Doctor Who:
The Roots of Evil
By Philip Reeve
The Doctor and Leela land
on a space station that is actually a tree. The Heligan is a type of tree that
will produce enough oxygen to terraform a planet and make it habitable. Apparently The Doctor has been to this particular
tree before as it knows him and imprisons the TARDIS with its limbs. It appears The Doctor has been here before
and if he returns he will be executed. In
fact the tree is so riled up that it’s sending out killer spores that seem to
be killing the inhabitants of the tree just to get at The Doctor. So it’s up to The Doctor and Leela to find
out how to stop the killer tree spores and find out why everyone hates The
Doctor so much.
I enjoyed this short story
from The 50th Anniversary short stories by Penguin publishing. This one has action packed and had a good
mystery to it. I enjoyed finding out why
The Doctor was so hated and when I found out which one of his future selves was
the cause it made totally sense. But the
reason he is hated turned out to be different than what the inhabitants were
told and well you just have to read for yourself.
This story had the feel of
a Tom Baker era story and it also got the characterization right also. I liked the fact the author used Leela as she
is not used that much in books and comics so it was good to see her get some
representation in the literature world.
In fact it had a good feel to it and was pretty interesting that I read
The Roots of Evil in one sitting. . It was the most action packed of the four
stories so far and you had to love the running away from the monster story
which brought its own brand of excitement. I really enjoyed this one and next
to The Spear of Destiny this one was kept the winning streak going. Bring on the 5th Doctor story.
Grade A-
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