Ruby’s mother was Darth Vader?!

GODDAMNIT, now we have to wait until Christmas (apparently Moffat’s writing this year’s) for more Ncuti, eight episodes (nine with Christmas special) really wasn’t enough, especially when he was barely in two of them… But all right Davies, I’ll concede those misgivings and reservations I had about your return have proven mostly unjustified, you actually generally pulled it off. Bluesky is mixed about the finale, seems mostly divided between “greatest thing since sliced bread” and “eh, it was OK” with a scattering of “what the fuck was THAT bullshit” in the mix; I imagine Twitter is mostly the latter, and there’ll be a bunch of that from the Youtube grifters…

And I can understand why to some extent, cos the ultimate revelation of Ruby’s mother is nothing if not out of fucking NOWHERE (parenthetically, it also answers the question of Ruby’s dad which has gone noticeably unasked throughout the series)… but in a way that I personally actually rather liked. I think Sutekh was, in the end, dealt with kind of… easily given he’s a god who’s just destroyed all life in the universe, and on the whole the script is a bit unbalanced; even with another ten minutes to play with, it still felt wobbly and stumbly at the end. I’ve seen a few comments that this episode should’ve been split in two itself, and maybe that wouldn’t have been a bad idea, maybe it could’ve clarified a few points. I don’t know.

On the whole, though, I’ve enjoyed this whole season a damn sight more than I ever expected to. So yeah, props to Rusty for getting things mostly right. Maybe we’ll find out who Mrs Flood is in the next series, too…