Editor’s Note: The following includes spoilers for Doctor Who Season 1 finale.

As an additional season of Doctor Who wraps up, so does an additional mystery about a companion’s accurate identity or a threat that may possibly just destroy the Earth. This time, two-parter “The Legend of Ruby Sunday”/”Empire of Death” covered each grounds by revealing the origins of the titular companion (Millie Gibson), and bringing back the god of death Sutekh, who produced his debut all the way back in the Fourth Doctor’s (Tom Baker) era. After browsing for her birth mother for eight episodes, Ruby Sunday ultimately finds her and discovers that she is practically nothing additional than a completely ordinary lady, which is in fact sort of neat. As for the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa), he measures his strength against an entity that is not just a menace to our beloved house planet, but to the entirety of existence. At the finish, with the support of his mates and a small mystery up his sleeve, he prevails, and humanity is saved as soon as additional. Ruby says farewell to the TARDIS and leaves to invest some top quality time with her birth mother, and the Doctor jumps to the subsequent adventure. The finish.

Okay, not the finish. All of that is extremely fine and dandy, but the story of Doctor Who is not almost more than. Heck, it hasn’t been even close to a appropriate finish because 1963! So, of course, there are some cliffhangers lingering in the air, as nicely as some concerns that may possibly nevertheless get answered in an upcoming season. Still, the wait is lengthy, and we will have to bide our time as we attempt to locate the appropriate resolution to some critical puzzles. Here are the 5 most pressing concerns Doctor Who much better answer when it returns for Season 2.

Doctor Who

The show follows the adventures of a Time Lord, “The Doctor,” who is in a position to regenerate, and the Doctor’s human mates. The Doctor and his companions journey via time and space in the TARDIS – a time-traveling ship shaped like a police box – saving the universe with a mixture of wit, bravery, and kindness.

Release Date

March 17, 2006

Main Genre

Sci-Fi

Seasons

14

Studio

BBC America

Streaming Service(s)

Disney+

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We Still Don’t Know Who Mrs. Flood Is

This is probably the major query on everyone’s minds, what with that final scene of Mrs. Flood (Anita Dobson) standing atop Ruby’s roof in winter-y attire, promising absolute terror for the Doctor’s future. For a massive chunk of the revamped show’s new 1st season, Mrs. Flood appears to be practically nothing additional than a nosy neighbor to Ruby and her household. A nosy neighbor who, bizarrely, by no means troubles herself with the new, interstellar developments taking location about her house, but a nosy neighbor nonetheless. Our perception of her begins to shift when Sutekh (voiced by Gabriel Woolf) requires handle of component of humanity. Suddenly, she becomes a harbinger of death and doom, totally conscious of the horrors that are to come. This can effortlessly be explained, having said that, by the entire possession point, but what about that ending, even though? What does it imply for her character and for the upcoming Christmas specific?

Maybe it does not genuinely imply something, at least on the Christmas front. After all, Anita Dobson herself has spoken about how fans will discover about her character in the show’s second season, so possibly Christmas will not be her time to shine but. Still, there is no denying that Mrs. Flood is substantially additional than a frequent human becoming. Around the internet, theories abound: could she be a new incarnation of the Master, or the Rani, or possibly an additional god in the pantheon from which Sutekh, Maestro (Jinkx Monsoon), and the Toymaker (Neil Patrick Harris) emerged? Perhaps she’s an completely new villain — a villain connected to Ruby’s previous. Let’s not overlook the reality that Mrs. Flood’s final look has her surrounded by snow, substantially like what occurred to Ruby anytime she believed of the evening she was left on the actions of the church on Ruby Road. Is this an omen of sorts? Or is it just a coincidence, and the snow conjured up by Ruby was merely an impact of memory operating like a time machine?

Is Ruby Sunday Truly Gone From ‘Doctor Who’?

Speaking of Ruby, is “Empire of Death” definitely the finish of her story? Initially, it confident appears like it: upon locating her birth mom, Ruby says goodbye to the TARDIS in a uncommon healthful companion exit. There is no death, no memory wipe, not a single person trapped in an additional dimension or time period. It is just a heartwarming conclusion to an adventure that we normally knew would sooner or later come to an finish. However, showrunner Russell T. Davies has currently place a quit to the rumor mill that was creating news of Millie Gibson’s departure from the show. Davies has produced it quite clear that “we were ordered for two years of a series off Disney, and we’re delivering two years, and the Ruby Sunday story literally spans those two years.”

