Sarah Gale makes her only Doctor Who appearance as Rosa, and she's another actress with quite a bad American accent. He a played by Burt Kwouk, who also appeared in the TV story Four to Doomsday and the Bond film Goldfinger. Happy to see Big Finish going for a little variation with their cast and cast an Asian actor for Hayashi. There's just too much detail for this format and many parts of the story turn feel muddled as a result. I like his way of thinking and utilising old concepts in a new casing, but some of his writing just didn't translate very well in dramatized format. What's more, it's written by Marc Platt (not the Hollywood producer), who wrote Ghost Light in XX as well as Spare Parts, the universally beloved Big Finish audio drama from XX. Rosa the werewolf hunter is like drawn straight from Supernatural of Buffy. Much of the story feels like something you wouldn't see on Doctor Who. There's also plenty of backstories given, linking the events of 2080s Brazil with events hundreds of years earlier elsewhere on the planet. I also like the way werewolves have been handled here, in a different way from the norm. South-America is so underutilized as a setting on televised Who, its great to see it represented in the Extended Universe. I like the way the story connects different points in time and space for its central narrative but focuses on a future Brazil. A slightly too long and fast-paced lupine adventure is a fine moment for the Fifth Doctor and Turlough, while fascinatingly bringing werewolves into the Doctor Who universe.
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