June 15

Lethbridge-Stewart: Moon Blink

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welcome to the 5th adventure of the Lethbridge-Stewart Series ‘Moon Blink’. Again I got confused with what I book I have to read next. Normally you would read ‘Mutually Assured Domination’ before ‘Moon Blink’. Like the other adventures this is about Lethbridge-Stewart with Anne and Bill Bishop. For a Lethbridge-Stewart Series it has way to little of our future Brig in it. It is an adventure of Anne and Bill.

Good and Bad Aliens

This story is about the space race. Just that the space race that we could witness isn’t the real one going on. Americans and Russian has already a base on moon and found there an alien life form. As we all can imagine it doesn’t go very well. It gets really fast clear that the bad guys in this novel are not the aliens. It is the human race. So Anne and the Brig has to deal with good aliens and bad humans.

Baby Alarm

An old friend of Anne is coming to town and asked her for help. She ran from scientist with an alien baby. At Anne’s she involves a lot of people. Like she called Bill – why ever she would call Bill when she just knew him from the tellings of Anne. Also she brings Sally in what actually doesn’t really make much sense – even less when she as no role in this adventure.
I am a little let down be this book. It seems rather easy to care for an alien baby which don’t get anything to eat and nobody wonders that he didn’t need any thing to eat? There is so much in that goes unattended. Which is really sad.
But apart from that the story is rather nice. I really like Bill and we see more of the developing relationship between Anne and Bill.

Military

In the last part of the book when Anne and Lethbridge-Stewart finally work together, Anne gets on my nerves. She worked a lot with the Brig at this point she should know him a little. But she is judging him so much from thoughts she had herself in the very same book. Also the way she handled herself when they followed the bad guy to the show down. I am not a big fan of military either. But she is acting so headless and makes the situation never better. They are three people against a freaking group! They have to think things through. The way she is angry at him for not reacting… stop it. He is just trying to get everyone out alive. That she doesn’t seems to get that is so annoying. Most of all because before she always wanted him at his side and always that he could help them and then he does but it is not good enough for her.

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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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June 7

DW: The Stones of Venice

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welcome to the 18 adventure of the Big Finish Main Range ‘The Stones of Venice’. The Eighth Doctor and Charley travel to Venice in the year 2294. There lays a curse over Venice and it’s people who actually is coming to his end.

The Tragic Love Story

This story is about a pair that loved each other until her husband lost her in a game. She curses him to live a long life to regret everything and in the end Venice will be sink under the water for ever. I am not a big fan of such stories. Why do you all the people die with this idiot? Why does the curse include innocent people. All of this just because of a broken heart…
It is so overdramatic. Not the story itself but the people in it and I just not like this kind.

Just enjoy

I really love the eighth Doctor and Charley. She is amazing and I love that she sees the beauty even when it is dying. The dynamic between them is great and it is always fun to listen to them. Like most of the adventure Charley has a lot of possibilities to shine on their own.

Listing or not

The story is definitely not my favorite. It is not a bad story. It is just that there are so much better once out there. I must say that many of the first adventures of the eighth Doctor and Charley are missing this special thing. I don’t know what. But the thing that makes a good story to an amazing story. It is Charley and the Doctor so yeah it is still fun to listen to it. But you don’t need to.

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May 31

DW: Sword of Orion

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welcome to the 17 adventure of Big Finish Main Range ‘Sword of Orion’. It is a story with the eighth Doctor and Charley. They met the cybermen in the year 2503 in the Garazone System. It is long after the Cyber War but in the Orion War. I think many can already thing how the story plays from here.

Orion War

The Orion War is a war in the late 25th and the early 26th century. It takes place between androids and humans. This got also explained in the story itself. The human race is always on a war.

Surprise, Surprise

The Cybermen are not dead. The Doctor and Charley strand on an old cybermen factory. A ship and their crew trying to get everything that makes money from the factory. The new captain is fishy from the start. The story is not really surprising at all. The characters are kinda dull. One of the crew got killed and they blame the murder on the Doctor. What totally make no sense at all. But all of the characters doesn’t make much sense. I also have problems to follow who is who in this story.

Listing or not

Okay truth be told this one of the very little adventure were I thought I really didn’t need to hear it. It is not sooo bad. But the story is a little boring and the characters are all so annoying. Of course Charley and the Doctor are great but that is here not enough.

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May 24

DW: Storm Warning

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welcome to the 16th big finish main range Storm Warning. It is the first adventure in the main range with the eighth Doctor and he also meets his new companion Charley Pollard. The story takes place on the 5th October 1930 over France on the R101. This story takes a bit of real earth history and tells us a story of what could be the reason that leads to that.

