Doctor Who Flux: 10 Huge Questions After Once, Upon Time
7. Who Is Awsok?
Before the Doctor is thrown back into the present, she asks
the Mouri to let her have a final memory, the end of the story she was in. Although
they refuse, claiming it would be too dangerous, the Doctor gets to meet a
woman (named Awsok in the credits) on the way back. It’s a completely new
location and, like the Doctor, we are left in the dark about who Awsok is.
Awsok warns the Doctor not to continue to interfere. She tells her that the damage to time has already been unleashed as planned and also that the Flux was purposely created because of the Doctor. We are very much in Steven Moffat territory here, with everything being about the Doctor, something that Chibnall was keen to move away from when he first started.
Awsok implies that Swarm and Azure have been deliberately freed and are unwittingly being used as puppets in a bigger game. Both space and time in the form of the Flux and the Ravagers respectively have been called into service, in direct response to the Doctor’s meddling.
Whoever Awsok is, it is clear that she knows the answers to all
the key questions, and the fact she is named in the credits means she will
certainly be back again. She is in a powerful
position, able to pull the Doctor out of one time stream to another, taking an
oversight role that is potentially more powerful than the Time Lords. If she
isn’t a Time Lord, she could be one of the Guardians of Time, a throwback to
the Black and White Guardians from the Tom Baker and Peter Davison days. The
question is whether she is a force for good or bad.