Post by matthewsee on Apr 23, 2012 21:54:25 GMT -5
Snow Blind is the second episode of the second season of Big Finish’s Sarah Jane Smith audio series.
Released in February 2006 and written by David Bishop.
I listened to Snow Blind almost three years after listening to the previous episode Buried Secrets in 2009.
It has taken me this long to finally get Snow Blind so the fact that I listened to it before, during and after the first anniversary of Lis Sladen’s passing on April 19 2012 was merely a coincidence.
Snow Blind takes place in Antarctica (the setting of which is indicated by the story’s title) and of course Sarah has been in Antarctica before in Seeds of Doom, something that is alluded to by Sarah in Snow Blind. Seeds of Doom itself has been said to be a rip-off of The Thing and coincidentally I have been watching the 2011 version of The Thing whilst listening to Snow Blind. So The Thing has influenced my thinking of Snow Blind’s setting.
While the “snow” part of the title is a reminder of Sarah’s previous visit to Antarctica in Seeds of Doom, the “blind” part is undoubtedly a reminder of Sarah being in that state in Brain of Morbius.
Along with Jeremy James as Sarah’s own companion Josh Townsend, Snow Blind also featured Tom Chadbon as Will Sullivan, Harry’s stepbrother who was introduced in the previous episode Buried Secrets and Big Finish and Doctor Who TV series stalwart Nick Briggs.
Here Briggs plays Gideon Munro and he must have a liking to the name Gideon since he had played a Gideon Crane in the Eighth Doctor story Minuet In Hell.
Despite Sarah’s return to Antarctica, Snow Blind is not a sequel to Seeds of Doom. It is instead its own good little mystery of what went on with the base personnel.
The main plot of Snow Blind is complemented well with the news bulletin which reported on what went on in Antarctica and among other things a millionaire (played by Blake’s 7 alum Stephen Greif) going into space. The millionaire briefly appeared in Buried Secrets and again here in Snow Blind and I suspect his part in Sarah Jane Smith season 2 story arc would be expanded on later on.
The final scene featuring another Blake’s 7 alum Jacqueline Pearce provides the story’s biggest shock of all.
Released in February 2006 and written by David Bishop.
I listened to Snow Blind almost three years after listening to the previous episode Buried Secrets in 2009.
It has taken me this long to finally get Snow Blind so the fact that I listened to it before, during and after the first anniversary of Lis Sladen’s passing on April 19 2012 was merely a coincidence.
Snow Blind takes place in Antarctica (the setting of which is indicated by the story’s title) and of course Sarah has been in Antarctica before in Seeds of Doom, something that is alluded to by Sarah in Snow Blind. Seeds of Doom itself has been said to be a rip-off of The Thing and coincidentally I have been watching the 2011 version of The Thing whilst listening to Snow Blind. So The Thing has influenced my thinking of Snow Blind’s setting.
While the “snow” part of the title is a reminder of Sarah’s previous visit to Antarctica in Seeds of Doom, the “blind” part is undoubtedly a reminder of Sarah being in that state in Brain of Morbius.
Along with Jeremy James as Sarah’s own companion Josh Townsend, Snow Blind also featured Tom Chadbon as Will Sullivan, Harry’s stepbrother who was introduced in the previous episode Buried Secrets and Big Finish and Doctor Who TV series stalwart Nick Briggs.
Here Briggs plays Gideon Munro and he must have a liking to the name Gideon since he had played a Gideon Crane in the Eighth Doctor story Minuet In Hell.
Despite Sarah’s return to Antarctica, Snow Blind is not a sequel to Seeds of Doom. It is instead its own good little mystery of what went on with the base personnel.
The main plot of Snow Blind is complemented well with the news bulletin which reported on what went on in Antarctica and among other things a millionaire (played by Blake’s 7 alum Stephen Greif) going into space. The millionaire briefly appeared in Buried Secrets and again here in Snow Blind and I suspect his part in Sarah Jane Smith season 2 story arc would be expanded on later on.
The final scene featuring another Blake’s 7 alum Jacqueline Pearce provides the story’s biggest shock of all.