August 24

DW: The Dark Husband

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welcome to the 106th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Dark Husband’ with the 7th Doctor and his companions Ace and Hex. It plays at sometime at another planet named Tuin. Ace is wanting a holiday and do something nice. Of course it doesn’t work out.

Let’s take a break

What can go wrong when you want a holiday? Hex finds broshure and the decide to visited the festival of Twin Moons of Tuin. Of course lands at the time when something bad had happened. They found a graveyard and no festival. Just this part makes me love the story. I mentioned it a lot that I wasn’t a fan of Ace in the series. But when I started listing to her stories with Hex, that really changed. She grows in all the stories and it is great to see her developement. Also I love the way these three characters interact with each other. It is always fun to listen to their banter.

Let’s end the war

So really fast the story developed from let’s take a break to let’s end the war. Apparently there are two race that are at war forever. They have the Festival ones a year. It is a little bit like the Christmas wonder. Every they make this festival they celebrate together and just stop the war for this time and after they just go back to it. To make this even more special you can stop the war by a marriage and of the Doctor jumps to the chance to end this but he doesn’t what he got into. It’s a typical we make up as we go story.

Dark Husband and Shining Wife

The atmosphere of the story is hard to describe for me. It is not a really dark story. The actor talked about it being a comedy in away. But I really don’t see it. I don’t share humor I think, because I can’t remember that I laughed at this story. So it is something between everything. I don’t think it is a bad story. Actually I like it. I just don’t see what is funny about it. Also I feel with my Hex. We got glimpses of what he feels for a special someone who doesn’t seem to see him that way. I love my babies.

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February 7

DW: Dreamtime

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welcome to the 67 adventure of the Big Finish Main Range – Dreamtime. This story we follow the seventh Doctor, Ace and the new companion Hex (The Harvest) to a mysterious place. The Uluru that is flying in space. Placing the story seems again a little difficult. It diffintly play in the far future of the earth. My source is placing it around 9.000 and the other time line the Doctor encounters around 5950, which means it is around the Solar Flares and the Evacuation of Earth – or better of the many evacuations.

Throw him in the cold water

Hex is new on the team and new in the whole time travel thing. What makes the story for me very amusing. Ace is traveling for years with the Doctor and this version of Ace is older and wiser in away. But she has seeing anything. So Hex brings the wonder and excitement in to the adventures. Back to the story. Hex has to deal with the whole program. Like I said before they land on the Uluru flying through space without a notable protective shield and people who turned to stone… hold breath that is not all. There are also another spaceship landing.
In all that mass the Doctor got turned to stone and Ace hurt, which means Hex is for a short time at least on his own.

That whole mass

It is a lot that happens in this story. There are a lot of different perspectives. We not just have the Doctor, Ace and Hex we also have the other aliens. Of course everything is contacted and it makes sense in the end. Until then you have a lot going on. It has a little bit action and shooting in it but it is mostly about believes and the roots of the culture. It is about change and growth. But that you still should honor the roots and don’t forget them. The atmosphere of the whole is not dark but also not light cost. It is something in between.

Listing or not

Yes, go and listen to it. It is not a special, grandiose story but it is solid and it kinda works. I like Hex and his story and I like the way he changes the interaction of the group. He never looks out for what says. He is afraid and has no problem to tell that but he function anyway. He still throw his sarcasm around. It is fun to listen to the three of them.

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August 13

DW: Nocturne

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welcome to the 92 big finish main range adventure ‘Nocturne. It plays around 2800 (by AHistory – the TARDIS.wiki is saying 2797) on the planet Nocturne. The Seventh Doctor is visiting this periode of time alot and in different incarnations. This time he brings Hex and Ace.

Implications

In my head i think about which adventures Tegan or Mel had on that planet. With which others the Doctor visited his friends. Sadly i don’t know about big finish having other adventures their. I would love to have a few short stories about this meetings. It is like there are not always big problems, just the Doctor visiting his old friends and is quiet lovely to think about it. That he is no capiable of it. Not like the third Doctor.

