A Flood Of Theories About Doctor Who

Hey, I was right about this one, wasn't I? Eventually?

Back in January, I first picked up on suggestions that Susan Twist was a recurring actor (only having appeared twice at that point) and that something was odd. And suggested that she could be linked to Susan, the Doctor’s granddaughter, as The One Who Waits. I think I may have been the first to write such an article.

Of course, there were hundreds of articles from other people since. But I also noted in The Devil’s Chord, a scene that was very close to Pyramids Of Mars, which is where the suggestions that this may be Sutekh first popped in.

Earlier this week I went full Sutekh, noting everything from the sounds the TARDIS was making, the use of triangles, number threes and pyramids, as well as the themes of changing time, and yes, the whole “Sue Tekh” thing. So, I had a little smug face this morning. In for a penny, what else is going on here?

As for the identity of Ruby Sunday or her mother, I have nothing. I am giving you nothing. But I did notice something about Mrs Flood. She knows the TARDIS, can talk to the audience, is mean, knows about Sutekh’s coming but, notably, is not one of his minions, She is her own thing and lives next door to Ruby.

Her name links to River Song/Amy Pond, perhaps. But her clothes suggest a different companion entirely. This is how she appeared.

And this is how Clara Oswald looked the last time we saw her.

Clara was off in time and space with Me, in her own diner starship, living her life, in the last second before she dies. In these clothes.

I am not saying that Mrs Flood is Clara. But the link is a deliberate one, yes? It may be worth noting that in Pyramids Of Mars, Sarah Jane Smith wears a dress previously worn by the companion Victoria a decade ago, that she finds in the TARDIS wardrobe.

It is neat that the Doctor has had his family out of order, had a grandchild but yet to have children. Which means that Susan is a foundling as well as the Doctor and Ruby. WIll she actually return next week, along with potentially Sean Pertwee playing the Third Doctor?

And why oh why is Kate Stuart adding the double-barrelled Lethbridge back into her name? No amount of Susan Twist dancing like Theresa May can distract me from that.

Those in the US can find Pyramids Of Mars on Tubi and in the UK on the iPlayer, and odds are that the upcoming Tales Of The TARDIS recut of an old series with Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson doing bookends will bring Ruby Sunday up to speed with the Fourth Doctor story, and just who Sutekh is anyway.

I wonder what the next Twist at the end will be?