Grab your extra-long scarf. There are a lot of strange, strange creatures in the universe of . But the finale of the newly rebooted Season 1 will find the 15th Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) battling an enemy that he previously faced back when he was rocking a head full of curls and an infinitely long scarf.
At the end of Season 1, Episode 7, “The Legend of Ruby Sunday,” the shocking new villain might leave more contemporary fans scratching their heads. Turns out the much-teased “One Who Waits” is an ancient god that the Doctor has vanquished before. Here’s why the Big Bad of this episode requires a bit of time travel back to 1975, and the epic 4th Doctor adventure, “The Pyramids of Mars.
” Who is Sutekh? Sutekh tries to emerge from a time tunnel in "The Pyramids of Mars." While trying to solve the identity of Ruby’s birth mother and the enigma of tech mogul , the Doctor is shocked to learn that both mysteries are connected to one horrific truth: Sutekh is back. Sometimes known as “Set” in the mythology of ancient Egypt, Sutekh is essentially the God of Death.
The Doctor last tangoed with Sutekh in the 1975 four-part serial “The Pyramids of Mars,” in which titular Time Lord and then-companion Sarah-Jane Smith encountered a vision of Sutekh while traveling through space in the TARDIS. At the time, the Doctor was complaining about how he was a little sick of being the scientific advisor to UNIT and was bored of chasing around with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nich.
