History of Sutekh from Doctor Who
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- If you've seen the most recent episode of Doctor Who, "The Legend of Ruby Sunday," you might have some questions about who Sutekh is. If you haven't seen it yet, click away because I'm about to discuss some massive spoilers from that episode.
At the end of the episode, the Doctor realizes that the strange sound he's been hearing coming from the TARDIS is a being that had wrapped and cloaked itself around the TARDIS. The being was revealed to be Sutekh, a God-like being introduced in the classic Doctor Who era. Additionally, he has also appeared in Doctor Who comics and audio series.
The History of Sutekh
Sutekh first appeared in the 13th season of Doctor Who in the episode "Pyramids of Mars." In this story, Professor Scarman accidentally unleashes Sutekh, an Osirian, after discovering a hidden tomb in Egypt. Sutekh had been imprisoned by his brother Horus for wanting to destroy the universe.
Due to their long lifespan and moral code, the Osirians chose to trap Sutekh rather than kill him. They used a signal from a pyramid on Mars, the Eye of Horus, to keep him paralyzed. However, Sutekh could still control minds and reanimate corpses. Which he then used to manipulate Professor Scarman into building a missile to destroy the signal.
Sutekh "Pyramids of Mars" Circa 1975
The Doctor and Sarah Jane intervened, but Sutekh's backup plan involved taking control of the Doctor and forcing him to take the TARDIS to Mars so Professor Scarman could destroy the Eye of Horus. The Doctor, realizing the time delay in radio signals, used the TARDIS to move the threshold of the tunnel that Sutekh was using to the far future. This meant that Sutekh would never actually be able to get out of the tunnel. Meaning he would essentially age to death, despite his incredibly long lifespan.
Sutekh in Doctor Who Comics and Audio Dramas
Sutekh's story continued in comics and audio dramas. In a 10th Doctor comic, he escaped his fate by stepping into the void, as seen in "Doomsday." From there, he planted a seed in his son Anubis's mind. Later taking over his body to enact a plan to escape the void. He partnered with other god-like beings but was foiled by Dorothy Bell, who trapped him in her embrace and returned them both to the void.
Sutekh also faced the Doctor in Big Finish audio dramas like "The Pyramids of Sutekh," "The Eye of Horus," "The Tears of Isis," and "Kill the Doctor in the Age of Sutekh." Before the recent episode of Doctor Who, Sutekh was considered trapped in some way, regardless of the medium. The explanation for his return and entanglement with the Tardis remains to be seen in the next episode.
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We've very rarely (especially in the new series) seen The Doctor facing an enemy far superior to himself.
You underestimate the power of the ultimate CHERRY SUNDAY
@@GenericUsernameOfAll Or Jackie Tyler!
But he's not superior. Sutekh got his butt whooped by the Doctor several times
@@Merlynoflore Only once onscreen. If you're referring to other media, I don't count those.
Mmmh, just in this season he faced 2 gods 😂
“Evil? Your Evil is my good! I am Sutekh the Destroyer, where I tread I leave nothing but dust and darkness… I find that good!” -Sutekh
"I sutekh bring the gift of milk"
@@jmorton201 i think my favourite gift of Sutekh’s is Jelly
@@lewischerry3552 Is that in the doco? When Sutekh is the milkman?
My favorite part of Pyramids was how dismissive of the Timelords Sutekh was.
"I BRING SUTEKHS'S GIFT OF DEATH!"
to all humans!
Most badass line of the show ever. The whole scene, 'Abase yourself, you groveling insect!"' so awesome.
@@craigixRemember it well
@@terminater996not just humans
The entire universe
Thank you! I'm not well versed in classic who lore and i indeed need this explainer!
If you're in the US then Classic Who is on Tubi for free. Pyramids of Mars is one of the best story arcs ever.
@@forrestpenrod2294 it's my fav classic story and gabriel woolf is so iconic
Think back to the first time the tardis made that strange noise, I think the noise is the tardis growling like a trapped animal. The first time was in wild blue yonder which is where the toymaker came through, being outside of reality maybe it latches onto the tardis from there
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. A piece of his consciousness latched on to the TARDIS and bid it's time to grow stronger.
