Warning: contains spoilers forDoctor Whoepisode Lux.
Dont make me laugh!
These similarities are obviously deliberate, and they make sense.
Sutekh is the outlier there, but Lux, the Toymaker and Maestro all operate along broadly similar lines.
Unlike Maestro, Lux isnt dragged kicking and screaming into the Doctors terrible trap.
Its strange, poetic and slightly unsettling, and feels consistent with the fantastical nature of the Pantheon.
The episode is also clearly having a ball playing with the possibilities of its premise.
Not everything here works, admittedly.
It could even be argued that Gold overdoes it a third time in the scene with the three fans.
But then again, The Sad Man With A Box does get me.
So, jurys out.
And the episode treating segregation as a horrible but banal fact of life feels appropriate.
The moment with the policeman pointing a gun at the Doctor and Belinda might be the problem here.
And it just doesnt feel like the sort of thing the Doctor can imperiously swagger his way out of.
But again, there may just not be a perfect way to go about it.
And trying is preferable to ignoring.
Oh, and needless to say the Doctor and Belindas 50s fits?
One has to imagine that staying on the TARDIS is worth it for the wardrobe alone.
