September 17

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: The Creeping Death

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welcome to the last part of The Tenth Doctor Adventure ‘The Creeping Death’ with the lovely Donna Noble and the tenth Doctor. For the last story we get my favorite stories, which is like you all know the historical ones. This time we get the Great Smog of London 5th December 1952. When I first visited London with my class, our teachers talked about the smog problems and the Clean Air Act and how you can see it on the buildings and it is also the reason that mostly Taxi busses are driving in the city. We didn’t about the death our anything else.

More than smog

The Doctor and Donna find themself in the start of the Great Smog. Obviously the Doctor is wandering of and meets Ivy, who just visited all people in the cinema die. Some would thing that it was the smog that got really bad at this point. But there is also something else in the air. Something the Doctor fight – the Fumifugium.

Great Characters

Donna met Terry a young man who is on his way to his boyfriend Richard. The characters are actually really great. Ivy the young girl in love with this man Richard, that goes to work no matter what because she needs the money. Terry is hitting it of with Donna. It is really fun to listen to them. Malcolm an old salesman with got ideas and obviously Richard. It is great group and they are all having their part in this fight. Nobody is the damsel in distress. The fight and save each other by actually working with each other.

A great end

The creeping Death is a really great last story for the boy set. It is dramatic, sad and fun. It has all of it. The characters are amazing and it would be fun to listen to another adventure in this combination. So for everyone that hasn’t listened to this stories should totally do it. It is amazing.

August 25

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: One Mile Down

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welcome to the 3rd Volume of The Tenth Doctor Adventures and the second episode ‘One Mile Down’ in which we follow Donna and the Doctor into their vacation to the underwater city Vallarasee. It never goes well when the Doctor and Donna do holidays. The last time the got a holiday was in the episode Midnight.

Changes

The Doctor had visited Vallarasee before but then everything was different. The last time the Doctor had to wear helmets to breath and swim everywhere like the underwater part imply. But when he arrives with Donna the city is drained of the water and the people of Vallarasee has to wear the helmets to survive. The city is protected by a dome and maybe it has a few little leaks. Water always finds a way…

New friends?

So often Donna and the Doctor are making new friends and get to know new people. Obviously also in this adventure we met new people. But this time the don’t really are sympathetic. We meet Patricia. She seems nice enough at first. Truth be told I liked her the first time I listened to it and then the end happened and when I listened again and really listened to what she says, I really start to dislike her. When you are in the same situation than her, you should think about some things. She is not a bad person, she is just not thoughtful?
The second person who is around them is Garth which is a really asshole and racist. The Doctor is always searching a fight with him. I get him. This guy is so annoying.

There are at their best

Doctor and Donna are amazing in ‘One Mile Down’. The Doctor is doing his thing and Donna just being to got for the world. No for really the story is really great. The story has everything. The amazing chemistry between Donna and the Doctor, the Doctor making it his job to save everyone and Donna not letting anyone behind. Vallarasee is a great world. There is so much in this story. What Tourism can do to city’s, what people do to save their people.

There are no solution to all the problems that are shown. It is just the stories of people doing mistakes, about money about love. About change and about beauty.

August 22

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: No Place

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welcome to the 3rd Volume of The Tenth Doctor Adventures and the first episode ‘No Place’ obviously with the tenth Doctor and his lovely companion Donna. But this time around we meet again with Donnas mom and grandpa Wilf. I really love Donna and I am so happy to have known adventures with her. I am not a big fan of her family but I still loved the episode were Donna interacts with them. Because it is always something.

Limited Edition

Before I talk a little about ‘No Place’ I want to talk about the Edition I bought. Obviously I bought again the limited edition. It is as beautiful as the other and has the same negative and positive aspects than the other two. In this limited edition you will get the three adventures of Donna and the Doctor. Than there is a Behind-the-Scenes Disc it is 1 hour 11 minuets long and also 50 minuet David Tennant at Big Finish Documentary.

Ghost House

So what to we have here. It is a classical horror story. We have a haunted house, a film crew that does ‘haunted makeovers’ and than we a loving family that wants to life there – or not. This lovely family is the Doctor and Donnas family. For this event they pretend that the Doctor and Donna are married. So do I really have to say more?

