May 16

DW: Legend of the cybermen

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welcome the 135th Big Finish Monthly Adventure ‘Legend of the cybermen’ with the sixth Doctor and Jamie. It also have a little surprise we also met Zoe. The story is placed in the Land Fiction. We know this Land from the story ‘The Mind Robber’.

Figuring out what is going on

This story is the last part of the three parter. So we find out what is behind all of it. The cybermen are invading the Land of Fiction. It seems logic… or not. All the people of the other stories were trying to help in the war against the cybermen. We have quiet a special group that is fighting here. We got Dracula, Alice and Artful Dodger that all fight together. Which actually on his own already create a great and interesting dynamic.

New questions

It seems logic that they all fight the cybermen and that cybermen found a way to convert the people of the Land of Fiction. But how are they came there and what do they want there? This the mystery we try to solve in this story. I really like how this whole adventure turns out.
I tried to solve this puzzle until the end and always thought of a new surprise.
There is a part where Jamie gets his memories back and I love what they did with it. How he questioned the Doctor. It is just single question that so many companions asked themself. ‘Why did he ever came back?’ It is not just Jamie and Zoe. He left Jo and Sarah-Jane… and he never got back. Once he left he never looks back.

Such a mess

I love the story. I love the silliness of all this characters fighting together and great to see the totally different characters in unlikely friendships. A friendship between Alice and Dracula? It is fun to see this. Zoe and Jamie back with Doctor is so great to see. You can hear how much he cares about these two. But with memories of Jamie it also creates a sadness about the reality of the Doctor. So yeah go and listen to the last adventure of Jamie, Zoe and the sixth Doctor.

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May 9

DW: The Wreck of the Titan

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welcome the 134th adventure of the Big Finish Monthly Range ‘The Wreck of the Titan’ with the sixth doctor and Jamie. Everyone that had listened to the previous adventure ‘The City of Spires‘ knows that this story will be impossible to place. It has a lot of dates but nothing is quite right.

The Titans

The story brings the Doctor and Jamie to the Titanic and of course exactly to the moment were the Titanic is about to hit the iceberg. But something is wrong on the ship. It seems to have only two people on board and doors lead to nowhere. Before the Doctor can find out what is going on, the land on the Titan. A ship that will crash with an iceberg.

New friends

The story has only a few characters on it. Mostly there are just four. Jamie, the Doctor, Tess/Myra and Teddy/John. It is really interesting to see the four of them interact. Jamie has a lot of time with Tess/Myra. It is so good to have Jamie back. I really love how easy Jamie can adjust to the situations. The world is new and changed but he just takes it and deals with it. He doesn’t know the words but he still understands what is going on. I missed him so much.

Listen to it

It is not just bringing back Jamie which is amazing but also the relationship he has with the sixth Doctor is so great. The story is such a mess. It is great to try figure out what is actually going on and how it all fits together. Also I am really excited to see where this all will lead. How they explain what was going on in these two stories and why Jamie still doesn’t remember the travels with the Doctor.

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May 2

DW: The City of Spires

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welcome to the 133rd Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The City of Spires’ with the sixth Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon. What can be better than another Doctor meeting one of the best companions ever. I really love Jamie. Jamie is like the Doctors best friend. The dates in this story are really complicated and I can’t say so much about the time with telling to much. What I can say is that Doctor things that Jamie looks like it was twenty or thrity years ago. It is taking place in Scottland.

The most alive person he met

Jamie and the Doctor parted in ‘The War Games‘. The Time Lords made Jamie forget everything about the Doctor except the first time they met. For Jamie it is like he never choose to travel with the Doctor. I still think that his and Zoe (and Donna) have one of the saddest endings. But all that is not part of this article. The Doctor is meeting Jamie again. What puts the Doctor a little of is that Jamie don’t remember him or better the other him. There are no memories of Polly or Ben. Jamie is a little different. The Doctor says that Jamie was one of the most alive persons he met. But now Jamie don’t have much hope and even when he still fights he thinks that they are already dead.

