Doctor Who Series 10 Recap: “The Pyramid at the End of the World”
After last week’s subpar beginning can The Pyramid at the End of the World pull this season’s three-parter back on track?
I said at the end of last week’s recap that I was withholding judgement on it until I saw more of this “Monk’s Trilogy”. Now, with two installments down, I think we can safely say, no matter what happens next week, that first part was definitely the weakest of the batch. Moffat did something no one should ever do. He went Full Moffat. And that left this week’s writer Peter Harness rather to cope.
Bill: “How would I know the President? I wouldn’t even have voted for him. He’s… orange.”
Harness last wrote the openly political two parter “The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion” in Season 9. Because of this, I was expecting another openly political parable. With the trailer suggesting we were “in the world’s biggest hotspot”, and shots of desert and a Pyramid, I figured maybe “Middle East”? I was wrong. Instead we were in Turmezistan, a faux country which we last saw in the Zygon episodes. Here is a country where the Chinese, Russian and American armies all stand at the ready, and the fear is that, by the Monks and their pyramid arriving there too, it is only a matter of time before World War III.
