“There’s always a twist at the end”says the 15th Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) at the end of the music-heavy episode The Devil’s Other String, after Maestro (Jinkx Monsoon) has been defeated with the help of the Beatles. The rest of the Doctor Who episode is presented as a music video, but the swinging hips are not the only “twist”which is meant here.
Since the beginning of the current era, when the British sci-fi institution became available internationally on Disney+, showrunner Russell T. Davies and his team have been preparing a revelation whose clues are becoming increasingly obvious. The pivotal point is not one, but ae Twist.
Sci-Fi twist in Doctor Who on Disney+: The clues are so obviously hidden
A twist is not only the surprising turn within a story (as is definitely prepared here) and a dance popular in the 60s. Another example is Susan Twist – a real British actress who has appeared in every new episode of the current Doctor Who season since the three-part special. Each time as an inconspicuous supporting character. And what did the Doctor say again? “There’s always a twist at the end”… Correct, Susan Twist at the end of each episode in the credits.
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Susan Twist in Doctor Who
Twist played Mrs. Merridew opposite Isaac Newton in the special episode In the Blue, a concertgoer in the Christmas episode From Heaven Up, Comms Officer Gina Scalzi in the episode Space Babies, the snarky cafeteria clerk in The Devil’s Other String, the avatar of the digital ambulance system in Boom, and the hiker who meets Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) in 73 Yards. It’s almost guaranteed that she will appear in the coming chapters. The only question is how long they delay the reveal.
Timey-Wimey theories about the big twist secret in Doctor Who
Doctor Who now has a lot of Disney money, so it is safe to assume that the sci-fi series did not run out of actresses, as the showrunner justified with a wink during an episode commentary. Rather, Russel T. Davies was probably amused by the idea that to create a twist around a real Susan Twist. But which one?
We know from the Toymaker (Neil Patrick Harris) and his musical offspring Maestro that The One Who Waits a rather powerful and probably sinister figure is coming our way. Is the waiting, lurking doom an inconspicuous lady who is more or less secretly rubbed under our noses from the very beginning? Another space and time deity for whom the rules of reality only apply to a limited extent?
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Does she perhaps even have something to do with the mystery surrounding Ruby’s neighbor? Mrs Flood (Anita Dobson), who broke the fourth wall at the end of the Christmas episode to ask the audience if they had never seen a TARDIS? Or is there another Time Lady behind the secret? A new incarnation of Missy, the female Master? Or even the granddaughter Susan mentioned earlier this season, who was with the first Doctor at the beginning of the series in 1963?
It continues next Saturday, June 1, 2024 with the episode Dot and Bubble on Disney+.