Doctor Who And The Pyramids Of Mar-A-Lago

Will the Doctor sue tech?

“Serve me truly, and an Empire can be yours.” - Sutekh to the Doctor in Doctor Who: Pyramids Of Mars in 1975. I’ve already pointed the way as to Sutekh being the big bad of the new series of Doctor Who, But what of Pyramids Of Mars might have been set up in recent episodes of Doctor Who, ahead of the upcoming The Legend Of Ruby Sunday and The Empire Of Death?

We mentioned how Michael Sheard who appeared in that serial, had multiple roles as different characters across Doctor Who’s run, just as Susan Twist has in the current series.

Sinister background organ music is revealed as being diagetic, being played in the Priory building that preceded UNIT, just as the music in the Devil’s Chord was, identified and called out by the Doctor.

Sarah Jane Smith finds and wears Victoria's dress in the TARDIS wardrobe - as the show moves on and away from UNIT, the Doctor ruminating on being a Time Lord, it retains a mention from ten years previously.

As we mentioned, just as in the Devil’s Chord, the Doctor shows his companion the present day as an apocalyptic wasteland, if a threat from the past is not dealt with.

Michael Sheard: “So a man can change the course of history?”

Tom Baker: “To a small extent. It takes a being of Sutekh’s almost limitless power to destroy the future,”

And that has been a central theme of this series. The Doctor invoking superstition at the edge of the universe opened up supernatural threats across time and space including goblins, bogeymen, fairy circles, changelings and creatures like the Maestro.

But it has also enabled changes to be made in time by anyone. Donna gets the word gravity to be changed to mavity, even on the readings on the Space Babies spaceship. Ruby Sunday changes the human race to an insectoid fascist hive by stepping on a butterfly, which the Doctor brings back to life. History can and will be changed far more easily than before. Everything is up in the air.

Then there are the triangles and the number 3. The technology company that builds computers for UNIT, Triad, in The Giggle, and on bus adverts in the Church on Ruby Road (which has a triangle in its logo). All leading to the Pyramids.

Not even the Time Lords could defeat Sutekh, just 740 of his fellow Osirian gods. Might that have made him too powerful for the Celestial Toymaker? What chance will the Doctor have this time against Sutekh, the One Who Waits and who waited thousands of years in the tombs, and seven thousand years in the time corridor, with the power of the gods?

The Doctor versus a being of unimaginable power who has manifested himself as a tech bro on modern-day Earth? Also, compare the sound that Sutekh makes when his head invades the TARDIS…

And the groaning sound that the TARDIS has been making all season.

Sutekh has been in, or trying to get into the TARDIS all season long. And naturally, the idea of a powerful being returning despite all attempts to stop him, swearing vengeance, with only an old, seemingly ineffectual person to stop him, has nothing to do with the current political situation in the USA, right? Just as long as no one tells Ike Perlmutter, the largest single shareholder in Disney and Trump’s biggest donor, right?