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While this isn't a huge milestone or anything, for me getting to this serial and this number means how committed I am to the on-going future of this project and the amount of work (simple as it is) involved with making this project a success.

The completion of this piece also marks 300 DA pieces submitted. Again not a huge milestone, but personally it does show how much of a driver I am in regards to the work I do.

Now, when I started this project, there was a number of stories I couldn't wait to get to, just to do representations of. Pyramids of Mars was extremely high on that list. Tom's third serial in his second season, it was a game-changer: it marked the introduction of a new costume (the famous velvet frock coat) and also showed the clearest example of the horror elements so often seen in the Hinchcliffe era. Lis Sladen was probably at her best as Sarah Jane at this point, where she seems much more attuned to Tom than the previous season. Look for the scene in Part 4, where the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn right back around after seeing a Mummy robot (the source of the "nope.jpg" gif). The beginning of Part One also sees one of the best improv moments at the time, where the Doctor is waxing poetic about being a Time Lord and Sarah Jane laughingly mocks him ("Oh I know you're a Time Lord").

Sutekh is one of those great one-time villains who's ending makes it difficult for a return appearance. Its probably just as well, I couldn't see how it would be possible to make a return of Sutekh. Gabriel Woolfe is still alive and could, if the story was proper, return to the part, but again the logistics of how Sutekh was dispatched makes that near impossible. I'd love to see an audio story pairing him with the Eighth Doctor, just because it seems like it would be a good fight if Sutekh were to somehow use his personal artifacts to reach through the dimensions back into our world and time.

"Pyramids of Mars" isn't perfect. It is, like so many Doctor Who stories, near-flawless. But if there had to be a shortlist of stories to introduce someone to the show, this would be at or near the top.

Description
While this isn't a huge milestone or anything, for me getting to this serial and this number means how committed I am to the on-going future of this project and the amount of work (simple as it is) involved with making this project a success.

The completion of this piece also marks 300 DA pieces submitted. Again not a huge milestone, but personally it does show how much of a driver I am in regards to the work I do.

Now, when I started this project, there was a number of stories I couldn't wait to get to, just to do representations of. Pyramids of Mars was extremely high on that list. Tom's third serial in his second season, it was a game-changer: it marked the introduction of a new costume (the famous velvet frock coat) and also showed the clearest example of the horror elements so often seen in the Hinchcliffe era. Lis Sladen was probably at her best as Sarah Jane at this point, where she seems much more attuned to Tom than the previous season. Look for the scene in Part 4, where the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn right back around after seeing a Mummy robot (the source of the "nope.jpg" gif). The beginning of Part One also sees one of the best improv moments at the time, where the Doctor is waxing poetic about being a Time Lord and Sarah Jane laughingly mocks him ("Oh I know you're a Time Lord").

Sutekh is one of those great one-time villains who's ending makes it difficult for a return appearance. Its probably just as well, I couldn't see how it would be possible to make a return of Sutekh. Gabriel Woolfe is still alive and could, if the story was proper, return to the part, but again the logistics of how Sutekh was dispatched makes that near impossible. I'd love to see an audio story pairing him with the Eighth Doctor, just because it seems like it would be a good fight if Sutekh were to somehow use his personal artifacts to reach through the dimensions back into our world and time.

"Pyramids of Mars" isn't perfect. It is, like so many Doctor Who stories, near-flawless. But if there had to be a shortlist of stories to introduce someone to the show, this would be at or near the top.