Doctor Who:
The Sands of Life
By Nicholas Briggs
The Doctor and Romana are
traveling along when Romana hears voices.
The Doctor doesn’t hear them and Romana claims they are saying The Sands
of Life. The voices really bug her as
she wishes she could determine what they mean.
Meanwhile aliens are heading to earth and have destroyed a space
platform owned by Cuthbert who is a powerful Earth CEO of the Conglomerate who
is feared and has lots of power and influence on Earth and who many see as the
true ruler of Earth and not Earth’s President Sheridan Moorkurk.
What’s worse is The Laan have
decided to have their babies in the desert on Earth. It appears the voices Romana is hearing and
now The Doctor is coming from The Laan.
In particular the Laan that is giving birth on Earth. That is not satisfactory to Cuthbert as he
wants to destroy it for destroying his space platform and if The Doctor and
Romana don’t come up with a solution Earth will be at war with The Laan.
At first I thought this
story would have a jumbled finish as there was a lot going on to be resolved in
one 72 minute adventure on one disk. But
then I was pretty surprised to find out that this story ended on a cliffhanger. That was pretty cool as this was in fact
disk one of a two disk story. So disk
one has episodes 1 to 3 and disk two will be out in March and hopefully it will
have a pretty good ending to go with a pretty decent first part.
I liked how this story centered
more on Romana and gave Mary Tamm a bigger part to flex her acting prowess and
add something more to her version of Romana.
It makes me sad thinking that these are it for her since she passed away
last year. I’m glad the people at Big
Finish gave her the chance to expand on the character by writing her better
than she was portrayed on TV.
David Warner guest stars
in The Sands of Life and delivers a great performance as always. It will be good to see him in a televised
story this year when Series 7 continues. Tom
Baker is great as well and at 80 years old it’s amazing that he still can step
into the role as The Doctor and sound like he did back in the 70’s when he was
the mainstay.
The story so far is a
pretty good mystery and hopefully the next part will be just as good as the
first part. There was a lot of action to
get through which is quite a turn for Big Finish as they usually do not feature
that much action. I enjoyed this story
so far and loved what they did with the characters and am looking forward to
seeing how everything is resolved.
Grade B
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