January 24

DW: Season 7

Hey,
i just rewatch the seventh season of Doctor Who. The season that made want to give up on this serie. The season i fought me through almost every episode just because it is Doctor Who. For everyone that find the season good i am sorry, but for me it was bad so, so, so bad. It was the worth Doctor Who season ever. The rewatch don’t make it better… it make it worse to telling the truth.

First Part

The first part of this season is all about Amy and Rory. I was so excited for the first episode, because Daleks and than that… Amy and Rory want to get divorced can it come worse… yeah the episode is just so bad… that is real life and at the end everything is back to the perfect little life they had. Not just the first episode in every episode i have the feeling that there is no love for the characters anymore. There is character developement, and the don’t get time to shine. They just there so the Doctor can look good. This fight between Amy and Rory this could have been something great, something that they can fight for. We could have seen them proving themself to each other and not just erasing it like it never happend.

The only not bad episodes are ‘Dinosaurs on a spaceship’ and ‘the power of three’ but you just can look to close. The power of three is not logical at all, but everything else is good. Why i like the dinosaurs on the spaceship is a thing that i totally miss on Doctor Who. A group of people so different that have to interact with each other. I am still thing what a great season we could have with them as companions.

Amelias Last Goodbye

This episode could have been so good. The Weaping Angels and a big dramatic final for this amazing pair. I am truthfull i also cried by the rewatch but it could have been so much better. If the angels where just like ever and when the statue of liberty would have moved… what the fuck?!
Why had they showed this as a tragic end, why must the doctor so childish and imature to see that as losing? Amy and Rory are living a good life, a happy life, that is an happy end. They would have stopped traveling with the Doctor, they almost did the last time and we all know the Doctor stays never when they stop traveling with him. Never. He left Jo, when she got married, he never visited Ian or Barbara or even Susan.

Clara Oswin Oswad

I liked Clara a lot in Asylum of the Daleks and she was fun in the really boring Christmas Special. She is an nice character and i was really happy that she would become the Doctors Companion. I thought she become a little after Zoe. But than the first really episode came with her and Moffats takes all that away. All that knowledge she has was just a gift from her time uploaded…not herself. Also after that we don’t she her use any of it. She is just like every other companion in the new Who…doing what the Doctor expacts.
I just wanted a companion like Zoe. Which is more intelligent than the Doctor, one that things faster than him, just someone that totally can win a fight with him.

The second part

Is much worse…Clara is nice to see and they are many good ideas in it. The second episode is with the singing emotional, but the story isn’t really good. I am not a big fan of the eleventh Doctor but in that part will dislike him even more. All that impossible girl talk, all that why are you special. She is special. She is special because she is just a totally normal person. An ordinary girl with choose to travel with a stranger, which wants to see adventures, a girl that don’t run, a girl that stops and fight, a girl we see struggle with the death she is seeing. That is what makes her special and the Doctor never understand that is what makes her special not that he met her three times.

Old enimies…

The ice warrior is back. What lovely monsters they are. Than the bring them back and make everything they are wrong? Why bring him back, if you change everything? A icewarrior that left his shell and is super fast? A icewarrior you reason with. He is a warhero. An icewarrior of a team they wanted war, they loved war. When the Doctor tries to reason with him, if he wants to be know as the destroyer of earth the answer would be yes. That is what the icewarriors were. That is why the Doctor don’t like them, that is why the Doctor never believed the started peace.
So we have Daleks, Ice Warrior and that is not enough… lets make a bad story about cybermen… Cybermen that are fast and upgraded so fast… it was stupid and not scary… I dislike everything in that episode. The cybermen. The Doctor and the way he fights with the cybermen…it is nice to see all the faces but that is the only thing. Also i dislike Clara here a lot. The Doctor is at fault that the children are in danger and she just accept it? He has a time maschine. He could have brought them home and than came back. But no lets bring the kids in danger and Clara is jsut standing there and says okay. She just let him search for them and became a warrior… that is not Clara… not the Clara i like…she don’t struggle anymore.

The final

It is not so bad, but they are a few points that are stupid… and i don’t talk about the Great Intellegent stuff(which still don’t remember) that was totally stupid. I like the idea with Clara, because that is something Clara would do. But i hate that the whole season is a big friendly button. Nothing in that season has consequenzes. Jenny dead, but that Strax bring her back. Than Strax and Jenny dead again and they come back to life. Clara springs in that time stream to die but of course the Doctor brings her back. The Doctor should never visited Tranzalore but it just have no consequenzes…
Also i dislike that final wasn’t a final. It just was a prologe to the 50th anniversary special.

