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admonition : Major spoilers ahead forDoctor Whoseason 14 , episode 2 , " The Devil ’s Chord . "
Summary
Maestro is one of the most formidableDoctor Whovillains , instilling the rarified emotion of real fear in the Doctor and posing a threat to the intact universe . play by Jinkx Monsoon , Maestro ’s raw abilities surpass the Doctor ’s , reach a unmediated face - off tense and unpredictable . Although it ab initio seems as though Maestro is a refreshing threat , their affiliation to another scoundrel from theending of theDoctor Who60th - anniversary specialsmake them even more compelling . While the defeat of certain high-risk guys inDoctor Whooften stand for they ca n’t return , that certainly is n’t the suit with Jinkx Monsoon ’s case .
Maestro ’s unveiling as part of theDoctor Whoseason 14 castcomes in episode 2 , " The Devil ’s Chord . " While the ending of the installment softly implies their fight with the Doctor is already over , it also includes certain hint that foreshadow the adversary ’s eventual riposte . The power of Maestro is just as unconventional as it is terrifying , and although their eventual finish may seem far - fetch , it ’s also something they ’d likely be able to achieve if left unopposed .
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Maestro Is The Toymaker’s Child In Doctor Who
Maestro doesn’t have fond feelings for their father
Monsoon’sDoctor Whocharacter is an original villain , but is also strongly connected to an evil figure who dates back to the show ’s classic earned run average . Most latterly portray by Neil Patrick Harris in " The Giggle , " the Toymaker is revealed to be Maestro ’s father in " The Devil ’s Chord " . transmissible ties away , Maestro ’s exchange with the Doctor implies that the Toymaker and his youngster were n’t exactly secretive . In fact , it voice as though they actively disliked each other . In plain damage , Maestro declares , " Daddy was so bad to me . "
Although they refer to the Doctor as " The Lord Temporal , " Monsoon knows of his fable . Furthermore , Maestro is even aware that the Doctor , " Trapped my Padre and bound him in salt . " So , even though they have n’t been physically present , Maestro would seem to have the ability to see into the Doctor ’s world from their own reality . Maestro was only able-bodied to step into the mainDoctor Whouniverse in 1925when an unsuspecting instrumentalist play a specific collection of notes that allowed Maestro to move from one world into another .
Maestro’s Goal & Plan Explained In Full
The Doctor Who villain wants the universe to burn
Jinks Monsoon’sDoctor Whocharacter feast on music , and more specifically , they thrive when there is no homo - made euphony at all . Speaking with a immature Paul McCartney , the Doctor discovers that beautiful compositions arrest being brought into existence around the same time as Maestro get into the creation . So , Maestro ’s hungriness for medicine seemingly had an quick impact on human culture .
Maestro ’s manipulation of humankind ’s attitude toward euphony is part of a grander schemeto finally extinguish it totally . The Doctor perfectly describes humanity ’s worked up reliance on music in " The Devil ’s Chord . " He does this when he take Ruby to see London in ruins during an substitute timeline , explaining why the absence of heartfelt songs leads to such destruction in the future :
" I think without music , the human race die sour . Without any style of expressing a wiped out heart , they go to war without even know why . "
Maestro ’s eventual program is not only to free Earth of music , but the intact universe , and to feed on the potential of songs left unwritten and the world power of Aeolian tincture . The most ghastly model of this is when Maestro highlights the sound of a " Nuclear winter , the purest music of all " while showing what remain of England ’s capital metropolis after what would appear to be a nuclear bomb being throw away .
The Doctor discover Aelion tones as , " medicine without the pauperization of people . " A good deterrent example would be the sound of current of air bobble through the trees .
Is Maestro More Powerful Than The Toymaker?
The Toymaker often restricted himself due to adhering to fairplay
Maestro is the living incarnation of medicine itself , just as the Toymaker was the conception of a plot in living class . So , Maestro has evidently inheritedpowers very like to the Toymaker , with both villain shoot a line the power to crouch reality to their respective caprice . The Doctor has a venerating fear of both the Toymaker and his child due to their power , but one moment from the " Devil ’s Chord " suggests that Maestro is n’t quite as hefty as their father .
WhenMaestro come forth from the piano during Ruby ’s performance , the Doctor deal to use his transonic screwdriver to remove all sound from their prompt surroundings . Because auditory sensation and music are the source of Maestro ’s power , this renders the villain inert for a short period . However , even the Doctor hold it was " One put-on , once . That ’s all you get with the god . " to boot , if Maestro had take more music by this point , perhaps such a ploy would n’t have run .
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Maestro may be more potential than the Toymaker , but the couple playing by different rules makes it hard to say . The Toymaker , while still a baddie , will found the rules of a plot and abide by its resultant , regardless of whether he win or loses . Maestro is n’t restrain to such a fabric . Instead , Monsoon ’s fibre simply stick with her hunger and her desires , mowing down anything in their agency . The Toymaker would n’t do this , but he could likely agree if not surpass the abilities of his fry if he free himself of the constraints of rule and games .
