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It was amazing seeing Calvin's reaction to Sutekh, knowing he's a big fan of Tom Baker's era! Russell knows how to set up a truly phenomenal cliffhanger! I was squealing in my seat upon Sutekh's name being revealed! The music alone was very haunting and I honestly love Sutekh's new design in the modern era. A more polished and animalistic version to display his dominion in the most atrocious way possible. It was so nice to hear Gabriel Woolf return for Sutekh's voice! *BRING ON EMPIRE OF DEATH!* 🤩💚

I’ve been waiting to see if Calvin remembered our lord Sutekh.

I’m glad Calvin knew who Sutekh was lmao

27:39 “The Trickster” is actually an already established character in the Whoniverse. He appeared in several episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures - even facing off with David Tennant’s 10th Doctor during a crossover - he is known to completely change time/make new timelines, he can “save” people from death by making bargains, and even swap a living person for a dead person to make so someone never died. He is known to be a apart of “The Pantheon of Discord” which includes The Toymaker, Maestro etc., but also has his own “Trickster’s Brigade” that follows him.

LOL Calvin just vibrating until Eric asked him who Sutekh was 😂

Even having no idea who Sutekh was, the build up naming various gods with the music and the delivery and editing I still felt on the edge of my seat and thought it was an awesome moment

The first time the TARDIS made that groaning was in Wild Blue Yonder, whilst it was repairing before it left the Doctor and Donna behind.

fun fact that CCTV camera that got that footage they used in the time window was 73 yards away from the church

what's really funny is in her first rehearsl speech you can hear the "crowd" all chanting "SUE TECH! SUE TECH! SUE TECH!" at 4:23, really great foreshadowing there

Russell T Davis: "the new season is kind of a soft reboot, we're even calling it season 1 to highlight it's a good starting point for new viewers" Also Russell T Davis: "the big villain is someone who hasn't been in the show for 49 years" Absolute mad lad. Love it.

Sidenote: The Tardis made these groaning sounds as early as Wild Blue Yonder, so it would seem Sutekh "hijacked the tardis back than, and remember what 14 said. With the salt and that he fears he "summoned" something and the end of the Universe.

49 years, fourty-nine years and my favourite death god is back. I got into Who as a kid watching my dad's VHSs and Pyramids of Death was either the second or third story I ever saw. As soon as I heard the voice earlier in the episode I immediately recognised Gabriel Woolf and basically exploded. I'm really interested to see how/if this reveal lands for viewers who aren't familiar with Sutekh.

Gabriel Wolff making his third return as the voice of Sutekh.

Davina McCall was in "The Church on Ruby Road". She was the one trying to find Ruby's family using DNA. She actually hosts a real show and does that in real life.

13:15 - it’s actually Theresa May - she dances exactly the same - it’s a direct reference xD

Me seeing Sutekh: "Who is good puppy?!"

Would love to see these guys react to Pyramids of Mars like they did with Five Doctors.

As a longtime Whovian, seeing that name popping up had my jaw dropping, I couldn't believe they went that deep to bring back one of the greatest one-off villains ever.

Eric absolutely hit the nail on the head - you can not know who Sutekh is and totally appreciate the fact the magnitude of the reveal purely by the build up enough to know the impact of how much shit is about to hit the fan. Fabulous cliffhanger, RTD hasn’t lost his ability to build up a great finale.

I originally thought Sutekh attached to the TARDIS when the Doctor went back to save baby Ruby from the goblins. But people have pointed out that the TARDIS was making the weird noises all the way back in Wild Blue Yonder, which is also the first episode we saw Sue (talking to Isaac Newton)... so it's been longer than that. Gabriel Woolf is the original Sutekh, yes... but there's even more connections between Sutekh and the Beast from the Satan Pit. Not only is it the same actor, but the Beast said he had many names, including Satan... and in the Pyramids of Mars, they said Sutekh has many names, including Satan. So it's possible the Beast and Sutekh are somehow the same entity, the same being. Especially when you consider the way he puppeted Harriet was extremely similar to the way the Beast puppeted people in the Impossible Planet. I'm hoping Mrs. Flood is secretly Tefnut. She's not been in the Whoniverse yet, but the Osirans (the species Sutekh is) are the basis of the Egyptian pantheon in the Whoniverse. In the Egyptian myths, Tefnut is Sutekh's grandmother -- and the goddess of rain and humidity. Rain, flood? Connections? So she'd know when Sutekh was returning. Not to mention, that would also be a connection to Ruby, since a goddess of rain is the closest you get to a goddess of snow from a desert culture.

