June 9

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Technophobia

Hey Guys,

here i go with the first adventure of Big Finsih ‘The Tenth Doctor Adventures’ – Technophobia. It is not just the tenth Doctor but this adventures are the best team back together again. Donna and the tenth Doctor are just amazing together. Out of the three companions of the tenth Doctor is Martha my favorite but she never have that amazing chemestry like Donna and the Doctor had. So i am really happy to get more action of the both of them. But i wouldn’t say no to more adventures of Martha?!

Special Edition

I decided to buy the special edition of the volume one of ‘The Tenth Doctor Adventures’. The packaging is amazing. It has the size of a DVD box. The box is made out of a stable carton. The DVD shell itself is like a book. Actually it is a book.

Inside you find five DVD’s. Three of this DVD’s are the stories of the Box: Technophobia, Time Reaver and Death and the Queen. The other two are bonus material: The Tenth Doctor Adventures Documentary and a documentary about the Audio Adventures of Doctor Who. I don’t have listen to any of them yet, but i will and i will also let you know my thoughts about it.
But this is not all that is in that book. We also have forwords from Dan Starkey and Terry Molloy. Also thoughts about the three adventures and Director’s Notes from Nicholas Briggs and at last the Prodcuer’s Notes from David Richardson. The other pages are filled with pictures from the crew.

So i thing this limited Edition is worth his price. I really like it and i wish other boxes whould follow this example.

Meeting dream team again

The best about these two is that the were never romantically involved with each other. The are best friends traveling around and getting into mess. Of course this time is not different. They just want to visit a technology museum. The Story doesn’t play far in the future for Donna. It is set on Earth in 2011.
It doesn’t take long and Donna already made new friends. It is so much fun to listen to Donna acting. Donna is getting here the most action the Doctor is just figuring stuff out. The characters has a great chemestry and i Donna and Bex – she works in the museum. They bound with each other over their jobs as a temp – which is most likely. After i start working in the backery and sell stuff, i always bickering with other Sellers when i buy stuff.

Our greatest enemie

Something seems to go on in that museum and the robots and computers. What this story does it. It does take a really common story the robots and computer are turning against humans. But the have a new twist in it that the technology is totally fine and working the way they should. We depent so much on the technology these days and what happend when they turn against us. This time it is the humans the problem. Everyone get really frightend about technology. For someone who don’t know technology it must seems very frigthend.
I really like the story. It is fun and get me in a good mood to listen to it. Just like most of the episodes did when the don’t left me heartbroken.

So i have really high expections of the other two stories. Which will of course follow over the next to weeks.

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June 4

DW: The Nowhere place

Hey guys,
welcome to the 84 adventure ‘The Nowhere place’ of big finish main range. This story plays in 7th september 1952 and 2197 somewhere by earth. The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn is hearing a bell and are going to investigate.

The bell

The Story seems promising and a little mystirious. Some people are hearing a bell and seems to go crazy. The have panic. But what this the whole mystrious thing about it. Mainly the story plays in 2197 and their is were people are hearing the bell. A bell from the 7th september 1952. I thought that the actions on 1952 have something to do with the happing in 2197 but this is not really the case. Because the whole episode in 1952 just could have left out. It doesn’t really make sense. And the solution behind it is a liitle disapointing but it is kinda realistic.

Characters

Evelyn get a little more action than in the other stories i listend before. But the main actions is still on the Doctor. Tanya Oswin are a good character and i would have loved to have more time with her. She is really human. The other characters on 1952 are a little to mysterious. They worked at a secret facility. But we never got more information. This characters with a real story could be great but how this part of the story is played it is just to much.

It is not a bad adventure, but this is actually the weakest i have heart until know. But still nice to listen to.

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May 21

DW: The Gathering

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welcome to the second part of the story ‘The Reaping‘. It is the 87 adventure ‘The Gathering’ of big finish main range with just the fifths Doctor. He is traveling with Peri and Erimem right now and left them on their own and go into the year 2006. But of course he is not completely alone, he met Tegan again on her birthday.

