The brand new season of Doctor Who is in full swing, and it’s already making some huge strikes early into its run. This week’s episode, “Growth,” places the Doctor and Ruby on the planet of Kastarion 3, which is presently within the midst of a conflict the pair are unable to flee from after the Physician is trapped by an lively landmine. That doesn’t cease them from making mates amidst the battle, although—in truth, one of many allies they achieve made for fairly a pleasing shock.
Anglican Marine Mundy Flynn, who helps the Physician and Ruby all through the episode, is performed by Andor’s Varada Sethu, who’s set to be the brand new (and presently unnamed) companion within the subsequent season. It seems Sethu gained’t reprise the function when she comes over full-time, one thing made clear on Twitter when she talked about taking her first steps into the franchise via Mundy. “I’m so grateful I get to return again for extra,” she wrote, “however you’ll all have to attend and see how that manifests within the new companion function.”
Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, episode author Steven Moffat wasequally tight-lipped on how her double casting took place, and deferred to Sethu’s appaearance right here as all a part of showrunner Russell T. Davies’ plans. Nonetheless, he did word there was some enjoyable in doing a traditional Who casting transfer of hiring visitor actors who find yourself taking part in companions down the road. Within the fashionable Who period, it occurred to each Freema Agyeman and Jenna Coleman—the previous’s visitor function was later made into the cousin to eventual her companion function of Martha Jones—and even Peter Capaldi landed a visitor half earlier than he ended up turning into the Twelfth Physician.
Davies reaffirmed Sethu’s assertion that Mundy’s story has come to an finish, and that her companion character will likely be revealed in full subsequent yr. Whether or not you imagine him or not, her exhibiting up helped make the episode much more thrilling, and it makes the await her to hold with the Physician and Ruby really feel even longer.
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