July 8

The Omega Factor: The Old Gods

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welcome to the second story of the Omega Factor – The old gods. This is the first time Anne and Adam are working together on a case. We have Adam having nightmares or something like that and the old files of his father. They both work through.

EMA-Sufferiors

This case is about the disappearance of a girl who thinks that she is electro sensitive. The professor how is worried about her thinks also to know where she is. An institute to investigate EMA-sufferer and has also a quiet mysterious side to it. One of the name who lead this institute is also find in the files of Adams father. So they go to investigate. This is the ground story.

Do you trust me

What I like about this story is the interaction between Anne and Adam. They don’t know each other and have different ways of dealing with problems. It is not easy to work with someone you don’t know and have trust this person. Adam and Anne are kinda dancing around each other. Trying out how this relationship can work between. They still need to find a way to be a team. This is them trying to get warm with each other. That is what I like the most. We see how this relationship grows and get built up.

Listing or not

Definitely go and listen to it. Like I said I love the interaction between Anne and Adam. I love stories about people getting to know each other. Also the story is interesting and sparks the interest to find out what it is about Adam and his abilities. This is definitely one of my favorite stories out of this Box Set.

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July 4

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: The Sword of the Chevalier

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welcome to the second adventure of the second Tenth Doctor Adventure Box Set – The Sword of the Chevalier. Again Rose and the Doctor are visiting earth to be precise Slough 1791. This is a historical story or at least a story with historical figure the Chevalier d’Eon. The Chevalier d’Eon is an interesting character who lived the first 50 year as man and then at least for a time as a woman. Historian are not sure if he did it because he or she was actual transgender or if it was just a plot to live freely in France. In the Time the Chevalier lived as a man he was spy.

The spy and the alien hunters

The Doctor and Rose just want to have a nice time. Visit the Chevalier d’Eon and look through the big telescope and maybe get a little ice cream. But of course everything comes different when the Doctor sees a space ship form the space mafia. Rose and the Doctor tries to find the aliens and stumble of the Chevalier D’Eon again who accompany them to a costume party.

The problems with the Psychic paper

Again we have an adventure with the typical lightness. The Doctor get them into the party with the psychic paper. The problem with that is that the host believes that he is a Tenor and want the Doctor to perform. So Rose and the Chevalier searching for the aliens and the Doctor is working on his performance.

Listing to it or not

Go and listen to it. It is great fun and I really like the character of the Chevalier d’Eon. The Chevalier is an interesting character and harmonize with the other two perfectly. Also again there is the typical lightness to the adventure of the TV series. So it is so good to be back at the good times of Doctor Who.

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July 1

The Omega Factor: From Beyond

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welcome to the first episode of The Omega Factor. I first heart about it in a the Big Finish podcast. They played the first 15 minutes of the first box set and it seemed interesting. Someone on tumblr told me that it is a lot like The X-Files just without the aliens and instead with supernatural stuff. Sounds kinda perfect to me. This person also told me that the first episode of the first box set is available for free. It really is. For everyone who wants to listen to it you can get it here.

What is going on?

I am not so sure myself. What I know is that there is definitely a TV Series about this. The radio plays play years after the TV Series. This tumblr person told me I didn’t need to see the serie to understand it. It is like a new start.
As far as I believe to know the male main character is the son of one of the main character in the TV Series and the female main character is an old college of his father.
So far so good.

Greetings from X-Files

So this Organisation is researching the mind. But it seems like until the years passes there wasn’t much evidence that something like the supernatural exists. So they want to shut it down. In all that mass is Adam. He is following the last request of his dead father. Adam has a lot of problems. He is stressed and struggling with what he wants to do in his life or with is life. Also he has problems sleeping. He is kinda on the edge.

She is involving him with one of her projects she has to shut down.
This project is an old woman who tried to establish contact with her dead brother. We see that Adam is a person who needs to help. He can’t just look away.
Anne Reynolds on the other side seems a little blind sided from the supernatural, a little to focused on the project instead of the people in it.
What is behind the story of the siblings is not really surprising. What doesn’t mean the story is bad or anything. For me it just shows something of her character as much as it says about Adam.

This could be a very interesting combination. I can’t wait to listen to the other stories.

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June 14

DW: Minuet in Hell

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welcome to the 19th adventure of the Big Finish Main Range ‘Minuet in Hell’. It is another story with Charley and the eighth Doctor. It is also a story were Lethbridge-Stewart plays a role. This is mostly a good indication for a good story. But someone on tumblr told me that this story is not one of the better once and that is not so wrong.

The story takes place in 2003 Malebolgia, USA. Malebolgia is the newest state of America. Lethbridge-Stewart is send there to investigate what is going on in this state. The Brig is already in retirement but still does sometimes a few jobs for them. Because he can’t just sit at home.

Bit from everything

We have three big story elements. One is like I already said Lethbridge-Stewart. He is investigating the facility that claims to heal mental illness. We all know that there of course has something behind it. I like this storyline. The Brig on his own is amazing and just his reactions at the answers of his bosses are fun.

