Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu are set to look in Doctor Who Season 2 (Sequence 15) because the Fifteenth Physician and Belinda Chandra, respectively. The newest trailer has given followers a contemporary take a look at the Physician’s upcoming adventures with Belina, who appears to be a departure from earlier companions on fashionable Physician Who. For the primary time because the sci-fi sequence’ return to tv in 2005, the Physician is touring with a companion who apparently does not wish to be on the TARDIS. As Belinda asks the Doctor to get her home, the Time Lord tells her that it might should be “the good distance spherical.” Season 2 will see mysterious forces holding the TARDIS away from present-day Earth because the Physician flies by time and area with Belinda.
Of their travels, the Physician and Belinda are set to come across new threats, equivalent to Alan Cumming’s Mr. Ring-a-Ding. The trailer additionally teases the return of the Pantheon of Gods who had been menacing the Physician all through Season 1, in addition to the arrival of a race of carnivorous creatures feeding on fearful people. Alongside this array of monsters and villains, the sequence’ most intriguing new thriller comes from the casting of the Physician’s new companion. Belinda Chandra is not Varada Sethu’s first Physician Who function, and the Season 2 trailer confirms the return of this acquainted face will not go unnoticed by the Physician.
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In Physician Who’s Season 2 trailer, the Physician tells Belinda that one thing is “already connecting us.” This line is heard as Belinda seems to the display contained in the TARDIS, displaying footage of Mundy Flynn — the last role played by Sethu on Doctor Who. Mundy appeared in Season 1’s third episode, “Increase,” which aired only a month after Sethu had been introduced as the subsequent season’s new companion. Followers had been shocked to see her making an early debut. It was quickly confirmed by showrunner Russell T Davies that Sethu wouldn’t be returning as Mundy, however as a brand new character when she joined the Physician within the TARDIS on Season 2.
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Mundy Flynn |
Kastarion 3, 5087 |
Season 1, Episode 3, “Increase” |
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Belinda Chandra |
Earth, current day |
Season 2, Episode 1, Title TBC |
“Increase” was written by Physician Who’s former showrunner, Steven Moffat, and noticed the Physician and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) arriving at Kastarion 3. On this war-torn planet, the Physician encountered the Anglican marines, who had often appeared all through Moffat’s period as showrunner. Mundy Flynn was one in all these ordained marines, waging a struggle on the Kastarions with the weaponry from the Villengard Corporation. Nonetheless, the Physician quickly revealed there have been no Kastarions. The Villengard Algorithm employed by the Church’s weaponry had the marines combating themselves, guaranteeing a casualty fee simply excessive sufficient to maintain them combating and shopping for from Villengard.
Belinda’s unexplained connection to Mundy Flynn may nicely be what convinces the Physician to take her on as his new companion.
On the finish of “Increase,” the Physician and Ruby left Mundy on Kastarion 3 because the marines ready to go away, their weapons now shut down and the struggle deserted. It is positive to come back as a shock to the Physician when he meets Belinda Chandra on present-day Earth and notices her resemblance to Mundy Flynn. Though few particulars of Belinda’s story have been revealed to date, what has been made clear is that she is a nurse from 2025. Her unexplained connection to Mundy Flynn may nicely be what convinces the Physician to take her on as his new companion. What’s not clear is what retains the 2 of them away from Earth as soon as their journey collectively begins, or why the Doctor has run into Mundy Flynn’s doppelgänger.
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Belinda Chandra is not the primary character to look on Physician Who with the identical face as somebody the Physician has already met. The sequence has seen a number of notable cases of actors being recast in numerous roles. Famously, Colin Baker performed the Time Lord Commander Maxil earlier than he grew to become the Sixth Physician and Karen Gillan appeared as a Soothsayer in 2008’s “The Fires of Pompeii,” earlier than returning to the series as companion Amy Pond. Neither of those returning forged members had been acknowledged within the sequence itself, nevertheless. Typically an actor taking part in two components has been merely defined away by claiming the characters are associated, as was the case for Freema Agyeman’s Martha Jones and Adeola Oshodi, or Eve Myles’ Gwyneth and Gwen Cooper.
Belinda’s story appears to extra intently resemble that of Clara Oswald. Clara was played by Jenna Coleman and joined Matt Smith’s Eleventh Physician as his companion in 2013, for the second half of Physician Who, Season 7. Earlier than making her first look as Clara, nevertheless, Coleman made her Physician Who debut as Oswin Oswald within the Season 7 premiere, “Asylum of the Daleks.” Viewers had been shocked by Coleman’s early look, and had been much more shocked when Oswin was revealed to be a Dalek who thought herself human. She then died on the finish of the episode. Coleman then appeared once more within the 2012 Christmas particular, “The Snowmen,” as Clara Oswin Oswald, who once more died by the episode’s finish.
