This text accommodates spoilers for “Physician Who” season 2, episode 7, “The Want World.”
The penultimate episode of “Physician Who” season 2 is right here, and it makes a spirited try to shatter all of the data within the coveted “most Time Lords in an episode not set on Gallifrey” class. Other than two totally different variations of a basic Time Girl antagonist, the Rani (Archie Panjabi) and Mrs. Flood (Anita Dobson), there’s the Physician (Ncuti Gatwa) himself … and arguably his mysterious granddaughter Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford), relying on which model of her quite a few backstories the viewer chooses to consider. Oh, and if that checklist wasn’t sufficient, the episode additionally wheels out a really deep Gallifrey lower: Omega.
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Initially performed by Stephen Thorne, this specific Time Lord is most infamous for his function because the villain of the primary multi-Physician story arc ever: the 1972-1973 serial “The Three Docs,” which mixed the would possibly of the Physician’s first (William Hartnell), second (Patrick Troughton), and third (Jon Pertwee) incarnations. In 1983, Omega briefly returned to cosplay because the Fifth Physician (Peter Davison) within the “Arc of Infinity” serial, however his solely on-screen look after the present’s revival has been a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo in “Physician Who” sequence 12, episode 10, “The Timeless Youngsters,” in 2020.
Because the Rani makes clear, that is about to vary. The purpose of her Might 24 Want World plan is to liberate Omega from the Underverse, to the nice detriment of each planet Earth and the very material of actuality. Omega is just not truly seen within the episode, however an ominous voice broadcasts his coming, so the season finale will very probably amend that. As such, it is a good time to debate what the shock Time Lord in “Physician Who” season 2 is all about.
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Omega is an antimatter fiend and an vital determine in Gallifrey’s historical past
Omega’s start identify is Peylix, and he is an engineer who acquired his ominous-sounding nickname from a traditionally unhealthy take a look at rating (sure, actually). Regardless of this considerably underwhelming origin story, nevertheless, he is removed from a pushover. One of many first Time Lords and the legendary Gallifreyan chief Rassilon’s previous good friend, Omega grew to become a key determine in growing the Time Lords’ time journey know-how. After assorted science-themed adventures and technological power-ups, he then bought caught in a supernova explosion and was presumed useless.
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The rumors of his loss of life finally turned out to be exaggerated. As a substitute of dying within the gigantic explosion, a black gap transported Omega into the anti-matter universe. He subsequently spent hundreds of years trapped there and slowly misplaced his bodily physique till he was little greater than a disembodied thoughts inside an imposing swimsuit of armor. Regardless of his situation, he wields nearly limitless energy, together with the power to show the darkest crevices of his thoughts into harmful monsters that may very a lot assault bodily beings. Twisted, treacherous, and tragic, Omega is a lonely pressure of universe-ending malevolence whose energy degree is on par with nearly every other villain the present might throw on the Physician.
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May Omega have ties to the Pantheon of Discord?
As a relatively obscure, very old-school villain who makes his presence identified within the penultimate episode, Omega’s function within the season 2 narrative is much like that of “Physician Who” large unhealthy Sutekh (voiced by Gabriel Woolf) in season 1. Actually, their roles within the grand scheme of issues might transform much more related than it appears.
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Sutekh is — or, somewhat, was — the God of Loss of life in a bunch of extra-universal deities referred to as the Pantheon of Discord. The Pantheon has been a recurring enemy all through the fifteenth Physician’s life, to the purpose that he bi-generated in the course of a boss combat in opposition to the Celestial Toymaker, aka the God of Video games (“How I Met Your Mom” star Neil Patrick Harris). Since then, the Physician has confronted Maestro (the God of Music, performed by Jinkx Monsoon), Sutekh, and Lux Imperator (the God of Mild, as voiced by Alan Cumming), outplaying each one in every of them. As Omega’s reemergence is fueled by Desidirium, the toddler God of Needs, the Pantheon is as soon as once more current within the season 2 finale. This already ties Omega into their actions, and because it occurs, the identify the Rani offers to his jail universe is “Underverse.” This appears very near the Beneath-Universe, which in flip is related to the Toymaker’s area.
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For a superb whereas now, the Physician’s battles with the person gods have seemingly teased an upcoming large-scale Pantheon risk. That potential arc will virtually actually have to attend till “Physician Who” season 3, however the season 2 finale would possibly nonetheless remind us that multiple Pantheon member can flip up in a single episode … presumably by establishing Omega as a Pantheon member or by backing his look up with a Toymaker cameo.
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