So, possibly, as an alternative of questioning no matter if Ruby Sunday will come back, we need to be asking ourselves how she will return. Her goodbye appears quite definitive, soon after all. Sure, at 1st, she tends to make it look like she’s just going to catch up with her mom for a though prior to hopping back on the TARDIS, but it quickly becomes clear that she just does not want to upset the Doctor. Once he tells her that it really is all okay, she leaves to get pleasure from the life that she normally dreamed of. With all that in thoughts, what could possibly make her return to a life of adventures via time and space? It is also recognized that an additional companion, played by Varada Sethu, will also be joining Team TARDIS, so possibly she will have some thing to do with Ruby’s return. Or possibly it really is all connected to Mrs. Flood…

Will the Doctor Be Reunited With His Granddaughter Susan?

Another character whose return has been lengthy awaited by Doctor Who fans is Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford), the Doctor’s granddaughter and extremely 1st companion — or assistant, as they had been referred to as back in the day. Callously ditched by her grandfather (William Hartnell) on Earth soon after falling in like with a human freedom fighter in the 1964 serial “The Dalek Invasion of Earth”, Susan is believed to be dead by the Doctor, killed by the Master-induced explosion that wiped out all the Time Lords in “The Timeless Child”. However, upon operating into a villain who utilizes her name to lure him into a trap, the Doctor is clearly emotional and hopeful, so possibly not all is lost. It would not be the extremely 1st retcon in Doctor Who‘s history for the showrunners to bring Susan back. Just feel of all the instances the Master and even the Time Lords as a entire have died and then returned. So, with all the mentions of Susan this season — the Doctor also tells Ruby about her in “The Devil’s Chord” — could Russell T. Davies be arranging a return? Carole Ann Ford confident is on board with it, and, in her personal words, “the mind boggles with all the many ways Susan could come back.”

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Will the Doctor Find His Own Birth Family?

The Doctor’s Gallifreyan household is not the only 1 that has been lurking in our minds, totally absent from view. During the Thirteenth Doctor’s (Jodie Whittaker) era, it is revealed that the Doctor is not initially from Gallifrey, but from an unknown planet. Much like Ruby, he is a foundling, taken to his adoptive planet by a scientist referred to as Tecteun (Seylan Baxter), who wipes his memory and experiments on him to extract the energy of regeneration that was then passed to other Time Lords. In a nutshell, devoid of the Doctor, Gallifreyan society as we know it may possibly by no means have existed. But what occurred to the other societies in which this regeneration energy was seemingly popular prior to the Doctor’s encounter with Tecteun?

Now, the new Season 1 of Doctor Who was all about the value of locating one’s origins. Ruby’s adoption story could have gone lots of methods, but the writers chose to give weight to her reunion with her birth mother. All of that with Ruby getting a fantastic connection with her adoptive household. Thus, we can only picture how locating your roots have to be vital for a person like the Doctor, who was normally mistreated by these who raised him. Will Season 2 of the show choose up from exactly where Season 1 left off regarding biological and adoptive households, then reveal the Doctor’s accurate identity? Thematically speaking, at least, it would make a lot of sense.

What Happened to the Master?

Now, this query is probably associated to our extremely 1st 1, but if Mrs. Flood turns out to be a person else completely, we will nevertheless have the matter of what occurred to the Master (final observed played by Sacha Dhawan) to contend with. On the brink of death, he lost a game to the Toymaker and, as punishment, was miniaturized and imprisoned inside a gold tooth. This is revealed to us in “The Giggle,” the extremely identical specific in which the Fourteenth Doctor (David Tennant) bi-generates into the Fifteenth. Together, the two Doctors handle to beat the Toymaker at his personal game and banish him from this planet. As he disappears, even though, his gold tooth remains behind and is final observed becoming picked up by a mysterious hand. Whose hand is it, and what plans does its owner have for the Master? The classic villain is as quintessential to Doctor Who as the Daleks and the Cybermen, so could he be brought back for Season 2? Season 1 was all about maintaining the most overused Doctor Who baddies at bay, but possibly Davies will have a various strategy for his sophomore run. Either way, what occurred to the gold tooth remains a mystery.

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