Exactly, I don't think the tardis is evil now, I think this being is on a god level and the tardis knows this, it's like a wounded animal just doing what it says until it lets her go
My god you got this video out quick! Bravo
Hope you enjoyed it!
In PYRAMIDS OF MARS it was possible for SUTEKH to get an image inside the TARDIS so he may have been inside for a while.
Considering the TARDIS has gone through a lot since then he may have slipped out
loved this episode and cant wait for the continuation. I love how Sutekh looks
While I appreciate the spoiler warning at the start of the video, the biggest spoiler is just straight up in the video title, so...
Noted!
Where do young Osirons go to University…
Su-Tech
LMAO.
🤦🏻♂️😂
Yeah I think they were telling those jokes in the 70s too.
😆😆😆
That's technical college if you don't mind. 🫡
So Osirans seem to be a type of being that was heavily active in the universe and there were many of them. They also seemed to have normal, if advanced, technologies such as robots. All in all they were powerful and god-like, but not in any way shape beings from outside the realm of reality.
And now Sutekh is suddenly a being from outside the universe and is also the supposed father of ALL the gods from outside the universe? How does that connect to the Osirans? Were the Osirans always from outside the universe? Do the other Osirans have pantheons of children? Are the other Osirans still around?
This episode raises so many questions.
The theme of the season seems to be supposed myths and legends turning into real myths and legends, logic falling apart. Sutekh, wanting to be seen as a god, ever since that line of salt was drawn, has thus been able to fully manifest into the deity that he wanted to be. That is how I see it, at least.
The dead pilot of the ship in ‘Wild Blue Yonder’ who was tethered outside the ship looked like an Osiran. I think the Osirans had powers that made them god-like to humans, and they were clearly worshipped like gods. They could easily have been from another universe. Hopefully we will find out some more backstory.
In the comics, Osirans were SO much advanced that they constantly looked through multiverses so they could build entire timelines based on perfection, they used some kind of weird technology to ascend to the 4th dimension, leaving only Anubis left behind
Thank you!!! So excited for the next episode!
I grew up with Tom Baker and I still have a soft spot for him as the Doctor. The Pyramids of Mars was always one of my favorites. I was excited to see the callback to those old episodes.
It will be exciting to see how many people will go back and watch the classic series because of the Sutekh storyline.
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Thank you, I didn't know enough about Classic Who and your explanation really helps.
The tom baker era is the best ever.some of the best stories to.
People are missing one key detail.
The doctor copied his tardis with the toymakers hammer, thus, the toymaker could have corrupted the duplicate Tardis.
oh thats smart
But the first TARDIS groan was in Wild Blue Yonder, which was before the TARDIS was duplicated
@@edwardlewis1119 wobbly wobbly times wimey, it's a time machine, events don't have to be in linear order.
Hope the people who were gonna click away when given the spoiler warning didn’t read the description before they started
Since the Doctor is no longer a Time Lord and is supposedly immortal maybe he is Sutekh's brother Horus and has just forgotten?
Oh that's a very interesting theory
I remember the first part of the Classic Doctor Who (Tom Baker) where the episode begins with the Doctor and Sarah supposedly going to Unit, only the Doctor realized as usual he got the time period wrong. So it doesn't make a big deal about UNIT putting it's base on the same spot where Sutesh was supposed to be, there's enough of a hint there to suppose there could be a reunion. And that's what we have now! 😮
so happy he's back! still hoping for a trixter storyline but i guess if they do that it would be in season 2
Nice recap! This was the most excited I've been about Doctor Who for a very long time.
If you don't know Sutekh then you really need to remember that there was a series before 2005 and a very good one in lots of places
Listening to the commentary, I'm not sure she's actually seen the series.
If it's not on screen, it's irrelevant
I thought Pyramids of Mars was actually scarier. The original voice actor of Sutukeh,Gabriel Woolf on Pyramids of Mars is also the voice of Sutekh now. 49 years!
It's really awesome that they kept the same actor
@templeofgeek I think it is too. I know Part 2 will be Good!
Simple rule of thumb: If it ain't on screen, then canon isn't seen. Basically canon only relates to on screen media as that is the most consuming audience.
What’s wrong with the audio???
its just low quality I think
Sequels ruin everything.