Nothing made sense

All the information given doesn’t make much sense. The Doctor realizes which figths this are but this doesn’t work with the time he things had gone by since he and Jamie had to part ways. Jamie not remembering him is another thing. But since when is there a Overlord and why are there oil-pumping maschines. For people like me that know almost nothing about Scotlands history you got the big mistakes like I already mentioned but there are a few names that appear and doesn’t seem to fit. I really love how this story plays out. It is like the travels with Klein or the Mila storyline. It is a three parter. So we don’t find all the answer and let us want to know how this will all play out.

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March 28

DW: The Blue Forgotten Planet

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welcome to the 126th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Blue Forgotten Planet’ with Charley, Charley/Mila and the sixth Doctor. It ends the story of ‘Patient Zero‘. The story takes place on earth. There is no time given or any indication which year it is. Ahistory placed it in 2009. It has to take place before the mankind’s space age. With a few other pieces of the story there are just to times where it works without conflicts with other series. This would be 1930 or 2009.

The Virus

It is actually a little creepy that I finally find the time to listen to this story I bought like 2 years ago when the world goes crazy over the Corona-Virus. The scariest thing about this whole thing is the fear of losing our job or existence as a business. This story shows us a story about a virus. A world with a madness and somehow I feel like I live right now in a world of madness. It is another madness but still to close to home.
But that is something Doctor Who always could do really good.

Charley against Charley/Mila

Charley and Mila finally meeting each other and there is a lot of confrontation between them and between the Doctor and them. It is time for the truth and it is not easy to tell the truth when all you did was trying to hide it. Charley couldn’t let go of the Doctor and she had to lie to hold on to him. Mila needed to become Charley so she could travel with the Doctor. So what is truth? This is actually really great. India Fischer does a great job with the discussion between the both of the Charleys.

Goodbye…

This is an end of an era. I loved Charley, I got annoyed by her. She has a great chemistry with the sixth Doctor. Big Finish made me cry again. I cried for Mila, for Charley, for the Doctor… this story is really great. It hints to so much more and is also an end for a lot of things. I love it. Charley is great and this is a great end for her. I am sad that the sixth Doctor and Charley don’t have more adventures together. But I am also excited to were the Doctor is of to now.

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March 20

DW: Paper Cuts

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welcome to the 125th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘Paper Cuts’ with the sixth Doctor and Charley/Mila. The story takes place in 2090. The Doctor says it is 60 years after he visited Draconia but the Mother Queen means it is just 50 years. It is not said which incarnation had visited 50/60 years before. The book ‘Doctor Who and the Space War’ says it was the second one, but the booklet shows the first Doctor.
The story starts where the last story ‘The Patient Zero‘ stopped sadly the action of this story doesn’t have such big impact on the story that I hoped.

Summoned to the fuernal

Charley/Mila finds a summoning of the great emperor of Draconia. The Doctor followed this summoning and finds out that the emperor is dead. This emperor seems to had made a few difficult decision that doesn’t go well with the a few people like the priest or his son. But more important is that there is ritual that has to take place so the son can become the new emperor. For this ritual are four people summoned the Doctor, the son of the emperor, the soldier and Gomori.

Paper warriors

What would a funeral and ritual to become a new emperor without killing paper Sazous? It is hard to say more about the story without spoiling everything. But the more interesting storylines all start later. What is the meaning of the ritual and the after life. It is about revolution, about change and about playing chess. About planing at least two move ahead.

Listen or not

The story is really good. I really like it. The relationship between the Doctor and the dead emperor is interesting and I loved to see more of this. Like I sad before the Mila story doesn’t have a big inpact. Most of the story is like a normal Charley Doctor story. I hoped that Mila would have a bigger role instead of just being Charley. But maybe all that comes in the next episode.

