Pyramids of Mars

[Craig @craig Emperor]

Just for fun. I hope this works. Welcome to Sutekh, for those who don’t know. And if you really don’t know, welcome to Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor.

This is a summary just posted by the BBC.

Full episodes below. Those in the UK can watch these on iPlayer.

[blenkinsopthebrave @blenkinsopthebrave]

Thank you @craig! You are a benevolent Emperor.

The perfect preparation for the upcoming finale.

[Craig @craig Emperor]

Cheers @blenkinsopthebrave Enjoy.

[ScaryB @scaryb]

Oh WOW!!

Seconding @blenkinsopthebrave‘s comment.

All hail our mighty emperor! 😀

Thank you @craig

[ps1l0v3y0u @ps1l0v3y0u]

Pyramids of Mars… what is exactly so cool?

1. Not sure if it was mariner 9’s relatively detailed pictures of the martian surface (1971) that revealed the martian ‘pyramid’ – or if that happened later, when ‘the face’ (that wasn’t) was discovered (1976), at least a year after writing. Pink Floyd had a Pyramid poster issued with Dark Side of the Moon in 1974; something must have sparked the creativity of Holmes and/or Greifer. Has anyone written about this?

2. This is probably the first (pseudo) historical that indicated that history might be rewritten. The Meddling Monk was thwarted in 1066, and several monsters have been delivered to Loch Ness as a result of alien activity, while a few Great Fires of London have been started, just in case one went out maybe.

3. Doctor 4 is effectively defeated several times. Sarah is given great responsibility and performs her task admirably but to no avail. There is an impossible issue involving some rather ludicrous logical puzzles (this was a much simpler age) which Sarah compares to The City of the Exxilons in Death to the Daleks from 1974. This is very weird cos she was never there. I’m sure 3 told her everything during long winter nights.

4. The death count is truly marvellous; bettered only by Seeds of Doom later in the same season. But as the Cult of Skaro might point out, better only in that aspect. Mary Whitehouse snapped her pencil in fury.

5. Sutekh’s jackal face reveal, long delayed, is quite terrifying.

[Mudlark @mudlark]

I join @blenkinsopthebrave  and @scaryb in thanking you, @craig  for opening this thread. It has prompted me to go to iPlayer and start a re-watch – so far just the first two episodes. It must be more than a decade since I last saw it, on some obscure TV channel, and it’s good to be reminded of the details.

If I was being judgemental I would say that Scarman’s fate was the penalty for poor professional conduct on an excavation – but I’ll make allowances for the generally lax standards in 1911.

Egyptology of the earlier decades of the 20th century has a certain nostalgic appeal to me. My paternal grandfather was a forensic chemist who worked for the Medico-Legal branch of the Police Department in Cairo in the 1920s and 30s, and he knew most of the archaeologists working there at the time. In fact his boss did a lot of the preliminary conservation work on the finds from Carter’s excavation of Tutankhamen’s tomb. Not really relevant, I know, except that it may explain why I’m a sucker for this kind of hokum. Maybe it even influenced my choice of career; who knows/nose.

 

[syzygy @thane16]

@mudlark very interesting.  🧐 All I could recognise was a ….fez.

Thane again….

[syzygy @thane16]

“So Set was killed by Horus, god of light…”

“The world is facing the greatest peril in its history. The forces being summoned into corporeal existence are more powerful and more dangerous than anything even I have encountered.”

We never saw PoM, so this is fun homework (is there any other kind?)

thanks Craig! -PuroandSon

[Craig @craig Emperor]

As this is a bit of fun. I was watching Tom Baker and I realised I’ve kinda copied his style. I just need a scarf.

I volunteer feeding the homeless and those in food poverty every Friday and Sunday night. The organisation is called Streets Kitchen. We do about 100 hot meals a night. Plus sandwiches, pastries, bread and hot drinks.

I did their website too.

Home

These are the lovely people I work with.

[syzygy @thane16]

@craig it’s fantastic that you help -not just for a day a year (nothing wrong with that) but twice a week. That’s a tremendous commitment. I was reading about food insecurity in the UK, via the Food Foundation Tracker where 15% of UK households experienced real difficulty putting together any kind of meals at the beginning of this year. Australia has similar figures dependent on location, primarily. It’s good to bring this to our attention.

Craig, you and your people do a good thing. Thank you. 🙏

[blenkinsopthebrave @blenkinsopthebrave]

@craig Everything that Puro just said. Yes.

As for the wonderful silliness of “Pyramids of Mars”, apparently it was filmed in the house and on the estate (including the vast and verdant grounds that characters are running through) owned at the time (1975) by Mick Jagger.

 

[Pufferfish @pufferfish]

Streets Kitchen is fab. Well done, Craig.

[ps1l0v3y0u @ps1l0v3y0u]

@blenkinsopthebrave @craig

how odd that this should become a theme. I have become familiar with how and why people give… and then what happens with what they give.

My daughter was introduced to a particular charity as work experience and I have supported her in this. Knowing both sides, I can tell those who ask (as they give) why this work is necessary (we in the charity marvel but why shouldn’t they?) and explain how someone may be discharged from hospital, let’s say, be given a carer, but have nothing edible at home. Their needs can be answered, within 2 hours, but only by the charity. Otherwise they might wait a week. No food. Which would be unfortunate.

This is not the only type of problem to be dealt with, but it’s volunteers and organisation, not market forces, that deal with it. Is this necessary? Forever? I sincerely hope not. But I can’t immediately see another solution. And I’m not at all happy about that.

re the set for PoM, and also Image of Fendahl (utterly weird female Sutekh) I’m sure Mick was very grateful for income as he slummed it in the South of France and LA.

Mick was still interesting at that point. I don’t really like his politics or what he apparently allowed Brian Jones to do to himself, but at that stage he still seemed like someone you could talk to in a doubtlessly expensive bar, somewhere.

[WhoHar @whohar]

@ps1l0v3y0u

re the set for PoM…I’m sure Mick was very grateful

And what a good sport he must have been, to allow the BBC to burn his house down like that, and all for a TV programme.

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