Ultimately, the Eleventh Physician got down to uncover the reality behind these two equivalent girls, main him to satisfy Clara Oswald on present-day Earth. Clara grew to become the Physician’s companion and finally accompanied him to Trenzalore, the place he was dropped at his personal tomb. Inside, the villainous Nice Intelligence entered the Physician’s uncovered time stream, set upon attacking the Physician at each second of his existence. To fight the Intelligence, Clara additionally entered the Physician’s time stream, creating echoes of herself all through time, who all had their very own distinct identification however existed to guard the Physician. Mundy Flynn may very well be an identical echo of Belinda Chandra, whose creation can be defined by her time with the Physician in Season 2.
It is potential that point is binding the Physician to Belinda’s bloodline.
The Physician’s assertion that one thing is “connecting” him to Belinda is not the primary time he is made such a declare, both. The Tenth Physician advised one thing was bringing him and Donna Noble together when the 2 reunited in 2008’s Season 4, following Donna’s first look within the 2006 Christmas particular, “The Runaway Bride.” He repeated this assertion with Donna’s grandfather, Wilf. The Physician first met Wilf within the 2007 Christmas particular, “Voyage of the Damned,” earlier than later discovering out he was associated to Donna. In these cases, the Physician’s future proved to be entwined with Donna and Wilf, with time itself seemingly bringing them collectively. Whereas Belinda’s scenario is a bit totally different, it is potential that point is binding the Physician to Belinda’s bloodline.
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As has been seen in characters equivalent to Gwyneth and Gwen or Adeola and Martha, typically actors taking part in a couple of half in Physician Who indicators the characters are relations. The Physician specializing in the resemblance between Belinda and Mundy Flynn suggests there may be extra at work right here, although it’s potential the explanation for his or her resemblance is solely that they’re distantly associated. Whereas it is a simplistic means of explaining away the characters having the identical face, it does not essentially clarify why the Physician bumped into two members of the identical household — particularly two who resemble one another so intently, regardless of being separated by hundreds of years. It may very well be that Belinda’s complete household is of nice significance to time and area by their connection to the Physician, leading to time pulling the Physician in direction of Mundy and Belinda.
It may very well be that Belinda’s complete household is of nice significance to time and area by their connection to the Physician.
2014’s “Hear” noticed the TARDIS deliver the Physician to a distant descendant of Danny Pink, the man Clara was dating, after the Physician related Clara to the TARDIS telepathic circuits. One thing related might have occurred with Mundy Flynn and Belinda Chandra. Though Mundy was by no means related to the TARDIS telepathic circuits, the TARDIS might have introduced the Physician to Mundy’s ancestor after detecting one thing vital about Mundy Flynn. It may very well be vital for the Physician to guard her distant ancestor, or the TARDIS might have merely misplaced its means and introduced the Physician to the incorrect member of Mundy Flynn’s household.
Alternatively, it is potential that Mundy and Belinda will not be associated in a standard sense, however are copies of each other created by extra highly effective means. This may imply one of many two characters is an echo in time of the opposite, in the identical vein as Clara Oswald and her doppelgängers. Nonetheless, Physician Who, Season 1 might have introduced one other rationalization for Belinda’s look as a Mundy doppelgänger. The primary season noticed the Physician encountering a mysterious woman, played by Susan Twist, in varied guises all through time and area. It was finally revealed that each character performed by Twist was a creation of the God of Demise, Sutekh, designed to behave as his Angels of Demise. With the Gods seemingly returning on Physician Who, Season 2, Mundy and Belinda may very well be yet one more creation of one in all these highly effective beings — both as an ally or a entice for the Physician.
Physician Who, Season 2 debuts April 12 on BBC iPlayer within the UK and Disney+ the place out there.
Doctor Who
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December 25, 2023
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BBC
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Douglas Camfield, David Maloney, Christopher Barry, Michael E. Briant, Barry Letts, Michael Ferguson, Richard Martin, Peter Moffatt, Pennant Roberts, Lennie Mayne, Chris Clough, Ron Jones, Paddy Russell, Paul Bernard, Michael Hayes, Timothy Combe, Morris Barry, Gerald Blake, Graeme Harper, Waris Hussein, Rodney Bennett, Mervyn Pinfield, Hugh David, John Gorrie
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Russell T. Davies, Dave Gibbons, Kate Herron, Steven Moffat
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Physician Who
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Ncuti Gatwa
Commander Millington
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