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January 17

DW: Destiny of the Doctor – Smoke and Mirrors

Hey Guys,
so here we have the fifth adventure of the ‘Destiny of the Doctor‘-serie with the fifth doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adirc read by Janet Fielding and Tim Beckmann. It plays in England in 1920s. Adric is still alive so it must play before Earthschock.

An old friend

The Doctor meets up with an old friend: Houdini. He met the third Doctor and Jo and on another occasion he met the first Doctor, Ben and Polly. So he knows about the incarnation and the time travel. He wants to know the future. So he is an easy target for the master to set an trap for the Doctor. Her we go with another old friend the master. I like the master but this story is just a little boring.

I heart the story just a few minutes ago but it still isn’t stay with me… there is a thing with a tiger, the master taking control, the Doctor almost died and so on.

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January 10

DW: Companion Chronicles – Star Born

Hey Guys,

here we go with the new adventure of Vicki and the first Doctor in ‘the Companion Chronicles’-serie. It is the 9th adventure of the 8th season and play in London early 20th centuary. In the timeline of the Doctor it most be shortly after Rome, that would be ‘the romans’. That means Ian and Barbara are on board of the TARDIS. This is one of my favorite travel group.

A story about Vicki

It is like that. Of course it is really good that Vicki has such a big role because it is her story, but Ian, Barbara and the Doctor completely changeable. The role are so little that it also could be Dodo and Steven… or someone else. But Vicki is really well written and can totally shoulder the story on her own. The Story is a nice idea. Vicki get warned that when she will step in the TARDIS again she will die. The person that whats to save her is nobody else than herself. Vicki is an interessting character and make that story work really nicely.

Time

The only point i have is the time thing. How much time did they spend on that planet to develope that friendship? For me this friendship thing is to fast and not really believeable for me. Also Vicki seems to know the Doctor very well, what is a little special because she doesn’t know him very long. ‘The Romans’ is the second adventure together and Vicki hasn’t seen many side of the Doctor at that time, but she knows him in that story good enough to know he will do anything to save them. This is what takes a little away from the story. But this can only be me.

Fazit

The first story read by Maureen O’Brien (DW: Frostfire)was for deficult to listen to. This story his more pleasant to listen too. It is a really good story and Maureen did a really good job reading the story. It is sad that the role of the other are so little but it don’t take anything form the story. Vicki is shining in this episode and i can recommand it. It is a really good story.

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December 27

DW: Last Christmas

Hey Guys,
i hope you all had a nice christmas. I found the time to watch the christmas special of Doctor Who and to be honest i don’t know if i like it or not. It has a lot good things in it and a lot things i don’t like. So it isn’t easy to decide. But let’s just start.

Dreams

The start is rediculios. Santa is crushing on Claras roof and than the Doctor is coming and they both go to the nordpol expedition with an alien problem. I just can decide if this is just so Doctor Who or rediculios or just both. But the idea behind all that is really good. I love this theme. What is reality and what is a dream and how can you know what is real. This is really interessting.

Movie hommage?

Everyone can see that this is Alien. The monster that is jumping at the face and everything, but it is nice to watch. There are few nice dialoges and i don’t think this is a bad thing. The dream in dream thing remembers me a little of Inception and by the ‘Hohoho’ at the end i must think about Die Hard ( but this is just me – i think).
All that is not a bad think but it left me with a feeling like something isn’t right – what is maybe the best think about it, but like i sad i am not sure.

Clara and the Doctor

I love the relationship between Clara and that Doctor. They don’t can with each other and not without each other. They are lying and playing each other, but deep down the love each other and wants to protect each other. This is so realistic. The scene in the slide is heartwarming and the best in the whole movie.
I think that Clara should have stayed old. It would be a good and very Doctor ending for her. The second chance just doesn’t feel right. It feels of and yes you can say it is a christmas wonder and that we needed after all that a good ending, but i don’t think this had to be a bad end. Because Clara is strong woman and she knows that Danny wants her to live so she would have an good life even without the Doctor…

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December 26

DW: Christmas Special

Hey Guys,
i told you that i will tell you my favorite christmas special, i wanted to write a article about it, but i could find the time to watch it this year so the article have to wait but i will tell you my favorite Christmas special. It is ‘Waters of Mars’. I love this special.