Prostitute

Charley is the other big part of the story. She doesn’t know who she is or where she is. But she not just lost her memories, she also get captured and used as a prostitute. That is not totally right. Thanks god she didn’t good touched that way or before it comes to something like that, someone else is helping her out. Someone who seems to be a demon hunter.

At last

The last part is of course about the Doctor. The Doctor is in a similar situation as Charley. He forgot who he was and got captured and held in the place for the mental illness. With not knowing who he is, the escape seems more difficult like this.

Listing or not

The story is really not that great. But they have amazing characters and it is always fun to see the Doctor and the Brig interact with each other. So even when the story is not that great. It is a must listen for me, because the Brig and the eighth Doctor are lovely together.

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April 26

Torchwood – The Death of Captain Jack

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welcome back to the fourth season of Big Finish Torchwood and the first adventure ‘The Death of Captain Jack’. It is a story with Jack Harkness and John Hart. I had really high expectations because John Hart. I love this character and the episode are always fun. So this adventure could also be named ‘The many times John and Jack had sex’.

Dynamic

The important thing when John Hart was in an episode of the dynamic between him and Jack. This love/hate relationship. The friendship and the jealousy between them. They just cant without each other and definitely can’t with each other. This was what Big Finish got across perfectly. They are so similar in many ways and so different in other ways. This dynamic between when you never know if the will save or kill each other. That is so amazing about the John Hart character you never knew which side he will choose – except his own.

Changing History

The Story is about the relationship between John and Jack – what makes it really amazing himself. But it is also a story about John taking things, changing things in History. He is breaking all the rules of time traveling. He is marrying the queen and that are just a few of the changes he makes. Almost everyone has a short role in this. I doesn’t want to say more because you need to listen to this story.

Listing or not

Definitely listing to it! It is a great story. It doesn’t count to the best story and will not make it to my favorite list but it is still amazing. Also it brings John Hart back what is amazing on his own. I missed John Hart. It is a great start in a really great season. Because there are amazing team ups already planned. I can’t wait for the next one with Owen Harper and Ianto Jones.

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April 19

DW: 1963: The Assassination Games

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welcome to the third part ‘The Assassination Games’ of the 1963 adventure that are celebration of the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who in the main range. The story is playing in 1963 in London. The seventh Doctor and Ace are going undercover. Also ‘The Assassination Games’ features the group Counter-Measures. The first appearance of the group was in the episode ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ from the 25th season of the Doctor Who TV Series.

Not much Doctor

The first two episodes have not much of the Doctor and Ace in it. We mostly hear the story from the sight of Captain Gilmore the chef of Counter-Measures, which still trying to find founders for the group. The Doctor is undercover as an independent MP on a platform of nuclear disarmament and Ace as a maid in a wealthy family. Where she met Rachel the other part of the Counter-Measures or better an Ex-Counter-Measures Member.

Conspiracy

Ace and Rachel sadly doesn’t have such a big part. The most story we follow Gilmore and the Doctor, which try to find out what is behind the assassination. There are a lot of things that don’t at up, this why the good into it. There is a little time circle in it but itisn’t mentioned any further. I always like to think about how this circles start or end. The Doctor and Ace find a book writen by Captain Gilmore about the events in 1963.
I doesn’t want to tell more about it. The group the Doctor encounters here as an enemy is featured in others stories. So we will see more about them.

Listen or not

Like I said at the start ‘The Assassination Game’ is third part of the ‘1963 audio serie’. It can be that the other two stories (Fanfare for the Common man with the fifth Doctor and Nyssa; The Space Race with the sixth Doctor and Peri) are in some way connected to this story. I questioned all my source but it seems that they are only connected by the year they play in. So it should okay to just listen to this story.

But back the question. It is a story where Ace is traveling alone with the Doctor and she is a character I never got a real grip on. When she starts traveling with the Doctor and Hex I got a better access to her character.
I also wasn’t a fan the group Counter-Measures in ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’. The character I start liking is Rachel.

So yeah the story is good. But it is not mine. This isn’t a story I can get lost in. So I really didn’t need it but if you like Counter-Measures or Ace than this is good story for you.

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March 22

DW: Eight Doctor: The Time War Series 1 – The Conscript

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welcome to the third part of The Time War Series 1 The Conscript. In this story the Doctor and his group get separated. Ollistra is of course involved again. The group get questioned and the Doctor is sent to be trained for war.

The war training

The Doctor is in this training camp. For him it must seem more like prison. So he can’t leave because of a barrier that makes sure that the soldier are save. The Doctor is in the room with two other. The one is really serious about that training. She wants to fight in this war and believes in the stuff that her Captian says. The other is there to fight too, but he is more like a goofball. He likes the Doctor from the first moment. Wants to be like him.
The Doctor is in that mix and questioned everything the others believes him. He cause trouble.

Listing or not

I really like this part. The Doctor is so wrong in this place. He don’t believe in war or in the way they do it. It is not that he don’t believe the Daleks needs to be stopped. It is just… and exactly for that it is good to listen to this part. In The Conscript we see again that the war don’t really have good and bad. We see how war changes people. We see why the Doctor destroyed the time lords.

