#legend of Ruby Sunday spoilers

[whatsfourteenupto]

Okay I loved that ep but I really have a problem with “It was the wrong anagram.” Doctor there are more letters in Sutekh that aren’t in STRIAD than letters that are.

[gayleviticus]

it's an interesting choice that legend of ruby Sundays core dramatic cliffhanger that essentially the entire episode is building up to is the return of a 50 year old villain but also doesn't really require any prior knowledge of pyramids of Mars except that Sutekh exists?

but like. the whole sue tech thing would surely feel so weird if you had no idea who sutekh is. granted he is technically not a doctor who original character - tho ymmv but I have never heard him called Sutekh outside DW, just Set or Seth

anyway. in general it's interesting how this is an episode so consciously manipulating of fan theorising and the hints left throughout the story arc. like the premise is essentially 'the doctor tries to outsource solving this seasons mystery box to UNIT'

don't know how I feel about bait and switching the return of Susan (a deep and emotionally resonant character beat) for the return of sutekh (50 year old fanservice). it feels a bit like a reverse hell bent almost. but I guess we'll see, and a villain deliberately using bad wolf style Easter eggs as a trap for the Doctor is super interesting

(although the mechanics of how this trap worked or even was actually necessarily is kinda unclear - he needed to... make sure the doctor was in another room while sutekh possessed the tardis? surely there are less elaborate ways of doing that than copying Susan twist thru time and space)

[seph-on-an-irrational-planet]

no no no the tardis wasn’t ‘seduced’ she’s been in extra dimensional combat since Wild Blue Yonder

[cosmicfan776]

Lost for words.

Episode was sick, and then everything started glitching and going Zagreus style-I AM LOSS I AM TERROR THE LORD OF TIME IS BLIND AND VAIN - i think i watched half of this episode up on my feet pacing in front of the tv

Also MARA MENTIONED

But then he starts going

I am Set

I took a whole lap around the living room i didn’t think they would ever bring that fucking guy back what the hell. I refuse to believe any of the “TOP 10 Doctor Who villains who should RETURN” will ever appear on our screens if the Rani ever comes back I’ll have a heart attack.

In the back of my mind i remembered myself going on record to say i didn’t ever want to see him return because he won’t be as cool, but he was even cooler and the episode/season had built him up enough that i was like, come on in baby i never doubted you for a second.

THE SAND. THE GUY TURNED TO SAND. I THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING AND WONDERED FOR A SECOND IS SAND SOME SORT OF HINT WHY THAT SPECIFICALLY

type of episode i will think is just really solid in a year when i calm down but right now goes fucking insane

WHERE THIS BITCH TREADS HE LEAVES NOTHING BUT DUST AND DARKNESS AND HE FINDS THAT GOOD

[pagerunner-j]

Sometimes Twitter is still good.

[yelsapo]

"It was the wrong anagram" needs to be added to the list of dw lines that sound arbitrary on their own but are absolutely HORRIFYING in context

[donutdrawsthings]

Sutekh is a Whovian, to me...

[notyoujamie]

For the god of all gods has returned.

[imaginita-est-omnibus]

LEGEND OF RUBY SUNDAY SPOILERS!

So Sutekh is back? The guy from the Pyramid of Mars? The episode with the funniest five seconds in all of Doctor Who?

[hey-there-22]

I love how the TARDIS had a human form with eleven and she was like "my thief, my thief, I love my thief" BUT FAILED TO MENTION THE GOD OF DEATH HAD BEEN IN HER BACK FOR DECADES.

[whatsfourteenupto]

Me during the teaser, still vibrating in my seat after Rogue:

“Oh she’s as clueless as we- Mel!!!!! KATE!!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!”

[innocet]

“Before the war I was a father and a grandfather. Now I am neither, but I’m still a doctor.”

Thinking about an interpretation that the doctor did have kids at one point, but the time war erased them from existence. Grief for a family that didn’t die, but instead never was. The doctor hasn’t had kids. Not yet. Not anymore.

[seph-on-an-irrational-planet]

god damn that dog CGI was fucking awful but

SUTEKH

SUTEKH

SUTEKH

[mavity]

RTD is currently in his office tearing up the script for LoRS and throwing it on the ground and stomping on it like Yosemite Sam

[johnnystorrm]

i cannot believe the doctor just spent 45 minutes mistaking fucking sutekh for his own granddaughter. funniest shit i've ever seen. i need susan to show up and find out about this because she'd make sure he never lives it down.

[yelsapo]

"The camera was positioned in a storage yard 66 metres away."

Or, in other words, 73 yards.