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| What: | The Time Meddler (BBC classic series DVDs/Blu-rays) |
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| By: | Trevor Smith, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Sunday 24 February 2008 |
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| Rating: |  10 |
To Verity Lambert. A wonderful funny story.
i loved this book . it was great . READ IT.
A great and atmospheric collection. Good to have playing while you are on the computer doing crap. Some really amazing sounds on this one.
However, I was majorly disappointed that the amazing Cybermen theme from Tomb of the Cybermen is not on here. Can that be found anywhere else? For my money that is one of the most memorable pieces in Doctor Who music.
Great nonetheless
| What: | The Reign of Terror (BBC classic series videos) |
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| By: | Trevor Smith, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Monday 18 February 2008 |
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| Rating: |  9 |
And so the last Doctor Who episodes are relased. Well woth the wait.
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 | A Dr Who book with a difference |
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A sometimes funny, thought provocking & always intresting look at Dr Who. Highly reccomended.
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| Get this out on dvd soon please... |
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| What: | The Monster of Peladon (BBC classic series videos) |
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| By: | Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Monday 18 February 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
The Monster Of Peladon seems to come in for a lot of stick after the so called brilliant Curse, but to be frank i really dont like Curse at all, just far too bland a story for me, even though it is only four episodes long. The Monster Of Peladon, now here is real action and adventure for you. It may be not quite as overly atmospheric as Curse, but it is far far more watchable for me. This is the story i most want to see put on DVD next please. Dont leave it too long will you bbc?!
For a start all the characters are far better in this one, one of my fav one off appearances is Nina Thomas as Queen Thalira, i just love her voice. And she looks good too. Good old Aggedor is back for a return appearance too, which is great. Although sadly hes killed at the end. The miners crisis is portrayed really realistically. Alpha Centauri is a marvellous invention. And the ice warriors dont appear til half way through but the story is so good that that isnt a problem for this story. Everyone has a great amount of things to do. Sarah is really seeming to gel with the Doctor now, with some great dialogue shared between them. So this story is my third favourite after THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD and THE TWO DOCTORS. This is a massively entertaining romp full of intrigue and action that Curse really lacked. Great stuff.
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| An alien world for once... |
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| What: | Nekromanteia (Big Finish: The Monthly Adventures) |
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| By: | Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Monday 18 February 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
Some doctor whos suffer from being portrayed as set on alien worlds, but all the plots and people are so human like that the story would have been better set just on Earth. You dont always get a truly alien feel to the stories. Here is another great Big Finish story where for once you do feel like this place where the Doctor has landed is totally alien. Nekromanteia uses a few old score things, like witches and centaurs, but does it in animaginitive and fresh way. The cliffhanger to episode two really was quite disturbing too, and ups the tension as to how the good Doctor is going to get out of his predicament this time. A real cool classy cliffhanger if you ask me, one of the best in the whole big finish series. I love the fact that Erimem isnt another pushover and screamer. She is tough and acted wonderfully by Caroline Morris. She fits in so well with Peter and Nicola!!! This story is far more worthy of attention than some people give it. Scary stuff...
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| Yes, definitely more dark tales please.. |
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| What: | The Dark Flame (Big Finish: The Monthly Adventures) |
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| By: | Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Monday 18 February 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
I must say that I have always loved Doctor Who, but must confess to actually to never really being scared that much by any of the monsters, save the sea devils which scared me witless the first time i saw them. Some people like to be scared, im one of them! But Doctor Who has great sci fi yarns but never really any over scary stories. Big finish definitely remedy this with this story. I listened to it and thought it was flipping scary i can tell you. Dark sinister cults and an evil power that doesnt just say you will obey me all the time. This Doctor Who range from big finish has plenty of fresh and new ideas flowing through it, and The Dark Flame belongs in the list of the best actually in my opinion. The sound score is creepy as hell, everyone gets a lot to do and Sylvester Mccoy is on top form. Nice touch of dark humour and horror mix to make this one flipping good story. Definitely worthy of ten out of ten, and if you can be really be scared by a audio story, that shows how good it must be...
