October 5

DW: The Raincloud Man

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welcome to the 116th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Raincloud Man’ with Charley and the sixth Doctor. We also have a special guest and that would be DI Menzies. The story takes place after ‘The Condemned’ in 2008. It seems to be december because all the people are doing their Christmas shopping. So obviously we find ourself in Manchester again and the second part of the story takes place in Rio de Janeiro.

Switch places

DI Menzies built herself a amazing new reputation and also a network of informants. It is really lovely to see how she dealt with everything. This time when they met it is not the Doctor that is believed to be a murderer but Charley. One of Menzies informants – Kelsa -knew of her special situation with the Doctor and than when Menzies left them alone he ends up dead. Kelsa is an interesting character and I loved him the whole 5 minutes he is part of the story. I really would love to met him again sometime in his past.

Time Travelers

The Doctor is following a coin from the future to find the time traveler behind it. Of course it leads to something much bigger than this mystery time traveler. We got a dubious casino and different aliens who are all searching for someone. For who are they searching and are they all searching the same person? We follow mostly three different storylines of the story. Obviously the one from the Doctor and the one of Charley but also got DI Menzies and her story.

The new companion?

What I love about ‘The Raincloud Man’ is that we got a lot of DI Menzies action. She trusts the Doctor but doesn’t believe everything he tells her. She is searching for her own answer and I am sure that she would make a great companion material. Maybe someday we will see this. The three different storylines – it’s not the perfect word for it – make the story so good an interessting.

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September 28

DW: Forty-Five

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welcome to the 115th Big Finsih Main Range Adventure ‘Forty-Five’ with the the seventh Doctor with Ace and Hex. This story is actually for four differnet stories. We had adventure like that before for example Circular Time and 100. It should celebrated Forty-Five years of Doctor Who. So the number Forty-Five is playing a role in every story.

False God

The first story of Forty-Five takes place in 1902 in egypted. They met Howard Carter on his search fo the lost tomb of Userhat. The interessting part is that Hex is hearing a calling that none of the other can hear. What I really love is that this Doctor is not playing favorites.

Order of Simplicity

This story is taking place in the 3380 on the planet Sphere of Influence. There is a mysterious code that the Doctor should solve. But the problem is that everyone that reads this code gets infected by a virius that reduces your IQ to 45.

Casualties of War

The third story of Forty-Five takes place in 9th May 1945 in London the celebration of the end of the second world war. For Ace this is a special adventure because Ace and her mother grow up in this street – in the house next door.

The Word Lord

The last story takes place in the year 2045 in the second cold war that seems to lead to the state of affair seen in ‘Warriors of the Deep’. There is murder in a top secret base and the Doctor and his friends need to find the murder.

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September 21

DW: Brotherhood of the Daleks

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welcome to the 114th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘Brotherhood of the Daleks’ with the sixth Doctor and Charley. In the story itself is no actual date given, but with all the clues given in the story AHistory place it around 5426. Like the title says it is Dalek story but we also met again the race of the Thals – who found a new home on the planet Spiridon.

Secrets

Charley is really bad at keeping secrets and act not suspicious. She is so obvious. But it is still fun to listen to try to explain her knowledge. What I like the most about this is that even when the Doctor and Charley seem to be close – to be friend. There is still is thing between them. This in a way he trusts her and in a way he don’t. I don’t know. I just like relationship full opposites.
The story starts with these two making contact with a group of Thals. Something is off. One of the women seems to react to the words ‘blue box’ and Charlotte Pollard. Obviously the Thals know about the Doctor and the TARDIS but for them it is more like a fairy tale than real history.
The fun part is that there is a bigger reaction to the name Charlotte Pollard than to Blue Box. The Story has a few hints of an early story ‘Terror Firma‘ the last encounter form Charley and the Daleks.

What is real

It is quiet complicated to explain the story without spoiling too much. If you listen to this adventures when you do different things than maybe you should sit done and do nothing except listing. It is not so complicated but it has a lot layers. What is the truth and what is illusion. Are they really at Spiridon? Or where are they and what is really going on there. That is why I actually love this story. Maybe listen a second time to get what you missed.

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September 17

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: The Creeping Death

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welcome to the last part of The Tenth Doctor Adventure ‘The Creeping Death’ with the lovely Donna Noble and the tenth Doctor. For the last story we get my favorite stories, which is like you all know the historical ones. This time we get the Great Smog of London 5th December 1952. When I first visited London with my class, our teachers talked about the smog problems and the Clean Air Act and how you can see it on the buildings and it is also the reason that mostly Taxi busses are driving in the city. We didn’t about the death our anything else.

More than smog

The Doctor and Donna find themself in the start of the Great Smog. Obviously the Doctor is wandering of and meets Ivy, who just visited all people in the cinema die. Some would thing that it was the smog that got really bad at this point. But there is also something else in the air. Something the Doctor fight – the Fumifugium.

