April 28

Lethbridge-Stewart: Mutually Assured Domination

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I finally came round to read the fourth adventure of Lethbridge-Stewart ‘Mutually Assured Domination’. Yeah I know I get really confused with the order of the books. This book takes places after ‘Beast of Fang Rock‘ and before ‘Moon Blink‘. This time Lethbridge-Stewart is facing the Dominators which we know from Doctor Who ‘The Dominators’ with the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe.

Old acquaintance

In this adventure our Brig works with an old acquaintance that we also know from Doctor Who ‘The Web of Fear’. The Brig doesn’t have a good opinion about the journalist Harlod Chorley. But Chorley stumbles over a few coincidences that all seems to conact to Dominex.
I really like the dynamic between Chorley and Lethbridge-Stewart. The gone both through the same together and handle it really differently. I kinda hope to find them working together more often. Sadly Bill Bishop at in this adventure a really small role.

Dominex

Dominex Industries is a nuclear waste firm that promise cheap energy. People in high places are blended by this promise and make it really hard for the Brig to act against them. The story itself is not one of my favorites. But I love the characters and how the interact with each other. I love to see the Brigs calling friends that are ready to fight with him without much question asked. They are great characters and I love how the old chaps are ready to follow our young Lethbridge-Stewart.

A win

Finally we are at the point were Lethbridge-Stewart is official starting to built UNIT. He is choosing his team and I am real love to meet all this characters again. I already love his team so much. So yeah I will start read the next book as soon as possible. Hopefully I will read the right one next.

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April 27

DW: The Gunfighters – rewatch

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welcome the 8th adventure of the 3rd season of Doctor Who ‘The Gunfighters’. He travels with Steven and Dodo. The story takes place in the year 1888 in the small town Tombstone. “The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon” was specially written for this adventure. This is one of the history episode that actually is not historical accurate.

Wild West

It is a story about the Wild West. Actually I never really understood the fascination everyone had the wild west. The story doesn’t change it. It has bars and guns… and I don’t know what is so interesting in any of that. So I don’t have much knowledge about this time. I heart of Doc Holiday but I don’t know anything about him Johnny Ringo. Most of the time I want to inform myself about the stuff the Doctor shows us but not with this…I just don’t care much about this episode.

The Doctor and the Doc

A few people want to kill Doc Holiday. He uses the Doctor to make people believe the Doctor is Doc Holiday. The three of them just try to get out of this alive. When everyone wants to see them death. Dodo get captured by Doc Holiday and she has really trouble to deal with all the death around her. With only the view adventures seeing with her I think she hasn’t made for traveling in the TARDIS. But that makes her really interesting.

So much shooting

The story is for me to much shooting and killing people. This definitely is not my favorite story. But seeing Steve and Dodo together I really wished she had more episode with them. They could be really cool and interesting. Sadly the episode is not. It also means that there is are just adventure with the Doctor left. Steven how ever will not be in The War Maschines. He has is departure in ‘The Savages’.

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April 25

DW: The Architects of History

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welcome the 132nd Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Architects of History’ with the seventh Doctor and Klein. The story takes place in 2044 in an alternate reality. Klein used the TARDIS to build a new Reich by creating new time lines again and agin until she likes it.

The web of time

Klein is using the TARDIS to eliminate traitors or other threats before they come up. She abusive the power she got. She had built a new Reich but it is never quiet right so she never stops. But in this story so many things happen that she hadn’t seen in the future. There are two ‘rebels’ that worked against Klein. We have the Doctor in a cell and three big ships of the Selachians. But the biggest problem for Klein is that the TARDIS gets destroyed.

The dark in the people

This story shows us again new sides of Klein. Who she is and who she became to get want she wants and never quiet get it. But we also get to see the darkest sides of the Doctor. How he manipulated and make alliance with people he shouldn’t. It even makes the Doctor uneasy. He doesn’t want to be this person. But in the end it is him. It is a part of him and he can’t erase it. He can and most likely will fight against this side over and over again.

Listen or not

I love it. The fight inside the Doctor. He wants to save everyone but he also need to repair the damage Klein did and he can’t do both. It is great. Klein and the Doctor trying to out smart each other. Both always on their heals to be not manipulate by the other. It is a really good story to end the story around Klein.

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April 21

DW: Ripper’s Curse

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welcome to the IDW DW Vol 2 ‘Ripper’s Curse’ with the eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory. This story takes place at the 30th September 1888 and 9th November 1888. Like the name says it is about Jack the Ripper. The story goes over three chapters. What I like the most about this story are the drawings. I really like the style.

A typical Ripper case

Jack the ripper is a really interesting murder case. There are so many different takes on what happened and who he murder was. I think almost everyone had seen the movie with Johnny Depp ‘From Hell’ but this is just one of the many movies, series and books that had used the mysteries around Jack the Ripper. Now it is Doctor Who turn and sadly I am disappointed.