Questions be answered…

This story answers most of the questions that were still open after The Reaping. For example what did Tegan do after she left the TARDIS and the Doctor. The story is about Cathy from the adventure before.
She moved and tries to save her brother which has a broken neck. Of course she tries it with the cybermen technology. The Doctor comes to stop her. But this incarnation doesn’t have met Cathy yet. We know what happened to Cathy and his brother the Doctor don’t. So we got to know what that numbers everyone is saying mean. But who is the guy that helps Cathy?
The create a circle. There are this small things like in The Reaping the Doctor searches a book he lost at one point and here he lost this book.

Saving people

I didn’t like Cathy in the first adventure but there I hadn’t a real reason. She was just a girl who had lost a father and a best friend. But here… The last time I could understand her feelings. Here on the other hand I just grow to hate her. This is so… I don’t know. She is telling her story to the barkeeper and the story she tells isn’t the same that we hear. She doesn’t want to help Tegan. She is ready to kill people to save her brother and then she is telling everyone the Doctor doesn’t know what a life means? The Doctor cares so much even the sixth Doctor he just choose not to show it anymore. That Nate survived is like a miracle. But it would be more human to just let him die… The only one that doesn’t understand how important a life is Cathy and that is making her really unsympathetic. Even her half cybermen brother understand that more than anyone.

It is good to met Tegan again. Tegan is something I really miss in the NewWho. She has a life, a good life, a life she choose and she is totally okay with that. Even when she knows that her life is not perfect and knows that it doesn’t have a good end for her. But she choose this life over the Doctor… Tegan was never my favorite but here she proves how strong she is and that the Doctor isn’t making your life better…not always.

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May 7

DW: The Reaping

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welcome to the 86 adventure ‘The Reaping’ of big finish main range with the sixth Doctor and Peri. This story takes place in on the 24th september 1984 in Baltimore. Peri is leaving in the end of the story for a time that is not nearer defined before she rejoin the Doctor. This Story is part of a bigger story. The Reaping, The Gathering and The Harvest belong together. The Reaping can stand alone. There is just one thing that just stays in the dark. But sometimes it happens in Doctor Who.

Peris life

This story is a very personal story for Peri. At a station on the moon ‘the googlebox’ you can see everything on earth history and she decide to look for her family. That is when she found out that her best friends dad is murdered. She wants to go home. But the welcome doesn’t go like she hoped and of course there is more about the murder.
For the first time I listened to a story where I totally like and understand Peri. We have do deal with a lot emotion from Peri and it really works for me. I feel so much with Peri in this story that the other characters like Peris mother or her best friend Cathy seems unsympathetic for me and i dislike them. It is not that their feelings are not understandable too. But they just doesn’t work for me, like Peri.

The murder case

Peri and the Doctor already have a close relationship again. She feels secure around him. It is lovely to hear. Especially when you have like older Peri with them. You actually see the similar between Peri and her mother. The story just plays with these few people. After they found out that the have to deal with cybermen. The Doctor, Peri, her mother, Cathy and Brother and the suspect of the murder are trapped on the building in the graveyard.
The murdered father comes back as a cybermen and we have to ask us if something is left in the cybermen of the real man. And what is the meaning of surviving.
The story is so real and tragic. It is a really good story and with The Gathering it got even better. Just two things are not to liking.

First i really dislike that there is something left of the father…but they are explaining it with the uncompleted conversion. Which would make him like Lisa and with this i can live.
The second thing is that the Doctor in the end let something on earth on the house of Peri, which doesn’t make sense and is really irresponsible.

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April 23

DW: Red

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welcome to the 85th adventure ‘Red’ of the big finish main range. Mel and the 7th Doctor are visiting a civilation that chiped themself.

