April 5

DW: Forever Fallen

Hey Guys,

welcome to the Short Trip Forever Fallen. It is a story in the 6th season of the Short Trips that Big Finish produced as special free release. The 7th Doctor and Ace are visiting Elysium 7 to help a man through his life. It seems that Elysium 7 is mentioned in this story for the first time. It is impossible to say in which year the events take place. I really like the Short Trips. Rise and Fall is one of my favorite story.

Good intentations

This short Trip is a slow story. It is about a man who wanted to remove free will on Elysium 7. The Doctor is convincing him to don’t do it. After the first encounter the Doctor and the man are meeting one time every year. It are just a few minutes we get every year. Just short glimpses of his life. This glimpses are painting a clear picture of what his life is in the moment.
It is really good. I don’t want to say too much.

Just go and download this great story on Big Finish (here) and listen to it, it just takes you a half hour.

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March 29

DW: Eight Doctor: The Time War Series 1 – One Life

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welcome to the fourth and last past of the Time War Series 1 – One Life. I really love this part of this story. It is the end of the action from the other parts. This has a lot feelings in it and that is why I like it. I wished so hard for a happy ending for them.

Escape

They whole story is about escaping. The group and Ollistra escaping the Daleks. The renegade escaping the war. It is all about escaping about running and hiding. This is what war is doing to them. Escaping the Daleks is for him the side story. It is to make things dramatic, to stop the renegade from running. The really story. The Story I love so much is the story about two person in love running away from their problems, away from the war. Two people how just what to be so desperately happy with each other.

Listing or not

So my conclusion about the time war series is that I definitely will buy the other boxes too. There are planned 4 Volumes f this series. The story is great and full of hopelessness and hope. About sacrifice and the value of one life. This isn’t about the fight of the Time Lords against the Daleks. This about the people who comes into the crossfire. It is about a Doctor who doesn’t want to be part of this war. So yeah go and listen to the story.

Extras

After every adventure is the soundtrack of the story. It is by the way amazing music. In the last adventure is like most times another CD with Extras. You got Behind the scenes material in form of interviews for example Paul McGann. The material is ca one hour-long. So I am sure there is a lot interesting stuff on it.

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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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March 19

DW: The Who Shop

Welcome Guys,

as a Doctor Who Fan and you are visiting London you have to go to the Who Shop. Sadly it is not in the center of London. It is a little outside. When I got out of the train I thought that I am wrong, but I found the shop and the way was worth it.

Address

The Who Shop
39-41 Barking Road, Upton Park,
London E6 1PY
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8471 2356

What to expect

The Who Shop as everything that a fan heart needs. They have everything from cups to towels, books to audio books. They have all the stuff about the New Who. But the best part about the shop is that it also has the old stuff. Here you find the first Big Finish Main Range Adventures that are only available as a download a Big Finish. Even better are the few older Doctor Who Books. It was a dream come true. I spend a very long time in this tiny shop.
They also have a TV-Museum. The entrance cost 3 Pound. I looked around in the shop and asked myself were the Museum should be.

The TV-Museum

If you want to see it you just asked the Seller about it. They take your stuff and brings you to the TARDIS. Yes the TARDIS is the Entrance to the Museum. You can open the door yourself with the TARDIS key and the Seller is always so nice to take pictures of that.
When you bring a really camera you can use it in the Museum. Handy camera are not allowed. I don’t want to spoil it. But the Museum is fall with old Doctor Who stuff. It is filled from the ground to the top in stuff. Truth be told it is not a big Museum and I would pay the money again, but I think it was actually worth it.

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March 8

DW: Flip-Flop

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welcome to the 46th adventure Flip-Flop from the Big Finish Main Range. It is a story about the seventh Doctor and his companion Mel. It takes place on christmas in the year 3060 and 3090 at the planet Puxatornee. The Adventure has two parts. The first is the Black one and than we have the White one.

Peace at all cost?

The story is about a planet and his two groups of population of Puxatornee. There are the Humans that where there before and the Slithergees that needed a new home. The president of Puxatornee is making a deal with them, which changed the life on this planet.
Some people thing that this was a mistake. That a war with this species would have been better and what to use the TARDIS to change the past.

Change the past

This story is like already said about changing the past. Can you change the past and what happend when you do. What are the consequneces of this? The Doctor and Mel find themself of course in that trouble. They found themself in a circle that is changing again and again. Can this circle end and how does it end. Does the changes really changes anything?