When heroes or villains never die or are brought back there is no point in caring they died in the first place
In this case Sutekh didn’t die. He was trapped in a time tunnel. It was presumed he would die eventually, because it would take thousands of years to reach the end of it, but he could have been released just a short while later, and Osirans live for thousands of years. He had already been imprisoned once for thousands of years. The Doctor was vague, unsure of their lifespan and the length of the tunnel, and just assumed he would die. I agree with you when you see a definitive end to a character it should be left alone, but that isn’t what happened here and given his god-like powers it would be more likely than not he would survive and eventually gain his freedom.
Thank you so much for the explanation. However I did find the auto tune abit jarring and felt like you did not need it since your natural voice sounds great!
I thought the bulk of the episode was kind of meh, but the reveal of Sutekh completely blew me away! I did not see that coming (shows my social media presence, or lack thereof) !
What could be the case is the doctor underestimated sutekhs abilities and the time loop he made wasn’t strong enough and eventually through the flux he became with the tardis or maybe a part of sutekh got through the tunnel and latched himself to the piece of the tardis the doctor used to trap him eventually during the flux or something sutekh fully latches with it idk
Ooooo love this! The flux event was a wild time, so possibly
Why are you saying doctor poo?
Sort your audio out. Terrible.
SPOILERS!!!
Please don't put the spoilers in thumbnail and title so early on. Luckily I've already seen it but so many people won't have and this will totally ruin it for them.
Yeah, honestly... spoiled the episode for me and I'm sure many others
Welcome to the internet, we have hats
It said nothing about the recent episode on the thumbnail tho?
@@robbieblyghton6494 I think tbf they’ve changed the name of the video now, before it said something like ‘Sutekh from the legend of Ruby Sunday’
@@robbieblyghton6494Ah pretty sure she might have changed it!
I'm old enough to just about remember seeing 'Pyramids of Mars' when it was first broadcast. I think you can make an argument that Sutekh is Doctor Who's greatest villain, even though he appeared in only one serial up until last night. Gabriel Woolf's voice acting is just peerless, and it's great that he's back.
I think rubys mother is the trickster. Planted in the doctors life for it to feed from his anachronism. Plus they wear a trickster like cloke
I liked The Legend of Ruby Sunday, I think. My only gripe with it is that, unless they explain why this version of Sutekh is much more powerful, they retconned him. Because, as you said, Sutekh was never actually a true god, merely a mortal with god-like powers from a species called the Osirans. Certainly much, much weaker than a being like the toymaker.
I don't mind this Sutekh being an actual god, but I'd like an explanation, otherwise I need to headcanon this shit again...
I'm guessing they gonna maybe have to original form of him bieng a imposter someone only pretending to be a God or something Like that
I just saw "Pyramids of Mars" last month, and Sutekh was much more than " merely a mortal with god-like powers." It was only through the combined strength of the other Osirans that he was defeated.
He was capable of destroying world, as the Doctor demonstrated to Sarah Jane, and one of only two adversaries that the Doctor openly admitted he feared (the other one being the Great One from "Planet of the Spiders").
@@seanryan3020 I just rewatched "Pyramids of Mars" myself and it's made very clear that Sutekh is just an alien with godlike powers, not a true god.
1.) He is an Osiran from the planet Phaester Osiris (therefore an alien) with a single physical body (the Doctor even makes a reference to Osiran physiology)
2.) he could be trapped by technology, a forcefield specifically and relies himself on technology in his imprisonment. Compare that to the Toymaker. The thought of trapping a being like that with mere technology is laughable.
3.) he has a lifespan of about 7000 years (therefore mortal) That's how the doctor defeats him in the first place by shifting the end of the space-time tunnel into the far future so that Sutekh cannot reach the end alive
Sure, he is apparently more powerful than other Osirans, but that doesn't make him a true god.
And yes, the doctor calls him "all-powerful" and "the most dangerous villain" he has faced (or something to that effect, the precise words elude me right now), but this is the Fourth Doctor we're talking about, he always tends towards the melodramatic...