Did you see their faces

‘No Place’ is a great ghost story. It is fun to listen to them and you definitely can see their face in your mind, which is one of the reason I wish this would be a TV episode because the face are hilarious like the Doctor and Donna always were. It is a light story and mostly fun. What is better than a fun ghost story with these duo? Not much. So yeah go and get these adventures.

July 11

The Tenth Doctor Adventure: Cold Vengeance

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the Ice Warriors are going to wake up from the icy sleep in the last episode of the Tenth Doctor Adventures Box Set – Cold Vengeance. The Doctor and Rose lands on Coldstar which is a freezer satellite from the company Coldstar. There is no date given. But it takes places five hundred years after the ten-year war between the Ice Warriors and the Humans.

Meeting the pirates

Like I said before the Doctor and Rose lands on the Coldstar satellite where they meet space pirates and a refuse collector Lorna. Which for all we know could already enough for a whole story. But now the Ice Warriors are awaken and seek revenge for the war crimes of the humans.

Being apart

In every story before I said that there this lightness to all the stories. This is the darkest story so far in this Box Set. I think it is because most of the time the Doctor is with the Space Pirate and Ice Warriors. So Rose is with one Space pirate and the refuse collector. The lightness comes from how they act around each other. It is still not a dark story but darker than the rest.

Listing or not

Go listen to it. Isn’t that a surprise. This story is really good. We got good old Ice Warriors and really good characters like Lorna. The Doctor Rose know each other really good. They saved the day so often and they believe in them as a team and in their knowledge. That brings a lot of problems that could have been easier when they would stop talking and start listing. This is really amazing. Go and listen to the person that makes the Doctor listening.

July 4

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: The Sword of the Chevalier

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welcome to the second adventure of the second Tenth Doctor Adventure Box Set – The Sword of the Chevalier. Again Rose and the Doctor are visiting earth to be precise Slough 1791. This is a historical story or at least a story with historical figure the Chevalier d’Eon. The Chevalier d’Eon is an interesting character who lived the first 50 year as man and then at least for a time as a woman. Historian are not sure if he did it because he or she was actual transgender or if it was just a plot to live freely in France. In the Time the Chevalier lived as a man he was spy.

The spy and the alien hunters

The Doctor and Rose just want to have a nice time. Visit the Chevalier d’Eon and look through the big telescope and maybe get a little ice cream. But of course everything comes different when the Doctor sees a space ship form the space mafia. Rose and the Doctor tries to find the aliens and stumble of the Chevalier D’Eon again who accompany them to a costume party.

The problems with the Psychic paper

Again we have an adventure with the typical lightness. The Doctor get them into the party with the psychic paper. The problem with that is that the host believes that he is a Tenor and want the Doctor to perform. So Rose and the Chevalier searching for the aliens and the Doctor is working on his performance.

Listing to it or not

Go and listen to it. It is great fun and I really like the character of the Chevalier d’Eon. The Chevalier is an interesting character and harmonize with the other two perfectly. Also again there is the typical lightness to the adventure of the TV series. So it is so good to be back at the good times of Doctor Who.

June 28

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Infamy of the Zaross

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welcome to the second Volume of the Tenth Doctor Adventure and the first episode of it ‘Infamy of the Zaross’. This second set is obviously with the tenth Doctor and this time he is with Rose Tyler again. I love the combination so much. Rose and the Doctor were just fun. This story takes place in the present day on earth (2007 Norwich) so we have the pleasure of Jackie Tyler.

Special Box Set

The adventures of the tenth Doctor are available as separetly episodes or in the special box set. I of course have choosen the Box Set again. It is the same design as the first Box set. It includes 3 stories of Rose and the tenth Doctor. Also it includes a Behind the scene Disc and an exclusive Big Finish Documentary Disc.

Tenth Doctor Box Set 2
Tenth Doctor Box Set 2

Same as always

What is this story about. Jackie is taking a holiday at an old friend when an alien invasion happened. Same old, same old. Jackie phones Rose and of course the come and try to save the earth again. It is a story we heart and seen in a million ways before. Still it is fun. There is of course a nice twist in the story. But the story lives from the characters. The atmosphere is light and it makes you smile a lot. It is just like the series was with them.