Actually the TARDIS behaves like this also in the Tenth Doctor's Impossible Planet episode. And he also says that it must have indigestion.

MVP of this reaction. Calvin. His reaction at the sutekh reveal was awesome!

Loved this reaction, so glad Calvin remembered who Sutekh was. Davina McCall hosts a show called Long Lost Family, which traces members of families that were separated for various reasons like adoption or moving to other countries and have become lost to time, there's also spin offs of the programme, one of which is Born Without Trace, that traces the birth families of foundlings, so that was the kind of programme that Ruby was on in The Church on Ruby Road with Davina McCall. Born Without Trace was the inspiration behind Russell T Davies making Ruby a foundling adoptee, on top of the fact that the Doctor is a foundling adoptee too. I was great that in the Time Window Ruby had someone by her side who completely understood her, and could feel her pain and desperation. As an adoptee myself, it made me really happy when Carla showed compassion and understanding to Ruby's birth mother, if that's who it is.

My theory is Sutekh latched on to the Tardis during Wild Blue Yonder at the edge of the universe. That's when the Tardis first starting groaning, then the Doctor pouring the salt allowed him to latch on fully.

When Susan says "Did you think I was family, Doctor?" she really sounds like Madame Kovarian.

Finally some Sutekh respect!! 😂 I’ve seen so many people disappointed that it was not a Master reveal like that hasn’t been done to death! Let the old god have his time, I hope they make it cannon that he was the beast that fell through the black hole in the bitter pill!

The doctor told Ruby that a Timelord can change their face to hide away. Mrs. Flood then says she is always hiding herself away. Her door is tardis blue and in this scene, they wash her face with a tardis blue filter. She’s a Timelord. Susan? Rivers daughter? The Rani.. we’ll find out soon. As for Ruby.. I think she is a child of the pantheon like Maestro. Human-esque like the H-Arbingers.

Ive literally been wanting to see Calvins face since Saturday 😂

THAT EPISODE WAS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE! This is a master class in how to build suspense perfectly! The music was amazing, the performance from everyone were amazing, the pacing was spot on, the mystery of Ruby Sunday and Susan Twist meshing together was spectacular, the Practical sets and makeup were top-notch, the CGI and VFX are the best Doctor Who has ever had, Ncuti keeps being a top tier doctor, and to be blunt this is the most fun I've had with a season of Doctor Who in a long time! 1000/10 episode! Bring on the season finale "Empire of Death" ASAP!

I hadn't seen Pyramids Of Mars before this episode, but I was shook anyway. That noise the Tardis makes is so unnerving.

They really need to do a Pyramids of Mars reaction now 😆

I really like how the fact the tardis is part of Sutekh’s plan now means they have no ‘safe place.’ Anymore. They can’t run and hide through time or space, at least, not very far, and the very thing the doctor spends a long time assuring the companion and the audience throughout the show is unbreakable and completely safe *becomes* part of the horror, it just cements the fact that they are not safe

Here are my theories on Ruby and Mrs. Flood. I've thought from the Christmas episode that Mrs. Flood is Susan. And in this episode The Doctor says "We can change our face if we are dying. Or to hide away." Mrs. Flood says something like "It feels sometimes like I have been hiding away forever." =========================== I think maybe Ruby is the Eye of Horus made incarnate. Sutekh's prison on Mars was generated by the Eye of Horus. I think the others from Sutekh's world knew he was coming.

Fun fact: the place where they filmed the Rogue was the Orangery in Margam Park, Port Talbot, my home town. It is also the place where I had both my Covid Vaccine jabs.