Storway

Charlotte Pollard is a storway on the R101. She wants adventure and see new places. The first impression you have on her is that she is a very kind person who does things and mostlikely before thinking. SHe is reacting and I like her (maybe because I already know her from the later adventueres). On the R101 she meets the Doctor who really fast find out that he is in a place that is doomed.

So many things I love

This story as alot I love. There is of course the eighth Doctor, who is at fault that I became adiccted to Big Finish. I also like Charley and the Doctor. Also I already knew who the travels of these two end and know to see how they start is interessting. Also I love the stories with historical background. Give me more with this.
So there are alot of reason to listen to this adventure. The story itself is good. There is something mysterious going on this ship. Changes in the buildings plans, a mysterious passenger that is on no list and nobody has seen and a mission to forfill.

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May 17

DW: The Spectre of Lanyon moor

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welcome to a great adventure of Big Finish Main Range ‘The Spectre of Lanyon Moor’ with the Brigadier. I love him and I just need so much adventures with him. Also you could bring back Sergent Benton. But back to the topic at hand here. The Brig meets the sixth Doctor and Evelyn. obviously the story takes place on earth – to be precise in Lanyon moor in Cornwall. Since Evelyn calls a friend it has to be her time and it also plays ‘a few years’ after his retirement – so it has to be somewhere in the 2000.

Just a short notice I read

It seems that here we have a situation – which is not addressed in the adventure. The Brig must have met the sixth Doctor already. He meets him for the first time in Business Unusual (Book from the Past Doctor Adventures) in 1989. So since my source says that the sixth Doctor has to met Evelyn before Mel with who he travels in 1989 it has to be his first time meeting the Brig, when the Brig already had met him.

A mysterious murder and goblins

A mysterious death bring the Brig – who works sometime for UNIT in his free time (love that guy) – undercover to Lanyon moor. As the coincidence wants the Doctor and Evelyn are landing here to. It is almost always fun when the Doctor and the Brig meet.
This story is like always a good mix between mystery and funny. Just like I love it the most. Everything from everything.

Respect

I love that we actually see the Doctor collect information. He sent Evelyn to inform herself about the local history. This also means that Evelyn is doing a lot of stuff on her own in this adventure and she is definitely not a damsel in distress. She has a lot of action going on.
She kicks asses but also can faint after she witnessed something horrible. But also stand up so she can try to prevent it ever happen again.
That means also that the Brig and the Doctor are working together again. The friendship and respect between each other is one of my favorite thing.
In this story the Brig is actually voicing some of his opinions about the Doctor to someone else. I love to hear him talk like this and that he takes the Doctor really serious.

Listing or not

definitely go and listen to this adventure. Evelyn is a really amazing and strong character. It is always fun to listen to her. Also we got a lot Brig and Doctor friendship what is a really good reason to listing to it. The story is good. Nothing spectacular but good. A good old mystery about a murder goblin?!

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May 15

DW: Shadows of Avalon

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welcome to ‘The Shadows of Avalon’ Volume 31 of the book series ‘Eighth Doctor Adventures‘. Quite obviously it has the eighth Doctor in it and his to Companions Compassion and Fitz. The reason I bought this book is that they meet in the adventure the Brigadier. You all know I love the Brig. I doesn’t know much about Compassion which would maybe helped with understanding this book. For people how doesn’t know what is going on I don’t want to spoil it but the story also a story about Compassion. So it is helpful to actually know her.

Compassion – short look at her

Compassion was first seen in the book ‘Interference – Book One’, which is the 25 volume of the ‘Eighth Doctor Adventures‘. All the information given know are just what I read about her. So it could be that there are mistakes in here. She was at some point Laura Tobin. She was one of the survivors of her home planet that was destroyed. Faction Paradox transported her to earth. But the ship need a few years more than human lifespan has. So the passengers were remembered by using biomass in remembrance tanks. It seems that Compassion is the result. Earth signals changed her so much that she started traveling with the Doctor.
When we met Compassion in this book, she waits for the Doctor to arrive. The Doctor send her to live on earth to become more human. So this is where the story starts.

Gateway

Avalon is a dream world dreamt from King Constantine. But something bad is going on in this world. A gateway opens between this world and earth. The military stumbled upon it and the Brig is investigating. The Brig is in a very bad place in this adventure. He lost his life Doris and is searching for death. As much as I hate seen the Brig in such a state, the travel he goes through in this book is kinda amazing. I am just not happy with the end of the book about this problem.
So back to the problem at hand. The humans and Fair Folk are at war and two mysterious people are meddling with the two folks.