Believing in your kids

In the background the story is about families and how much impact they have on the children. We see Jackie being not always eye to eye with Rose but she loves her and is really prude of her. In this story we see that she doesn’t like that Rose is not staying home but she never stops her. I love this relationship between them.
Jackies old friend on the other hand as not such relationship with her daughter. She always talks her down and compare her to her sister.

Listing or not

Definitely listing to it. As much as I love the dark and story Doctor Who or the sad ones. There is a ligthness to all the adventure with Rose and the Doctor that I missed a lot and Big Finish captured them in an amazing way. All of the tenth Doctor companions are so standing on the ground. Rose is just a normal girl. She could be everyone. There is nothing special about her. But she fights and never gives up and she loves traveling with the doctor. What makes her very special like everyone else. Rose is us.
There is also one scene at the end of the adventure were Rose is in a situation were she has to save someone and often we see people on TV make a whole speech about Life and his meaning. Rose just doesn’t. She struggles to find these words. She use so simple and obvious sentence. What makes it so pure. What makes it so real.

July 30

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Death and the Queen

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here we go with my favorite adventure in this Volume of the Tenth Doctor Adventures – Death and the Queen. Of course it is again the tenth Doctor and Donna Noble and plays in Goritania. It is not clear in what time it plays.

Donna and the man

Donna is such a strong character but she always tried to define herself above a man. So he got often used by them. Like Lance did in the christmas special. Here Donna is meeting a prince that fall in love with her and want to marry her.
All Donna always wished for. But the life is not what she wants. She has armee, glamour and will be a queen. But everything is just to much for her. A fairytale that for Donna is more than a nightmare but she never let any of that show to the Doctor.

Goodbyes

So Donna is struggling with her fairytale life and the Doctor with getting to get left again. First Rose and than Martha. Donna was the one he believed would stay with him. Because he didn’t fall in love with her and she didn’t fall for him. They are just best friends traveling together. So the Doctor hoped that she would stay. This Doctor is such an emotional person that can’t deal with loneliness.

Why i love them

Both are dealing with their typical problems in such a way that is so them. But the best thing is the way the Donna always saves the Doctor and everyone around her. She doesn’t believe in herself. She needs to define herself above man but in the end she is stronger than everyone. She is ready to protect her kingdom at all cost. Not much persons care so much for people and are ready to sacrifice so much for people she just shortly know.
For a person that define herself about man, she isn’t getting any shit for them. She does what he things is right and is always showing them into their border. She can fight that war on her own and would win.

Hopefully we will get a Volume 2 of The Tenth Doctor Adventures.

July 5

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Time Reaver

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here we go with the second adventure of the Tenth Doctor Adventures Vol 1 – Time Reaver. Of course this is the tenth Doctor and Donna who go and have another adventure. This adventure takes part in Calibris which is a space port. It is playing before the ‘Silence in the Library’. In the end of the story he tells her that her next stop should be the library.

What is going on?

A girl get lost and falls in the end of very bad aliens. It goes about a weapon that make a few seconds so much longer. It is like two seconds are two hours for the person. The girl is not the only victim of them. It is a terrible weapon and everyone seemed to want that weapon.
But also is this story like the story before. It is not what it seems. In the end there is something totally different go on with that weapon.

Relationship

Donna have a new way to shine in this story. I love Donna always the most when she shows us how she take care about the people around her. She is loud and direct but she really cares so much about everyone. Here we see her take care about the girl that got abducted. She doesn’t judge Cora for the stupid thing that she does. She understand her, what she wanted to archieve.

Spoilers – what weapon can do

This story is about two sides of the same coin. It is about what good can something do and what at the same time to more harm than good. A weapon that make out of seconds hours. The worst feeling when you are in pain but what happend if when you are happy – you are longer happy. Isn’t that a good thing when you know your time is counted? Is it worth the risk of some one using it for evil? The story reminds me of of the book we read in german lesson – the physicist.