O'Mahoney very skillfully evokes the political, scientific and religious fervour, experimentation and ultimate dis-illusionment of seventeenth century England, and combines this with the best of science fiction time-twisting as the paranoia of the era is extended to and beyond its natural conclusion. The prose is dense, and at times a little overly-archaic (though amusingly so), but still very readable and frequently beautifully poetic. The book is packed full of twists, surprises and typical Faction-style confusingness. I would thoroughly recommend this book, although I know it will take me (at least) another read to be able to put even the largest pieces of the puzzle together.
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| I was bored to the heart! |
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| What: | Wooden Heart (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | antony, i've stopped kidding |
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| Date: | Sunday 17 February 2008 |
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| Rating: | 6 |
I tried! And then I tried again! And again! But i could not sit through this book! I kept putting it down (which is odd for me) and pcking it back up and putting it down! But the story just monotonously goes on and on!
I thought it was an ok book, very, very, very, very long and at times it felt like I was in the Broken Remote, trapped in an episode of The New Gods XXXVIII. A lot of things happened and then didn't happen and then never happened the same as before and time went backwards and a three-headed duck gave birth to an otter in Margate. Some king died another one came along to replace him. It was all mad stuff and lots of hints were dropped like cannon balls from a bridge onto a twenty car pile up. Then the book ended and the story didn't.
| What: | Sting of the Zygons (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | <>< face, go **** ur mum |
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| Date: | Sunday 10 February 2008 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
(PUN INTENDED) OK! So I'm a massive doctor who fan who knows all about the Silurians and the Sea Devils and the Zygons and the Sontarans! I know they are bringing back the Sontarans, but I didn't know whe I heard about a book that included one of the most famous old enemies! This one! I loved this book (though it could have been a tad more believable). The Zygons are the ultimate monsters from the past but it is just ever so slightly minorly confusing! Worth reading though!
This is the best years tape ever. Hosted by the best Doctor how could things get any better? Oh, yes it did! A great theme song!
| What: | The Time Meddler (BBC classic series DVDs/Blu-rays) |
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| By: | Matt, Aylesbury |
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| Date: | Saturday 9 February 2008 |
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| Rating: | 9 |
A wonderful little story, with two very mischievous Time Lords (although we don't know that!!). It's a fresh change of story for the series and time suddenly becomes a way of getting the characters to a story - something which is used throughout afterwards..
Good book. Clockwork thngs and an evil plot revolving around Big Ben! Is it me or do aliens just love doing something that involves Big Ben! The Slitheen blast a dirty great big hole in it in Aliens of London and now this!
| What: | The Nightmare of Black Island (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | i've got 2 on pirate loop , and I am a dalek so *farting noise* |
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| Date: | Wednesday 6 February 2008 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
WOOOOOOOH! MESA IMPRESSED! The story is brilliant and it features some of the best Doctor Who monsters of all time! As well as the Daleks, the Slitheen and the Nestene Consciousness! WOW!
| What: | I am a Dalek (Quick Reads books) |
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| By: | hello, hello |
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| Date: | Wednesday 6 February 2008 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
Ok! As one of the biggest book fans in HISTORY, I don't really read smaller books like this 1. But when I got further in, I couldn't put it down. For such a small book it really is absolutely brilliant. The idea of the "dalek factor" is brilliant and it just rulz as a story. RECCOMENDED!
Have to say this is the first of the unbound audios I've listened to and I was blown away, this is incredible stuff.
It really makes you long for Geoffrey Bayldon to do more, as he takes Hartnell's character and runs with it, not too much to ruin the memory, not so little it becomes impersonation.
The production is superb, the plot gripping, the story involved...marks merely removed from a perfect for the slightly convoluted 1st half of the 3rd episode. but this is fantastic stuff.
this book was very good a hope trevor baxendale writes a another book .
| What: | The Art of Destruction (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | poop, pooptown |
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| Date: | Saturday 2 February 2008 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
if i was to describe it in one word, i would say EH? it's confusing ad the wurms are just plain freaky. The overall story could ahe been clearer. But a good book. worth reading!