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March 13

DW: Patient Zero

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welcome to the 124th Big Finish Main Range Adventures ‘Patient Zero’ with the sixth Doctor and Charley. Patient Zero is hard to place in time. In this story they talk about traveling ‘so far into the past’ but the story ‘To the Death’, which is shaped with some of the consequences of this story, claims it takes place in the future. So Ahistory put it around 7190.
This story is also concluding a story that started with ‘Urgent Call‘ (Bonus Story of ‘I.D.’) and plays also a part in stories like ‘Urban Myths‘ (Bonus Story of’Exotron’), ‘The Vanity Box‘ (Second Story of the Wishing Beast) and ‘Mission of the Viyrans‘.

The Amethyst Viral Containment Station

The Doctor finally demands answers from Charley but before she can give them she fades in and out of existence. She caught a virus, which itself seems to be a problem, because the TARDIS seems to protect them from this stuff. The Doctor tries find to out how to save Charley. The search leads him to the Amethyst Viral Containment Station. This station works for the Viyrans. But we also meet the Daleks again.

Daleks and time

In this story the Daleks ask for things and don’t shoot first. They traveled in time and seem to be aware that time is a very delicate thing and are not shooting without thinking it through. That is actually something new about the Daleks. The Dalek search for a Patient Zero and they are not willing to give up. It is what I really like in this story is that the Daleks are acting with content and the Doctor using the Daleks. ‘Know your enemy.’ It leads to a very great end and I love it.

Blind Passenger

We also have a blind passenger on board of the TARDIS or maybe she is just a imagination of Charley. The girl is a little fangirl of the Doctor and claims to be his companion and that she is a long time with him when he still had gray hair. This leads to a very interesting story. That will be influence the next stories very much and I am really excited to find out where it leads to.

Listing or not

Definitely listen to it. The sixth Doctor and Charley has such a great and easy chemistry. They had fallen in place so easy that even the Doctor himself finds it weird. He can’t let her die and he doesn’ t understand why it is so much more important to him than everything else. He has to deal with her and his feelings, with the Daleks and Fratalin and nobody helping him.

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October 5

DW: The Raincloud Man

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welcome to the 116th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Raincloud Man’ with Charley and the sixth Doctor. We also have a special guest and that would be DI Menzies. The story takes place after ‘The Condemned’ in 2008. It seems to be december because all the people are doing their Christmas shopping. So obviously we find ourself in Manchester again and the second part of the story takes place in Rio de Janeiro.

Switch places

DI Menzies built herself a amazing new reputation and also a network of informants. It is really lovely to see how she dealt with everything. This time when they met it is not the Doctor that is believed to be a murderer but Charley. One of Menzies informants – Kelsa -knew of her special situation with the Doctor and than when Menzies left them alone he ends up dead. Kelsa is an interesting character and I loved him the whole 5 minutes he is part of the story. I really would love to met him again sometime in his past.

Time Travelers

The Doctor is following a coin from the future to find the time traveler behind it. Of course it leads to something much bigger than this mystery time traveler. We got a dubious casino and different aliens who are all searching for someone. For who are they searching and are they all searching the same person? We follow mostly three different storylines of the story. Obviously the one from the Doctor and the one of Charley but also got DI Menzies and her story.

The new companion?

What I love about ‘The Raincloud Man’ is that we got a lot of DI Menzies action. She trusts the Doctor but doesn’t believe everything he tells her. She is searching for her own answer and I am sure that she would make a great companion material. Maybe someday we will see this. The three different storylines – it’s not the perfect word for it – make the story so good an interessting.

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September 21

DW: Brotherhood of the Daleks

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welcome to the 114th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘Brotherhood of the Daleks’ with the sixth Doctor and Charley. In the story itself is no actual date given, but with all the clues given in the story AHistory place it around 5426. Like the title says it is Dalek story but we also met again the race of the Thals – who found a new home on the planet Spiridon.

