December 18

DW: Bloodtide

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welcome to the 22 adventure of the big finish main range – Bloodtide with the sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smithe. The Doctor want to surprise Evelyn and brings her to the Galapagos Islands to met Charles Darwin. It a time (1835) he will evelope his evolution theory. The Silurians plays a huge part in it.

Evolution

Like i said before this is a story about Evolution and Silurians. The Silurians are like always trying to eliminate the ape-creatures. They want their earth back. The Galapagos Islands is a prison and this give the Silurians enough guinea pigs for their virus to eliminate the apes. In all that mess is Darwin trying to explain the behavier of the birds.
Evelyn is running around with Darwin and sees how he develope his theory. It is really nice to see her interact with one of her heros and to see Darwin struggling with his religion and convictions to come up with his evolution theory.

Nothing new

Sadly it is like every other Silurian story. The Silurians try to kill the apes. The Doctor and the apes are trying to stop them. At some point there is virus and death – a lot of death on one side. The story is not really surprising and you had it at least three times already… it is really sad that every story is so simular. This adventure is not bad writen or boring. It is solid story and amazing characters that made it fun to listen to it.

Listening or not

If you listen for the story and to hear something new, than don’t listen. If you want a solid story and amazing characters listen to it. The characters make the story interessting to listen to. The story is good just much surprising but it don’t think that this is nessassary to be an amazing story. The characters can totally carry the story.

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December 11

DW: Sirens of Time

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welcome to the very first adventure of big finish – Sirens of time. It is not just the first adventure of the main range, it is the first episode they produced. This is the start of amazing stories. They start with three Doctors in one adventure. We have the fifth, sixth and seventh Doctor.

Always the time lords

They time lord see themself facing a enemy that is uncredible strong. It seems like they are totally powerless against this enemy. But they find out that the Doctor is involved and send warnings to him or are they are trying to kill him? Both is possible and believeble. The three Doctors faces all their own adventures.

Seventh Doctor

The seventh Doctor seems to be travling alone. The story of the Seventh Doctor is playing in the year 3562 on a not existing planet. The Doctor saves a girl – Elenya. Everything doesn’t seems quite logic at the beginning. On this planet is also living a man and woman. The woman needs to take care of the man. But she is not satisfied with this work and tries to make a deal. A deal were everyone will die.

Fifth Doctor

The fifth Doctor is traveling with Tegan and Turlough but they don’t have a big role. This adventure takes place in 1915 on a submarine. He gets closed of of his TARDIS and met a girl – Helen. The submarine got attackt and the a german submarine is saving them. It seems like someone is trying to take controll of the crew members and try to kill the Doctor who seems to thing the time lords are behind it.

Sixth Doctor

This story of the sixth Doctor is playing in the year 3562 on a spaceship. There is a conferance at that spaceship. His TARDIS get caught in an explosion and he strands on the spaceship. There he mets a girl which get him in the conferance room. A time distortion gets everyone in trouble.

Listen or not

The story is really not my thing. It all ends of course in a big story but the story are to short for my liking. But this is totally a listen to it story because the three Doctors are working together and that is the best. This three Doctors are not my favorites. I mean i love these three but my favorite Doctors are the tenth, first and second but these three together have just the best chemistry with each other. It is so much fun listen too them. This story also made very clear that the Doctor is the same in all incarnations but also shows us all the differents between them and they are very different. It is really lovely to listen to so well writen Doctors.

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December 4

DW: 100

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here comes the 100th adventure of the big finish main range with the name ‘100’. This adventure has four sperate episodes. With the sixth doctor and Evelyn Smythe. The stories might be short but really amazing itself.

100BC

I can’t say much about the stories. They are short and don’t want to spoil them to you. The first story is about the two visiting Rome and the parents of Julius Caesar 9 month before he should be born. The story tells as alot of character of Evelyn and i really like the story.

My own private Wolfgang

This story is about Wolfgang Mozart. How seems to lived little bit longer than he should. So what behind that mystery. The story is not mine but it is not bad. It is about life and if could be that genius be a genius forever or does the forever take the genius away?

Bedtime Story

Someone is telling his child a bedstory about the Doctor. He is telling about his meeting with the Doctor. These someone is a father and when he get child his grandparents would die. It always been like that and nobody is question it. Of course the Doctor is questioning it.
This is my favorite story of this volume.

100 days of the Doctor

The Doctor crossed a species and they are taking revenge. He got infected with a virus that will shut his body down in 100 days. They travels in his own past to find out when he got infected.

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October 22

DW: The Wishing Beast

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here we go with the 97th adventure of the big finish main range – The wishing beast with the sixth Doctor and Mel. The wishing beast is three parter and the other story on the CD – The Vanity Box – is kinda a prequel and sequel at the same time.

They sounded nice enough

At the beginning of the story the Doctor resived a recording, where two siblings invite everyone to join them and visited them. The Doctor who told that his time of running into problem without thinking is over and at the same time he goes visiting the siblings because they sound nice enough. But of course it is never so easy. On the way to the house something like a ghost is warning them to go there. The siblings of course tell the Doctor and Mel that the ghost are the bad. Which one is right?