Machine

The story has so much potential. It is not a new story. There is a community which decided to make a maschine that can take away your anger. They are all chiped, which mean the machine can take away your memories of your anger of your feelings. The machine takes their responisblitiy form them. This chip not just take their anger, it takes all their emotions. With brings us to very interssting situations. Because you always want what you can’t have.

Perfect system

This system seems perfect but nor Doctor or Mel thinks so. Both for really different reason. The Doctor thinks that the anger have to go somewhere. You can’t just take it away. Mel are thinking of all the other emotions like love and friendship. Also we have to patries here. One that let the machine edting them and the others that decided against it. They are not so different how they think. These people also forget how to feel and how to handle real emotions. That is what the hope to learn from Mel. I wish we had more of that part of the story.
This adventure also shows me how little Mel really knows the doctor. She believes in him and it is a good thing but he is not that good person she sees in him.

It is a really good story. So go and listen to it.

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April 9

DW: Something inside

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here we go with the 83 adventure ‘Something inside’ form the big finish main range. This adventure is playing somewhere after the Divergent Universe – in which this story should original take place. I assume that it also plays after Time Works. Inside the Story is no time given. So it would be a perfect fit for the Divergent Universe.

Here we go again

Big Finish want to make fun of me. This story is again a story with the future and than going to listen what happend. It feels like the story got to the start very fast. But i still dislike this way of telling stories. Again C’rizz, Charley and the Doctor lost each other again. I love it when every character can shine and this time it would be Charley. But here we see that there must be something new to be an interessting story.
The human nature is always the most interessting and this team around the time lord are amazing characters.

The human nature

There was a war that the humans couldn’t win. Everytime the humans can’t do something they found another way. This time the made a mashine that turns humans in telecnatic persons. After the war was over they tried to reverse the progress what didn’t functioned. The only other solution the humans can bring up is to bring this people into a special prison. Isn’t this a typical story about our nature. The story is really good and it makes a lot of fun to listen too.

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March 26

DW: The Settling

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here we go with the 82 adevnture ‘the Settling’ from the big finish main range. The seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex are landing in 1649 were Cromwell set an ultimatiom to Wexford. This is Hex first adventure in the earth past. So where do we start.

The Beginning of the end

I am not a way of the way the story is told. This is something i always say when we start in the present and than have something like two days before. But i have to say the way Hex is speaking, i forget about this way of telling the Story. Hex is thinking about what happend and seems to be very bad because he sounds a little broken. Everytime Hex is talking in the present, i just want to hug him.

Travling with Cromwell

We have two story parts. One is Hex who travels with Cromwell and is trying to make him a better man. He is trying to make a difference. Than we have the Doctor and Ace, which are searching for Hex. The Doctor and Hex have a pregant woman with them and which brings them in a difficult situation.
Can History be changed? This is a interessting theme and we know the Doctors opinion about it. You can’t change History. But maybe you can make a difference.

Did we make a difference

Hex is feeling for the first time. That he couldn’t save people like he wanted. He can’t change history, people are dying around him. Where Ace is seeing the positive side. They made a difference, they did the best they could do and they saved the pregnant woman.
But Hex don’t sees it yet as a difference. Thausands died and they saved one. He is not ready to see that one is better than none. He still wants to save everyone and that makes him so loveable but Ace is right. This makes a different. Hex is already thinking about leaving the TARDIS.

The Story is good but not more.

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March 12

DW: The Kingmaker

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welcome to the 81 big finish main range adventure ‘The Kingsmaker’. The fifths Doctor is traveling with Peri and Erimem. It takes place in 1483 and 1485 in England. For the Doctors timeline it takes place after the Planet of fire and after the Axis of Insanity.

Big start

The Doctor made a contract at his fourth Incarniation that he will write a kids book. This Books should be called The Doctor, Who decover… and it becames Doctor Who. It is a funny play with our title. But that is not what the story is about. The Doctor wanted to write about the mystery about Richard 3 and who killed the princes in the tower. The story plays with a lot of things. What is going on there and than there is the mysterious man ‘Mr Seyton’, which has a TARDIS and alot of knowledge about the future.

