August 15

DW: Season of Fear

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welcome to the 30th adventure of Big Finish Main Range – Season of Fear. The Doctor and Charley traveling through the times of britain in this story. It plays in 305, 1055 and 1806 also on the 31st december 1930 in Singapore. The reason that Charley was on the R101 was that meeting with the young Alec Grayle. When Charley goes on her date, the Doctor meets a man who is immortal and claimed to had killed the Doctor.

Tell it in our own words

This story is told from the Doctor to someone we don’t know or better we just don’t know who he is talking to. So there are this moments that are told from the Doctors view. It makes the jumps in time more easier to follow and understand what is going on in this story. The atmosphere is quite dark. The possible death is hanging over his head and he tries to find out what is going on.

Promise of Immortality

Grayle comes in contact with aliens that promising him immortality. It is hard for me to understand why he chooses to become immortal. Immortality is more a curse than a blessing. You understand more and more about the reasons for the actions of Grayle. Of the disappointments he had to face. We see how all the years change him until nothing of the original person is left.
It is quite an interesting journey.

Listing or not

Definitely go and listen to it. It is a good story and the journey of Grayle is interesting and a little bit similar to the story of ME just with a better outcome or more interesting outcome. There are also little mentioned of things that are explained in the later stories. Small hints of the overall storyline which started with the adventure Invaders of Mars.

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August 8

DW: The Chimes of Midnight

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welcome to the 29th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – The Chimes of the midnight. The eighth Doctor and Charley lends in 1906 London inside a Edwarian House and in mystery they need to solve. Before I listend to it I already heart a lot of this story. How good and well loved it is. It was so good that they actually re-released as a vinyl version.

Darkness everywhere

The Doctor and Charley lands in that House but it is dark – really dark. There are a few mysterious things like a name in the dusk that can’t be removed. Charley writting her name in the dusk and it vanished as she never written it. That is just the start.
The next time they find each other in a murder scene. The servant Edith Thompson got drowned in the sink and the other servants are knowing the Doctor as the inspectore of Scotland yard.

Darkness coming back

This story is a dark one. It is not particalor horror but you can feel the darkness everywhere. The atmosphere they are created with really simple things is quite dark and mysterious. I for one didn’t expecting this out of the story. It is a mystery that needs to solved and you try to find out with the Doctor together. It is not a fun story it is dark and full of death and sadness and ill treating of people.

Listing or not

This story is amazing and one of the best I heart from the eighth Doctor and Charley. It is dark and mysterious and you can investigate next to the Doctor what is actually going on. There are enough close. But as so many stories like that I didn’t get them. The second time you listing to it, you asked yourself how you can miss all that. So yeah go and listen to The Chimes of Midnight.

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August 2

The Omega Factor: The Hollow Earth

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welcome to the last part of the first box set of The Omega Factor – The Hallow Earth. After I listened to all of them I got asked which one I liked the most and I couldn’t decide between this one and the second one – The old gods. So it is a great story and totally shows me why I love these characters so much.

Gone Missing

A lot of homeless people are missing. They were last seen in the church. To prevent becoming the suspect the church is asking Anne and Adam for help to find out what is going on. So what is going on in this story. They are mysterious noises and Tom researched that churches are built on places that have specific energy. Maybe can even built gateways between earth and hell?

Churches are creepy

What is the best about the story are the characters. It is amazing to see Anne and Adam work together but the most I love the way Adam see the church. Churches give him the creeps and has not the best opinion about church. Which is not so far from my one opinion. I think that church and believes are really powerful things and that they can be very dangerous at times.

Listing or not

Definitely go and listen to this story. It is great. They way the characters interact with each other is awesome. What I like the most about it is that we have these two people from the church believing in something bigger – believing in god. Than we have Anne who believes in sciences and doesn’t believe in god and then there is Adam I am not sure he knows what he is really believing in but it is definitely not god. They all witness the same things but they see them very differently and they don’t change their opinion. I really love this one.

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August 1

DW: Invaders from Mars

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to the historical adventure of Big Finish Main Range – Invaders from Mars – about the invasion on the 30 October 1938. Oh sorry I ment the 31 October 1938. The Eighth Doctor and Charley stubble across another invasion.

Let’s go and invade the earth

Here we are again the 200th invasion of earth. The Doctor and Charley actually wants to visit Singapore but they land in New York City. Both of them find a dead man and try to find out what is behind his death. There is so much going on in this series. There is the broadcast of the ‘War of the Worlds’, the dead private detective, an alien weapon is on the market and then there is also a kidnapping. How is it all connected? Is it all connected? What is actually going on here. On top of everything there is an alien invasion going on or is there?

Everything not quiet right

There are a few little things that are mentioned in this story that aren’t quiet right. Like the date of the actual broadcasting of ‘War of the Worlds’. All this things lead as to the story that will go over the next 6 episodes. I actually didn’t get all that little mistakes. But people who actually live in america may know more about it.

