July 24

DW: No place like home

Hey Guys,

the Big Finish is celebrate 15th years of Doctor Who releases. So they have a lot of special prices and so on. Also they have two audio plays on the first day for free. On is ‘No place like Home’ and the other ‘The ratings war’.  Of course i couldn’t resist. So here is what i think about the first one and tomorrow the other.

This audio play is featuring the fifths Doctor and the new companion Erimem. This is in the time with Peri traveling. Erimem is a human from the old egypt time. Peri is in his room and don’t play a role in this story. So this story take place in the TARDIS. It is really lovley to have all the hits of the other companions. We wander with the Doctor and Erimem through the TARDIS, it is really fun to find a few rooms.

Shayde is also a part of this story and Erimem has a cat on board on the TARDIS. The Story is about what means home and about lonliness. I like it. It is a nice entertainment. So go and hear it.

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July 20

DW: UNIT – The Coup

Hey Guys,

i have got the prologe of the UNIT serie, that have 4 parts. You can download it at big finish for free (UNIT – The Coup) The important think is that it featured The Brig. You all know i love the Brig and the UNIT time. This is about a new UNIT. UNIT should becoming part of a other organisation ICIS. For that reason the Brig should held a speech at a press conference. But ICIS just sees him as an old man. ICIS is fighting against the Silurians. Silurians are a taking the Brig and he takes it in his own hands. He totally understand fast that nothing is like it seems and makes a different speech.

It is totally the Brig how we love him. So everyone how likes him, should totally hear it. I want to buy the other parts. So yeah i think you will hear really fast more of it.

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July 17

DW: The Trial of a Time Lord Part 1/4

Hi Guys,

welcome back for Season 23 of Doctor Who. We will see what it brings us. I like the idea of one big story over the whole season and also that the time lords take place in it. Also the 25 minute episodes are back. Yeah!

The Mysterious Planet

So the Story starts that the Doctor arrives at Gallifrey without Peri. The Time Lord accused him to at broken the first Law of Time Travling and take him to trial. They show all an adventure of the Doctor and Peri.

They visited a planet how is simular to earth. But this planet should be destroyed by a fireball. It don’t look like it and when the Doctor find himself and Peri in the old tunnels. He things that this is the earth. Peri is really upsad about it and the doctor really understand it.

I have read that the wanted to be more fun and not so much horror and i don’t like this very much. In the first episode is a scene, where the Doctor is placed in the room and should stand still and everyone is throwing stones at him. He tried to block them with his umbrella but get hit. That is not funny and i hope that they don’t make such scenes into ‘funny’ ones.

I like the idea of the season, but the stories are for me like the other not deep enough… i mean i don’t feel with it. But that is just me. I just really noticed who set up the trail for the Doctor. The Valeyard… this is a really good one.

So we will read us at part 2

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July 12

DW: Ten Little Aliens

Ten little Aliens is a doctor who book from the ‘Past Doctor Adventure‘-Serie. It got reprint for the 50th Anniversary Collection.

The book featured the first Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions Polly and Ben. Many of the adventures of this three are partially or complete missing. So it is a good thing to have some action with these characters.

I am sorry i think for a real critic i need to read it again. But what i can tell us is:

At first i needed a little time to get the story of the other ‘characters’ of the Story. But there are a few really interessting people and they have a real role. The interaction with Polly and Ben or the Doctor are really good and entertaining. Also the book is kinda sad, it has some heavy staff in it ( as far as i remember). It was a really interessting book. It was good to read with well written characters.

Just one thing i didn’t like it was how Ben interacted with Polly in a few scenes. I don’t know if this is his charcter and i just don’t like that part of him or it was the writer.

 

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July 12

DW: Fear of the Dark

Hi Guys,

It is the fifths book of the 50th Anniversary Collection (Past Doctor Adventures) and is featuring the fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) with his companions Nyssa and Tegan. It takes places after adrics death, Tegans departure and meeting again and before they met Thourlough.

