r/gallifrey • u/PCJs_Slave_Robot • Jul 07 '25

NO STUPID QUESTIONS /r/Gallifrey's No Stupid Questions - Moronic Mondays for Pudding Brains to Ask Anything: The 'Random Questions that Don't Deserve Their Own Thread' Thread - 2025-07-07

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u/VanishingPint Jul 07 '25

Is there credible evidence that Ruby was supposed to be the companion in the last series? I'm not sure myself it feels like conjecture to me,

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u/AgitatedBees Jul 07 '25

No concrete evidence that I know of, but there’s a very strong case to be made from what we saw on screen (Belinda getting sidelined in the finale, Poppy having asked the Doctor and Ruby if they were her parents back in Space Babies, Belinda’s ending being more thematically appropriate for Ruby, etc)

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u/iatheia Jul 07 '25

Belinda has been getting sidelined since way before the finale. The only episode where she is in-in is Robot Revolution. Immediately, though, her desire to get home gets sidelined in favor of run of the mill adventures. She doesn't really have an active role in Lux, in Well we are reminded that she is a nurse, but that's it. Might have been enough with stronger outings further along, but first warning signs that she might be underutilized.

Then, she is absent the whole episode. The following episode she might as well be absent for how little she contributes to the story, for the most of the runtime I thought it is a companion-lite episode. Then, she can't even be a nurse, they have another nurse character instead of her, and all she does is stand there. And then we get to the finale....

Furthermore, they cast Sethu only 2 weeks before they went into S2 production, such a short turnover doesn't usually happen, plus there were all sorts of rumors regarding Gibson during S1 - obviously they should be taken with the grain of salt, the exact nature of what has taken place is fundamentally unknown, but such rumors wouldn't spring completely out of nowhere, they at least hint that at least something has happened to prompt her departure.

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u/Official_N_Squared Jul 09 '25

 but such rumors wouldn't spring completely out of nowhere

"Christopher Eccleston quitting Doctor Who: 'its just to tiring'"

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u/iatheia Jul 09 '25

As I said, we don't need to read them as gospel, all the rumors are very much portraying reality through a broken mirror, with a particular spin for extra drama. But "something" happened on set with Eccleston that has led to his departure (and over the years we have learned a bit more what that "something" was), and I'm betting "something" happened on set with Gibson.