I literally saw the playlist was "Updated Today" (Probably while uploading) and I was sat WAITING lmao.

My theory: Sutekh attacked the TARDIS when it landed on the ship with the Not Things (Wild Blue Yonder), which is the 1st time the TARDIS moans & the last time the cloister bell tolls. I think the TARDIS ran away, trying to shake Sutekh, like it did Captain Jack. The Doctor says his children haven't been born, yet. Ruby's mother is "the Kind Woman" in next week's episode. She's River. Mrs. Flood is Susan. I void be wrong but Davies seems to be building the Doctor an extended family.

Yess I was waiting for Calvin’s reaction!

The TARDIS has been groaning since Wild Blue Yonder in the 60th anniversary specials!! It groaned in The Devil's Chord and in Rogue last week aswell

I know the Sutekh moment may not be understood the same by everybody, but it's still such a menacing moment.

I like how calvin recognises and smiles when he knows who sutekh is, while rest of the crew are like who?

Various references in the episode: Kate addresses one UNIT character as Sullivan, a reference to Harry Sullivan, a 4th Doctor companion. Another UNIT character is Colonel Ibrahim, a reference to Sutekh's servant Ibrahim in _Pyramids of Mars_ (1975). Mel was of course a 6th/7th Doctor companion from 1986-87. The Toymaker appeared in _The Celestial Toymaker_ (1966) and _The Giggle_ (2023). The Trickster appeared in The Sarah-Jane Adventures three times from 2007-09, once with the 10th Doctor. The Mara appeared in _Kinda_ (1982) and _Snakedance_ (1983). The Doctor's granddaughter Susan was a 1st Doctor companion even before he left Gallifrey, before the show began, and left in _The Dalek Invasion of Earth_ (1964). And of course Sutekh himself. "I bring Sutekh's gift of death" is a direct quote from _Pyramids of Mars._

I love watching Calvin realise who was returning! Deffo brings memories of when he saw / heard the return of Davros in The Stolen Earth 😊.

this episode was so exciting to watch, i’m even more excited to see y’all’s reaction to it!

Oh boy I’ve been really really excited for this reaction to pop up. This was a really great story and I’ve got to talk about the ending cliffhanger because I went over the moon with hype. Sutekh is another villain from classic who, he first appeared in 4th doctor’s episode Pyramids of Mars, which was one of my early doctor who stories i remember as a kid borrowing at my local library during the wilderness years of Who. (Btw i was really looking forward to Calvin’s reaction because i might of guess he’d recognised Sutekh) But when he’s name dropped I went absolutely Ballistic with hype. I do love it when they bring back classic who villains into new who!

It was a truly phenomenal episode! So glad you guys enjoyed!

The rumbling sound that the Tardis makes in this episode was first heard in Wild Blue Yonder, the second 60th anniversary special after Donna spilled her tea onto the Tardis console and they crashed into a spaceship outside the universe. Some people theorize that Sutekh latches onto the Tardis back then. I blame Donna.😁

Calvin knowing was so good XD

There was a lead in Maestro! When they were pulling that Christmas music out of Ruby and had that crazy reaction. They said, “I don’t understand. He wasn’t there.” Then later referenced the one who waits.

The Doctor Who channel on YT has posted the Classic Who, The Pyramids of Mars to see before the finale.

GOOD MORNING! My theory is that Ruby's mom is Dorothy Bell! They have the same hair and eye color. Ruby's theme song is Carol of the BELLS. And Dorothy has a connection to Sutekh.

I wonder if it's related to The Beast in the impossible planet. Rewatching it i noticed that when the Tardis landed then it also made a sound. The doctor called it indigestion. Didn’t he say the same thing this season?

The Trickster is a Sarah-Jane Adventures villain!! And in an episode with David Tennant when he meets the Trickster they talk about the Pantheon for the first time and set the whole story up with the rest of the gods! This was back in 2009!!