Listing or not

I really like the grand idea behind this story. All the different little stories that of course expand to one big story are not that bad. I actually like the story. It is a little mysterious and also fun. There is so much going on in this story that you have to listen to it very carefully to get everything quiet right like the wrong stuff. So yeah go and listen to this story.

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July 28

Torchwood: We always get out alive

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welcome to the next Big Finish Torchwood adventure – We always get out alive with Gwen and Rhys. A lot of you guys know already that I didn’t like Gwen but love Rhys. So I was sure that this would be the weakest story of this season. Which is not hard with how amazing all the others were. But this story is amazing and it doesn’t have to hide behind the other stories. The story of them plays after the season Miracle Day.

The long drive home

Gwen is already working again as Torchwood and Rhys is helping her. Their daughter is at home with the babysitter when they are out hunting. This story starts after they finished a job and they drive home. It doesn’t sound like much but this simple theme is amazing. Of course there is an alien out for them. But mostly it is just them driving home. I promise you it is not boring at all.

A Car drive is funny

These two go through everything in this car drive. They flirt, they argue, they fight, they understand and they are frightened. It changes so fast. One moment they fight they next they make jokes. There are a lot of deep things in it. It is about Gwen loving her job, about Rhys being afraid that someday they will not get out alive. It is about how the job influence them. How you deal with the stuff you go through.
But in the end it is about love and trust. These two found their way. They may stubble and fall a few times but in the end they go in the same direction. They know what they want and that is this life together. It is great.

Listing or not

Definitely go and listen to it. It is amazing and they are so much going on in this little car drive. Also I like to see how far Gwen and Rhys came. In season 1 and 2 I hated this pairing, because I always thought that Rhys deserve better. Gwen didn’t really love him. She just married him because Jack would never asked her. I hated this so much. This is the biggest reason why I disliked her so much. But over all that happened she start to see him, to see how much luck she has to have someone like him. When I listen to this adventures I really love them together.

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July 25

DW: The Eye of the Scorpion

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the 24th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – The Eye of the Scorpion – leads to egypt. The fifth Doctor claims in the story that he and Peri must be around 1400 BC from hieroglyphics. It seems that the real history doesn’t know exactly when Amenhotep II reign ended in 1401 BC or 1397 BC. This story is a pseudo historic story. It is the story about the daughter of Amenhotep II Erimem.

Who will become pharao

Erimem is in this story ment to become the pharaoh. Who knows a little about egypt know that their wasn’t a pharaoh named Erimem. The Doctor knows that too and is afraid that she will die in the revolution that is to start about the fact if Erimem actually can become pharaoh. There are people who doesn’t like the thought of a woman being pharaoh.

Friends and Traitors

But Erimem is an interesting character and I really like the side characters Fayum and Antranak. Antranak is the general of the palace guards and is trying to protect Erimem. Fayum is a priest in the royal court. The story definitely lives through these two and that friendship between them. The chemistry between the characters is amazing. It is so easy to fall in love with this characters which I hadn’t like that in a long time.

Listing or not

I really love egypt. When I was young I read so much about it and was so interested. Sadly nothing from the knowledge survived but I still love everything about egypt. Maybe I should get back into it. The story itself doesn’t held much ‘real’ history in the story about Erimem but there is much information about the time in the little details in the story telling about the land and their culture. This is already a good reason to listen to this story. Second the story is great and the characters are lovely.
The atmosphere is mostly lightly and fun. Peri and Erimem make good team and it is fun to listen to them. But it still has his moments seriousness and sadness. It is a great story and also introduced a new companion of the Doctor. So yes go and listen to it.

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July 18

DW: Project: Twilight

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in the 23rd adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – Project: Twilight – they in invite us to the casino ‘The Dusk’ owned by plain old vampires. This story is the first part that featured the Forge. The Forge is an enemy that follows the Doctor through more stories than this one. Created as a long story it includes the adventures Project: Lazarus, Project: Destiny and a spin-off novel Project: Valhalla and a short story named Twilight’s end.

This story takes place the present day. In the story itself is no date given. But in Project:Destiny is stated that it happens on the 23rd August 2001.

What happened and who are the Forge

First of all the story is about what happens behind the curtains of the casino. The vampire are working on a cure for what happened to them. This is actually a really interesting setting. This vampires are made by experiments. Experiments that are conducted by a Government organisation named the Forge. The people we met here are victims or were they victims?

The question is who are your friends, who can you trust? What are the goals everyone is having? I like settings like that were you don’t know what they are planing. Were you don’t know if they are still the victims or are they already the perpetrators? This whole story is a grey zone and it is amazing.

Great Character Moments

Evelyn has amazing scenes in this story. She and Cassie – a woman who works in the casino – have so many great scenes together. Cassie is an amazing side character with so many layers and good background story.
You can judge her or feel with her. Her story hopefully doesn’t end here. There is so much potential left.

