Doctor Who Boss: You Should Be ‘Very’ Worried About Maestro’s ‘Very Wrong‘ Warning — WATCH
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The following contains spoilers from the second new Doctor Who episode, “The Devil’s Chord,” now streaming on Disney+.
It appears that something is quite wrong with Ruby Sunday, the Fifteenth Doctor’s newly recruited companion.
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In the second episode of Doctor Who Season 14 — which, to hear Disney+ tell it, is Season 1, Episode 3 (because they’re counting the “Church on Ruby Road” special) — the Doctor (played by Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) encountered a villain dubbed Maestro, played by RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars champ Jinkx Monsoon.
Maestro’s grand plan, since their release into our plane of existence in 1925 by a genius musician’s playing of the titular Devil’s Chord, is to deny the world music. So when the Doctor and Ruby embark on a lark to the 1960s, they find a reality in which, to put not too fine a point on it, the Beatles are awful.
As the Doctor tries to vanquish Maestro, we learn that this brand-new, brassy adversary is no less than Toymaker’s child, though there clearly us no love lost between them and the “Daddy” who was “so bad to me.”
Speaking of lineage, Maestro at one point during their face-off with Fifteen pauses to warn of Ruby, “this creature is very wrong.” This comes on the heels of Maestro being unnerved by the song they coax out of a bound-up Ruby (“Carol of the Bells”), after which they wonder if “The Oldest One” was present for the orphan’s birth.
How worried should we be for Ruby, given this “wrong” label applied to her, and the fact that the Doctor himself is running a covert DNA scan on his new companion?
“Oh, very,” showrunner Russell T Davies says in the video above (and below).
Referring to the scenes in the new episodes in which it improbably starts snowing, indoors, on the Doctor and Ruby, “Something happened on that Christmas Eve in 2004,” Davies notes. “Something extraordinary’s going on.
“I promise you, there are a lot of answers that we do deliver on that story,” the EP asserts, and it “all builds up to a titanic climax” featuring “some of Millie’s greatest acting, and Ncuti’s, as well. It’s really wonderful stuff.”
Davies goes on to also tease the nature of a mystery woman (played by Susan Twist) who appears in the background of both new episodes — first, in a video log on the “space babies” ship, and then as a cafeteria worker at the studio where the Beatles are recording.
“She seems to be playing a different person every time…. How can that be?” teases Davies. “There’s a climax to that, which is not what you’re expecting. It’s great.”
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