Ever since seeing Calvin’s reaction to Davros during the Stolen Earth, I was hoping we’d see a similar one for this episode! I love how now he’s just staring like “ask me. Ask me the question.” 15:05 XD

I saw a video, might have been WhoCulture that said Sutek may have escaped his prision into the void we saw in Flux. Which is at the edge of the universe. In the 4th doctor episode "Pyrmids of Mars" Sutek was shown to do something to the Tardis, before being banished. So when the Tardis ended up at the edge of the universe in Wild Blue Yonder, it makes that wierd sound for the first time and that may have been when Sutek latched on to it.

Calvin and I had the same reaction at the end of the episode. I couldn’t remember his name; but I had watched Pyramids of Mars when I was younger with my dad. So I knew who it was. Genuinely great twist

Nobody seems to notice that Mrs Flood drops her east end accent for formal RP accent when her demeanour changes. She didn't just "Feel weird" she dropped the act completely including the accent.

According to tardis fandom, Abena lived in a flat in the district, near the Catford Broadway. Jimmy Stone lived with Abena for a time, and was killed by Autons there after robbing Abena.Jimmy Stone was an ex-boyfriend of Rose Tyler by 2005.This was in a Doctor who novel named Rose according to it.There have been many callbacks to Rose tyler this season like calling from space the future.

Remember he does have a daughter. 10 had a clone daughter who he thought died but she is alive going on adventures of her own

Set is an Ancient Egyptian God, though he was also known as "Seth" and "Sutekh" He was not the god of death, rather he was the god of mischief, the desert, disorder, warfare, the sky, and storms. It is unknown for sure what animal he is depicted as, theories include a donkey, an aardvark, and even an African Wild Dog. It is now simply referred to as the "Set Animal" or "Sha". Due to the fact he is the embodiment of chaos, Set is not a demon, nor is he evil. It's more complicated than that. He is simply a force of nature. The Egyptians feared him, but also respected him, especially during times of War when they prayed to him for strength and protection. Set was also, at one time, depicted assisting Ra in killing the giant Serpent, Apep. Osiris and Anubis, on the other hand, are the Ancient Egyptian Gods associated with death, with Anubis being a guardian and guide to the deceased, and Osiris being the ruler of the Underworld.

Mel spent time with the 6th and 7th Doctors All lost episodes are from the 1st and 2nd doctor, so the 60s stuff. Some has been found over the years and others have had animations made using the recorded audio that some people had made. Yes it's the same guy doing the voice of Sutekh that voiced him originally in thr 4th doctor story Pyramids of Mars. He is 92 now.

I was waiting on Calvin when they first said. I thought he might've twigged when they said Set

So apart from Sutekh, The Toymaker and Maestro two other villains were confirmed to be members of the Pantheon by Harriet. The Mara is a classic who villain which she called the god of beasts and The Trickster is a Sarah Jane Adventures villain, pretty much the at show's main villain, which she called the god of traps. That also mean the Pantheon as a group were first mentioned by the 10th Doctor in a Sarah Jane Adventures episode, The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, when he revealed that The Trickster was a member of a group called the Pantheon of Discord.

This connects back to the first Ood episode with satan in the pit. The Tennant one with Rose. Satan is Sutehk. Same voice actor as well.

Davina McCall is just a cameo - she has hosted TV shows in the UK for decades (especially the kind that would interview someone like Ruby)

Funnily enough, the Doctor has alluded to, or outright said he had children on multiple occasions in the past. One point where he outright says he was a dad to Rose was in 2x11 Fear Her. A bit of a continuity error there.

During the rehearsal speach, when Sue complained about the chanting, they were chanting her company's name - "Sue Tech"! 😂 ...As an old school fan, I somehow missed that first time around!!!

Now that they've heard about the trickster, it would be awesome to see them go back to sarah jane adventures to see him

Been waiting for this react! Incredible episode, and incredible work crew!

Someone in another reaction channel pointed out that the CCTV camera was 66 metres from Ruby's mother... 66 metres is 73 yards!

