The One Who Waits is done waiting.
MAJOR SPOILERS for “The Legend of Ruby Sunday”.
Click away now if youve yet to watch the episode and dont want the revelation spoiled.
Its Sutekh, the God of Death.
Sutekh is the last survivor of the Osirans, an ancient alien race with unfathomable power.
Its also a handy way of having mummies in the show without actually having mummies.
The new series characterisation of Sutekh as The One Who Waits certainly chimes with his classic-era appearance.
What Are Sutekhs Powers?
He even implies that a fully armed and operational Sutekh would have the power to re-shape time itself.
But even if the character has the capacity to destroy everything, would he actually do it?
Well, that brings us to the whole God of Death thing.
But its not just some twisted version of self-defence.
Say what you want about the Daleks monomaniacal, genocidal racial purity at least its an ethos.
What Next in Empire of Death?
Is Sutekh behind the various appearances of Susan Triad?
How does Rubys birth mother figure into all this?
Does Sutekh have a plan beyond destroy everything?
How did he survive being aged to death in a time tunnel at the end of Pyramids of Mars?
And perhaps most importantly, did Sutekh come up with that silly Sue Tech homophone?
So how will the Fifteenth Doctor beat him this time?
How do you top that?
Well see in the finale.
Tune in next week for more teatime brutality for tots…
Doctor Who series 14will conclude with Empire of Death on BBC iPlayer, BBC One, and Disney+