I loved the first episode more but it is still a really good story. So listen to it. I try to write about the next and last adventure as soon as possible. It is my favorite story of the box.

June 9

The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Technophobia

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here i go with the first adventure of Big Finsih ‘The Tenth Doctor Adventures’ – Technophobia. It is not just the tenth Doctor but this adventures are the best team back together again. Donna and the tenth Doctor are just amazing together. Out of the three companions of the tenth Doctor is Martha my favorite but she never have that amazing chemestry like Donna and the Doctor had. So i am really happy to get more action of the both of them. But i wouldn’t say no to more adventures of Martha?!

Special Edition

I decided to buy the special edition of the volume one of ‘The Tenth Doctor Adventures’. The packaging is amazing. It has the size of a DVD box. The box is made out of a stable carton. The DVD shell itself is like a book. Actually it is a book.

Inside you find five DVD’s. Three of this DVD’s are the stories of the Box: Technophobia, Time Reaver and Death and the Queen. The other two are bonus material: The Tenth Doctor Adventures Documentary and a documentary about the Audio Adventures of Doctor Who. I don’t have listen to any of them yet, but i will and i will also let you know my thoughts about it.
But this is not all that is in that book. We also have forwords from Dan Starkey and Terry Molloy. Also thoughts about the three adventures and Director’s Notes from Nicholas Briggs and at last the Prodcuer’s Notes from David Richardson. The other pages are filled with pictures from the crew.

So i thing this limited Edition is worth his price. I really like it and i wish other boxes whould follow this example.

Meeting dream team again

The best about these two is that the were never romantically involved with each other. The are best friends traveling around and getting into mess. Of course this time is not different. They just want to visit a technology museum. The Story doesn’t play far in the future for Donna. It is set on Earth in 2011.
It doesn’t take long and Donna already made new friends. It is so much fun to listen to Donna acting. Donna is getting here the most action the Doctor is just figuring stuff out. The characters has a great chemestry and i Donna and Bex – she works in the museum. They bound with each other over their jobs as a temp – which is most likely. After i start working in the backery and sell stuff, i always bickering with other Sellers when i buy stuff.

Our greatest enemie

Something seems to go on in that museum and the robots and computers. What this story does it. It does take a really common story the robots and computer are turning against humans. But the have a new twist in it that the technology is totally fine and working the way they should. We depent so much on the technology these days and what happend when they turn against us. This time it is the humans the problem. Everyone get really frightend about technology. For someone who don’t know technology it must seems very frigthend.
I really like the story. It is fun and get me in a good mood to listen to it. Just like most of the episodes did when the don’t left me heartbroken.

So i have really high expections of the other two stories. Which will of course follow over the next to weeks.

June 4

New Plans…

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i am really sorry that i am so unrelaible this year. But this year doesn’t means it really well with me. Everytime i think things go back to normal they throw something else at me. My personal life is right now a really mess but i hope that now that i startet to go back on track i will be back for good.
So my new plans are obiviously watching and writing about ‘The Musketeers'(here: S01, S02 and S03x01). Hopefully the article will be on on monday.

I also started watching Scream the second season (here: S01). My comments can be read on tumblr on thuesday when i have the early shift and with the late shift on wednesday. I will write about the whole season after i watched the whole season.
In 29 days will start Dark Matter the second season (here: S01) and i will be watching. I don’t have decided yet if i will write something after every episode or after the whole season. You will see when it is time.

I don’t now which new series start so i don’t know if i will watch something else. Like always feel free to recommend something.
I also planed on watching the last episodes of Htgawm and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (here: S01, S02 and S03) – i will write a few words after i finished them. AoS is not meeting up with my exceptions and i really hate almost everything what happend in the second part of the season. For now it seems not like i will watch the fourth season after that but maybe it will surprise me. You can never know.

Htgawm was the second season weaker than the first but i think i will look in the third season what ever happends.

I already have listen to half of the second part of the war doctor (here: Box 1) and i plan on actually writing about them but before that i will write about the tenth doctor adventures box that is lying on my desk. It is an beautifull box and i will show you pictures of the box.

So i hope you are all still following me and feel free to ask whatever and ever you want – here or on tumblr: Whovianandtvseries.