Warning: This text incorporates reasonable spoilers for Physician Who: “The Giggle.”
Physician Who ended its trio of sixtieth anniversary specials within the excellent method, with one foot affectionately up to now and one very a lot able to run into the longer term. In addition to a companion from the traditional sequence coming again, we bought Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Physician making his grand debut as he took up the baton (or sonic screwdriver) from David Tennant’s Fourteen in a most unusual trend.
What’s extra, we additionally bought Neil Patrick Harris taking part in the Toymaker, some of the highly effective villains within the Whoniverse’s pantheon who hasn’t been seen on display since 1966. And but, regardless of his immense reality-warping skills, we be taught in particular 3, “The Giggle,” that there’s somebody on the market who’s much more highly effective. So who’s “The One Who Waits?”
The One Who Waits positive seems like Physician Who‘s subsequent large unhealthy
When taking part in a sport of playing cards with the Physician within the episode, the Toymaker makes clear that he’s critical enterprise by itemizing off his spectacular accomplishments.
“I performed all of them, Physician. I toyed with supernovas, turned galaxies into spin tops. I gambled with God and made him a jack-in-the-box. I made a jigsaw out of your historical past,” he intones. “The Grasp was dying and begged for his life with one closing sport and when he misplaced I sealed him for all eternity in my gold tooth.”
And but, the Toymaker admits there’s one being in the entire universe that he fears. “There’s just one participant I didn’t dare face, The One Who Waits,” he teases. “I noticed it hiding and I ran. That’s another person’s sport.”
Elsewhere in “The Giggle,” the Physician describes the Toymaker as an “elemental drive,” whereas the character himself reveals that his bodily type is however “a face concealing a vastness that may by no means stop.” In different phrases, this man is a giant deal, and but this mysterious One Who Waits has even him sweating.
Seeing as that is the second time in three episodes that we’ve had an ominous little bit of foreshadowing, presumably The One Who Waits is similar enigmatic foe that The Meep from “The Star Beast” described as “The Boss.” At that time, we thought they had been speaking in regards to the Toymaker himself, however clearly that’s not the case anymore. Though why a villain who terrifies a person who can gamble with God would rent a two-bit prison like The Meep as his lackey is a complete different thriller.
There are numerous cosmically highly effective species from Physician Who historical past that The One Who Waits may belong to — the Eternals spring to thoughts. No, not the Marvel ones; an ageless godlike race from 1983 story “Enlightenment.” Though, having mentioned that, The One Who Waits does have a really He Who Stays ring to it. If Ncuti Gatwa’s Time Lord groups up with Tom Hiddleston’s Time God in some future Loki crossover on Disney Plus, we is not going to complain.
