The villain’s return was also influenced by a certain Marvel series. <\/p>
With the most recent season of Doctor Who<\/a> being billed as a fresh start to introduce new viewers to the world of the show, some fans were surprised that the two-part season finale revealed the big bad to be Sutekh<\/a>, a classic villain from 1975 serial Pyramids of Mars.<\/p>\n Now, Davies has explained his decision to bring Sutekh back, saying that it was a deliberate choice to prove to fans that the Disney Plus deal didn\u2019t mean the show was severing its roots, while also explaining the inspiration of MCU<\/a> show WandaVision<\/a>.<\/p>\n He told the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine<\/a>: \u201cI remember Nicola Shindler, a producer I work with, getting so excited about Agatha Harkness arriving in WandaVision. She thought it was the most brilliant reveal.<\/p>\n \u201cI asked her, \u2018Do you know who Agatha Harkness is?\u2019 She went, \u2018No, I\u2019ve no idea!\u2019 And I\u2019m fascinated by that \u2013 that you can introduce a character from the lore, who a modern viewer doesn\u2019t know, and yet they get the thrill of it.\u201d<\/p>\n Davies continued: \u201cAlso, being on Disney Plus now, this is a very deliberate choice to bring back an old BBC enemy \u2013 we\u2019ve even cast the same actor [Gabriel Woolf] \u2013 to prove that the show hasn\u2019t severed its roots. To delve into your backstory is a very fine thing. That\u2019s thrilling for new viewers, and for old viewers it\u2019s a great reward.<\/p>\n \u201cAlso, you\u2019re guaranteed that the internet will do your work for you. In the old days, you could feasibly have said, \u2018Will people know who Sutekh is?\u2019 Now, it\u2019s on our official site. It\u2019s on our Instagram posts. Type in the word \u2018Sutekh\u2019 and there\u2019s an entire Wikipedia article, full of the history.\u201d<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffcTHE ONE WHO WAITS\u2026 is now on the cover of issue 606!