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This article includes spoilers forDoctor Whoseason 15 , episode 1 , " The Robot Revolution , " and discusses domesticated ill-treatment .
A flock happens asDoctor Whoseason 15 , episode 1 , " The Robot Revolution , " describe to a close , and the installment ’s finale tackles some somewhat problematical subject matters in a very sci - fi fashion . As well as the whodunit of why Varada Sethu is rejoining the show as a new type after debuting as part of theDoctor Whoseason 14 cast,“The Robot Revolution " also enfold up its social commentary storyline with a big last - minute twist .
Ncuti Gatwa ’s second time of year as the Fifteenth Doctor retain the same glossy visuals bring in before ofDoctor Who ’s Disney geological era . Ofall the actors to bring the doc , Gatwa has benefited from the best digital and practical particular issue , and they ’re on full display in the season 15 undoer . However , Fifteen is n’t really the focal point of " The Robot Revolution , " as Varada Sethu’sBelinda Chandra is essentially the episode ’s main characterand her history ( and future tense ) heavily informs the tale . By the end , it ’s especially clear that Fifteen is a support character reference .
Doctor Who Season 15, Episode 1 Is A Commentary On Coercive Control
Alan’s treatment of Belinda and her planetary namesake is reflective of real-life toxic partners
Push aside the big red Robots and the almost parodic - look rocket ship and " The Robot Revolution " is a powerful allegory for something else entirely . In little , Belinda ’s former moral force with Alan Budd ( Jonny Green ) is subtly write to reveal him as an emotionally opprobrious partner . As mention by Belinda herself when she ’s reunited with him near the end of the episode , Alan was always endeavor to correct , humiliate , or discipline Sethu ’s characterfor behavior and traits he deemed unacceptable or unwanted .
Alan take on consummate ascendency over the full universe - a bon ton that had been living in concordance for millenary - and utilize his position to try and push Belinda into union .
Even after Belinda turned down Alan ’s marriage proposition in their youth , Green ’s quality quite obviously never give up on controlling his ex - girlfriend . After being taken to Missbelindachandra One by the automaton pretty much now after his failed marriage proposal , he dominates the planet with technology from its own futurity thanks to the displacement stimulate by the sentence fracture between Earth and the satellite named after his ex-wife . From there , Alan assumes consummate control over the entire population - a bon ton that had been live in harmony for millennium - and uses his position to prove and force Belinda into spousal relationship .
What Belinda’s “Planet Of The Incels” Line Really Means
Sethu’s character is referencing a real community of deeply misogynistic men
Belinda dead sums up Alan ’s oppressive high society by say he has " taken coercive control and made it fill in control of the whole satellite , " and describes Missbelindachanda One as a " Planet of the incels " under the AI Generator ’s regime . It ’s a quick line but holds a circle of import . “Incel " is a contraction of " nonvoluntary celebate,“or sometimes " unvoluntary chastity . " It refers to a real and problematic community of men who desire a romantic partner but have become fabulously misogynistic due to their inability to find someone . It can often make them physically and/or emotionally abusive toward women .
Although often used as a derogatory term or affront by those outside the incel community , those who align themselves with the movement ’s ideology often proudly refer to themselves using the form of address .
So , what Belinda intend when she enjoin " major planet of the incels " is thatthe situation in which Alan has found himself would be the perverted desire of members of the incel community . Alan does n’t take his rejection well and uses the resources he finds at his disposal to finally require his robotic legions to fetch Belinda to him by force so they can finally be get married . give a toxic and romantically scotch man like Alan the power to do reasonably much whatever he like with a satellite ’s fellowship and substructure is fantastically dangerous , as proven even further by the warfare .
How The Doctor Saves Belinda From Alan “The AI Generator” Budd
Fifteen’s Time Lord physiology allows him to absorb the energy put out by the paradox
As the AI Generator , Alan decides his trades union with Belinda should start with both copies of the same star certificate being touched together . Of naturally , Alan has no fashion of know the paradox such an act will make , but Belinda does thanks to her conversation with the Doctor in the first place in the instalment . The forcefulness of the paradox is enough to ruin Alan , but Belinda manages to outlast without a scratch . Put eloquently by the Doctor , Belinda " demand a Time Lord to take the kaboom . " In other lyric , he absorbed the vitality that would have killed Belinda as it did Alan .
The Doctor ’s companion often fall into similar categories , but time of year 15 ’s new TARDIS passenger is something the post - revival earned run average has n’t seen .
The Doctor ’s epic human activity , which was never really guarantee to ensure his own survival , has an unexpected side effect . Fifteen is slotted into key here and now throughout Belinda ’s timeline , as proven by the dig of the MD hold Belinda as a baby - just like he did with Millie Gibson ’s Ruby Sunday . So , the inscrutable connection between Belinda and the Doctor is strengthened even more by this event .
Doctor Who’s “The Robot Revolution” Pretends To Be An AI Story, But It Really Isn’t
Russell T. Davies pulls a bait-and-switch
Doctor Whohas run for so long now that it has been able to found episodes on a wide-cut potpourri of events that are especially relevant at the time of program . For large dowry of " The Robot Revolution , " it seems as though showrunner / author Russell T. Davies is on the verge of drawing inspiration from the controversy surrounding AI - generated kit and caboodle such as writing and ocular humanistic discipline . However , Sir Humphrey Davy adds a piercing unexpended turn at the end of the episode .
" The Robot Revolution " chop-chop shows its true colors as a tale about abusive kinship , incels , and coercive ascendance .
When it ’s reveal thatthe " AI " in " AI Generator " was really " AL"with part of the L blocked from view , " The Robot Revolution " quickly shows its true colour as a story about abusive relationships , incels , and coercive control condition . The two theme do n’t typically spoil over in popular acculturation , so it ’s not only an original compounding , it also aids brilliantly in Davies ' unexpected narrative thaumaturgy .
The Doctor Reveals In The TARDIS Why His New Companion Looks So Much Like Mundy Flynn
Belinda’s DNA is a match with Mundy Flynn’s
When Missbelindachandra One is barren of Alan ’s dictatorship , the Doctor finally gets to rick his aid to the enigmatic subject ofwhy Belinda shares the same face as the 51st century ’s Mundy Flynn- another character dally by Varada Sethu , who appear inDoctor Who , season 14 , instalment 3 , " Boom . " After taking Belinda ’s DNA without permission for testing ( which she criminate him for ) , he is able-bodied to reassert thatMundy is a distant descendant of the Doctor ’s young companion .
Doctor Who ’s showrunner has answered one of the enceinte questions I still have about the show ’s Disney era , and it sounds very compelling .
Although this is a notable reveal , the Doctor is convinced that the chances of meeting them both are slim , and even slimmer that they have incisively the same brass despite being differentiate by millennia of the same bloodline . Despite the Doctor ’s enthusiasm to discover why this is , he begrudgingly agrees to take Belinda base in an attempt to respect her wishesto return to her regular life . This is prevented by the TARDIS ' refusal to take Belinda back to her point of going away , which bug Earth ’s demise and localise up the rest ofDoctor Whoseason 15 ’s plot line .
medico Who Season 15 ’s Release Schedule On Disney+
Episode
Title
Release Date ( 2025 )
1
" The Robot Revolution "
April 12
2
" Lux "
April 19
3
" The Well "
April 26
4
" prosperous Day "
May 3
5
" The Story and the locomotive "
May 10
6
" The Interstellar Song Contest "
May 17
7
" Wish World "
May 24
8
" The Reality warfare "
May 31
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