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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Martin Belam

Doctor Who: Empire of Death – season one finale recap

Millie Gibson with Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor going through his PE teacher phase in Empire of Death.
Millie Gibson with Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor going through his PE teacher phase in Empire of Death. Photograph: James Pardon/Bad Wolf/BBC Studios

Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor nearly went full Nietzsche – “battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster” – in a universe-destroying whirlwind of an episode that revolved around family, time and memory.

Sutekh’s undoing in the end relied on him having become obsessed with the origin story of Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) which has played out across the season, and was resolved with her mother being just an ordinary woman who had given up her child as a vulnerable 15-year-old mother. A million complex social media fan theories were shattered.

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