The great time traveler

The siblings are waiting for special people. A great time traveler, a hero. Of course the Doctor thinks that they mean him but they are actually talking about Mel. They want her to go to the wishing beast and get granded their greatest wish. This is a really interessting thing because Mel is a person that is actually very satisfied with her life. She has nothing like a big wish. I mean Rose wanted her dad would be alive, Nyssa would have wanted to save her father and people and everyone of his companion had something they wished for. But Mel is one of very little people that traveled with Doctor that is just satisfied. Or at least this is how i saw her and remembered her.

A

Of course it is nothing like a wonderfull and peacefull place. In that Town is a Vanity Box that makes the woman younger and more beautiful. This is something i never understand why people want to look younger or try to change how they look. I am not happy with everything i look but i would never even try to change it. But many people see it different. This little story is just what it is a little story. But the best thing is we get to know what Mel would have wished. This wish just got me because it is not just everything i thought about Mel. It is what i would have wished too. I really miss someone…sorry i am just emotional right now.

Listen or not

It is a really good story. I like the way they tell the story. Who is the bad guy and who is the good guy or is there anything like that? Is it all just about love or hate? It is a story about wishes and what they can do to people. So yes go on and listen to this great story.

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October 15

DW: Valhalla

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welcome to the 96th adventure of the big finish main range – Valhalla with the seventh Doctor. This is one of the adventures were the Doctor is without one of the companions and plays around the year 2345.

Retiered

The Doctor retiered and is visiting Valhalla, where everything is for sale, and their job center. Also it seems like there power problems. A few people work in the underground at the power problems but they are not alone. The Doctor is telling himself that all that is not his problem and that he should just walk away. But we all know the Doctor can never retier. He can never just walk away.
For what i understand is Valhalla under controll of an artificial intelligence that doesn’t work after the ideas of the mayor anymore. She is cuting the power of the mayor and take over.

The Doctor all alone

Of course the Doctor is never really alone. He met the people in the underground a woman and a man and they trying to survive together. They have a good chemistry. But they are both characters that are more in the background. They want to go out alive and they ask much question. It is a shame. The seventh Doctor function for me just why better with a dominant character like Ace.

Listen or not

It is quite a good story. If you love the seventh Doctor go and listen to it. For it is more like i don’t have the feeling that i would missed something when didn’t had to listen to it. I think it is one of the adventure that will just stand in my cupboard and don’t get out again. But i can’t critizice anything, because it is a really solid story.

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September 10

DW: I.D.

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welcome to the 94th big finish main range adventure ‘I.D.’. This is an adventure of the sixth doctor without a companion. The back cover says that it plays in the 32nd century. Ahistory is placing it around 3150 between ‘the brain of Morbius’ and ‘the beast below’. So for the Doctor it has been somewhere between Peri and Mel. Because he is traveling alone. If this is between or after Evelyn is hard to say.

Altering the character

The setting is interessting. The Doctor met a researcher. This group is working on recreate character treats. The do it with data. It seems like people are uploading their character and everything as data. It seems very interessting. What are the consequences of it and why whould people do such things. So this give us alot of interessting stuff to think about. But the first two episodes are not getting into this stuff. It seems like that zhr Scandroids want to transfer data and this data is killing people. So the maschines wander around and upload data into the humans brains and kill them with it.

On the surface

Except from the Doctor we know nothing in this story. We don’t know the time or the characters. We don’t no the big bad. Which means we are in this completely new world and his interessting background that don’t get used. It remembers me alittle of the cybermen and the end is for me a little to happy end. The characters are good and interessting but have way to little time to acctually get into your heart. This story is just to fast for what i could’ve been. If you understand what i mean. Sadly this is what i am telling about the most stories in the last time.

Bonus Story: Urgent Call

This story is the first one that have a short story on the disk. I had this story before it was one of the storys big finish overed to download for free when you have the right from the Doctor Who Magazine. I really like this story. It is different to the others. We have that character Laurel that doesn’t feel well and is calling her mother but instead the Doctor answered the phone. The only way the Doctor is playing in this story is when Laurel calls him be accidient. The whole story are just phone calls she makes and the story is in the background. She just got little parts of what happend from the Doctor.

The best thing in this story is that in the end she doesn’t know how it ends. The Doctor just vanished like always and let her with all the question back. Urgent Call is a really nice story and is totally worth to hear the story before on the disk.

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July 16

DW: Year of the pig

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welcome to the 90th big finish main range adventure ‘Year of the pig with the sixth Doctor and Peri. The Story plays in the year 1913. It is a very special episode. It will never be my favorite. But it has something i can hardly explain.

Tobe and the inspector

Tobe is a pig that is always eating and his nurse is watching the other guests of the hotel and describe it to him. He is not just a pig, he is a famous pig and has a few very special fans. One we meet is an lady that infollwing Peri and the Doctor in everything.
The inspector is a very special person. He is really not sympathic. The Doctor and Peri saves him from drowning. So he searches the contact to these two. But he is hiding something.

The problem with this story is that it is so special that i am afraid that i write the wrong thing and everyone knows what is the solution to this abstruse story. About pigs, experiments, time travel, emenies and friends. I always have the feeling that i over heard something. How the go to place to place. For me it is a pile of chaos that does shows everything.

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June 4

DW: The Nowhere place

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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 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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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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