“Doctor who” was completely lost to Pelinda Chandra

When the last season of doctor Blessed, and The most exciting thing About her was not even her first story, or what was prepared to lead to the conclusion of the big season: it was up Fararada Cito in the role of Bellinda ChandraAnd promise to shake the doctor/dynamic companion in some way It was not years ago. But now after the end of the season, and doctor It lies in the midst of a group of narration and production that wanders towards an uncertain future, one of the largest is how Pelinda’s character is completely lost.

A young nurse balances strict demands in her career with the sudden disturbance of doctor The narration – which giant robots flying and criticizing it in space to become a planetary ruler and by force to a horrific level – Paulinda to the “robot revolution” immediately in more directions doctor For the first time a companion, especially in the modern era. After the initial moments of fear and hesitation, life is in the orbit of the doctor, often, very fascinated by resistance: 45 minutes to an hour of everyone from Rose Tyler to Ruby Sunday ready to interfere inside Tardis, note its internal size, and run directly to the adventures in time and space.

However, while Pelinda ends in the blue box just like their rest, it challenges the doctor, whether from his own point of view or every step on the road. Belinda of “The Robot Revolution” is not stubborn for it or anything, but it truly pays the doctor’s assumption that his way is that the person to whom every person should listen to the room undoubtedly is not the only way. I made a wonderful chemistry between the doctor and Belinda, not only for NCUTI GATWA and Varada Sethu sparkling charisma (definitely cannot blame the narrative options that the offer takes with her personality), but because you really see them feels Bellinda draws the lines.

The doctor’s attack, which greatly pushed many of these initial sparks in the relationship/doctor’s relationship, simply does not work on Belinda. All of this culminates in a wonderful last moment in that first episode to ignite the tone to move forward: calling for the invasion of its specificity, not to think about asking people’s approval, to try to dazzle it in a rudeness in the same way that many people showed in front of it. It is clear that there is part of Belinda loves the doctor; It is not terrified or actively contempt, but it explains that it crosses the lines, and the world in which he works (or rather worlds) is dangerous. She wants the home, and the only thing that stops it is the fact that they cannot get there – the adventures do not record along the road this dazzling new life, but the need to get what you want.

It is a shameful matter, then, that this version of Belinda stops largely in the middle of the road during its season doctor. Of course, she would always reduce her evaluation of the doctor whenever she spent with him, but the show plays an embarrassing budget as both Belinda moved from this challenge almost inoriens – it can be completely fine with traveling with the doctor by an end The second episode“Lux”, but even after darkness “The well” Later, you are really in the default assistant position – and because the season and then also begins to balance the dedication of its limited operation to rings about Ruby Like “Lucky Day”, or “The story and the engine,” Where Blinda is barely part of the narration.

For many Other thorny narrative issues At a time when the season is heading to its end in the “song competition between the stars”, the Belinda version that we reached, as its reaction to the doctor crossed a distinct moral line in torturing his “enemy” in the child, away from the woman who called him to scan her without asking her in the “Robot Revolution”, ready to manufacture effective rubber. That will be disappointing, but fine doctor The first skeptical model replaced the initial skeptical of anything, but instead Pelinda is pushed into a vacuum, a general “companion”. We don’t learn anything about her, really, unlike the fact that she wants to go home.

But all that is before the real injustice comes in the conclusion of the two -part season. in Part One“Wish World”, Belinda is converted by the reality imposed by Conrad – the foolish villain who chased Ruby in “Day Lucky Day” – on the floor in the doctor’s wife full. Reality is presented through the text as anomalous and dystopian, a world in which every woman has a good daughter, a good wife for her husband, then the mother who wants to raise the generation of girls to follow the same template exactly. In “Wish World”, the definition of BELINDA is reflected as a mother and a doctor, Poppy, Conrad’s views back on women, and calls them to one feature subject to the balance of traditional and conservative patriarchal power. The fact that Pelinda, my poppy mother, is not Bellinda, the doctor’s companion that we have followed throughout the season, is Mere To be annoying, in order to want it to be free from the trap and get to know it, the doctor, and the rest of the world.

“Reality War” Instead, it decides to reduce Belinda to this single link – mutual reality or otherwise – a good thing, in fact. The second Belinda is released from the world of Conrad, and its only dramatic name reminds us that she is the mother of the poppy and that this is all that she cares about, regardless of the chaos that began to reveal to the doctor, to the extent that she literally tells him that she could not help him in his battle against Rani. The episode is flying metabolically and literally in a box so that Ruby can take over the main facilities role, protect it and its population from any opposite to the original reality that might make the latter erase the speed she wished. It is not only allowed to leave the box when it is rescued today, and again, she returns to this front character, when she appears to be the doctor and the poppy may be transferred together, then when the poppy disappears from reality and the doctor chooses to sacrifice his life to return it.

There is a lot of “reality war” AbsoluteBut a few of them feel insulted just like what he does for the character of Binda. The presence of a personality who is the important motherhood is not the issue here; There is a lot that could have been done with a companion is the mother (we definitely got a particularly involved version with Amy’s Arc in the Steven Moffat era!). this doctor Belinda took mainly – which was – through Count Episode and other narrative decisions, has already lost her sense of bow – cleaned her, then concluded her “mom” on her forehead, and left her such as the final act of the episode. He now did our farewell to the character, so that even a retrospective “revealing” tried that the Bellinda Arcquion was always about returning home to poppy through a series of past memories to previous scenes of the season that was now changed to add Belinda “for poppy” to the end of each mentioned about its desire to return to the ground. This is not actually an arc, or even an interesting re -customization that reinforces what the audience has already seen in a new light. It is a literal rewriting when the audience has already seen!

After telling us about the previous week that it was wrong for Conrad, without approval, would have imposed a patriarchal gender role on Belinda, doctor Him himself has a doctor to do so exactly to Pelinda, rewriting all the reality to make it in a single mother. It is no longer present at Belinda Chandra in “The Robot Revolution”, not only because the exhibition reduced its character to nothingness, but because the show concludes its arch by rewriting its existence until Belinda was not present in the first place. Even there is a dark mirror in the last moments of this arc, when the doctor does exactly what Labinda did at the height of the “robot revolution”: surveying it medical with his strange technologies without asking one if he was allowed first time. She only does not interact with him this time, but it does not interact Ever. She is the mother of “only” from poppy now, without thinking or feeling that she is granted to her beyond this description.

Again, the presence of a female personality is that she is an important parent is not the issue in what doctor I did with Pelinda. There were many ways that the series could give this end to its story and actually put a way for it on its way during the season. You may slowly realize her with the passage of time that something, someone missing from her memories of her life on Earth, is lost with the feeling that she must return to Earth as soon as possible while not completely reviving the reason, to play in the end while manipulating the reality that the finals are attached to her study. Instead, the show began with a completely different and dynamic idea for her – which is filled with capabilities, immediately decided not to benefit from it – before she slowly paid it but steadily from its priority throughout the season.

Bellinda has never given the opportunity to grow and change during its time in Tardis, the challenge, and the challenge of life on the side of the doctor. Its last end was just another nail in a coffin doctor She was building the character of Belinda as we knew it in that first episode for a period of time, whether it was her narrative or otherwise – and ultimately just one additional failure to add it to the season’s list for many.

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