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  (MAIN RANGE): Recovery This Story Stars Elizabeth Olsen as The Twenty Second Doctor and Gillian Jacobs as Paige Chapter One There's a train to nowhere on the planet Chalthelterioux.  Everyone gets on in one place, of course. Right next to the spaceport, there's a little wooden hut like one of those old things you see in Western movies where you buy your ticket, and then you hop onto the Train, and it goes off, infinitely in one direction. The train tracks never stop, as far as you can look ahead, and the train never runs out of gas, but it also never returns. It just keeps going on and on, quite literally, forever. It's an impossible train that goes along infinitely. (Which of course, should be impossible, but it goes on quite well, and never crosses the same place twice.) An impossible train. An impossible planet, and it's always filled to the brim. Any time you want to go for a ride, (and it's quite a decision as you'll be going till the end of your days,) S...

NCBBDAS: A Shooting Star This Story Stars Brenda Blethyn as The Twenty Seventh Doctor and Ted Danson as Calvin Chapter One Calvin woke up one day to find a blue telephone box lying in his bedroom, and a strange woman sitting in his chair eating a packet of crisps (or chips) (Or whatever the fuck) sitting there quite happily to herself.  "Ah, you've awaked. How's that?" She said, coming over to him and adjusting his pillows. "I know you'll be awfully confused and all of that, but before you ask any questions, love, I think it'd be awfully good of you to get some food in. Breakfast in Bed, okay?"  Calvin sat there in his bed, oddly comfortable, but certainly speechless.  The woman got up, and went over to the other side of his apartment (It was all one room) and began to open the fridge and grabbing a pot out of the cabinet, humming to herself.  "Um, who are you?" Calvin asked, incredibly confused.  "Look, mate. I'm making you up som...

  Oops I made the real timeline Golly it's nice isn't it 

(MAIN RANGE): Timeship In A Bottle This Story Stars David Thewlis as The Doctor and Sir Patrick Stewart as Roman Chapter One "UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"  The timeship, once owned by the Celestial Toymaker, was folding in on itself. The Walls were Bending like rubber, and the ship rotated into the plane of zero gravity.  "Fine mess, you've got me into, Doctor!" Roman yelled.  "I told you the singularity would consume the ship, Roman." The Doctor called. "Did you honestly think that meant it wouldn't crash?"  "I don't know! I've never been in a ship consumed by a singularity in it's warp core before!" "Liar!"  Space and Time rotated in upon itself. The Ship's Internal Gravity ceased to work, and The Doctor and Roman began to float up into the time-distorted walls. Roman got somewhat emotional. "Well, if I die here, it'll be a nice old paradox. You live, obviously, b...

  MAIN RANGE: The Defilers of Plot This Story Stars Tom Baker as The Fourth Doctor and Jane Slavin as WPC Ann Kelso If you don't know who Ann is, it doesn't fucking matter, picture generic companion as I'm not going deep into backstory. Chapter One The TARDIS dematerialized into a transdimensional place beyond reality.  "Hmm, dear me." Said The Doctor, stepping out of the TARDIS. "Reality seems to be broken here, Ann."  "Doctor!" Ann said, stepping out beside him. "My legs are now Jam!"  Her legs were indeed, raspberry jam. "Well, that's not my fucking fault is it?" asked The Doctor, tossing his scarf behind his shoulder. "Reality doesn't exist here," he said, waving his hand through the trillions of atoms that were also Frogs. "I'm sure you'll be fine." They began walking through the Aether. "Something deadly serious has happened here, WPC Kelso. Reality doesn't decide to take a ...

NCJDDAS: The Living Doubt Featuring A Doctor From Arbrax  Previously On Doctor Who... The Celestial Toymaker, over the course of about six stories, had began a plan to decimate and kill the Doctor with more flare than anyone else had dared to try before. Shame Cherry shot him in the head, then this finale might have had some direction to it. Jeff, a random Janitor, was assigned by the Black Guardian to continue the Toymaker's plans, and he's probably going to do that now. Meanwhile, The Doctor has recently encountered two of her past selves, and they're gonna be important, I think. But what's really important is The (confusingly named) War Chief, a new incarnation of the Master, who is up and kicking about, and seems to have a plan all her own.  But as the season comes to a close, Cherry, Roman and The Doctor arrive at the 1920s of New York, trying to pick up Cherry's girlfriend, Marsha.  I sure hope that Marsha isn't going to be incredibly confused by the large...

  Colditz by Steve Lyons When you think about Doctor Who, you think about Daleks. And when you think about those, you indirectly are thinking about the Nazis. The thing is, because of that, the avenues for a Nazi story, are actually fairly slim. We already get the grating screaming dictators every other week. It's just an allegory, and a fairly good one. It's why stories like Genesis of The Daleks work so well. So, you'd need a fairly good tale to actually dip into our own disgusting history, and make it worth it, to make it important to listen to. I'm not really sure Colditz does that. Colditz isn't a bad story, no. It's just one of those classic ones that fail to hold my attention. This one feels overlong, and it's dark without too much of a narrative purpose, it gives it's best material to Ace and Klein, while at the same time, even though it points out the horrors of war and whatnot, and clearly makes the Nazis terrible, miserable people, it fails t...

  Funnily Enough, This Dalek Story is not Written by Nick Briggs You can't tell The Genocide Machine by Mike Tucker The Genocide Machine is such a ordinary Dalek flick you wouldn't be bothered by the masses if you confused it with The Mutant Phase, Time of The Daleks, Energy of The Daleks, Dalek Contract, Blood of The Daleks, Only The Monsterous, they don't make a lot of them when you compare the Dalek output to Big Finish output, but even if you aren't looking for them, they definitely sneak up behind your back in most Big Finish audio series. After a while, Terry Nation found problems writing Dalek stories, they all turned out rather similar to eachother, and to be honest, from Genesis on, they were either Davros stories where Daleks where peripheral, or they needed a brilliant writer like Robert Shearman to really show you what they can do. My favorite Dalek stories are from the RTD era, because after Rob Shearman introduced them so damn well, they hold onto that thr...

An Abridged Look at the Series. Certain Episodes I Don't Really Think I Have Much To Add On (Mostly the average ones, like Small Worlds) Are Excluded Everything Changes Torchwood, as a series, is the ultimate guilty pleasure. No, the start isn't very good...Well, Everything Changes, this one is fine, but then on, for most of Season One it flounders, attempting to decide what to be. But by Season Two, it really understands what works, and delivers one of the best tv seasons ever, and I am not emotionally qualified to talk about Season Three. As a pilot, Everything Changes is clever. It shows you the world of grit that this really astoundingly real Cardiff setting of the show, and when you see five people in leather longcoats getting out of a black van to investigate a body, you think you know exactly what kind of show this'll be. (This may depend on what kind of person you are, some of you may just break down laughing at the cliches) And then they show the Weevil. Up until t...