#the pyramids of mars

[paintdoktahwho]

would solve a lot of problems i bet

[flamingoplinko]

When disaster comes, he's there. He brings a storm in his wake.

[notyoujamie]

There is the Toymaker, the god of games. There is Trickster, the god of traps. There is the Mara, the god of beasts. And the threefold deity of malice and mischief and misery. And standing on high is the mother and father and other of them all. And his one true name forevermore is... Sutekh.

#two down two to go?

[deathdefyinggarlic]

me texting everyone i know tonight

[gallifreyanhotfive]

God. Guys, you have NO idea how much this means to me. The Pyramids of Mars is the first Doctor Who episode I remember watching when I was about 3 years old. I had watched it before then, but I was too young to remember any of it. Sutekh is the first Doctor Who villain I can remember watching.

I'm just sitting back in awe right now. Never thought I'd see them on screen again. But...I'm soft.

[buildoblivion]

[myiliterallyhavenolifegoals]

my smug ass opening the gc to explain the pyramids of mars to the nuwho girlies

[dandelionjack]

sutekh was a fantastic villain in 1975. sutekh was a compelling and frightening antagonist for one serial. it’s okay that his motivation was just “destroy everything, i hate all living things”because he was only around for one serial before tom baker sealed him in a temporal sarcophagus forever. and it should have stayed that way, with the exception of, maybe, a few big finish excursions, since they love to reanimate the corpses of dead characters.

sutekh is NOT a compelling enough villain to be refitted as the big bad of a nuwho series. “kill everyone now” is the most generic motivation a bad guy can have. “i bring death” ok what else do you bring? do you represent anything? do you have any subtextual value, do you have symbolic meaning beyond “lol, die everyone because i said so, i’m an evil egyptian god”. there’s no substance to him, nothing deeper. a character like the master is practically made of substance, his history and the doctor’s are entwined from the start and that’s what makes him so fascinating as a threat, but even lesser iconic villains — daleks, cybermen, weeping angels, ood, the silence, the great intelligence, the fucking fisher king from before the flood — all have complex and intriguing motives and philosophies of their own. okay, maybe not the angels, but they represent something. they stand in for a concept (in the case of angels, for example, the very meta concept of being glued to your screen, physically unable to look away).

what does sutekh stand in for? he’s just death. he wants all life gone. that’s not interesting, that’s not exciting beyond the scope of one serial or one episode. he’s not nuwho material, he’s definitely not nuwho finale material. you may as well just plop the grim reaper there, scythe and all, go full torchwood (derogatory), instead of embracing the dated, orientalist egyptian imagery russell has insisted on doubling down on. i’m feeling pessimistic. i’d really been hoping for the “stuck-in-a-tv-show” theory to be proven right. how naïve of me.

[an-american-whovian]

The Doctor reflects on beating Sutekh | Tales of the Tardis FULL

[clara-oswald-and-the-whos]

Space Babies didn’t just parallel Rose with the cell phone. The Devil’s Chord parallels the Pyramids of Mars.

In that episode Sarah Jane insist to the fourth Doctor that the world didn’t end in the early 1900s. So he takes her forward in time to see how if they don’t stop the bad guy in the past the future will be wrecked. Same as he does for Ruby in the Devil’s Chord.

I hadn’t seen anyone on tumblr mention it and I have no doubt RTD knew the reference he was making.

[dream-beyond-the-fantasy]

Okay, that was an awesome part 1 to the Doctor Who season finale. Damn it! Why do we have to wait another week?! But I can't wait!

I freaking loved that Susan Foreman was a red herring, Susan Triad was a trap, and The One Who Waits is Sutekh from "The Pyramids of Mars" which had been referenced earlier in the season. I think I actually do remember reading a rumor/spumor about Sutekh returning. I love them connecting to Classic Who in this way.

[biggest12fan]

save me sarah jane save me

[shot-in-the-sky]

I like the opening of Sarah and the Doctor in Pyramids of Mars because it’s goes like:

The Doctor: I hate my job, I hate UNIT, I hate my life, I am an eternal advanced being, fml, the Brigadier can’t tell me what to do

Sarah-Jane: Stop complaining and just quit already, no one will stop you.

I relate to both the Doctor and Sarah Jane so much in this situation.

[lady-stefania-of-chaol-ghleann]

What if we always knew?...

[kert-rats]

[Sarah Jane Smith saying: "But he didn't, did he? I mean we know the world didn't end in 1911"]

[Ruby Sunday saying to the Doctor: "The world did not end in 1963"]

[The Doctor saying to Sahra Jane: "1987, if you wanna get off."]

[The Doctor saying to Ruby: "2024. I've brought you home."]

[Sarah Jane and Laurence Scarman both with a shocked expression.]

[Ruby looking at a destroyed London.]