At the beginning we have a insight of Nyssa and Tegan. We will learn more about their feelings or so it seems. What is really interessting. But i don’t like the beginning of the book. I mean the written things are good, but the splitting is not my  taste.  For some stories this works well but here i don’t see the sense in it. I will try to describe what i mean. So the book start with Nyssa and the nightmare and than the next part takes place in a mine and Nyssa is hurt. Than the next part is placed after the nigthmare in the TARDIS and than we have the part in the mines with talking. Than we land after this talk thing on a moon and they go out and the earth crubbeld. Than again the mines and Nyssa is awaiking. We are jupping in time with no really reason because know we are in the same time. The earth crubbled and they fall in the mines and than the mine parts take place.

So form my taste it is just annessesary jumping in the time levels.

The persons i find interessting did have much screen time. We have an alien with the crew and find out a little about there life and culture. This is something i find very interessting. How they thing and feel. I just can’t get them totally but it is totally one of the strong points in this book. Also we see the Doctor getting near to lose. Nyssa was nearly dying in his arms. We can see totally what Adric had left in him. I really like to see this other side of the Doctor.

What i really find interessting is Nyssa. We totally get much more about her character, her feelings and so on. Even if she is not really doing anything. Also the book shows a side of the Doctor that everyone often forget. He is using Nyssa and her ill state for his goals.

So we also see the worst fear of the Doctor – losing his friends, letting them down.

I really love the book. After the confusing beginning it really is an interessting story and really amazing. The end is a little ansatisfied. But it is really worth a read.

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July 10

DW: Revelation of the Daleks

Hi Guys,

i am really sorry if this article is badly written. I have two long days and everything hurts. So please don’t look to close at my writings, I have a little problem to concentrate. But I try my best to write this.

Sooo, it is a new story with the Daleks and Davros and I don’t know what this people are… they are..special… I don’t have a good impression of this story. But I have heard a lot of good things so I give it a chance.

The Doctor and Peri gets attacked and Peri try to save the Doctor and kills the attacker. I really like the scenes after that, because they talking before he is dying and he is forgiving her. She has a really hard time dialing with that and it is a really good scene. I hope that it not just despairs now from the story. I kinda don’t know what I should thing about the evolution of the Daleks out of human. I like the kind it seems but it remembered me of the new thing of the Daleks.

They are really interesting parts in this story again.  But it is all so superficial… it just scratched the surface. So yeah, that is what I say about. It is good and interesting some parts more than other but it never goes deeper… it much more potential.

So we will the talk next about season 23. If I am correct it is the trial of a time lord. I am really excited to see the story.

Bye 🙂

 

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July 7

DW: About the Daleks

So guys,

i have say Dalek episodes and in the ‘Dark Eyes’ Adventures tthey take also place. So i decided that i want to talk about them. They are really one of me favorite Monsters in Doctor Who. My lovely peppershaker. Why? It is deficult to describe. The first time i say them i love them. The first Episode was Dalek in NewWho. A lonely Dalek and a existenz crisses. But i liked them a lot because of the story with the Doctor. Like the tenth Doctor said in one epiosde says. He is losing everything and they are always coming back. The Story of the Daleks and the Doctor is it what makes them so interessting.

Than i so the first Daleks Story and really liked the background story so my interesst in them are growing. They are always coming back. They are always finding new ways. What is important is that the Doctor is afraid of them. He hate them but can’t just destroy them forever. It is the relationship between Daleks and the Doctor is the really interessting thing. How different is the Doctor from the Daleks? How often have the said that the Doctor would make a great Dalek and how often have you believed that words from the Daleks? Nothing is just Black and White, or are the Daleks? This questions are what makes them perfect. It is what they could be and what the Doctor could be.