If you guys can, I HIGHLY recommend you see this week’s Tales of the Tardis! We have 15 and Ruby revisiting Sutekh’s first appearance in Pyramids of Mars. Even if you guys don’t do a reaction to it, it’ll give you a LOT of context to who Sutekh is! Loved the reaction guys!!

Davina McCall was indeed in the Christmas episode, The Church on Ruby Road. The episode with the Goblins that were causing Ruby to have lots of bad luck. She was the lady who also suffered bad luck after meeting ruby and ended up in a wheelchair. She was killed by a Christmas tree that the Goblins caused to fall on her until the doctor remembered and went back to save her from said tree. She hosts the UK version of Long Lost Family where they help people track down long lost relatives. Ruby was being filmed for a possible episode but they didn't find her mum.

I wish you guys watched the Sarah Jane adventures episodes with the doctor in

7:51 Time Windows are what connected the S.S. Madame de Pompadour to 18th century France.

Mrs. Flood didn't recognize the TARDIS until he'd already gone back to the church and presumably gotten possessed by Sutekh

A few things I've remembered since watching this episode. Tennant's doctor has mentioned twice (once to Rose, and once to Donna) that he has been a father before. Also he had the Jenny who ended up being revived and is out there somewhere.

After seeing Susan in so many places like that, my mind immediately thought that she was Clara Oswald.

I think Russell T Davis soft-confirmed at some point that Sutekh and The Beast are one in the same. Not only do they have similar themes and are voiced by the same VA, but since The Beast described himself as the embodiment of evil itself across all religions, and Sutekh just listed off his various "death god" names across different pantheons, its safe to say they are essentially the same entity taking on different corporeal forms.

Harriet mentioned the The Fold God.....Dalek Caan called The Doctor the Three Fold Man back in Journeys End.... perhaps the Timeless Child is The The Fold God... not to mention, the Doctor now has three names.. Timeless Child, The Doctor, The Valeyard

I am really glad that she noticed that Sutekh wasn't even an anagram lol

Davina presents a programme called Long Lost Family which also looks for families of foundlings like Ruby

Mrs Flood actress Anita Dobson is married to Queen's Brian May - her hair was as big and curly as his in the 80s/90s. The Who Christmas special wasn't her only notable festive TV appearance. She was one of the early leads in British soap Eastenders which provides another of BBC's key Christmas specials. The Boxing Day episode in 1987 that centred around her character got over 30 million viewers and is still the most viewed episode of any British soap.

Devina mcoll after doing big brother also later did long lost family. Including helping foundlings find there birth parents. Its an actual thing irl. And she Bassically plays herself in doctor who helping Ruby find her birthmother like she does on long lost family. I was actually surprised to see her in the Christmas special. But yea I suppose outside of the uk you won't know who she is as well.

Aside from the fact that "Sue Tech" is a homophone, not an anagram, that was such a fantastic build up and reveal. Felt like how the build up to the Simm reveal should have been back when, if the BBC hadn't spoiled that.

Davina MacCall is a British TV presenter. She used to present the UK Big Brother and now she’s most famous for Long Lost Families where she reunites people who were adopted with their real parents

2:38 My head canon is that UNIT HQ is shielded from any arrivals through time, so the tardis has to make an aerial approach.

Good to see Calvin knowing about Sutekh! Maybe y'all should react to Classic Who. It's... a journey.

Sutekh is an Old Nemesis Villain of the 4th Doctor, Episode is called Pyramids of Mars. I love when classic Villains and Characters affect the morden Who. Also I believe Ruby might be a Harbinger. I mean she is so mysterious just like the other Harbingers until their names where introduced. Or maybe she really is a Gallifreyan. Or maybe she is just a regular person and we are all reading into this too much when the answer is too simple. Or maybe she is a Timelord who used the Chameloen Ach?......I don't know someone tell me

