This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

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Sutekh is by far the best part of this story, his performance by Gabriel Woolf is chilling and the stakes feel somewhat higher. He's a lot more menacing in this one. Unfortunately, I just don't think the stakes were high enough. 'Pyramids of Mars' showed the Doctor being genuinely afraid and angry against Sutekh, he feels a bit too jolly throughout considering their last encounter. I feel like that's more down to the direction, the 4th Doctor shows considerably less range on audio.

I also think the solution of remembering the city as it was before was a bit cheap and undermined Sutekh's abilities if 2 people could just undo what he'd done by thinking. He still had his moments and his confrontation with Leela was incredible. I also really like that the Doctor left the food machine to the people of Drummond, it concludes the Doctor and Leela's arguement about the morality of toppling governments just because they weren't entirely fair, by letting the Doctor help out in his own way.

Overall, it was not a story without it's faults and I think they should have saved Sutekh for a higher-stakes story, but it had quite a few good moments.

Next Story: Shadow of the Sun