How The Doctor Defeats Maestro In “The Devil’s Chord”
Two members of The Beatles unknowingly saved the day in Doctor Who
Just as Maestro was able-bodied to enter the universe due to a specific cluster of notes being played , the Doctor works out that another combination will ostracize his new antagonist . However , although they come close to working out the call for chord on their own , the Doctor and Ruby lack the melodious brilliance to figure it out . After a pregnant melodic struggle , the Doctor and Ruby stumble onto the beginnings of what will eventually wreak down Maestro . Thankfully , two key flesh in the building unwittingly wind up what the Doctor started when the piano rolls down the entrance hall .
When Paul McCartney and John Lennon arrive across the bare composition , their melodious talent aid them in add together the final piece .
Due to the proximity to Maestro , the notes being played on the Abbey Road forte-piano physically evidence above the tool . So , whenPaul McCartney and John Lennon come across the unfinished penning , their musical gift assist them in adding the final piece . Dr. Who ’s take on the legendary musicians in the " The Devil ’s Chord " are disillusion with euphony , as is the rest of world . However , their innate skill would seem to have survived Maestro ’s manipulations of the timeline and enable them to regain what Maestro refers to as , " The Lost Chord . "
The chord play by Lennon and McCartney to bar Maestro is a Cmaj9 .
What Maestro Knows About Ruby Sunday
Maestro seems afraid of a figure from Ruby’s past
WhenMaestro traps Ruby in musical bindings and pull her to sing , Maestro ’s reaction to the tonal pattern that emits from Ruby suggests they know more about the past of the Doctor ’s companion than even Ruby herself . Ruby ’s lineage has been a mystery sinceher presentation in " The Church on Ruby Road,“but this moment in " The Devil ’s Chord " eventually sheds a flyspeck bite of sparkle on who was there on the night Millie Gibson ’s character was abandoned on the doorstep of a church .
Maestro note no names , but they secern the Doctor that Ruby has a " Hidden song late inside her soul , " which just so come about to be the traditional Christmas piece , " Carol of the Bells . " stray mostly to themself , Maestro talks about " The oldest one"and that " On the night of her nativity , he ca n’t have been there . " The moment is kept intentionally wispy , but it ’s unclouded that Maestro has stumble across a central hint about where Ruby comes from . While the " old one " in query may be a fellow member of the Toymaker ’s " legions " , this is n’t confirm in the episode .
Maestro Is Part Of Doctor Who’s “Pantheon”
The Pantheon seems to genuinely terrify the Doctor
In " The Devil ’s Chord , " the Doctor theorizes that Maestro is " Part of the Pantheon " when explaining to Ruby that there are " Vast powers beyond the creation . “The Pantheon belike also includes the Toymaker , as the group sounds as though it consist of immortal beings from somewhere outside the know universe . Maestro may have just been a forefront , an other encroacher , before more of the Toymakers ' " legion " also enrol the fray .
Although the Doctor only refers to the mathematical group as " The Pantheon,“Gatwa ’s Doctor may be referring to the Pantheon of Discord . A phallus of this group has appeared in a story called " The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith " in theDoctor Whospinoff , The Sarah Janes Adventures . An foe call the Trickster in the spinoff shares many characteristic with both the Toymaker and Maestro , mean they could have the same origin .
David Tennant ’s Tenth Doctor confront off against the Trickster in " The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith . "
Doctor Who Is Already Setting Up Maestro’s Return
The young boy at the start and end of “The Devil’s Chord” is a sign of what’s to come for Maestro
" The Devil ’s Chord " begins with a young son being teach the pianissimo by the man who happen across the chord that countersink Maestro free . While the child in question appears ingenuous at first , Maestro refer to the boy as their " Prelude . “The boy vanishes when Maestro appears , leaving behind nothing but a bundle of bent clothes , but this is n’t his final appearing in the sequence .
Doctor Who has introduced a wide diverseness of baddie in its 60 - year running game , with only a few returning throughout to repeatedly challenge the Doctor .
The closing number in " The Devil ’s Chord " boast a heavy repeat of the line , " There ’s always a twist at the end . " Although he seems to go unnoticed due to the elaborated choreographed sequence , Maestro ’s Prelude appears once again . For a baddie like Maestro , it seemed unlikely that they were gone for good , and boast the male child again near the end of the instalment foreshadows Maestro ’s eventualDoctor Whoreturn .
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" Space Babies " & " The Devil ’s Chord "
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" Boom "
May 17
" 73 G "
May 24
" Dot & Bubble "
May 31
" Rogue "
June 7
" The Legend of Ruby Sunday "
June 14
" Empire of Death "
June 21
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