DWM Mighty 200 - Top Ten Watchathon: Pyramids of Mars (#7) Reaction Post
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*grins* True!
I think your explanation for Sarah Jane's uncannily good shooting skills is as good as any. ;D
Thank you!
I think the thing about Four is, he can pull off pompous and portentous because he is this larger-than-life, slightly surreal figure. Ten would find it much harder, because he is supposed to be at least partially rooted in "reality".
That's a good point actually - Four IS very much larger-than-life...
Yes, I feel for Laurence; his love for his brother shines through and is ultimately the death of him. Played, of course, by the late, great Michael Sheard - Admiral Ozzel in Empire Strikes Back, Der Fuehrer himself in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and most memorably the terrifying Mr Bronson in Grange Hill...
*nods* I felt very bad for him that he couldn't accept that Prof Scarman was, to all intents and purposes, now dead...
Michael Sheard used to intimidate me as Mr Bronson. I'd forgotten he was in Last Crusade (and have never seen Star Wars. *gasp*)
And Sutekh, as occasionally ludicrous as he may be, remains a classic Who villain. It's something about the combination of the look, the voice, the lines and even the fact that Four, that most self-confident of Doctors, seems a little bit scared of him: "Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the Destroyer; where I walk, I leave dust and darkness. And I find it...good..."
Gabriel Woolf's *perfect* for the voice of Suktekh - it's quite eerie hearing him in this role after listening to him and Nick Courtney and Terry Molloy doing 'The Scarifyers' audios (mind you, it was pretty weird hearing Terry sounding non-Davros-like in the audios too!). Although GW usually plays villains in The Scarifyers, none sound quite as terrifyingly *normal* as Suktekh...
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