I am still interessted in your favorite christmas special.

Later that day or maybe tomorrow i will watch the new christmas special… i will see because, i have to work again tomorrow…

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December 20

DW: Destiny of the Doctor – Babblesphere

Hey Guys,
so here we have the fourth adventure of the ‘Destiny of the Doctor‘-serie with the fourth doctor and Romana II read by Lalla Ward and Roger Parrott. It plays on the planet Hephastos. Also with all the hints from the story it seems that the story plays after the episode ‘The Leisure Hive’ before Adric is joining the group.

Story about our own world

This Story is about something that is called the Babblesphere that also could be called internet. Of course here in Doctor Who, the babblesphere is a room, where your conscious mind is and you can’t just go out anymore. No thought is private. For me it is like the internet just a little bigger and so on. They tell the story how everyone lost themself on this babblesphere. They just stopped wanting doing something else. The stop going to work and just shatter in the babblesphere.
There is going something more on, because at the start of the story someone get killed by the programm. Also it plays with the theme of computers take the power. The people built this programm to overview the babblesphere but this programm begann to think that he don’t know this people anymore.

Play a game

Romana is lovely and i think the characters are really well written. Romana have a lot of action the first part is mostly about her and this is a really good thing. Also it is fun to here they play that game. They play the game lists of 5 things to overwheel the programm. They are a few fun things in it. Romana list the former presidents of gallifrey or the 11th doctor give a list of his favorite foes and so on. It is fun.

Fazit

It is a nice story and it has some really atcual theme but i find at really hard to listen to it. I don’t know what it is but i always almost start sleeping when i am listing to it or i just began to blend the voices out. I need to hear it three times before i had the whole story. So for me it is one of the weekest part of the serie.

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December 16

Christmas Specials

Hey Guys,

christmas is coming closer every day. Almost every serie has his christmas specials and they are so many christmas movies out there. So i decicded to write on christmas over my favorite christmas movie, i watch it every year and on the 1st and 2nd christmas day i will write about my favorite Doctor Who christmas special and of course the new christmas special.

Why am i writting this? Because before i will tell you which are my favorite. I want to know yours. So tell me what is your favorite christmas movie! What is your favorite Doctor Who Christmas specials?

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December 1

Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor Volume 1 in Germany

Hey Guys,

i was walking through the Dvd-boards on the shop and what did my eyes see? The Adventures of the seventh Doctor in German. I heart that it should come, but i didn’t believe it. But there it is. I don’t understand why the started with the seventh Doctor, but i also one who don’t understand the question where to start with Doctor Who. Because for me there are just two posibilities with the first Doctor or the ninth Doctor. But that is just me.

So there is the seventh Doctor in german that is a good thing. I will not buy it, because i have all of them in my DVD-board at home in english. But this is a good developement for every Doctor Who Fan in Germany, who think about buying it – do it. The seventh Doctor is fun.

I can’t tell you about the quality or something like that, because like i said i will not buy it. But i can tell you what is on it and i will link my articles about the episode in the english episode name. Also the review that i read about it tells that there are a lot of bonus material in that Box.

On the DVD are the episodes:

„Terror auf Lakertia“ („Time and the Rani“) – 4 parts
„Der Fluch des Kroagnon“ („Paradise Towers“) – 4 parts
„Delta und die Bannermänner“ („Delta and the Bannermen“) – 3 parts
„Das Feuer des Drachen“ („Dragonfire“) – 3 parts

The Seventh Doctor

My problem with the seventh Doctor is that the stories don’t caught me. I love the characters. The Rani is one of the best time lords we ever met, also Mel and Ace are good characters even when i don’t like them very much. The seventh Doctor is a good Doctor. The Doctor is different from the others before and he is with the sixth Doctor the darkest of the old doctors. He often isn’t the nice understandble Doctor. He isn’t really nice to Ace (Ace will be in the last episode and will be the companion in the next season). She said she doesn’t want to go there and he will bring her there the second she says it. He force her to confront her problems, her fear and not on her terms – on his terms. But he has a charming art to play it with his umbrella and his way to walk and talk. It is a really interessting and amazing Doctor. So i just can tell everyone even when the episodes are not so good, he is worth it.

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