The Doctor calls the remembered Tardis a 'death trap' WARNING: This article contains spoilers Doctor Who aired its season finale tonight after a screening in cinemas at midnight for super fans of the show. However despite the huge hype many complained of feeling "underwhelmed" and finding the episode, entitled Empire Of Death, "boring". The penultimate episode of Ncuti Gatwa's first season playing the Time Lord in the long-running BBC sci-fi drama had left things on a cliffhanger as The Doctor's old foe Sutekh returned and planned to destroy all life.
The mystery of Ruby Sunday's (Millie Gibson) parentage was also unanswered as was the true identity of her neighbour Mrs Flood (Anita Dobson). As the episode opened, the members of UNIT faced the wrath of Sutekh as he reduced them all to dust including the Doctor's friends Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) and Rose Noble (Yasmin Finney). He managed to escape on a Vespa with former companion Mel Bush (Bonnie Langford) as Sutekh's reach destroyed every planet the Doctor had ever visited as his "death dust" spread.
Believing Ruby's parentage to be the key to destroying the villainous God, they were determined to figure it out. The key came in the form of a news broadcast from two decades in the future in which the then Prime Minister revealed he was introducing DNA testing for everyone. Although the world was destroyed, The Doctor was able to visit that point in time in a "remembered TARDIS", made up of elements from all the.
