Just in time for the song contest of the real Eurovision, the Tardis makes a detour to the 2925 version of the annual song and dance jamboree. In “Doctor Who” season 2 Episode 6, “The Interstellar Song Contest”, The Doctor and Belinda Land in the vast Harmony Arena, where the biggest music show in the Galaxy is about to turn away.
There are cams for reality BBC Eurovision welcomes Rylan Clark and Graham Norton, and the bad guys who almost Share the names of James Bond Assassins Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd. Fans of “Who” will also note that the singer Cora Saint Bavier (Miriam-Teak Lee) represents Trion, the native world of the fifth doctor Vislor Turlough.
But by far the biggest discussion subject of “The Interstellar Song Contest” is the repeated visions of the doctor of a face that we have not seen for decades. Here is everything you need to know about this mysterious woman in the Tardis, and why she is an integral part of the story of “Doctor Who”.
Spoiler warning! Stop reading now if you have not yet watched “Doctor Who” season 2 Episode 6, “The Interstellar Song Contest”.
Who is the woman in the doctor’s visions?
It is Susan Foreman, the doctor’s granddaughter. She played by Carole Ann Ford, who first portrayed Susan in the very first “Doctor Who” Serial “, a nicknamed child” in November 1963.
Susan pretended to be an ordinary teenager at Coal Hill School in London, when her prodigious intelligence drew the attention of teachers Ian Chesterton (William Russell) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill). After following Susan in Tardis (at the time parked in a junk food at the 76 Totter’s Lane), Ian and Barbara became the first travel companions of the first doctor (William Hartnell) and his granddaughter. Susan’s adventures in the Tardis ended with “The Dalek Invasion of Earth” of 1964, when the doctor abandoned her, reasoning that living a normal life with the fighter David Campbell (Peter Fraser) would be better for her than spending time with an “old silly stamp” like him.
The doctor’s visions in “The Interstellar Song Contest” show Susan as an older woman. She is aboard a Tardis, wearing a white dress and a chain that seems to be formal gallifreyan clothes.
While the doctor floated frozen in the space of space, Susan said: “Grandfather, returns!”, Giving him the shaking he needs to return to harmony. A little later, she asks him to “find me” and – when it seems that the doctor’s anger could prevail over him while apprehending Kid (Freddie Fox) – acts as his conscience, saying to “stop!” Whether it is memories, dreams or communications from the real Susan remains to be seen. While the doctor is currently believing that he is the last of Lord times, he was wrong on this subject before – the rumors of the Master’s disappearance was very exaggerated – therefore Susan can still be there, lost in time and space.
Had Susan appeared in “Doctor Who” since she left the Tardis in 1964?
The doctor promised that he would “come back” at the end of “the invasion of Dalek’s land” but, as is so often with the old companions, he apparently never done.
That said, a time scoop brought together Susan with five incarnations of his grandfather traveling in time in the special 20th anniversary “The Five Doctors”. She also appeared in various books (non -canonical), comics and audio dramas, while Ford appeared in the comedy of the 50th anniversary of the fifth Doctor Peter Davison “The Five (ISH) Reboot Doctors”.
Although Susan has not appeared on the screen since 1983, it has been referenced directly and indirectly on several occasions. The ninth doctor (Christopher Eccleston) alluded to a lost family, while the tenth doctor (David Tennant) admitted to the company Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) that “I was a father before”. The eleventh doctor (Matt Smith) remembers having visited the Akhaten rings bazaar with his granddaughter, while a flashback in Gallifrey “a long time ago …” in “the name of the doctor” showed the doctor and Susan flying a Tardis.
The twelfth doctor (Peter Capaldi) has a photo of Susan on his desk when he pretended to be a university speaker in “The Pilot”, and there is even room for a mention of a certain foreman of S. on the role of honor at Coal Hill Academy in “Who” spin-off “Class”.
What about Susan in the era of the fifteenth doctor?
The first season of Ncuti Gatwa in Tardis seemed determined to make Susan more important than it had been for years. When the doctor and Sunday Ruby (Millie Gibson) visited 1963 London in “Devil’s agreement“, The doctor pointed out the old junkyard in Shoreditch where he lived with Susan.
When a surprised Ruby asked: “Do you have children?”, He replied: “I had, I will have. Time Lords becomes a little … complicated.” He also admitted that he did not know where she is and – alluding to the massacre of her people – explained that “the Lords Time were murdered. The genocide rolled through time and space as a large large cell explosion. Perhaps it killed her too.”
Is Susan Triad the doctor’s granddaughter?
Throughout season 1, the doctor met many incarnations of the same woman, all played by Susan Twist. In “Ruby Sunday legend“We have learned that she was in fact the 21st century pioneer, Susan Triad.
The play on words has proven to be a trap by God of death Sutekhwho used Ms. Triad as emissary on earth. With an entire universe to save, the doctor’s hunting for his Susan went ruined.
Does Susan have a link with Ms. Flood?
The neighbor of Nosy, Ms. Flood (Anita Dobson), paid much more in -depth attention to the doctor this season and seems delighted when he makes his vindicator work in the interstellar song competition: “Thank you, Doctor. This is the last link.”
Then, the end credits sequence explains why Ms. Flood is so at the fact of the Time Lords tracks, after Gary (Charlie Condou) and Mike (Kadiff Kirwan) fired the last survivor of Mavity Well Stasis. An Mrs. Flood agitated asks if the doctor is gone and decides that it is now “sure”.
“I am afraid that my double brain trunk would freeze – deadly for a lady – but I have my own talent for survival. I suppose that I should think of last famous words. What would you say,” Let Battle Begin “.”
As a familiar cloud of regeneration energy appears around her head, she “bigenerate” – as the fourteenth doctor did when the fifteenth doctor appeared for the first time – and divides into two distinct people. The new version (played by Archie Panjabi of “The Good Wife”) is clearly in charge and confirms the identity of the duo: “Our name is the Rani. Although it has become a Rani, while I am the Rani. The article defined, so to speak.”
It has been almost four decades that the Rani appeared in “Doctor Who”. Lord of time renegat in the same tradition as the master, she appeared in front of the sixth doctor (Colin Baker) in “The Mark of the Rani” and the seventh doctor (Sylvester McCoy) in “Time and the Rani”. At the time, she was played by the late Kate O’Mara.
This new Rani promises to bring Doctor “Absolute Terror”, suggesting that she has a role to play in the earth “disintegrated in Rock and Dush and Ashes” on Saturday May 24, 2025. Probably, the virtual assistant Graham Norton did not see coming …
Unrelated, but why does everyone continue to talk about my rather than gravity?
Mavity is the terminology accepted in the Whonivese from the fourteenth doctor (you know, the one who is the spitting image of the tenth doctor) fell on Sir Isaac Newton in “Blue Yonder”.
The duo inadvertently changed the course of history in the most apparently minor way possible, transforming the word gravity into a mavity. It seems to be just a racing gag in the last two seasons, but who knows, we could get a gain for that.
New episodes of “Doctor Who” broadcast on BBC Iplayer in the United Kingdom and Disney + in the United States every Saturday. Episodes selected “Doctor Who” featuring Susan are also available on BBC Iplayer in the United Kingdom.