Great Characters

Donna met Terry a young man who is on his way to his boyfriend Richard. The characters are actually really great. Ivy the young girl in love with this man Richard, that goes to work no matter what because she needs the money. Terry is hitting it of with Donna. It is really fun to listen to them. Malcolm an old salesman with got ideas and obviously Richard. It is great group and they are all having their part in this fight. Nobody is the damsel in distress. The fight and save each other by actually working with each other.

A great end

The creeping Death is a really great last story for the boy set. It is dramatic, sad and fun. It has all of it. The characters are amazing and it would be fun to listen to another adventure in this combination. So for everyone that hasn’t listened to this stories should totally do it. It is amazing.

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September 14

DW: The Doomwood Curse

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welcome to the 111st Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Doomwood Curse’ with the sixth Doctor and Charley. The story takes place in the 1738 in England. It is a story about reality and fantasy. It is about the legendary highwayman Dick Turpin. In the Doctor Who universe he was bad criminal that got romanticized be the book ‘Rockwood’.

The dynamic

Something is really wrong in London 1738. The Doctor and Charley arrive there and something of. It is fun to hear Doctor trying to figure Charley out and still he already knows her enough to realize that something is wrong that she is acting off. It doesn’t end with Charley. All the people start acting weird. People dying of curses and sudden marriages will hold the Doctor on his heels. Everything turns overdramatic and overacted just like in an old romantic story.

Just to dramatic

The biggest problem with this is the overdramatic and overacting – even when it is totally intended to be like this. Thief that still from the rich to give it the poor. Falling in love with your sister that got kidnapped years ago. We kill everyone and we curses people. It is just not my kind of story. I love Charley but sometimes she goes on my nerves with overdramatic view of things and now she changed in this girl who is so overdramatic and naive.

Great Idea

I really like the idea of the story. It is just couldn’t it be a modern story? Okay have to admit it wouldn’t work so well with a modern story. All the part of the story fit to the idea behind it perfectly. Even when I don’t like these kinda of stories so much, it brings us great scenes between the Doctor and Charley and their evolving friendship.

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September 7

DW: Assassin in the Limelight

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welcome to the 108th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘Assassin in the Limelight’ with the sixth Doctor and Evelyn. The Story takes place on the 14th April 1865 – yes on the day Lincoln got shot. The Story starts with the mystery of Oscar Wilde being around older than 2 years that he schould be. Nothing is like it seems in this story.

Change the history

It is not really a surprise that Oscar Wilde is not the real Oscar Wilde. We find out that he is infact an old enemy of the Doctor we meet before in Medicinal Purpose. That would be Knox. The last time we saw him he got infected by his own virius. Now he is here and all we know is that he plans about the killing of the president. Since he killed the original killer.

Play your part

The story is about question over question. Who will kill Lincoln? Does Knox really fall love? What is actually going on? I mean come on it is Knox. Do we really believe that he wants to save the life of woman? Knox who is ready kill everyone for money? ‘Assassin in the Limelight’ unfoldes itself slowly with every step our protagonist make. Something I saw coming and other I really didn’t.

Historical Events

It is a historical story and I really love those stories. Aspecially with a character like Evelyn. She understands and cares about history and she can see the bigger picture. But one the other hand she so good and sensitive that she wants to save everyone and forgets the bigger picture of the fate of a single woman. She makes the moral delimma so real and I just love her and her big heart that have to take so much on the travels with Doctor and still she always goes on.

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August 31

DW: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster

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welcome to the 107th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Haunting of Thomas Brewster’ with the fifth Doctor and Nyssa. The story kinda follows this person Thomas Brewster through his life. It starts in the year 1851 at funeral of his mother. From that point on the Doctor and Nyssa appears in the background of his life.

Hey I am Thomas Brewster

The first episode of this story is told from perspective of Thomas Brewster and who he see the Doctor and Nyssa being there at different occasions. Thomas story is about the loss of his mother. He don’t remember much of her but he thinks that she calls out to him and that he need and can save her. The loss as formed his whole life. He never had someone who looks out for him or tries to help him. He got himself friend but nobody that takes care of him, like a mother or parents would do. So the only thing he has is this voice that calls for him.

A mess

I can’t find this story hard to follow. Thomas Brewster is not hard to understand but still he didn’t really got me. For me it all seems like a big mess of paradox stuff and I not sure if this makes any sense to me in the end. So this is for me a really weak story. I like the idea, but I don’t really get into the story. So that is that. But I still like to see where Thomas Brewster story play out.

With the end of this story there is a lot of possibilities what could happen and there is a lot of potential for the next stories and I curious were it will end. I know that will get little mini episodes about different companions that are bound by Thomas Brewster so we will see were this story ends. I just hope it isn’t working with so much paradox stuff like it feels in this story.