Someone pulled a freeze frame of the scene with what they think is Ruby’s mom, you can see a partial face and it appears to be a woman and she looks like the actress that played Susan (granddaughter) but younger, her hands aren’t old so it’s either her from another time period or it’s the actress that played Susan in Adventures in Time or it’s a red herring. I thought there was only one Harbinger but every Pantheon member has their own Harbinger apparently. There are three members of the Pantheon who sit at the top, Sutekh, the King, the Queen and a bunch of other members we either met in old Who or haven’t met yet, who is Mrs Flood and who has she been hiding from, “I hide myself away”? We know Tom Baker trapped Sutekh and destroyed his physical body but in the books it came back as energy without form and attacked the Sylvester McCoy Doctor and was locked away again, how’d it get out 🤔, when did it get out? We now know “Susan” appeared everywhere the Doctor went because Sutekh was latched to the Tardis and she is a projection of Sutekh, did it attach to this Doctor’s Tardis or the other Doctor’s and it hoped over when they split? So many questions, it’s been awhile since I felt this intense an interest in Doctor Who, when I was a kid I used to watch it on PBS on a small black and white in my room, then I got a color tv and I was locked in for life. An actual run through storyline that’s complicated and when you get reveals you go, oh yeah, it’s beyond awesome how they’ve gone back in the lore and history 😊😊😊😊 so happy. Long live the ruler of the disco sarcophagus, Sutekh god of death. 💀⚰️⚱️

around 19:50 : the first appearance of the actress that we saw throughout/"Susan Triad" was as the handmaiden of Isaac Newton, so we saw her the very first time RIGHT when Gravity was changed to Mavity... Don't forget that the 14. Doctor invoked a superstition at the edge of the universe, without knowing the consequences.... (but guessing nothing good) ...wait.....Wild Blue Yonder was (very sure) far in the future, but (I don't remember if the episode addressed that) maybe at the edge of the universe time works differently... and we all know that it already is timey-wimey 😅😜 But what if invoking the superstition somehow led to Ruby's birth (that could also explain the kind of paradox around that moment) and all of the weird coincidents (Goblin stuff etc.) around her and all of that could be time trying to correct itself or smth... (I thought of a theory, but something happened outside my window and now I don't remember it 😅😅)

Of all the classic villains I was hoping would come back, Sutekh was the one I wanted to see the most and even better that Gabriel Woolf came back to reprise his role at 91 years old.

THANKS for this, Blind Wave!!!!

The 10th Doctor had a clone daughter, played by his wife and daughter of the 4th Doctor. 😊

People in england say pet normally used where ECCLESTON and whittaker come from Lancashire and Yorkshire

I appreciate that this new era is showing giving us alot more classic series elements that isn’t what you’d expect them to do We’ve had two villains come back who only made one appearance previously in the series and I’m glad RTD has gone with that cuz he could have easily just gone with the Daleks, master or Cybermen again I like Suteks design more then the classic series tbh, he looks more like an intimidating inhuman entity instead of just a guy in a costume and the voice is so cool I think he has latched onto the Tardis since Wild Blue Yonder

As someone who grew up on Classic Who and with whom Tom Baker was my favorite incarnation of The Doctor till Matt Smith came along, I was floored. Pyraminds of Mars is by far one of the best of the Tom Baker era if not Who in general.

As someone who's seen most of the Big Brother UK series, I am familiar with Davina McCall. If you guys are interested, they did a mini series called Dead Set (mixing the zombie genre with Big Brother) ... It used to be on Netflix, not sure anymore.

You guys are hopelessly hilarious. Davina is the xmas tree lady

Two things 1, we needed Eric yelling 'That f***ing sound!' 2, We need them to finish The Sarah Jane Adventures! It's the best part of the revival!

I absolutely loved this whole episode, especially the Sutekh reveal at the end (“Pyramids of Mars” is one of my favourite Classic Who stories!). We’re actually getting a special “Tales of the TARDIS” episode this week (a BBC exclusive mini-series which, until now has featured past companions and Doctors reuniting to reminisce about past adventures). This time, it’s going to be the 15th Doctor and Ruby talking about Sutekh. But, the BBC have made a special remastered, feature-length cut of “The Pyramids of Mars” with new VFX, which’ll be shown as part of it. I don’t know if you’ll get it in the U.S.A. or not, but it’s on Thursday.😁👏