Listing or not

Go and listen to this story. I really liked it. Stories that play in this gray zone are amazing. There isn’t a clear line between good and evil, sometimes not even between victims and perpetrator. What is your right of survival and what is just cruelty. Where begins right and were starts wrong? Just it is an amazing story and I am sure the following stories in this storyline are also amazing.

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July 18

The Omega Factor: Legion

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welcome to the third episode of The Omega Factor – Legion. Legion brings the names Morag and Drexler into play. This episode actually is brining in a lot information from the original series. They found a good way to deal with the information you need from the original series. The names that are dropped are Drexler and Morag.

Morag

This episode is about Morag. She worked for Drexler (Adams father thought that he was the devil himself). In the original story Morag was a gifted and mute girl. Big Finish changed Morag a little. They actually gave her a voice. A mute character on audio drama is a little challeging. So they gave her a way to comunicated with Adam. He starts hearing her voice and want to help her.

In bottle

Adam stumbles over the corrupted exorsist Wanda McCrum. Which leads him to the names Drexler and Morag. He and Anne are going to search for her and find her. She is in a comma for years. It seems that Wanda McCrum is paying for her care. So Wanda is exorsice demons and trap them into bottles and also is looking out for Morag, who starts to wake up.

Listing or not

The voices and the mystery around Morag and Wanda is layed out to scare you. I read a lot of the other reviews and they found the story scary. I didn’t found it that scary but I think I am a little different in this part. There is a lot nessassary so I be scared when I hear or watch stories. In real life I am easily scared.
But I like the story. I like that we get to know a little more about the original series. The whole mystery stuff about what Adam is born for. What his powers mean. All the question that are what makes this series so amazing. So yes go and listen to it.

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July 14

Torchwood: Last Beacon

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let’s get camping with Ianto Jones and Owen Harper in the Big Finish Torchwood adventure Last Beacon. It is the second story of the fourth season. I can’t believe we already have the fourth season of amazing stories of Torchwood. You can’t say it enough. I love that Big Finish for starting with Torchwood. I normally not say you had written the story but here I will say because it is written by Gareth David-Llyod himself.

The start of a beautiful friendship

Ianto was allowed to plan a mission – the first one after the Lisa incident. Someone sends a transmission into space and Ianto and Owen should find out what it is and who sends it. It is sent from the countryside. Ianto spend a lot of his childhood in this area visiting his grandparents. So he really enjoys the trip. Owen on the other hand isn’t a big fan of nature and people and everything that they are dealing with there.

Love or hate

The story is living through the chemistry between Ianto and Owen. Owen is his charming self and our lovely Ianto is on the receiving end. The story jumps between Owen snapping at Ianto and them bounding over a bar fight. It is such a great story about the relationship between them. We all remember who Owen in the series snaps at Ianto a lot. It is nice to see more of the relationship between them.

Atmosphere

The atmosphere is great. Ianto and Owen made a great team with the snapping and open up to each other. It is a great mixture of fun and calm moments between them. The music in the scenes are amazing. I love the music so much. The story is also really good. These two searching for the ‘person’ that is responsible for the transmission. They have to deal with ghost and locals. This story has everything bar fights, ghosts, guide tour of the attractions of the countryside.

Listing or not

definitely listen to it. These characters are great and the chemistry amazing. This is so far my favorite story in the fourth season. The story is set somewhere between Lisa and Owen dying. I love stories that concentrate on the relationship between two people and even more when these came to short in the TV series. So goooo listen to this amazing story. I hope we will get more stories written by Gareth David-Llyod.

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July 11

The Tenth Doctor Adventure: Cold Vengeance

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the Ice Warriors are going to wake up from the icy sleep in the last episode of the Tenth Doctor Adventures Box Set – Cold Vengeance. The Doctor and Rose lands on Coldstar which is a freezer satellite from the company Coldstar. There is no date given. But it takes places five hundred years after the ten-year war between the Ice Warriors and the Humans.

Meeting the pirates

Like I said before the Doctor and Rose lands on the Coldstar satellite where they meet space pirates and a refuse collector Lorna. Which for all we know could already enough for a whole story. But now the Ice Warriors are awaken and seek revenge for the war crimes of the humans.

Being apart

In every story before I said that there this lightness to all the stories. This is the darkest story so far in this Box Set. I think it is because most of the time the Doctor is with the Space Pirate and Ice Warriors. So Rose is with one Space pirate and the refuse collector. The lightness comes from how they act around each other. It is still not a dark story but darker than the rest.

Listing or not

Go listen to it. Isn’t that a surprise. This story is really good. We got good old Ice Warriors and really good characters like Lorna. The Doctor Rose know each other really good. They saved the day so often and they believe in them as a team and in their knowledge. That brings a lot of problems that could have been easier when they would stop talking and start listing. This is really amazing. Go and listen to the person that makes the Doctor listening.

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