At the end of the first series. The Cybermen were bought back in an epic two parter. This year there is another epic story that brings back someone who like the Zygons earlier in the series only made one appearance on the television. Morbius and the Sisterhood of Karn made their only contribution to the series back in The Brain of Morbius back in 1976. Unlike Human Resources in series one, the final two episodes had their own title which makes things mirror the new series where two parters are given individual title names.
The first part Sisters of the Flame is quite short on the Doctor. Lucie is paired up with Rosto who is quite amusingly a very tall centipede. This combination actually worked quite well and it was surprisingly enjoyable to see Lucie paired up with someone else. This story also sees the return of Time Lord Straxus who appeared in Human Resources last year. The character of Straxus is what you would expect a Time Lord to be like. He is added to this story presumably for comedy effect. We are given a new spin on the whole Morbius/Karn story by being introduced to Zarodnix who is the leader of the Cult of Morbius who has just bought Karn which has got the Time Lords worry. The cliffhanger isnt the best that Big Finish have done. Essentially the Doctor and Lucie are placed inside a dispersal chamber. Now even a new fan would recognise that neither the Doctor or Lucie are going to come a cropper because of this so why bother.
Sheridan Smith was very good in this story, she was better than in the previous story. Being separated from the Doctor was a something that the character was needed and Smith worked very well with Alexander Siddig. Alexander Siddig was a master choice as Rosto. Having seen him recently in 24 it was quite surprising to see him appear in a Big Finish play. Nikolas Grace is someone that has a fine voice for radio and being the TV junkie that I am recognise him from his stint in House of Cards. Paul McGann was good in this story, his involvement of this story was limited but one does suspect that he might make up for it in the next story.
As the first in a two part story it is clearly a plot builder with the pay-off coming in the next story. If you view it as a single story then it certainly lacks a bit of pace and not much really get sorted. However it shouldn’t be reviewed as a single story so as far as I am concerned this is a good story.
The first part Sisters of the Flame is quite short on the Doctor. Lucie is paired up with Rosto who is quite amusingly a very tall centipede. This combination actually worked quite well and it was surprisingly enjoyable to see Lucie paired up with someone else. This story also sees the return of Time Lord Straxus who appeared in Human Resources last year. The character of Straxus is what you would expect a Time Lord to be like. He is added to this story presumably for comedy effect. We are given a new spin on the whole Morbius/Karn story by being introduced to Zarodnix who is the leader of the Cult of Morbius who has just bought Karn which has got the Time Lords worry. The cliffhanger isnt the best that Big Finish have done. Essentially the Doctor and Lucie are placed inside a dispersal chamber. Now even a new fan would recognise that neither the Doctor or Lucie are going to come a cropper because of this so why bother.
Sheridan Smith was very good in this story, she was better than in the previous story. Being separated from the Doctor was a something that the character was needed and Smith worked very well with Alexander Siddig. Alexander Siddig was a master choice as Rosto. Having seen him recently in 24 it was quite surprising to see him appear in a Big Finish play. Nikolas Grace is someone that has a fine voice for radio and being the TV junkie that I am recognise him from his stint in House of Cards. Paul McGann was good in this story, his involvement of this story was limited but one does suspect that he might make up for it in the next story.
As the first in a two part story it is clearly a plot builder with the pay-off coming in the next story. If you view it as a single story then it certainly lacks a bit of pace and not much really get sorted. However it shouldn’t be reviewed as a single story so as far as I am concerned this is a good story.
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