tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post3688564922724837930..comments2023-10-02T14:33:18.136+01:00Comments on The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: Day 3959: Mysteries of Doctor Who #23: Why Does "Pyramids of Mars" Take Place in ENGLAND?Millennium Domehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08430269096817934037noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-60675471786081354262011-11-04T02:35:29.741+00:002011-11-04T02:35:29.741+00:00'Sorry, it was 'Vena'. Because obvious...'Sorry, it was 'Vena'. Because obviously 'The Time Machine' is more memorable than 'Timelash' and 'Dracula' moreso than either.Tathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00254989710798762675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-64857067557078705512011-11-04T02:33:02.651+00:002011-11-04T02:33:02.651+00:00I remember thinking that the Riddle of the Osirian...I remember thinking that the Riddle of the Osirians was a bit familiar - my dad tried it on me when it was in the riddle-me-rees in the Evening Standard along with mazes and rebus puzzles of place-names*.<br /> There are many unanswered questions about this story, and Horus' decisions about what to leave in a prison (guided-missile components, killer robots, wikipedia, a tape-loop of spooky music...) and why Sarah says 'Triobiphysics' when she does (and not 'Tribophysics', which is liquid engineering, the science f lubrication) are among them. Why is it so overcast in the notoriously hot summer of 1911? But the paradox you think is happening isn't: a better one is. The appearance of Sutekh in the TARDIS in Part One (the first of many such apparitions, inclunding Mena in 'Timelash' and junk mail in 'The Greatest Show in the Galaxy' - possibly these are allowed after the Ship's defences are ruptured in this case) is caused by the Doctor's clever stretchy time-corridor-inator wheeze in Part Four. He goes to 1911 to find out what could make him do such a silly thing as taking the Bang and Olufsen Time vector generator and plugging it into a psychic projection portal.<br />(*it was a line-drawing of two ants and a pair of fountain pens. If they'd set that to get Sarah out of the Decatron Crucible we'd all be dust and ashes by now).Tathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00254989710798762675noreply@blogger.com