I don’t to say much about the story of this comic. Because everyone know the story. The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive when the third victim was found. The Doctor actually find out really fast what is going on. There is no investigation to find out found is going on. They just throw a few names around. Also the dilemma of letting a person die to protect the bigger picture… to protect the web of time, doesn’t have a big role.

The don’t take time to explore this feeling of guilt or the consequences Amy’s interference had. No they just let it slide with sometime times just heals themself. I had hoped for something like in the episode ‘Rosa’. That you actually see and feel the emotions the regret, the curse of doing nothing. Sadly nothing of it comes here into play. The ripper case is closed.

Sadly for it wasn’t the best take on this story. I have seen a lot better versions. But did I told you how amazing the drawings are? They are really lovely.

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April 20

DW: The Ark – rewatch

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welcome the 6th story of the 3rd Season of Doctor Who ‘The Ark’ with the first Doctor, Steven and Dodo. I haven’t seen or heart any of the primary stories. But they say that Dodo only appeared at end of the last episode of ‘The Massacre’. So this is the first adventure with Dodo and there is just two other story complete with her (The Gunfighters) & The War Machines. Vicki left the TARDIS in the 3rd story of the season ‘The Myth Makers’.

In the story the say that they are in 57th segment of time. This should mean that the first two episodes of the story is around 10000000. The last to play 700 years later.

Destruction of earth

Isn’t it sometimes scary that even after 56 years some of the stories are as current has they were than. This story is the first that mentioned the destruction on earth and how the humans will survive this destruction. The human race just never change. But now that I rewatch it, I think that with more episodes I would really start to love Steven. I like the way he thinks and see the world.

The new dynamic

Dodo is not just new to the time travel but she is also a little naive but also really joyful. So Steven is in this story a little like her father or big brother. He is run after and try to stop her when she does something without thinking. It would have been quiet interesting to see how this turns out. Sadly we don’t get that time.
I hadn’t so good memories of ‘The Ark’ but I really liked it when I rewatched it. Also got a better connection with Steven and Dodo than the first time. I really wish we had more of the stories out on DVD.

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April 18

DW: Survival of the Fittest

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welcome to the 131st Big Finish Main Range Adventures ‘Survival of the Fittest’ with the seventh Doctor and Klein. Before we get the main story there is a short story about Kleins history. We find out what let to the events of ‘Colditz‘ and give us an idea of what had happened in this story. This story takes place in 1962 and 1965 in Klein alternate timeline. The ‘Survival of the Fittest’ is placed around the year 2440.

Kleins Story

We get the story behind Klein. So even without ‘Colditz‘ you understand the story and her. You get a really good take on her character in this story. I really like it that we get so much time on her back story. We find out how she come to use the TARDIS and what Johann Schmitt had to do with all of it. The story not just give us a great picture of her, it also shows us a side of the Doctor that I love and many people like to ignore. His dark side.

The Vrill and Winterlack

The Doctor and Klein arrive in a cave and find a species that is like big insects that communicate by smell. Thank god that the TARDIS can even translate this language. The Vrill have two big problems. The first is a Vrill warrior that kills everything in his way also the new hatchlings. The second is the winterlack. Nor Klein or the Doctor know what the winterlack are but it killed so many of the vrill. It seems like only 4 Vrill have survived the winterlack.

On their own

To call Klein a great companion would be wrong, but she is amazing and really interesting. She can analyse a situation and knows to hold herself against the unknown. You never quiet know what she is up to and if the concern for the Vrill is true. It is really hard to tell if she learnt or just waits. But that makes her such a great addition. The Doctor is way trusting even with not trusting her.

Listen or not

I really like this story. The story around Klein is really interesting and can’t wait to see how this all works out. Also the Vrill are really sweet. The name giving is great. Butterfly for a warrior this is so the Doctor. Let’s go and listen to this great story.

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April 14

DW: Sting of the Zygons

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welcome the 13th adventure of the New Adventure Book Series ‘Sting of the Zygons’ with the tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. The enemies in this book is obviously the Zygons. I got as part of the Monster Collection. The TARDIS lands on the 16th September 1909. They stay at least for three days. For Martha it is some point after Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks.

Zygons

I never was a big fan of these particular monsters. This book doesn’t change it. The thought that they can take any form might be a little unsettling. They are planner and strategic what makes them more dangerous than a lot of other enemies of the Doctor. In ‘Sting of the Zygons’ how ever we see a little different side of the Zygons than before. We learn how desperation looks on them.

Zygons and the hunters

The monster of the Zygons the Skarasen goes lose and kill a lot of humans and a second one is found dead. The Doctor and Martha arrive shortly after these events. They found also a dead Zygon. Maybe an alien hunter is out their hunting the Zygons down. But what ever it is the Doctor has to find out.

The little Ian

Like always the Doctor and Martha make a lot of friends really fast and get thrown out be as much people too. I loved the most Martha’s little friend Ian. Martha has to fight in this time to be taken seriously and all man want to put her on the side lines. But we all know Martha and she never just sits on the sideline. Ian is a young boy who don’t care for this world views. He likes Martha and the get on really well and fast.
Ian is putting himself in danger all the time. I am not even sure that he gets the danger he is in most of the time. But he trusts Martha is always there to help her out. It is really sweet how this two always save each other.

