Doctor Who
Warning : spoilers forward for Doctor Who season 15 , installment 1 , " The Robot Revolution . "
Sethu , of line , is no stranger toDoctor Who ’s cast , appearing as Mundy Flynn in time of year 14 episode , " Boom . " Her debut as Belinda Chandra finally comes in " The Robot Revolution , " with Ncuti Gatwa ’s Fifteenth Doctor beam to deliver the young nurse from a toxic ex - swain and his army of robot underling . time of year 15 ’s premiere ends with Belinda firmly plant as Fifteen ’s new change of location partner , and while two cardinal qualities set Sethu ’s grapheme apart from pastDoctor Whocompanions , the mystery fille trope remains live and well .
Belinda Chandra Doesn’t Want To Travel As The Doctor’s Companion
The TARDIS Life Isn’t For Everyone
A big , novel difference between Belinda and other companions is her unswerving reluctance to travel . Typically , and especially inDoctor Who ’s modern epoch , the familiar enter the TARDIS to escape their average lifespan in New - day Britain by exploring clock time and space with a total stranger . The classic serial publication offered a little more multifariousness in this respect - the likes of Ian , Barbara , and Tegan stow onto the Doctor ’s ship by accident - but the Brobdingnagian legal age of comrade were uncoerced participants .
Belinda , presumptively , will now have a very different linear perspective on the Doctor ’s adventures .
One strength of Belinda Chandra ’s lineament is not being a uncoerced participant . Despite Fifteen extend an open invitation , Belinda insists on being take back to 2025 Earth , back to her parent , back to her line , and back to a very awkward conversation with her neighbor about a cat .
Belinda ’s ability to look at what the Doctor is offer up and say " no , thanks " forthwith give a fresh constituent into theDoctor Whopot . This is n’t a eccentric who wish to smash away from their everyday life- they cherish what they already have , and that give Belinda so much more to lose after she ’s forced to remain on the TARDIS .
Doctor Who time of year 15 is pitch up to be a huge moment in the history of the show , and hints may already expose what is coming in the time of year .
Belinda , presumably , will now have a very different perspective on the Dr. ’s adventures liken to past companion . She will be approaching each billet with a skeptical , base outlook , as pit to the excited optimism companions ordinarily exude when they ’re dazzle by the Doctor ’s tricks . Not only will Belinda ’s attitude gainsay the Dr. , it will add more astuteness to the mirky gray field Gallifrey ’s last Time Lord often operates within .
Belinda Is Great At Calling Out The Doctor’s Ego
The Fifteenth Doctor Has Met His Match
The fact that Belinda would rather expend her evening run through refrigerator leftovers in front of Netflix than sparking gyration on remote planets is n’t the only loss fromDoctor Who ’s normal formula . While other companions have sympathetically point out the doc ’s flaw - Clara trying to make the Twelfth Doctor more tactful , for representative -Belinda is in particular good at see through the admirer ’s magnetic waffle . The two have barely met before Belinda chastises the Doctor for taking her deoxyribonucleic acid sample without permission , while the death of Sasha 55 also proves a sticking point .
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Release Date
The latest Doctor Who series introduces the Fifteenth Doctor, joined by new companion Ruby Sunday.
" The Robot Revolution "
April 12
" Lux "
April 19
" The Well "
April 26
" Lucky Day "
May 3
" The Story & The railway locomotive "
May 10
" The Interstellar Song Contest "
May 17
" Wish World "
May 24
The Reality War
May 31
The cherry red on top is Belinda asking Fifteen , " do you say that to all the miss ? " after he makes an attempt to interchange her idea about riding the TARDIS . The Doctor laughs , but Belinda is n’t jest - she can already see the Time Lord ’s modus operandi and is refusing to fall for the common recruitment speech about fate and cosmic wonders .
Doctor Whoseason 15 ’s premieremakes clear from the outset thatBelinda will hold the Doctor to calculate better than any other modern companion . For all his virtues , the Doctor is prone to ego , hubris , and the episodic god building complex . Belinda is going to shut that kind of nonsense down with a level of roughshod honesty the Doctor perhaps is n’t used to .
Belinda Is Yet Another “Mystery Girl” Companion After Amy, Clara & Ruby
It’s Hard To Find A Normal Companion These Days
Belinda Chandra ’s absolute refusal to entertain the Doctor ’s shenanigan is a bright signal for her graphic symbol . " The Robot Revolution " does , regrettably , revert to a tropeDoctor Whohas recycle too many times in late years . Belinda , it seems , is not just a companion to the Doctor , but a missionary work . Fifteen hopes to start the coincidence of meeting both Mundy Flynn and Belinda Chandrain speedy succession , as well as the startling resemblance between them . He also wants to reveal how Belinda ’s star credential ended up in the Missbelindachandrabots ' possession .
The closed book girlfriend construct needs an prolonged break .
It feels like the force of fate are pulling the Doctor and Belinda together . Alas , the forces of destiny have played this tune before . The integrality ofDoctor Whoseason 14 was pass unraveling the mystery of Ruby Sunday- her parentage , her cosmic import , etc . The Eleventh Doctor had a interchangeable experience with Clara too . Just like the Mundy / Belinda parallel , Eleven met different versions of Clara Oswald on his traveling , and take her as a associate largely just to crack the pillowcase .
Despite Ruby ’s ancestry being teased as a vast conundrum , Doctor Who time of year 14 let down everyone with THAT reveal , but time of year 15 can fix it .
Before Clara , it was Amy Pond . With a pass in her wall , Amy held a deeper grandness that the Doctor desperately wanted to demystify . By the time ofDoctor Whoseason 15 , the mystery miss conception needs an extended open frame - specially after season 14 be given so heavily on the questions surrounding Ruby Sunday . While Belinda ’s anti - companion characteristics are very welcome , Doctor Whowould be salutary off allow her to be a reluctant passenger without make her an enigma at the ticker of the tale .
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The late Doctor of the Church Who series introduces the Fifteenth Doctor , joined by new fellow Ruby Sunday .
