deserve punishment i agree with here that this is like a slave. But Charlie doesn’t treat her like that and she doesn’t act like that. So i don’t know what to think about this all.

What i don’t understand why Charlies boyfriend is not part of this group. He was there too when everything happend. He tried to help too and he was there when the Doctor tell them that they all now in charge. But it seems that he is just the boyfriend what excatly is a point i dislike about these two episodes. He could be part of the group and there is no reason why he isn’t.

Watching or not

The story is still needing time to find their way. The show is still struggling for what it wants to be, but i think every Doctor Who Spin-Off did that. So i will give the serie a few more episodes. Beside the episodes are way better than the start of Torchwood…
The characters are sympathic and you can really understand all of them. The serie make sure to make the characters believeable and loveable and does a very good job in my eyes with it. So it is for me a totally watching.

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October 22

DW: The Wishing Beast

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here we go with the 97th adventure of the big finish main range – The wishing beast with the sixth Doctor and Mel. The wishing beast is three parter and the other story on the CD – The Vanity Box – is kinda a prequel and sequel at the same time.

They sounded nice enough

At the beginning of the story the Doctor resived a recording, where two siblings invite everyone to join them and visited them. The Doctor who told that his time of running into problem without thinking is over and at the same time he goes visiting the siblings because they sound nice enough. But of course it is never so easy. On the way to the house something like a ghost is warning them to go there. The siblings of course tell the Doctor and Mel that the ghost are the bad. Which one is right?

The great time traveler

The siblings are waiting for special people. A great time traveler, a hero. Of course the Doctor thinks that they mean him but they are actually talking about Mel. They want her to go to the wishing beast and get granded their greatest wish. This is a really interessting thing because Mel is a person that is actually very satisfied with her life. She has nothing like a big wish. I mean Rose wanted her dad would be alive, Nyssa would have wanted to save her father and people and everyone of his companion had something they wished for. But Mel is one of very little people that traveled with Doctor that is just satisfied. Or at least this is how i saw her and remembered her.

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Of course it is nothing like a wonderfull and peacefull place. In that Town is a Vanity Box that makes the woman younger and more beautiful. This is something i never understand why people want to look younger or try to change how they look. I am not happy with everything i look but i would never even try to change it. But many people see it different. This little story is just what it is a little story. But the best thing is we get to know what Mel would have wished. This wish just got me because it is not just everything i thought about Mel. It is what i would have wished too. I really miss someone…sorry i am just emotional right now.

Listen or not

It is a really good story. I like the way they tell the story. Who is the bad guy and who is the good guy or is there anything like that? Is it all just about love or hate? It is a story about wishes and what they can do to people. So yes go on and listen to this great story.

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October 20

Beijing: Sport Place (Beihang University)

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welcome to the next article about Beijing. This is really not normal that some place like this is in such a list. But this place just felt right. It was nice and we had alot of fun at this sport place. We sat many evenings on that tribune.

Sport

In Beijing the people came out when it gets dark to make sport. This is the only time this is possible. The warm temperature and the smog is making the evening the best time to do it. For me it was still to warm to make something like sport. But alot people in beijing are coming out to the sport place and run their rounds. Some of them are jogging, some running, some walking, and some are walk around the place.
You see people in sport cloth but mostly the are runing in jeans or skirts… not all are even having sport shoes. You see sandles or even high heels.
Just lets say that you always have something to watch. You will always find something interessting.

What we were doing

We of course didn’t make sport. What did was buying coke and beer also cookies, ice and chips and set on the tribune and just watched. Okay we were also talking with each other. There is a nice silence in this place you find not often in beijing. It is relaxing just siting there and enjoying the place. Sadly but perfect for people that have to drive home the place closes on 10 o’clock. So you get the subway before it stops.

The university we were visiting was the Beihang University.

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October 16

Lethbridge-Stewart: Beast of Fang Rock

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the Lethbridge-Stewart serie has confused me a little with the order of the books. I thought the whole time that the book ‘The Beast Of Fang Rock’ is the second volume but i wasn’t quite right. It is in truth the third book. So i didn’t get a lot of hints of the past of the Brig. But it is not really nessasary to understand this story.

This book is not as strong as the first book. It is has a nice flow but the story is not getting to me. I have to say that i wasn’t a big fan of the story ‘The Horror Of Fang Rock’ and also don’t remember much of it. What makes it a little harder to follow the events of the book and the persons.

They way to tell the story

The story has three different time zones. The first one is the present were the Brig and his team is working again together with Anne and also with Owaine Brigs Nephew. I like these two to interact and i hope the books will explore the relationship between them more.
The second zone is 1902. That are the events that take places when the Doctor is visiting Fang Rock. So there is not much story just hints for the Doctor and the episode.
The third zone is 1923. It explains who the story is connected. Also a lot of action is taking place there.
I can’t tell how well the book works around the story of the episode because i don’t remember much of it. But when i start my rewatch of Doctor Who i will try to look into it.

What it is about

There isn’t much to say about the story. If you know the episode you can think how the book is working. But for the others: Fang Rock seems to becursed. Ghosts are showing up and really suspicious lights were seen there in all three time zones. The Brig is still searching for evidence that there are alien threats out their and finds out that maybe other people know more than him.

Just another step closer to the Brig. It is feeling wrong to write about him as something else than the Brigadier. So i hope you don’t mind that i write about him as the Brig. Of course in the story he is not a Brigadier yet. In the story he is still a colonel.

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October 15

DW: Valhalla

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welcome to the 96th adventure of the big finish main range – Valhalla with the seventh Doctor. This is one of the adventures were the Doctor is without one of the companions and plays around the year 2345.

Retiered

The Doctor retiered and is visiting Valhalla, where everything is for sale, and their job center. Also it seems like there power problems. A few people work in the underground at the power problems but they are not alone. The Doctor is telling himself that all that is not his problem and that he should just walk away. But we all know the Doctor can never retier. He can never just walk away.
For what i understand is Valhalla under controll of an artificial intelligence that doesn’t work after the ideas of the mayor anymore. She is cuting the power of the mayor and take over.

The Doctor all alone

Of course the Doctor is never really alone. He met the people in the underground a woman and a man and they trying to survive together. They have a good chemistry. But they are both characters that are more in the background. They want to go out alive and they ask much question. It is a shame. The seventh Doctor function for me just why better with a dominant character like Ace.

Listen or not

It is quite a good story. If you love the seventh Doctor go and listen to it. For it is more like i don’t have the feeling that i would missed something when didn’t had to listen to it. I think it is one of the adventure that will just stand in my cupboard and don’t get out again. But i can’t critizice anything, because it is a really solid story.

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