Different sides of view

This story gives us alot of time to see the different points of view of Peri and Erimem. That is actually why i love to have an companion like Erimem again in the TARDIS. We see how Erimem sees the death and how she sees alot very different. She is ready to learn new things and is eager to get to know all that stuff. But she has strong opinions and is ready to do things Peri would never understand. Which makes the story very interessting.

But that is the only thing that is interessting. The Story is not bad but not the best.

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January 30

DW: Pier Pressure

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welcome to the Big Finish main range vol 78 ‘Pier Pressure’ it featured the sixth Doctor and Evelyn (Infos about Evelyn). It plays in Brighton in the end of 1936 and takes so place after Players. In the Doctors timeline it is betweeen ‘Thicker than water’ and ‘The nowhere place’. I promised me alot from that story because Evelyn is playing in it, sadly in the first two parts she got to sit on the sideline. But actually the guest stars are fun. The voice of the character Albert reminds me of David Tennant.

We will have enough time for this

The six and the seventh doctor are gotten darker again. When we got to know Albert and his girlfriend Emily, Emily said that they had enough time for all that nonsense. So my first tought was that Albert will not survive it. Albert is cocky and jumps to every possiblity to prove himself. He wants to get to Warner Brothers. Emily on the other hand is the voice of reason. It is important to have a job and don’t play around.
I really like these two and so i like that they are in the action with the Doctor, but why does that mean that Evelyn has to sit in the TARDIS.

He will come around

This is the first time i am a little annoyed by Evelyn. In the first episode she gives the Doctor shit and don’t take any shit from him. That is the Evelyn that i love. But in the second episode the Doctor send her with Max Miller to the TARDIS and she is just going. Because the Doctor knows what he does. I think it is established that the Doctor never knows what he does. This is something that Rose would do… (Don’t get it wrong i love Rose). But why does anyone does that?

The evil

This story is dealing with a darkness that is amazing. I love storys were you don’t know if you have a happy end or not. If it is just an endless circle or will be there a winner? Where light is has to be a shadow. That are the best stories. I don’t want to tell you more than this because the end needs to be heart not read. Just one thing this story has a darkness I love about he sixth doctor. There is no holywood solution just the truth. I promised me more of Evelyn but it is an good story and hopefully we have alot more stories were Evelyn got more to do.

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January 11

DW: Illegal Alien

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i finished all New Serie Adventure books that i have right now, so it is time to went on the Past Doctor Adventures and start with the fifth book of the serie – Illegal Alien. It good reprinted in the Monster Collection and features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. The Adventure took place november 1940 in London and Jersey. It seems that for the Doctors timeline it is set somewhere after the 26 season.

Ace and Cody

Beneath the Doctor this are two of the characters that have a bigger role in the story. Ace of course because she is the Doctors companion. I am not a big fan of her, but she is an interessting and unique character. For me she is a little too much into explosives. Yeah, this is special were i often love characters, who love gun (i myself hate guns – don’t ask why…). But maybe it is because she is doesn’t seem to know what she can destroy with it. Also somewhere in the book she said that she like the The Blitz time. What takes her into a position i don’t understand and don’t want to understand. But her journay on the book is a good one. She is confronted with reality and death.
Cody is a private detective and not really sympatic. He is not friendly and has a death wish. I get me totally on the wrong food and i don’t even thing he is a good detective. It is sad that they gave him such a big role. When characters like Mama doesn’t get enough line but still are in our heart.

Rogue Time

The Story is about cybermen. One of the most used monster. Yeah i like them and here we have a rogue cybermen. It seems like this cybermen is search for blood and kills like everyone is remembered of the Jack the ripper cases. It seems like the humans always wants to become cybermen for winning a war. It is always the same. The worst in this story are not the cybermen it is the humans that betray each other, kill each other and toture each other.

The book is not my favorite. It is not my companion, not my story. It was for me just boring.

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