Secrets

Charley is really bad at keeping secrets and act not suspicious. She is so obvious. But it is still fun to listen to try to explain her knowledge. What I like the most about this is that even when the Doctor and Charley seem to be close – to be friend. There is still is thing between them. This in a way he trusts her and in a way he don’t. I don’t know. I just like relationship full opposites.
The story starts with these two making contact with a group of Thals. Something is off. One of the women seems to react to the words ‘blue box’ and Charlotte Pollard. Obviously the Thals know about the Doctor and the TARDIS but for them it is more like a fairy tale than real history.
The fun part is that there is a bigger reaction to the name Charlotte Pollard than to Blue Box. The Story has a few hints of an early story ‘Terror Firma‘ the last encounter form Charley and the Daleks.

What is real

It is quiet complicated to explain the story without spoiling too much. If you listen to this adventures when you do different things than maybe you should sit done and do nothing except listing. It is not so complicated but it has a lot layers. What is the truth and what is illusion. Are they really at Spiridon? Or where are they and what is really going on there. That is why I actually love this story. Maybe listen a second time to get what you missed.

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September 14

DW: The Doomwood Curse

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welcome to the 111st Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘The Doomwood Curse’ with the sixth Doctor and Charley. The story takes place in the 1738 in England. It is a story about reality and fantasy. It is about the legendary highwayman Dick Turpin. In the Doctor Who universe he was bad criminal that got romanticized be the book ‘Rockwood’.

The dynamic

Something is really wrong in London 1738. The Doctor and Charley arrive there and something of. It is fun to hear Doctor trying to figure Charley out and still he already knows her enough to realize that something is wrong that she is acting off. It doesn’t end with Charley. All the people start acting weird. People dying of curses and sudden marriages will hold the Doctor on his heels. Everything turns overdramatic and overacted just like in an old romantic story.

Just to dramatic

The biggest problem with this is the overdramatic and overacting – even when it is totally intended to be like this. Thief that still from the rich to give it the poor. Falling in love with your sister that got kidnapped years ago. We kill everyone and we curses people. It is just not my kind of story. I love Charley but sometimes she goes on my nerves with overdramatic view of things and now she changed in this girl who is so overdramatic and naive.

Great Idea

I really like the idea of the story. It is just couldn’t it be a modern story? Okay have to admit it wouldn’t work so well with a modern story. All the part of the story fit to the idea behind it perfectly. Even when I don’t like these kinda of stories so much, it brings us great scenes between the Doctor and Charley and their evolving friendship.

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September 7

DW: Assassin in the Limelight

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welcome to the 108th Big Finish Main Range Adventure ‘Assassin in the Limelight’ with the sixth Doctor and Evelyn. The Story takes place on the 14th April 1865 – yes on the day Lincoln got shot. The Story starts with the mystery of Oscar Wilde being around older than 2 years that he schould be. Nothing is like it seems in this story.

Change the history

It is not really a surprise that Oscar Wilde is not the real Oscar Wilde. We find out that he is infact an old enemy of the Doctor we meet before in Medicinal Purpose. That would be Knox. The last time we saw him he got infected by his own virius. Now he is here and all we know is that he plans about the killing of the president. Since he killed the original killer.

Play your part

The story is about question over question. Who will kill Lincoln? Does Knox really fall love? What is actually going on? I mean come on it is Knox. Do we really believe that he wants to save the life of woman? Knox who is ready kill everyone for money? ‘Assassin in the Limelight’ unfoldes itself slowly with every step our protagonist make. Something I saw coming and other I really didn’t.

Historical Events

It is a historical story and I really love those stories. Aspecially with a character like Evelyn. She understands and cares about history and she can see the bigger picture. But one the other hand she so good and sensitive that she wants to save everyone and forgets the bigger picture of the fate of a single woman. She makes the moral delimma so real and I just love her and her big heart that have to take so much on the travels with Doctor and still she always goes on.

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