A construct of Magic, War and Politics

This whole book is just a big conspiracy. You try to find out what these two ‘people’ are up too. The Doctor is trying to find out what is going on and leaves the Brig. The Brig totally lost in his grief is bringing the military to help the Humans and send all of them into war – into death. I don’t like the whole parts of the war. I am not a fan of war stories. Compassion and Fitz are away from the Doctor and also think that he is dead. So they got involved with the Fair Folk and send on a mission to close the gateway. A big part of the story are politics and religion stuff. And around that construct of War, Politics, Religion they spun a magical world with Dragons and other magic.

Live in the Dark

The book is rather dark. It is war and the Brig is grieving. Compassion and Fitz are grieving the Doctor and feel not secure. So there is really nothing positive going on in this story. There is little hope in the people. The whole story is set in dark palace. There is no laughter or happy moments. When we get a really small moment of happiness than the grief of the Brig is making this moment painful again. So it is light lecture.

The longest I read on a book

I think I read this whole book over a whole year… a year! For my liking it was too much war and politics and the whole atmosphere to depressing. Since I didn’t know much about Compassion and Fitz is also kinda difficult to relate to, when you know so little about him. In the epilogue I actually really gets him. Maybe a little late. The only thing I really found interesting was the journey of my Brig.
So if you like politics and war and Avalon. If you like to read books with a depressing atmosphere than you are here right. Maybe when you know the characters better the story would be better. I don’t know.

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May 10

DW: The Marian Conspiracy

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welcome to the first adventure with Evelyn Smythe in the 6th big finish main range adventure The Marian Conspiracy. Evelyn is the first companion on audio created by Big Finish. She is quite lovely. She travels with the sixth Doctor and I listened to a few adventure of her already. I read that her history or better time line is quite complicated. I haven’t notice such thing yet, but didn’t listen to many stories with her yet. The story takes place in London 1555 a month after the Wyatt Uprising and is one of the stories with a history setting. I love this stories.

Evelyn Smythe

The year she is living is not been given. But she is out of the ‘present’ time so my sources has put her first meeting with the Doctor at the 2000. When they met she is giving a lecture of Tudor History. She is like my sources put ‘nearer to the end of her career than the beginning’. Evelyn is a strong woman who has very strong opinions. What I love about her is that she is very similar to the Doctor. She likes to tell what knows about stuff and she doesn’t take any shit. She challenged the Doctor from the first moment. They not always have the same opinion what makes they travels so exciting.

You must be the Nexus point

The Doctor searches for a temporize Nexus point which seems to be Evelyn Smythe. It seems that Evelyns history is going to change. So the Doctor of course tries to find out what is going. Evelyn is talking about one of her ancestors that the Doctor don’t heart of. So he travels to London 1555 and see him for himself. Evelyn invites herself to accompany him. They land like I state above a moth after the Wyatt Uprising, which means that Mary was still Queen.
The goes to talk to the Queen and has a very interesting talk with the her. About what she plans on doing and why she is doing it. The Doctor even seem similar between them.
Evelyn is on her own and stables in a conspiracy against Mary to put Elizabeth on the throne.

Listen or not

I love this story. First of all I love the history adventures. They are amazing and with this Doctor and Evelyn it is even more fan. Evelyn is really a great character. The most I like the different points of view from the Doctor and Evelyn. The both have strong opinions but mostly not the same. It makes it interesting. Evelyn is not a fan of Queen Mary. She things that Elizabeth is one of the strongest female leader. Were the Doctor sees himself in Mary. That makes a really amazing adventure.

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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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April 12

DW: Landbound

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welcome to the Short Trip Landbound. It is a story in the 7th season of the Short Trips that Big Finish produced as special free release. The story has two parts. The first part plays directly after the episode ‘Doctor Who and the Silurians’ of the 7th season of Doctor Who. It doesn’t deal with what happened in the episode like on of my favorite stories does (CC: Old Soldier). The second part plays after the episode ‘Green Death’ of the 10th season. So the Doctor has no Companion with him in both parts.

Meeting related soul

Like I said before the story is not about what happened the Silurians. But it still happens directly after it. The Doctor is so angry with the Brig and just drives away. This is where the story starts the Doctor meets here a related soul. After he helped in an unsightly situation he get an invitation for a drink. That is what happens they just start talking about their stories. About losing their way to travel to see the world. They both are souls that need to move all the time and both lost what they loved.

Dealing with exil

We all know that the exile was really painful for the Doctor. The way he can’t move, bound the land. For me it is like this man is helping the Doctor do deal with this situation. When in the second the Doctor tries to help him. The story is about not giving up, to fight for what love.

Listing or not

First of all of course go listen to it because it is for free. Second it is a good story. I am not a big fan of third Doctor. He things so highly of himself. But I love the exile stuff and the UNIT family. So the story with just the third doctor has it harder than other stories to excite me. But it is good story and I like the Doctor in it.
Yeah it never be favorite story because Rise and Fall is just so amazing.

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