Now, in The Legend of Ruby Sunday, all of that seems to have changed. Like I said, I don't mind, but so far, it's unexplained. Maybe the Osiran Sutekh was so much more powerful than his peers because he was an incarnation or avatar of the true god Sutekh?
@@Amaryllon 73 episodes!
72 episodes!
@@seanryan3020 I beg your pardon? I don't understand what you're saying.
Do you think Sutekh could take on Thantos from Avengers. Or how would Sutekh do up against Q??
All Praise Sutekh!!!!!
i went and watched again. its not very complicated the original 4 episodes but was good to go back and watch it
It's on Tubi
@@seanryan3020 I have 12th and up series recorded
Loved getting to do this explainer for Sutekh and so glad that people are liking this video! I do recommend checking out the episode if you're able though because there's another interesting parallel between Pyramids of Mars and Devil's Chord 👀
You're the best!
Dactar who
It has to be connected to one of the companions I would think...
is Ruby Satan claus
She does make it snow a lot.
My theory as to when Sutehk became entangled with the TARDIS, could be in the Tenant’s run, the TARDIS went to near the end of the universe to shake off Jack. However, it could be also the other few times, (after that event,) the TARDIS travelled that far in the future.
Or just Wild Blue Yonder? It was literally the edge of the universe (that's different from the end of the universe in Utopia) with the void beyond it, and the TARDIS was making that groaning sound since Wild Blue Yonder. And Harriet says that Sutekh has been waiting in the void
do something about your audio
Your evil is my good...
I’m looking forward to watching Four 0:06 deal with Sutekh. It’s been YEARS. New episode, super cool.
It's on Tubi
@@seanryan3020 Thank you I found it on Amazon! I liked it.
Such a good explanation, also that shirt I love it
Thanks! 😃
I am sorry, but it’s been like 12 hours since the episode came out. Could you please hide the spoiler in the title for a day or two at least 😕
It’s the biggest reveal of the season (or at least so far) and I am learning it throught your title 😅 Not happy about that…
Tbh how else would she be able to communicate what this video is about? Online spoilers are always a minefield the minute a show/film comes out but I can’t think of any other way to show what the video is without alluding to the episodes coming out.
Sure, it’s also my bad I went to RUclips, but I consider something of an internet etique that you don’t give the spoiler to “public” places without a warning at least 2 or 3 days after the episode airs.
And I think if you give it a little more effort you can think of a lot of possible alternatives. After all others have done it 🤷♂️ And in the times of chatGPT I guess you don’t even really have to think 😅
@@lukasmarek7353 true other titles probably do exist, and the new streaming model kinda sucks as you have to be careful on social media for nearly a full day (if you’re watching it later on or when it airs that is).
I respect the upload time, full respect
I predict that Ruby is Dorothy's daughter!
😮😮😮😮 That would be interesting
@@templeofgeek Their hair is the same color and so are their eyes.
You do know the spoiler is in your video's title right? lol
Hey. I don't want to rain on your parade but PLEASE either wait with the upload until the actual airdate has past, which is roughly 7pm in the UK. If that's not possible please, whovian to whovian could you not put any spoilers in the thumbnail, title or description. It spoilt the episode for me. Other than that I wish you luck with your youtube channel.
Noted!!
OMG So Sutekh is Involved in this Season all My Friends said it would Be the Case and I was also Hoping that would be the Case, I can't wait to see this Episode.
Great video subbed!
Thanks for the sub!
So you put the history of Sutekh as your title then mention the legend of Ruby Sunday, thanks for ruining this episode for me 😡
Apparently Sutekh is an anagram of Sue and Tech.
Yes, that'll work if you lose a letter and change one of the other ones.
Unbelievable.
At this point Russell T Davies is just insulting everyones intelligence.
That would've been a big deal if they had S.Triad Technology re-appear throughout the season. Without the "bait and switch" nature of swapping out the letter in the last minute to pull a "gotcha" on the viewers, it does not matter as it would've accomplished the same reveal regardless.
@@NoName1462 But Russell T Davis has the Doctor say " it was the wrong anagram" so even after the reveal he has the main character of the series ( well, that's a matter of opinion) look like an idiot.
At this point he just seems to be throwing as much as he can at the screen and hoping it sticks and I can't help feeling he's going to let a lot of people down.
c / k