“Who Doctor Who” Season 15 Opening ‘Robot Revolution Kidnapping Fans

To glue on a six-history premise – it’s about the doctor, a traveler of outside time, who can regenerate his body before death, TARDIS, a larger time and space machine inside, and a human companion riding a bike- Doctor Who When done correctly, it seems fresh.

Why? Not because of the doctor, but the magnetic charm, not the lead (current Charmer: Ncuti Gatwa). Doctors may have questions, setbacks and mysteries to be resolved, but as any actor will tell you, there are few ways of character development. Freshness comes through peers, who provide a changing perspective of today’s culture. If the audience does not board the plane with their new companions while boarding TARDIS, many will refuse to take the trip.

So, will fans (not to mention newbies) feel new on April 12? When was that Doctor Who Gatwa Season 2’s Reward (also known as Season 2 in the new Disney+ number, Season 15 and Season 41 since performer Russell T Davies rebooted in 2005 real old-fashioned fans). It was also when we met our new partner, Verada Sethu.

According to episode 1’s “Robot Revolution,” Davis cuts his work for him when he convinces us to join her. It’s not a hit to Sethu, he’ll be here and into the screen Ando Season 2 (She plays Cinta). The truth is, Davies makes Belinda Doctor Who Trope – a companion who is unwilling to occupy by chance – has no reason to completely lock in to care for her first.

Meet the reluctant partner Belinda Chandra

We met Belinda right away at the cold open, a flashback from 17 years ago, which told us everything about the insults she suffered, and there was no reaction to her. On the park bench under the stars, then-boyfriend Alan provided Belinda with an internationally registered certificate of stardom, after which he bought and named the stars.

Immediately, we learned everything about Allen needed to know: Not only did he want her to fold and save the wrapping paper, but he insisted on naming the star miss Belinda Chandra. “Are you married?” he asked completely when she asked the question. Belinda admits she is not.

Remember, this scene is not in the distant feminist past. It was 2008, so far Doctor Who Has provided us with a strong female companion for 3 years. Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) knocks Alan out of even before she even has a life-changing encounter with the doctor. Put Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) there and she might have knocked him down with her fist, too.

So Belinda acted very gentle. Fair, but why? Is it her family? Some other culturally conservative institutions? Initially, what made her appeal to this humorless male chauvinist who avoided the package? Ironically, Alan’s character’s Zozi lines are not the same.

We just fast forward to May 2025, when Belinda was a nurse at A&E (for Americans, emergency room). She suspected that a wounded man was attacked by his wife. And she still suffers insults in her private life. One of her roommates mistakenly accused her of stealing food and called her “Linda”.

Belinda still has no moment of agency, we may sympathize. No personality weirdness makes her alive before or after being kidnapped by robots that bring her back to Earth, in a sense she planet. The robot landed in a large-scale 1950 sci-fi rocket, and they shot her into it, Star Trek-style. (This method of belt and bridge is typical of the “robot revolution” which seems to be cool for how much Disney is Doctor Who Delivery is finally available. )

The rest of the plot is scattered over the latest cultural references, including the show’s first use of “Incel” and its response to Chatgpt-style generative AI. But, like Belinda’s backstory, we’re going through the references so quickly that the show says something meaningful or memorable to them.

We were with her but not necessarily good when the doctor discovered that Tardis was reluctant to return to Earth and Belinda was effectively kidnapped again. Her motivation was to go home (although why, given the way the family treated her, we were not told). She eschewed traditional all-weather and space offers. “I’m not your adventure!” Belinda rushed to the doctor.

“Doctor Who” and his kidnapped companion

The concept of “accidentally kidnapped partner” is nothing new. It goes back to episode 1 Doctor Who In 1963, school teachers Ian (William Russell) and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) lingered on TARDIS while following the doctor’s granddaughter Susan (Carole Ann Ford); it took them two seasons to go home as the doctors were unreliable.

Then, in 1981, Australian stewardess Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding) arrived and she stepped on the phone box when she reasonably thought her car. Two other seasons have passed before the doctor successfully sent her to Heathrow Airport.

The companions are obviously attracted and have agents. Ian and Barbara entered that police box out of concern for students. Tegan went to Heathrow on his first day of work, worried that he would be fired before he started – immediately as frustrated as Donna Noble.

Davies is an old-fashioned nerd whose first memory is the first doctor, and he knows it all. To be fair, he has won the trust of experienced fans. He is a master of slowly building season arcs, and you know if “Bad Wolf” and “Torchwood” mean anything to you. This person promises in ways we can’t talk about.

Remember, Davies often opens up for a season with his stupidest, best kid-friendly product. For many casual fans, Gatwa’s first season started with “Space Baby.”

But at least in this case, we have Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson is returning to Season 2, but not yet). Ruby has a clear desire to find her biological mother. In terms of roles, she herself is a best full of irony and a comeback. “If you talk to me on Friday night and a girl like this said on Friday night,” Ruby said, “It’s one of the more successful episodes of Season 2, “we’ll tear you into new.”

Belinda is not that way. Fair enough, but Davis gave himself a companion who climbed here on a mountain, and he refused everyone Doctor Who Metaphor, including cute irony.

In fact, Belinda is not only looking to get rid of TARDIS. She wants Doctor Who. When the trained nurse pointed out that the doctor did not ask for her consent before scanning with a sound screwdriver – when we realized the doctor had always There is such a question of consent – no matter how hopeful the season comes, we may forgive.

Doctor Who Season 2 premieres on Disney+ and the BBC on April 12.