Everytime it gave story with them i am happy. Not every Episode is good, but they are the Daleks and that is what is important. But know i must also so say, that i dislike what happen with the Daleks in season 5-7 in the newWho Era. The Daleks are not afraid of woman with a weapon. Maybe they are afraid of the Doctor but they will never admit it and will never beg (if i am mistaken and it happen in a other episode before, tell me).  Also i think that all that questions and simualiers between them and the Doctor are kinda looked up. Also i hate that there are particles in the air which makes out of Humans Daleks (something simular is part of DW: Revelation of the Daleks) and the worst thing is that a Dalek is hidding in a human shape. Please? Who should that be posible?! That is so stupid and i hate it. Yeah, i am also not a fan of the humind Daleks in ‘Daleks in Manathan’ but it makes more sense than the other thing. So yeah, because of my love to the Daleks i hope that the will be not a part of season 8. Don’t make this worse… please.

So, know you know a bit more of my opinion about the Daleks and for everyone who likes the things in season 5-7. I am sorry, you will hear a lot of  complaints and worse from me if in the new season is something like that about the Daleks…

Byebye

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July 6

DW: Dark Eyes 2 – Time’s Horizon

Hey Guys,

we are back to part 3 of ‘Dark Eyes 2‘.

This is really amazing. I beginning to see what they do. In the end of the first part of the ‘Dark Eyes 2‘ the Doctor gave the Doctor all the Informationen the wanted. He actually helped them. But this part one is playing for the Doctor in the future and for Liv it is the past. The adventure with Molly part 2 of the ‘Dark Eyes 2‘ is playing in the Doctors time line befor part one. That is why the begining didn’t make sense to me. So in part 3 the Doctor and Molly meeting Liv at the end of the universe. But Liv didn’t trust or like the Doctor because for her part one was happing and she thinks the Doctor is a traitor. So we have a really ineressting senario.

Molly and Liv getting on very good. I like them both and both are not people how just sit down and wait. They do the things even without the Doctor. We also learn that Liv is ill. So she have to die.

The Doctor is meeting an enemy that he saw in a vision of the future or the past. They try to slave everyone and the Doctor do everything to prevent it and when i remember correctly at the end of part one the Doctor say that the Daleks need to figth with someone ‘The Eminence’ and that is exactlly the enemy the Doctor met in part 3. I think everyone is seeing the circle that is drawn here. It is really amazing.

 

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July 3

DW: Timelash

So here we go again,

Peri is trying a new wardrobe. But this time it looked good, she looked chic.

The Story is interessting and the people know the Doctor. He (the Third Doctor and Jo Grant) visited the planet before. I like thinks like that. The Story is nothing special or new. It is planet with a dicator(?) and a few rebels. Than the Doctor arrives and get mixed in. Excatly the story is kinda boring in his developement. George, who seems to be G.H. Wells, is a really good character. It is so much fun to watch him. He was a great companion for one story. He would totally worke well as a long term companion.

So, sorry that i have so little to say about the story, but yeah… i don’t what else to say and i must go to work. So we see us later.

Bye!

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June 27

DW: Old Soldiers

Hi Guys,

I was watching ‘The Web of Fear’. It is not a surprise that I love the story. I mean it has the 2nd Doctor and Jamie in it – how can you not love it. But the main reason I love it so much and that I am writing here about is the Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. It is the first Story he appears and he is such a good character. I miss the adventures with him so much. So I bought the audio book ‘Old Soldiers’ from the Companion Chronicles. It is not only a story about the Brig. It is also read by Nicholas Courtney and he bring his character to life like we know it from him.

The Consequence

Than lets talk about the Story. It plays after the Silurian ‘Invasion’ (Doctor Who and the Silurian). Where he and the third doctor had their ‘quarrel’. A friend of the Brig calls him for help and when he comes see him, his friend had a breakdown and it seems like his mind turns against him. The Brig feels the need to find out why this happened to his friend and calls the Doctor for help.
The Story take the Brig and lets him question his decisions he did as a soldier to protect the earth. He had so many thinks to handle. The people feared an invasion and they distrust the Doctor. His job is to keep this people save.
I really love how the work with this things and decisions everyone makes. But the most I love the friendship of the Brig and the Doctor, which is really good to see.

I just can can recommend it. Everyone who loves the Brig should actually listing to it because it is a good story and perfect insight of his character.

If anyone can recommend other good stories of the Companion Chronicles let me know. Big Finish has me in his fangs 😉

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