Trip to Venice

I really want to know what the trips was like. Hex is telling a few time that it becomes more and more like his trip to Venice. This is actually one of the best thing of this adventure. The close way Hex, Ace and the Doctor act to each other. How they talk about their past and tease each other. Also this epsiode is giving Ace someone to bond with and i really beginn to love her. How easy she is opening her heart to this people and how vulnerable.
The adventure was just like a schooltrip to Venice.

Just what it is

The story feels warm and confortable. It is inviting us to a nice trip with friends and you can feel it. The danger don’t have many schockeffects or action. It is just happening. The atmosphere became darker and sadder the longer the story goes. But it never lost the familiar feeling. The Music that have a big role in the story is just underpin this story. The Music is beautiful and kinda sad. It remembers me why i love sometime classic music on the piano. They are caring so much feelings.
So the normal story about someone or something is killing people is becoming something special and make it to one of my favorite stories.

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July 2

DW: No Man’s Land

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here we go with the 89th big finish main range adventure ‘No Man’s Land’ with the seventh Doctor and Ace and Hex. With Hex bad luck they land again in the time of war. This time it is the first world war it plays in 1917. They got an job to investigate a murder that didn’t take place yet in a militäry hospital.

Same Story over and over again

We know the Story. It is war and everyone wants to win it. Some people are ready to do anything for it. They want to make the soldier stronger. To give them a killer instinct, to take feelings away… in the end the humans always end to create something like cybermen. Of course their are no cybermen in this story but they are on the way. It is a step to this path.
But it is almost everytime a good story. We know what will happen and we know the Doctor is against it. The Doctor that wants to stop it.

Strength

This is about strength. What is strength and this is what i love about Doctor Who. Because Doctor Who is always (almost) telling you that strength has nothing to do with killing people. Don’t kill people is a strength. Hex is a man that many people accuse to be weak. Hex is against war and killing. He hates this war times. But he is not weak. He maybe don’t can defeat a soldier in a fight but he strong because he wants to help people and save them. He wants to make the world better. He is not afraid of getting in danger. He does it when things that it will help. But he is not running into danger. Hex is an amazing character and i really love the stories with him.

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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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February 13

DW: Night Thoughts

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here we go with next adventure of big finish main range number 79 – Night Thoughts. This time we have the seventh Doctor with his companion with Hex and Ace. It takes place in Schottland 2006 after ‘Human Resources’. In the Doctors timeline would have been behind Survival (TV Serie). This adventure was the first adventure from big finish that was after a scrpit of the TV-Serie but never was filmed. After that big finish started the serie of Lost Stories. We start with a little information about Hex. This is my first adventure with him so lets see how he is.

Thomas Hector Schofield

His first appereance was in the 58 adventure ‘The Harvest’. He is human and works as a Doctor. He met the two when they came to investigate alien aktivity on the hospital he works. It seems like he saw Ace got into the TARDIS and want to know about it. Ace is showing him and is convinced the Doctor to take Hex with them. This is the fourth adventure with them so there is not much to know.
In the first two episodes i don’t think what i would think about Hex. He got scared and he is having this nightmare. But he made a few dump comments to and about the girl. So i did thought really highly of him but he changed my mind. He is actually really lovely, has a kind heart and his giving out hugs if they needed. So yes i am liking him.

Happy the rabbit

This episode is really good. Actually i would have loved to see this as an episode. Because this would made a perfect horror episode. All that amazing effects how could made with just so little… just that girl with the rabbit. This is really good stuff. Big finish did a really good job with the effects to create this horror atmosphere. First i thought the story would go in a different directions. We have Hex having a nightmare about a OP and Ace almost drowning in the river. This lead the three of them to a house somewhere in the nowhere. With 3 man and 2 woman and girl. There is going something going on. Someone is dying and that is just the beginning. Of course all are mistrusting each other, people get attack and so on. The Doctor is in the middle of it with his wondefull coments and ironic way of dealing with everyone. I can’t say anymore with out actually destroying the story for you.

This Story is amazing. One of the best horror stories in the last time. Just listen to it.

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