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The brand new season of Physician Who is in full swing, and it’s already making some massive strikes early into its run. This week’s episode, “Growth,” places the Physician and Ruby on the planet of Kastarion 3, which is at the moment within the midst of a struggle the pair are unable to flee from after the Physician is trapped by an energetic landmine. That doesn’t cease them from making associates amidst the battle, although—in reality, one of many allies they acquire 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 at the moment unnamed) companion within the subsequent season. It seems Sethu gained’t reprise the position 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 come back again for extra,” she wrote, “however you’ll all have to attend and see how that manifests within the new companion position.”
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. Nevertheless, he did observe there was some enjoyable in doing a traditional Who casting transfer of hiring visitor actors who find yourself enjoying companions down the road. Within the trendy Who period, it occurred to each Freema Agyeman and Jenna Coleman—the previous’s visitor position was later made into the cousin to eventual her companion position 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 shall be revealed in full subsequent 12 months. Whether or not you imagine him or not, her displaying 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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