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August 28

DW: The Web Planet – rewatch

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welcome to the story The Web Planet. It is a story over six episodes. The Doctor, Vicki, Ian and Barbara are landing on the planet Vortis with aliens in forms of giant insects. Ahistory and other novelisation place the story around 20.000.

Always the same

Like all the other Doctors the first doesn’t know what is going on in the TARDIS. This story is a story like this. The TARDIS doesn’t do what he wants. She stays at this planet and Ian and the Doctor go out to find the reason. What I like about this is Barbara. She is a very intelligent woman and she knows that there is a logic answer to what is happening to her and her bracelet – for me it looks like magnetic – but she doesn’t know the answer yet and it frightens her and she is not afraid to admit that.

Missing

The Web Planet is one of the stories that never really got me or I didn’t got the story. When you listen to Big Finish not just the stories but the interview you get a lot of opinions about different Doctor Who Stories. I actually don’t remember who said it but same one was talking about how great The Web Planet was and what this loved about it. So when I rewatched it wanted to see what this person saw. Sadly for me I didn’t. It wasn’t the costumes or that the stories wasn’t good. Somehow it is really hard for me to watch it. I don’t why or what it is that makes this story so uninteresting for me.
I am not a big fan of the costumes and you actually have to see it in the time it was made. Even I couldn’t remember who was who of this Menoptera. Everyone of them was slightly different. The story about an Invasion race and the fight against is great.

So the story has great things but still something seems to be missing for me. I still think that everyone should watch it. Even when the only reason is that there are just three stories left with Ian and Barbara and one of them The Crusade is partly missing.

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August 25

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: One Mile Down

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welcome to the 3rd Volume of The Tenth Doctor Adventures and the second episode ‘One Mile Down’ in which we follow Donna and the Doctor into their vacation to the underwater city Vallarasee. It never goes well when the Doctor and Donna do holidays. The last time the got a holiday was in the episode Midnight.

Changes

The Doctor had visited Vallarasee before but then everything was different. The last time the Doctor had to wear helmets to breath and swim everywhere like the underwater part imply. But when he arrives with Donna the city is drained of the water and the people of Vallarasee has to wear the helmets to survive. The city is protected by a dome and maybe it has a few little leaks. Water always finds a way…

New friends?

So often Donna and the Doctor are making new friends and get to know new people. Obviously also in this adventure we met new people. But this time the don’t really are sympathetic. We meet Patricia. She seems nice enough at first. Truth be told I liked her the first time I listened to it and then the end happened and when I listened again and really listened to what she says, I really start to dislike her. When you are in the same situation than her, you should think about some things. She is not a bad person, she is just not thoughtful?
The second person who is around them is Garth which is a really asshole and racist. The Doctor is always searching a fight with him. I get him. This guy is so annoying.

There are at their best

Doctor and Donna are amazing in ‘One Mile Down’. The Doctor is doing his thing and Donna just being to got for the world. No for really the story is really great. The story has everything. The amazing chemistry between Donna and the Doctor, the Doctor making it his job to save everyone and Donna not letting anyone behind. Vallarasee is a great world. There is so much in this story. What Tourism can do to city’s, what people do to save their people.

There are no solution to all the problems that are shown. It is just the stories of people doing mistakes, about money about love. About change and about beauty.

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August 24

DW: The Dark Husband

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welcome to the 106th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Dark Husband’ with the 7th Doctor and his companions Ace and Hex. It plays at sometime at another planet named Tuin. Ace is wanting a holiday and do something nice. Of course it doesn’t work out.

Let’s take a break

What can go wrong when you want a holiday? Hex finds broshure and the decide to visited the festival of Twin Moons of Tuin. Of course lands at the time when something bad had happened. They found a graveyard and no festival. Just this part makes me love the story. I mentioned it a lot that I wasn’t a fan of Ace in the series. But when I started listing to her stories with Hex, that really changed. She grows in all the stories and it is great to see her developement. Also I love the way these three characters interact with each other. It is always fun to listen to their banter.

Let’s end the war

So really fast the story developed from let’s take a break to let’s end the war. Apparently there are two race that are at war forever. They have the Festival ones a year. It is a little bit like the Christmas wonder. Every they make this festival they celebrate together and just stop the war for this time and after they just go back to it. To make this even more special you can stop the war by a marriage and of the Doctor jumps to the chance to end this but he doesn’t what he got into. It’s a typical we make up as we go story.

Dark Husband and Shining Wife

The atmosphere of the story is hard to describe for me. It is not a really dark story. The actor talked about it being a comedy in away. But I really don’t see it. I don’t share humor I think, because I can’t remember that I laughed at this story. So it is something between everything. I don’t think it is a bad story. Actually I like it. I just don’t see what is funny about it. Also I feel with my Hex. We got glimpses of what he feels for a special someone who doesn’t seem to see him that way. I love my babies.

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