May 16

DW: Legend of the cybermen

Hey Guys,

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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January 22

DW: Fear of the Daleks

Hey Guys,

‘Fear of the Daleks’ is an adventure from the Companion Chronicles – the second of the first season. The Companion Chronicles are reading books. Every story has a Companion that is the main part of the story. We get little of the life they are living after the Doctor and an adventure that took place in their time together. The companion the story is about is reading the story. This time it is Zoe Heroit and the second Doctor – Jamie is standing on the sideline.

Zoe Heriot

Zoe Heriot is one of the most amazing characters. She is strong in many ways and is a genius. She is way more intelligent that the Doctor and is not showing off. She never looked down on Jamie how is way slower in his thinking what also is because he cames out of a time the technic wasn’t developed that way so all that technic stuff is all new to him. But this is not about Jamie. How thinks this is a story were all characters have the same among of story is wrong here. Jamie is of course part of the story but he is really just a background character. The focus of the story is on Zoe.
My problems with the companion chronicles is that it is a reading book. I don’t think that many companions have a reading voice. Zoe is one of the better but not as gripping as of example the Brigadier. Which makes it not so easy to listen to the story but the stories in this serie are to good to not listing to them. Zoes is adventures also of an overlapping story. What makes here story even better.

They are still people out there…

That doesn’t here about the Daleks and know that they never work with someone with out turning in the end of them? It is always a surprise to me when an alien race is making a deal with the Daleks to reach their goals. But a part from that obivious dumb idea.
We have a story about two races that want to make peace. Of course not everyone is working for that goal. Zoe and the others stumble in a peace conference. Zoe and the Doctor became really fast pawns in the game of one of the people that want war to overthrow the people in charge. Everything is okay to still the hunger of power.
But he has not the guts to do it himself. He has a maschine which can controll minds and make a copy of you in a different place and take your conscious in this copy and controll it.
Why all this is actually necessary is not logic for me but i decided to just go with the story and not thinking about the complicated way to do this.
The one that he chooses to be the one for the kill is Zoe. The story is about how she tried to fight against it.

Listing or not

For me this is the weakest Zoe story i heart until now. The other i heart were Memory Cheats and Echoes of Grey which are both better. But it is still a Zoe story and this is still something good. So everyone that loves Zoe should totally listen to it.

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February 28

DW: Companion Chronicles – Memory Cheats

Hey Guys,
here we go to the second part of Zoes Story of the Companion Chronicles. It plays in Zoes present 2109 and the adventure take place in 1919 August. In the timeline of the Doctor it is placed between the stories Krotons and the seed of death.

the Company

We don’t know much about the company. Just that they are really interessting in her travelings with Doctor and that they intaned to use this knowledge but Zoe didn’t want to help them. So know she brought her in. But she doesn’t remember the Doctor anymore. The woman that question her know, believe she found the evidence for the time travel. So Zoe begann to tell the story.

What happend?

Children just disepair. They are trying to help them. They investigate the disapier. They found out that the creature was crashlanding there, because get shoot in the war. In the spaceship they found the children alive. The creature had seeing the war and everything that happend to that children. He wanted to save them. He wanted to make them safe. The Doctor agreed with the creature and told them that they never saw their parents again. That inflict a terror in the children and also in the creature. That is when everything turns bad.

I don’t want to tell here more because what Zoe did is amazing. I love it. This more about the present and Zoes Story than about the Story with the Doctor.

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September 13

DW: Destiny of the Doctor – Shadow of Death

So here is the second part of ‘Destiny of the Doctor’. The second doctor is featured in this story with Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot. Both really amazing companions.

It starts with a really interessting question, who old are they. The Doctor is making fun of Jamie and tells him that he is thousand years old and of course jamie didn’t believed him. But when he tries to think how much time he traveled with the Doctor he could answer that.
When they land he is telling them the whole time that they are save and of course their not save. They are never save.

So it seems like parts of the planet there on are jumping in another timeline? So parts are moving faster than others. Also there are this shadows, that makes people age really fast and die. Thay think that this shadows murdered the civilasation on that planet.

The Doctor becomes of course a messages of the Doctor. The Story is nice. Really good to hear. Freazer Hinz is making a really good job with his readings. He really good at speaking the Doctor. It is really amazing how he did it. I like the turn they are making with the shadows, that they only wanted to comunicated. The Story is good but nothing really amazing – just a nice story.

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August 23

DW: Echoes of Grey

Here we go to listen to the next adventure of ‘the companion chronicles’.

It is featuring Zoe Heriot and the third doctor. Zoe and Jamie had one of the heartbreaking goodbyes in the Doctor Whos histery. So this story after everything is what we all want. We want them to remember.

Zoe has a photographic memory. She was one of the companions, that was more intelligent than the Doctor. So this story starts really good, because you totally can see that this is like they tell, that she has the feeling that she forgot something.

Wendy Padbury is easier to listen as Maureen O’Brien but not so faszinating like Nicholas Courtney.

Zoe is meeting someone that know her from her time with the Doctor and she wants to help Zoe remember. Of course the story is about the adventure they met the girl. They are in something like hospitel but it is empty. Every patient get healed that is what the files say. The doctor is really suspicous about it. Zoe get separate from the Doctor and she finds a room with a few creatures. The Girl that wanted to help Zoe, tells her that she felt so connected to Zoe. I find her really suspicous.

So a journalist is search for her grandmother, who was healed but never came back. When Zoe and Jamie wants to talk to him, one of this creatures suck the life out of him. Also it seems that it know that Jamie and Zoe are hiding in that room and left them alone.

The Doctor wants to see the creatures but they vanished. So they go to search one creature in the workplace. They find something of a fluid that heals/adsorbs everything. Of course the Doctor goes to confront the people behind it.

What i don’t like about the story, that Zoe is not getting what happend. The Doctor explains it to her and the others. Zoe is so intellgent she should have get it before the Doctor explains.

But the story is really good and i love what they make out of it. The creatures are made to remove damaged zelles, and when the can’t take anymore they die. This is interessting because for one the damage zelles aren’t there they take good ones. And the second part is that the made them want to die… this is real cruel. The solution of the Doctor is also cruel, but without much choice. That is the third thing i love about the Story.

The ending of Zoe and Jamie losing all the memories where heartbreaking and i never thought that the can do that again. But the end of the story is breaking my heart and fills my eyes with tears. The offered Zoe everything, her memories, her life, to be whole again and she choose to give all that up, just to prevent this people to make this creatures again. Zoe Heriot this is an ending that take her justis. That is my Zoe i love.

i will totally buy the other stories with her.

 

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