Changes

The stories are really simular to each other because it only changes small things about the Doctor and Mel. But it is really interessting that the circle is never ending. There are two person that fight against the Slithergees and want to kill the president to make sure that they go to war in the first place. But when they get what they want they find the world way worse than what they had. These two in the time were the president died. They work for the new president and what to go back in time to stop the murder of the president. When they get the new world they thing it is even worse than it was what they had.

Listing or not

Flip-Flop is an interessting story that doesn’t offer us any solution and no answer what the real reality is. So I really like it. It don’t know how it is on DVD because I just has the story as a Download. In the Black version are 4 episodes and in the White version are the same four episodes but the last two are the first ones. It functions perfectly well.

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March 1

DW: The Eight Doctor: The Time War Series 1 – The Starship of Thesus

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welcome I finally started ‘The Time War Serie’ with the eight Doctor and the first adventure is ‘The Starship of Thesus. I have to say when i bought ‘The War Doctor Serie’ with this I thought it would be just one adventure and not a serie. But I really love it. Not that it is very surprising. The Eight Doctor is not a War Doctor, he is different. He tries to run from the war so the stories are about not the war but how the war follows him.

Confusion

This story just starts like every other episode. Something happens and you don’t know what is going on and then the Doctor and his Companion arrives at a place and everything takes their way. But than something happens… it is really small at first. I didn’t notice it at first, but every time he says his companion’s name it is a different one.
This is so good thing about Big Finish Stories you are feeling as confused as the Doctor is. You don’t know what is going on. You just know that something is wrong. The first Story of the Box is about finding out what is it that is wrong in this story.

Change of atmosphere

The Story has a dramatic start and then it is a light story about the Doctor and his companion fighting monsters. It feels just like always. It is nothing special. It is just what we excepted from the Doctor. But this changes slowly. With everything that feels wrong the atmosphere changes and it got darker and darker every time. I really like it. The story feels wrong and right at the same time.

Listing or not

First things first of course go and listen to it. It is amazing and if you love the eight Doctor and the stories around the time war, you are totally right here. But there is one important thing to know about this story. I think you can’t even buy it without the other adventure – by the way the Box ‘The Time War Serie’ has 4 adventures and after the stories you will find the soundtrack of the story.
So what I want to say is that this are not 4 adventures. It is more 4 parts of a story. So this story can’t stand alone. You have to listen to the other 3 too. The Starship of Thesus is the first part of the bigger story like a Prolog.

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January 21

DW: Twice upon a time

Hey Guys,

i finally watched the Christmas Special of Doctor Who – Twice upon a Time. There are many reason that i didn’t watched it before. At first i just forgot my Laptop so i could watch at my parents. Than a friend wrote me that her friend watched and she said that it was full of misogynist jokes. So i just didn’t watch it. Also i had alot of fears about this story and Moffats made them all real.

My favorite Doctor

Truth be told when i got be asked who my favorite Doctor is i still say it is the Tenth Doctor but i love the first one. He was soo different and grumpy and old. He was just not nice. Hartnell was perfect in this role and i was really afraid of what Moffats will do to him. First i think the Actor David Bradley did a really good job. But the way he has written… oh my god… now i hate the first Doctor. In this christmas special he is an misogynist asshole… the jokes are funny. The words ‘young lady’ feel like a … i am missing the word…

The first Doctor was an grumpy old man. Yes but he never talked to Barbara that way. He never talked to Polly – in the episode i could watch – like that. He never talked to Vicki like that. The young lady was mostly for Susan – his granddaugther – when she didn’t do what he says. Was he overprotect of her and sometimes didn’t take her serious. Yes, but this had many reason one is that refused to see that she has grown up. For him she will was be his little granddaugther.

Regeneration

The next think i hate is the Regeneration… the first one didn’t refused to regenerate. He accepted his fate. He knew he was going to die. He died because of old age. He was ready and Moffats just takes that from him.

That Twelfth doesn’t want to regenerate is okay. That i can live with. Than there is this nameless Captain that get involved in all that. And i just liked the idea that this captain was just some guy. At some point the first Doctor asked ‘why he so important’ and the answer was every is important to someone and i really liked this. But than in the end… he isn’t just one random guy. No he is the grandfather of one of the most important person in the Doctors life. Someone that new so many of regenerations and were so good friends… no random here… of course not.

