Whenever Doctor Who introduces a new companion, there are a few tropes we all expect. They're going to note that the TARDIS is "bigger on the inside." They might have a mysterious backstory that somehow ties to the Doctor's greater mission or history. And they're going to fall absolutely head over heels in "love" (either platonically or romantically) with the Doctor, as well as with the idea of traveling through time and space.
That is until the venerable series's latest companion, Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu), who upends convention in the season premiere purely by not wanting to be there at all.
