Doctor Who fans assume they may have found out what the Rani are as much as, after the BBC aired the penultimate episode of the sci-fi present’s fifteenth season.
Spoilers comply with.
The seventh episode, Wish World, noticed the bigenerated Rani (performed by Anita Dobson and Archi Punjabi) reveal themselves to a disorientated Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa).
Except it wasn’t the Doctor, it was one John Smith (we’re on the finish of the season, so the idea-well is drying up), who was fortunately married to Belinda (Varada Sethu) with a sprog as well.
Into this image of home bliss burst the villain-filled actuality Whovians are accustomed to – they usually had a monologue up their sleeves.
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Reya’s (Punjabi) speechifying may need been self-aware – with a playful ‘exposition’ joke within the combine – nevertheless it nonetheless fell into the sticky cliché of getting a villain let you know who they’re and what they’re about to do to avoid wasting the writers the job of ceding that data organically.
It was right here that the Rani lastly revealed what precisely they’re as much as. Sort of. But Whovians assume they’ve gone the additional mile and found out the remaining.
The dastardly Rani plans to dig beneath the floor of this actuality to search out Omega, an omnipotent entity from olde worldy Time Lord historical past.
In attempting to jog the Doctor’s reminiscence after his humdrum suburban fugue state, Reya defined: ‘We are the last Time Lord and the last Time Lady from the planet Gallifrey.’
She additionally enigmatically added: ‘The tragedy is we were never enemies. Every villain you ever fought wanted death. I only wanted life. Remember?’
This wrinkle has left many fans questioning if the Rani is likely to be out to resurrect Gallifrey and the Time Lords, as a substitute of the traditional laying waste MO we get from most villains.
Ardent Whovians instantly sprung on Reddit to theorise what it’d all imply. @Grafikpapst wrote: ‘She wants to bring the Time Lords back. He is the scientist that created the Timelords. He is also the greatest mind Gallifrey ever had, so The Rani is probably a very big fan, seeing as she too is a scientist at heart.’
@yeblod agreed, writing: ‘I get the vibe she wants to recreate/repopulate Gallifrey, especially with all the focus on The Doctor and the Rani being the last two of their species.’
A 3rd @Marcuse0 echoed: ‘She does specifically tell the Doctor his other enemies wanted death and she wants life. Bringing Gallifrey back again seems like a safe bet for her intentions.’
However, this wasn’t the one principle floated. One @acetrainerandrew recommended the reveal may tie again into final season’s Wild Blue Yonder, writing: ‘My guess is that she’s attempting to determine how magic works so she will undo what the Doctor did in Wild Blue Yonder and put the universe again the way it was earlier than magic was a factor.
‘Omega is one of the Time Lords who helped establish the Laws of Time as they exist now, so maybe he’s a crucial a part of that plan?’
We’ll must tune in subsequent Saturday to know for certain.
The Doctor Who finale, The Reality War, airs on Saturday, May 31, on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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