Doctor who have a slight upward 2024. Arrival of the heights of its heights 60th Anniversary Selebrations and a Fantastic Holiday Special The year before, expectation is high for the development of NCuli Gatwa to start heartfelt. And while there are some obvious Main points,, Doctor whowide printing and the particular mystery of the weather around the latest addition to Team Tardis, Ruby Domingo, no APART THIS NOT. Now, the show is turned back for touring twoAnd with it, a new brand partner in Ruby’s waking – and he can only be key to make this particular time in Who just click.

“The Robot Revolution,” The Piemene episode of Doctor whoThe 2025 period (if you call this season two, Season 15, or season 41 if you certainly Picky), a Russell T Davies Opener In that classic style. We started the day of Belinda Chandra’s life (Andor‘S Varada Setu), a young nurse with all the stresses around, from night shifts, to the flatmates and threw into personal connections, early sleep, the sloping of sleep, the tyranny does not stop. When her life is rudely and promptly interrupted by giant killer robots that want to whisk her away into space and a war she doesn’t understand, her path crosses with the doctor, we will go: Our new best friend, albeit a little best friend, albeit a little best friend, the thrills and chills Around them, is instantly captivated by the doctor’s adventurous but dangerous lifestyle and wants in adventures in time and space.

Belinda wants to go home. Immediately. Then he has a shift tomorrow, and while small of the killer robots and outer space are happy and scary, he has done it. Did he or her don’t do a different question, of course, but it is this fascinating twist At the doctor / companion dynamically suffering “robot revolution” with a crackle you can’t stop.

Doctor who It has been done before – 62 years of age at this point, it’s hard to not be acquired. Ian and Barbara, the first partners with the doctor’s grandson Susa who had six decades ago, arrested. Tegan often expressed his desire to return to his life and work in the world in ’80s, and even modern doctor in Tardis in teaching at home. But what makes Belinda stand as the most recent riff of that idea – except Setu’s good performance with a remarkable Chemistry of the NCUIG doctor Doctor who Ready to engage with the idea, forward and center, from get-lake.

Most “robot revolution” is a lot of charm sci-fi riff, built around a more fun prize (that we do not want to be damned, but it does not attract play Doctor whoClassical tropes imposing a daily concept of that imaginary, Sci-FNT) -It’s action, with wheat, there are many twists. There are even some things that carry from last season never hit, like a bad trope with a doctor of Gatwa is very consulted with something we have invested, instead of shown. It is there as a Modern Whomore powerful openers, and certainly a marked progress from “Space Babi” last yearbut his own Belinda that the episode shines in, than Doctor who-ess that surrounds him.

Belinda was then challenged by the doctor, but not in an antagonistic way. They don’t squabling each other; They are clearly starting to find some connection together all over the stage. But Belinda didn’t include every word he said and bedazzled with horrors and happiness in Ara. She has her own values, she has her own boundaries, and she is more than willing to stand up to an ancient time lord and be as equally awestruck and her is to firmly remind him when she is a lines), bringing something fresh out of Gatwa’s doctor as he comes to realize that his charms don’t always work on people. They do not always agree with the solution a problem, they do not always consult with each other before making a decision and prompt their own equal shareholding in each other.

And perhaps more important, it is a relationship that we truly see progressing on-screen. One of the biggest issues with Ruby Sunday last season – beyond the mystery basis of his attitude that is not real a mystery of true, intentionally For better or worse-They, in spite of the same way to Millie Gibson with the ghost, we just saw that the doctor and ruby ​​were best friends because they were, and other characters, they just say that they were best friends. earnings Rarely spent With both of the real talking to each other, they will never see the relaxing between tardis stories. In only one period, the belinda and the doctor’s relationship feel different not because of dynamic, but because Doctor who Once again it is actually ready to spend time showing it working in action, and to allow two main digs of that connection.

That makes “robot revolution” a less exciting premiere, which pains us at a time full of potentially No or Die FOR Doctor whothat we still consider hearing anything about the performance change ahead of this time. But with a team like the 15th doctor and Belinda in the helm, whatever comes, Doctor who There is a secret weapon weapon than an hourly machine or a Sonic Screwdriver this time happily checks us as much as we can with a scary monster or bright location.

Doctor who Returned to Disney + around the world, and the BBC in the UK, on ​​Saturday, April 12.

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