In 2025’s Doctor Who Season 2 (or Season 15 or Season 41, depending on how you count) the titular Time Lord will be faced with a problem he’s encountered a few times before. As the trailers have revealed, the 15th Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) will be joined by a new companion, Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu). She’s a nurse, and in the latest trailers, she tells the Doctor to call her “the Nurse,” as a kind of joke about him being called “the Doctor.”
Because we saw Sethu in the previous season, playing Anglican Marine Mundy Flynn in the episode “Boom,” the Doctor is obviously concerned. He knows he’s seen this face before, and so he has to assume some kind of timey-wimey action is upon us. Many fans have already pointed out that Sethu’s early appearance in “Boom” was a callback to when Jenna Coleman appeared in Doctor Who as Oswin in “Asylum of the Daleks” (2012) prior to her true debut as Clara in “The Snowmen” later that same year. But is this really an “Impossible Girl” re-do, or is Doctor Who up to something else?
