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Jun 2024
7:21pm, 15 Jun 2024
21,654 posts
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Chrisull
Pyramids of Mars!
I am so here for folk horror Doctor Who.
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Jun 2024
7:37pm, 15 Jun 2024
5,174 posts
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Elsie Too
The Legend of Ruby Sunday
Quality Dr who is back 
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Jun 2024
7:53pm, 15 Jun 2024
21,656 posts
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Chrisull
Oh Pyramids of Mars I'm remembering now, Sutekh and the Tardis have big history. Uh oh, Tom Baker struggling to control the Tardis, could have repercussions here for Ncuti. Think maybe time to rewatch the whole original set of episodes.
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Jun 2024
7:59pm, 15 Jun 2024
5,176 posts
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Elsie Too
We’re watching pyramids of mars now.
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Jun 2024
11:21pm, 15 Jun 2024
1,164 posts
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Weath
The Target novelisation of Pyramids of Mars was my introduction to Dr Who, way back in 1981.
Read it in an afternoon at my grandmother's over the school holidays. Went out the following day and bought copies of The Claws of Axos and The Horror of Fang Rock.
Somewhere along the line I managed to build up the entire collection of Target and Virgin Missing Adventures, plus a lot of the Past Doctor books and New Adventures. All now sat unloved in box somewhere in the house ... 🤣
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Jun 2024
7:40pm, 22 Jun 2024
21,685 posts
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Chrisull
And then Russell T Davies fluffs his lines with a wholly incoherent ending that somehow fails to tie up any of the threads in a satisfactory way. I forgot his setpieces ended so often in disappointment.
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Jun 2024
8:44pm, 22 Jun 2024
68,627 posts
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LindsD
I liked it and it made me cry. Made zero sense though. Loved the 'cultural appropriation' line.
I remember Pyramids of Mars. It gave me nightmares.
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Jun 2024
11:37pm, 22 Jun 2024
21,687 posts
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Chrisull
I liked what he was trying to do, my son was ranting at it , he was going it was half a great episode and half RTD being RTD. And cursing himself for being taken in by it. I think he wanted a plot that made sense to him.
But so many questions - like why couldn't they see her face (from UNIT to Sutekh), why 73 yards, what's with the most dangerous PM, did the strings in 73 yard somehow echo the cables holding the tardis together, why would her mum who dumped her 19 years ago, and never made contact somehow be her best friend, why would she want to be throwing in the Dr Who life to find a father who was "a real bad un", the doctor's granddaughter - who why how, and most importantly how does death cancel death to create life? My son pointed out the ending to the original Pyramid of Mars was also lame lol...It felt like cake-ism this one though.
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Jun 2024
8:03am, 23 Jun 2024
5,192 posts
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Elsie Too
I think the “real bad un” was her birth mums dad, not her bio dad.
But I agree, lots of loose ends that didn’t get properly explained.
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Jun 2024
8:06am, 23 Jun 2024
68,635 posts
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LindsD
Ah yes. Correct.
I think 73 yards is meant to be a distance at which you can see someone but not recognise their features. I read an interview w RTD where he said he measured it on a pier somewhere.
I found the whole pointing naming thing ridiculous.
Was also distracted by the fact that the actor playing her birth mother was the drug dealer in The Responder.
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