Reading or not

The book is not bad but it is not good either. I don’t like the story very much and the monster are not my thing. The characters except for Ian are not so sympatric. There are a few fun scenes but it is just my book.

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April 13

DW: The Time Meddler – Rewatch

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welcome to the last episode of the 2nd season of Doctor Who ‘The Time Meddler’. It is the first adventure without Barbara and Ian, but we also get a new companion Steven. Steven is not one of favorites but it is possible that this is because I don’t have many adventure with him. The episode takes place in 1066.
The is the last season with the first Doctor that is almost complete. In this season only the adventure ‘The Crusade’ is missing. On season one it is just ‘Marco Polo’.
From the third season I only have 3 adventure. So after this adventure we have just 4 more adventures on DVD.

The Vikings are coming

Mostly the story is about the Doctor trying to find out who the Monk is and what he is up to. He has a lot of stuff that doesn’t belong in this time. So how does he has it and where does he come from. Also in a few days or few weeks the vikings arrive with their fleet. It is a typical adventure. Vicki and Steven are searching for the Doctor and the Doctor got captured, flies and got captured again.

Time travel

Vicki also tries to explain to Steven what the TARDIS is. Steven has a few difficulties with believing in time travel. Also the dynamic of the group is different now. Vicki has more experience with time travel but Steven is still more experience in life. Since Vicki and Steven are together the Doctor is alone. Sometimes it looks a little special when the Doctor matters dates and information about the time.

The first other Time Lord

This story brings us the first other time lord we will meet. The Monk is one of my favorite enemies of the Doctor. Sadly he never had such a big part as the Master and the only other appearance in the TV-serie is in one of the lost episodes ‘The Daleks Master Plan’. Thank good the novels and Audio Dramas didn’t forget about him. He is quiet fun.

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April 7

DW: Fugitive

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welcome to the IDW DW Vol 1 chapter ‘Fugitive’ with the tenth Doctor. He travels alone that means it is in his life between ‘Planet of the death‘ and ‘Waters of Mars‘. It is also following directly the end of ‘Silver Scream‘. Ahistory place the story around the year 2545.

Old enemies

The theme of the story is one that we have so often in tenth Doctor era. The power of the Time Lord, the consequences of his intervention. We meet old enemies of the Doctor. Krillitans, Draconions, Sotarans, Ogrons and Judoon. That is not enough the Shadow proclamation is bringing the Doctor before the court for his interventions. He is found guilty but someone is out to kill him before he lands in prison.

New friends

The Doctor finds himself on the run with a few races he never thought of fighting together. We see again that the Doctor has as any other person his prejudices. I love this story because the Doctor has to look at the consequence his intervention had on the people. Races that are warriors wanting peace. He finds unlikely friends. It is fun to watch these four race work together and learning at least the other – you can never be sure that the Doctor learnt his lesson.

Through all the adventures

These story drops names and stories everywhere. I smiled when the tenth Doctor talks about Charley Pollard but that was not the only thing that we have hints of. Do you know the feeling when you watch the first seasons of the New Doctor Who and the hint at every turn on the Classic Series? That is exactly what they do here. You have hints at stories like ‘Battlefield‘, ‘Paper Cuts‘ or the hint of the War Doctor. It is so much fun to search of all the hints of old or new stories of the Doctor.

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April 6

DW: The Chase – rewatch

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welcome to ‘The Chase’ the last adventure of Doctor Who season two with Ian and Barbara. Plays at a lot of place and times. In 2170 the Daleks create the first time maschine and used it follow the Doctor through time and space. The alien Mila we meet in ‘Patient Zero‘ claims that she got on board the TARDIS in this adventure.

Everyday life

What I love about the early Doctor Who is that you see so much of the life in the TARDIS. We see Ian read books, Barbara making dresses, Vicki being bored. It so much have just to see them have a normal life. When the found a planet with a lot of sand and two suns. Barbara and the Doctor just decided to lay in the sun when Vicki and Ian are of exploring. This is what I love so much. Yes there are adventures but there is also just the normal life going on.

Doctor against the Daleks

The story is practical is about the Doctor and his companions running from the Daleks and the Daleks chasing after them. The land in times like 1872 on the Mary Celeste, 1966 on the Empire State Building and 1996 festival of Ghana.
Festival of Ghana is actually the fun part. It was a theme park and one attraction was the Haunted House. But they don’t know that they are at the theme park. They all got really frightened.

Show Down

The showdown is in the year 3565 on the planet Mechanus. The Doctor and his companions are choosing this as a place to finally fight against the Daleks. It also featured Steven as a new companion.
Sadly this means that we have to say goodbye to Ian and Barbara. I loved them so much and the story is good and fun. A good goodbye to my little family.

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