Warning! The following contains spoilers for the Doctor Who episode "Empire of Death." Watch it with a Disney+ subscription , and read at your own risk! Disney+'s first season of Doctor Who closed by solving the big mystery of Ruby Sunday, albeit maybe not in the way fans expected. The show explained just about every wild coincidence that kept occurring , and while we still don't know who Mrs.
Flood is , we do know the identity of Ruby Sunday's mother. Amidst conversations about the reveal, showrunner Russell T. Davies explained a Star Wars movie was why he chose to have Ruby's mother be just an ordinary woman.
The reveal that Ruby's mother was some average woman, rather than River Song or Jodie Whittaker 's iteration of The Doctor, confused some Doctor Who viewers. Davies explained in a commentary track for the episode "Empire Of Death," however, that he was inspired to tell that story after watching Star Wars: The Last Jedi and disliking the retcon of the significance of Rey's parents: This is kind of my reaction to – bear with me now – the Star Wars films. I can't remember their titles but in the last trilogy, the second film said that Daisy Ridley [Rey] was nothing special.
There was nothing special about her parentage. That she just got the Force..
.and ordinary person with the Force. And then in the next one they changed it all so that she was this child of the Emperor.
..and I really loved the version where she wasn't special.
Sci-fi fans may recall that Star Wars: T.