Story with an anticlimax

The story was really weak. I saw the twist with Bill from start and i hate the idea of Testimony. The only thing i liked about it was that there was no evil master plan… i missed this. But Testimony can bring everyone and i really dislike that. We are more than memories. Sometimes you just has to let go of people. It is hard, but YOU have the memories about them. There is no need to bring them all back like that. But yeah we cheated death again… and we could bring back Clara… and Bill. Don’t get me wrong i love Clara and i love it when they bring people back like memories or they met again…

But i can live with the story and i can live with Testimony. Also i can live that Bill and Clara were back for the goodbye of the twelfth Doctor.

Unnessassary

What is way harder to live with is the whole unnessassary bunch of stuff… like Rusty… it so doesn’t make sense. There was so much more but i forget about it while i was writing this stuff… but in the end it doesn’t matter. I really, really dislike this christmas special… oh yeah Polly and Ben were unnessassary too… i don’t mean the original part. I mean the three seconds with new actor who looks totally unreal? Like they are wearing really bad wigs…

So yeah back to what i was saying in the end i am just happy that is over. I wasn’t a big fan of the the Doctor is a woman idea. But i am so ready for it now. She is a great actor and i can’t wait to see what Chibnall is doing with it. Maybe… Doctor will really become one of favorite shows again…

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October 18

DW: Planet of Giants

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welcome to the second season of Doctor Who with the first story ‘Planet of the Giants’. The story is just to mock Barbara and Ian. The actually landed in the right time (June 1969) but they got a lot smaller. That makes everything more complicated to achieve.

Too small

The story is nothing special. Ian finds himself in a murder case. They try to get justice for the victim what is not as simple as it seems when you are so little. For me the story itself is a little boring but it is kinda funny and interessting to see how they try to get stuff done in that size.
Also it is really a hard hit for Ian and Barbara to be that close to home. Sometimes we forget that they just want to be home. They grow to love the Doctor and Susan and also the traveling and the adventures. But in the end they still just want to get home and back to her life as teachers.
That is another reason i love these two. They know who they were and what they want in life before they met the Doctor. Of course the travel change them but they only make them more aware of what they really want.

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October 4

DW: Reign of Terror

Hey Guys,
welcome back to the last adventure of the first doctor who season – Reign of Terror. Sadly to episodes of the story are lost. On the DVD these two episodes are reconstracted with animation. The fotoage is missing but both episode have the full-length audio soundtrack of the original. The animation is… I have seen why better animations. But the look of them are not bad. Just little passive? Just for information the missing episodes are the 4th and 5th.

The story plays in late July 1794. It tells us the Happings of the days before the 27th July. Ian finds out really fast that they landed in the France Revolution.

Welcome to France

I love stories like this. The Doctor and his companions are involved in this but everything would happen if they would be there or not. They don’t change history, they don’t save history or someone. Everything they do just is important maybe for the people around them. But the bigger picture is untouched by this. We learn about the down fall of Robespierre. There is so much information in this story about the history.
Also Barbara tells us something really important. Ian is quick to say ‘he deserved what he got’. Barbara points out that this is easy to say but not true. She makes clear that both sides have the right points. That you shouldn’t judge and with the knowledge they have the should know better. I really love her so much.

The End

This is the end of the first season of one of the most amazing series i have seen. I wish we would again get episodes like this. Episodes that just teach us about the History, about right and wrong and you time can change the view of it.

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September 20

DW: The Sensorites

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welcome to the next adventure in time and space with the story – The Sensorites. The Sensorites are an interessting alien race. In the future story ‘Planet of the Odd’ hinted at a possiblity of kinship. The story keeps place in the 28th centuary. There is no exact date give. In two of the episode we sadly has to do without Barbara because the actor was on holiday.

What is going on

The Doctor and his friends lands on a spaceship from earth. This Crew is in a ‘war’ with another alien race – the sensorites. The Sensorites are a kind race that didn’t know mistrust and murder. But when the humans arrive everything changes for them. This story is about fear and distrust and courage.

Susan and the sensorites

The Sensorites are a telepatic race and it seems like susan is very sensible in this kind of area. So she tries to talk with them. She tries to take the place normally the Doctor take. The Doctor doesn’t like it very much and i don’t think she is really good at it but you only learn by doing.
At some point Susan says that trust has to be earned and of course she is right but on the other hand why mistrust people how never gave you a reason to doubt them? Why is it wrong to trust? To have this trust in everything. In all the time before the humans came to the Sense- Sphere, there was no lying, no power fights, no murder. So why distrust his people?

Watching or not

I am not a big fan of the Sensorites and many things are very clear from the start. There is little in it to surprise us. But on the other hand is a solid story about what fear can do to a race. This story shows us how a race can change, how the human race brings out the worse in everyone. So yeah it is still a good story.

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