When actor Varada Sethu was introduced to be enjoying the brand new companion within the upcoming Physician Who season 2, some followers had been initially confused. That is as a result of Sethu has been in Physician Who earlier than and never solely that, however very not too long ago too.
As it’s possible you’ll recall, within the final season’s sensible episode ‘Increase‘ Sethu performed a personality named Mundy Flynn, a marine preventing in a warfare on the planet Kastarion 3. Nonetheless, within the upcoming season she will likely be portraying a completely completely different character named Belinda Chandra, a nurse the Physician meets taking her on adventures via time and house.
Within the trailers for the brand new season a connection between the 2 is teased, with showrunner Russell T Davies confirming in an interview with GamesRadar that Belinda is one in every of Mundy’s ancestors. Nonetheless, the query is – is that the complete story, is it merely only a coincidence, or is there extra to it?
We put that query to Davies forward of the brand new collection airing, who confirmed that followers should not fear an excessive amount of in regards to the connection because it does not play a big function within the story. As he explains, that is as a result of he did not need the present to be slowed down with continuity: “It performs a small function as a result of the primary story is getting Belinda residence. The truth that she’s related to somebody from the Physician’s previous is dealt with flippantly.”
Davies continues: “It is by no means a present I wish to bathroom down in a lot continuity that you just get misplaced. I all the time suppose it is inbuilt into the character of an anthology present that each week is completely different. So each week you have to begin once more, and it turns into an unnatural weight on the present in case you’re having to meet up with an terrible lot of present continuity. So, in case you bear in mind the truth that really the Physician, as he says, has met one in every of Belinda’s descendants, she is an ancestor of Mundy, that is an excellent additional element.”
Nonetheless, regardless of Davies saying this he does tease that there might certainly be greater than meets the attention in the case of this connection. As he concludes: “I would not fear about it an excessive amount of however there are shocking revelations to return regardless of that, I am gonna maintain you in your toes don’t fret.” So, watch this house.
The brand new season of Physician Who arrives on April 12 through Disney Plus internationally and BBC iPlayer within the UK. For extra that ought to be in your watch listing, try our information to the new TV exhibits to look out for.
