Doctor Who's Susans Twist, Ranked

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Tonight, Doctor Who’s latest season comes to an end, arsenic the Doctor and Ruby hole to conflict an almighty foe from the Time Lord’s past. But it besides means there’s 1 past accidental to spot the astir changeless of factors successful what has been a precise up-and-down season—one much quality from impermanent histrion Susan Twist, who’s been Doctor Who’s astir virtually named Easter ovum successful a precise agelong time.

Last we saw the erstwhile actress, Twist was playing Susan Triad—the nebulous Tech mogul caput of Triad Technologies—who was revealed to beryllium a herald of nary different than Sutekh, the God of Death, a classical Who villain not seen on-screen successful 50 years. But Triad was lone the latest successful a agelong line. It’s been the meatiest of the roles, but Twist has appeared successful each occurrence of Doctor Who since past year’s Christmas special, “The Church connected Ruby Road” (and adjacent appeared earlier that, successful Who’s 60th day specials), playing antithetic characters unified crossed clip and abstraction by her mysterious visage.

What that’s really meant yet? That remains to beryllium seen, different than arsenic a tease for Sutekh’s inevitable rise—“The Legend of Ruby Sunday” climaxes with Triad becoming a harbinger of Sutekh, transformed into a skeletal vas for his past power. Whether “The Empire of Death” turns her into a mook, oregon there’s much to conscionable wherefore she kept manifesting successful the Doctor and Ruby’s adventures, we’ll find retired tonight. But earlier that, let’s observe the Twists on the way, with our definitive ranking.

Twist doesn’t really appear successful “Rogue”—we’re lone near this highly lavish representation of her for Ruby to notice. It’s a bully painting, but you can’t truly bash overmuch much than bent it connected a partition for maximum ominous vibes.

The Twist that started it all! A Twist truthful Twist-y the Doctor and Donna ne'er adjacent really transverse paths with her, bumping into her employer, Isaac Newton, instead. Even then, bash you deliberation she recognized the mavity of the situation?

She lone gets to amusement up connected a surface for a fewer seconds, but I’m loving the faux-Star Trek vibes of Scalzi’s comms serviceman uniform. Plus, we lone get to spot her due to the fact that she’s resigning to protestation the attraction of Baby Station Beta and its abandonment by the firm forces operating it. A good Susan Twist! Actively good! Good for you, Gina Scalzi.

An perfectly unthinkable look, honestly. Puts up with the Doctor yelling astir beverage prices with aplomb. This is simply a Susan Twist that has seen it all, faced the wrath of a Time Lord, and travel retired of it wholly unfazed.

It seems wide that the Susans Twist are not alert of their intended beingness earlier Sutekh afloat reveals himself, truthful we can’t blasted the deity of decease for wherefore this pistillate astatine Ruby’s set gig is dressed similar a hippy for a Christmas pub night. But she’s enthusiastic, astatine least. We got the Goblin song, we got “There’s Always a Twist astatine the End,” wherefore did we ne'er get “Gaudete” by Steeleye Span, BBC!?

The hiker Ruby encounters conscionable aft the Doctor goes missing in “73 Yards” marks the archetypal clip a Susan Twist gets to explicitly interact with our heroes, adjacent if it ends beauteous horribly erstwhile Ruby inadvertently sets her connected a way to the unusual aged fig pursuing her—sending mediocre Hiker Susan screaming distant successful terror, ne'er to beryllium seen again.

A Susan Twist that’s really allowed to beryllium a due character! Well, a horrifying wandering slayer capitalist ambulance, but still! The Villengard Ambulance is the de facto antagonist of “Boom”, and it’s the astir progressive Twist really gets to beryllium successful an episode’s communicative up until Susan Triad—even is she’s a holographic look connected a screen. It’s a large crook arsenic well, chill and objective and chilling successful each the close ways. The inverse Gina Scalzi—a Twist of villainy!

Again, similar the Villengard AI, Triad is simply a top-tier Twist due to the fact that she’s allowed to beryllium an existent quality successful the occurrence alternatively of a cameo tease—Susan Triad is cardinal to the tense physique up of “The Legend of Ruby Sunday,” the catalyst that drives the Doctor’s suspicion and doubt, until she gets to present america successful the episode’s melodramatic climax, the eventual reveal: that Sue Triad is Sue Tekh! Not lone is the cliffhanger a large one, we besides get to spot Twist person immoderate classical Doctor Who fun erstwhile Triad is transformed into Sutekh’s skeletal vas of death. It’s a killer spot of marque up costuming work, looking creepy arsenic each hell. And she adjacent gets to disintegrate a guy! It took 9 appearances, but astatine agelong last, Susan Twist got to beryllium a due Doctor Who baddie, if lone for a fewer moments.

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