What I love about this story and about the stories of the war doctor, is that you understand why the Doctor needed to do this one so cruel thing. All this story makes it clear that he hadn’t another choice. I was never a fan of taking this away from the Doctor as Moffats did. Because yes the Doctor can do this. The Doctor is capable of doing this.

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February 8

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I listened to this adventure of Big Finish Torchwood before but I got not around to write about it. Torchwood_cascade_CDRip_tor is a really different story. I actually can never decide if I love this story or hate it. This is another adventure with Toshiko Sato, who get a phone call of an old friend from Torchwood. It plays in the 2000s in London. It actually plays a few month before the final of season two.

It is really hard to listen to

What makes the story so special is also what makes it so annoying. The story is about a computer virus. So your CD is not broken. All that sound fluctuations and the scenes that are mixed in and all that other stuff is intentional. It makes it really, really hard to listen to. But it also created a total different atmosphere. Truth be told I hated that way of telling this story but with the end… it is just kind of perfect. I love Tosh so much and this hurts really.

Computer Virus on the lose

So like I said before the story is about a computer virus. This computer virus is targeting people who are downloading stuff illegal. Steven an old Torchwood worker who can’t stop looking out for this stuff. Find these people dying and calls Toshiko for help. Toshiko obviously goes and help him. The chemistry between Tosh and Steven is really good and it brings back all the old Tosh/Owen feelings. This story is like all the other stories and works on his own. But there are so many little stuff in it that makes it so amazing. We hear Yvonne and we hear stuff that happened or will happen.

Listen or not

Yes please go and listen to this amazing story. This story is an amazing annoying masterpiece. It is everything. The story is full of love and feelings. Feelings of Tosh and Tosh feelings. Tosh is amazing and I really love her and this story.

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August 6

Torchwood: Corpse Day

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welcome to the third and at the time best Torchwood adventure this season ‘Corpse Day’. This is the first Owen Harper adventure and i was really excited about it. Owen was the only one that wasn’t back yet. But it is not just Owen. In this adventure he teams up with Andy what actually is a great combination.

Owen and the Corpse Day

Corpse Day is a day were Torchwood offers their help to the police. What most of the time don’t end well. Jack thought it would be funny to send Owen for this corpse day because he is a corpse. What actually makes it really clear at which time this is playing – between his two death.
After his death he got even more – i don’t find the right word for it.
We all know Owens history. We know that he was a doctor and what he lost and how he stopped believing in a good end. He is eaten up with the life.

I love Owen because he is for me a person were all the oppesits united. He is eating up about life but also has so much respect for life. He has hard and sarcastic shell and inbetween he is slowly dying because of his inability to save people.

Andy surprises me

We don’t know much about Andy and this story shows us another side of him. I don’t want actually say to much but i was surprised by Andys reaction. I would never thought he would reacted that way, but when you think about it, it is logic. It is Andy. It is a side we didn’t see because he never had a big part in Torchwood before. Here we see more sides of him. To pair Andy and Owen together with that kind of story is a masterpiece. They are the oppists of each other. Owen shows us a darker side of Andy. They made the character flaws of each other more visible.

The way it goes

I don’t want to say much because the story is great and not what you thought at the beginning. You can piece it together a little faster than Owen but it still goes in a direction i didn’t thought of. It starts as fun part because really Andy and Owen… but don’t except a funny and light story. The gets really fast really dark.
It is such a cruel and real story. It left you with a lost feeling. It leaves you with alot to think about.

Really this for now my favorite Torchwood story this season and here i really love the way they tell it, the way the leave the end. It is just all we need to make our own thoughts and our own decission about what this end is.

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July 30

Torchwood: The Dollhouse

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welcome to another adventure of Torchwood – The Dollhouse. Like every season there is at least one adventure about a person you don’t know or barely now. So this adventure is not just with persons we don’t know, we also leave the country. This story is taking place in America Los Angeles in the year 1970 with the three angels.

Charlies Angels

The whole story is built like ‘Charlies Angels’. I never saw the original serie but the movies. The movies starts with telling us the background story of the three angels and this is totally what happend here. So this is fun but also i wasn’t a big fan of the idea but it turns out to be really good. What i like is that here the unfair and hard reality that always was in Torchwood is still part of it. Torchwood is no fairy tale and the angel can not mysterical everything. They are so human in everything they do. I fall in love with this three people so fast and the best thing is the last scene. That is how the movie should have ended.

Do you want to be an actress?

The story is good. Young girls disapear and all of them wanted to be an actress. They all are by the same agent and a word in there files ‘Dollhouse’. Like i said the story is good. It is built so you just know as much as our angels. It has a little action, a little humor and a little dramatic. It has everything a good story needs. What i think is that they could have had a little more time on the topic what actually is going on. But that is just me and the more i think about it is maybe better that the gave a us just what they gave us.

So of you go to fight with our three angels.

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