{"id":1173196,"date":"2026-02-13T10:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=557826"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:03:09","slug":"the-doctors-new-companion-doesnt-want-to-be-here-and-shes-right-says-showrunner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-doctors-new-companion-doesnt-want-to-be-here-and-shes-right-says-showrunner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doctor\u2019s new companion doesn\u2019t want to be here, \u2018And she\u2019s right,\u2019 says showrunner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/the-doctors-new-companion-doesnt-want-to-be-here-and-shes-right-says-showrunner.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">There are more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/tv\/529409\/doctor-who-season-2-2025-premiere-date-announcement\"><em>Doctor Who<\/em><\/a> companions than there have ever been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23063454\/doctor-who-ncuti-gatwa-14th-doctor-casting\">Doctors<\/a>, and while they\u2019re all unique in their own ways, there\u2019s still a familiar pattern: The Doctor as the mysterious alien with the keys to all of time and space, and the companion as the eager adventurer, ready to be whisked away to a life of glorious discovery and thrilling peril.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But this weekend\u2019s premiere episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/tv\/529409\/doctor-who-season-2-2025-premiere-date-announcement\">the show\u2019s newest season<\/a> gives the usual formula a deliberate flip. To showrunner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23969730\/doctor-who-anniversary-special-tennant-tate-davies-superwholock\">Russell T. Davies<\/a>, it\u2019s all about expanding the emotional range of <em>Doctor Who<\/em>. And for the actors playing the Doctor and his new companion Belinda Chandra, it was about partnership on screen and off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">[<strong>Ed. Note: <\/strong>This piece contains mild spoilers for the first episode of <em>Doctor Who<\/em> season 2 on Disney Plus, also known as <em>Doctor Who<\/em> series 15.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In \u201cThe Robot Revolution,\u201d Belinda is kidnapped by robots, wrapped up in an alien revolution, and between her own smarts and the Doctor\u2019s, saves the day \u2014 and makes her position on it all very clear at the end of the episode. She\u2019d like the Doctor to take her home. Now, please. She is <em>not<\/em> about this very dangerous life, and she has responsibilities at home.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">That\u2019s a surprising enough swerve on the usual Doctor\/companion dynamic that we decided to ask <em>Doctor Who<\/em>\u2019s stars and showrunner about it. Speaking Polygon via video chat, Davies said that the idea behind Belinda was absolutely to present a different kind of companion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/the-doctors-new-companion-doesnt-want-to-be-here-and-shes-right-says-showrunner-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cI think Belinda simply has an awful lot of common sense,\u201d he said. \u201cThat&#8217;s why she&#8217;s older than Ruby. I wanted to extend the range of the show; in extending the range of the show, you extend the range of the Doctor as well, which is always crucial.\u201d Davies raised the example of last season\u2019s companion character (who will return for season 2 in a smaller role), Ruby Sunday, a 18-year-old foster child played by then-18-year-old actress Millie Gibson, who was very much on board with the adventure of it all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cIt&#8217;s great to swing the program around and say, \u2018What if you&#8217;re not so enchanted? What if you&#8217;re Belinda\u2019 Belinda is right in looking at this man and sort of saying, <em>You live a mad life, and a dangerous life<\/em>.\u201d Davies cited several of the dangers Belinda and the Doctor faced in \u201cThe Robot Revolution\u201d and will face soon in the new season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cI think Belinda&#8217;s right,\u201d he said, to want to go home right away. \u201cAnd I think the more you acknowledge that, the more you open the emotional range of the show, and then the more people can join in. There must be people at home sitting, going, \u2018That man&#8217;s mad! I wouldn&#8217;t join up with him!\u2019 I&#8217;d like to think I&#8217;d be Ruby Sunday. I suspect I&#8217;d actually be Belinda Chandra Going \u2018Get me home right now!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/the-doctors-new-companion-doesnt-want-to-be-here-and-shes-right-says-showrunner-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu on set in the Doctor Who TARDIS. He\u2019s perched on a railing, wearing a pinstriped denim jeans, jumper, and skirt combination, while she\u2019s standing in jeans and a white t-shirt.\" title=\"Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu on set in the Doctor Who TARDIS. He\u2019s perched on a railing, wearing a pinstriped denim jeans, jumper, and skirt combination, while she\u2019s standing in jeans and a white t-shirt.\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In a separate video interview, Belinda\u2019s actress, Varada Sethu, told Polygon that she found Belinda and the Doctor\u2019s dynamic to be \u201creally, really interesting,\u201d because \u201cit puts this friction that enriched the evolution of [their] whole relationship. There was this equal push element, back to the Doctor. The Doctor saying, \u2018No, come on this adventure.\u2019 She&#8217;s like, \u2018No, I have my adventure. I want to go back to mine, not yours.\u2019 The whole season is their relationship, basically, and the love and the trust and the deep friendship that they have, in learning to love and respect each other and wanting to get her home because that&#8217;s what she wants. It lends itself really easily to a good story and a good team when there&#8217;s just as much&#8230; What am I trying to say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cPower, I feel,\u201d the Doctor actor Ncuti Gatwa supplied, with Sethu agreeing: \u201cThey&#8217;re real equals.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Sethu said that she and Gatwa discovered that dynamic in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/24161071\/doctor-who-steven-moffat-boom\">last season\u2019s episode, \u201cBoom,\u201d<\/a> in which she guest starred as the futuristic Anglican Marine soldier Mundy Flynn.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cEven just in the three weeks that we were filming on \u2018Boom,\u2019\u201d Sethu told Polygon, \u201cI felt like we found our rhythm. Because Mundy and the Doctor have a similar kind of&#8230; antagonist\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cTrajectory,\u201d Gatwa suggested.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cPush pull kind of thing,\u201d she agreed. \u201cWe found that rhythm. We had had that already.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Gatwa said that the Doctor and Belinda\u2019s equal narrative footing in the season was very reflective of he and Sethu\u2019s working relationship and vice versa. \u201cEverything bleeds into one another,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat happens on set bleeds into life, in life bleeds into the set. And so it just felt like we were partners throughout the whole thing, which was very cool.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Doctor Who<em> series 15 is currently airing on BBC One and, as season 2, on Disney Plus.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/tv\/557826\/doctor-who-companion-belinda-chandra-robot-revolution\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are more Doctor Who companions than there have ever been Doctors, and while they\u2019re all unique in their own ways, there\u2019s still a familiar pattern: The Doctor as the mysterious alien with the keys to all of time and space, and the companion as the eager adventurer, ready to be whisked away to a life of glorious discovery and thrilling peril.&nbsp; But this weekend\u2019s premiere episode of the show\u2019s newest season gives the usual formula a deliberate flip. To showrunner Russell T. 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