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Series 12 News & Spoilers
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Not sure if this was posted here (search tells me no but not sure if accurate), but Anji Mohandra will be in Season 12. She is not playing Rani from SJA:
https://cultbox.co.uk/general/doctor-who-series-12-new-director-actor-character-discovered
https://cultbox.co.uk/general/doctor-who-series-12-new-director-actor-character-discovered
Damn. I always wanted her and Clyde to show up and maybe even become companions. 
I haven't watched SJA. Been meaning to catch it all in a go at some point. But, yeah, if they're bringing back the actress, I'm not sure why it would be as a different character. Well, Chibs doesn't seem to want be tied to the series' past, and probably much left a spinoff! Perhaps there are also character rights issues? Always confusing how that works over there.
Finally! pretty excited for this, I am really enjoying Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor and I'm excited to see where they go next season, I wish it was shown annually.
I hope they keep the idea of three companions, I think that really worked well last season and they managed all the characters well. I would like to see more of Yaz, and I'm curious about the idea of Yaz and the Doctor becoming romantically involved, I don't think they will do that, but I wouldn't hate it.
I hope they keep the idea of three companions, I think that really worked well last season and they managed all the characters well. I would like to see more of Yaz, and I'm curious about the idea of Yaz and the Doctor becoming romantically involved, I don't think they will do that, but I wouldn't hate it.
Pete Capaldi has two different roles in the franchise before getting cast as the Doctor, and he is not the first who played multiple characters.
Re-using actors is a tradition in DW that goes back a long time.
Re-using actors is a tradition in DW that goes back a long time.
Seems a wasted opportunity.
Sure it happens, but this is the rare case of an actor having a lead role as one character and then return as a guest to play another.
And again, it's a missed opportunity and a wasted one. I'm sure she'll be great in this new role, but I'll be thinking the whole time how we could've gotten Rani instead and didn't.
Yes but if they'd cast her as Rani you'd have a whole batch of fans thinking that she was the Rani and then disappointed that she was some unrelated character from a spin-off that they'd never seen.
They're not really fans if they didnt watch that spin-off.
Of course there's always the possibility that her new role will be the Rani and we'll discover that Rani from SJA was her undercover.
Sorry, I've been meaning to watch it!!!! I feel so inadequate now!!They're not really fans if they didnt watch that spin-off.
It might also have something to do with the last SJA episode was October 2011 and series 12 is 2020 so most of the audience will probably not remember a character she played nine years before.
In 2005 I never thought we would be discussing "9 years previously in nuWho..."
In 2005 I never thought we would be discussing "9 years previously in nuWho..."
All three companions are good characters, but it seems like they spent so much time giving everybody something to do in every episode, they forgot to write an actual story most of the time. It felt like the same story only in different places from episode 2 to episode 9 for me.
I'm hoping for better writing this time around.
Wouldn't they have also have to pay for the rights to the JSA character?
I'm sure Russell T. Davies wouldn't have any issue but the BBC might not want to pay.
Well, get to it already! The show is so wonderful, especially if you're a Sarah Jane fan!Sorry, I've been meaning to watch it!!!! I feel so inadequate now!!
But that didn't stop them bringing from back Lis Sladen as Sarah Jane. The idea that some fans wouldn't know who she is would be a reason to bring her back is silly. This show has a very deep history so eight years is nothing. Also, you know, the Internet.
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I wondered about this issue as well.
Which has happened before too, at least in the classic era when Jacqueline Hill came back for Meglos.
BBC seems to be okay with paying RTD to use the Judoon this season.
As mentioned above, they brought back Sarah Jane in 2006, thirty years after she left. SJA brought back the Brigadier almost twenty years after his last Doctor Who appearance. Indeed, given SJA was aimed at young children, the majority of the target audience likely didn't know who the Brigadier even was.
I was trying to rack my mind for previous examples but, yup, I forgot about Jacqueline Hill. Thanks for the reminder.
Indeed. It's a nice treat for long-time fans and it's just a past connection that new fans won't be familiar with, but it's not a big deal. Besides, we get plenty of references to off-screen adventures like Jim the Fish or some old friend of The Doctor that the viewer has never met (Azrael in the classic series is the only one I can think of at the moment, but I know it's happened in the new series) and that doesn't confuse anyone. Why would Rani be any different?
Nicholas Courtney was in The Dalek Master Plan before he came back as the The Brigadier.
Michael Sheard played featured in 5 different stories and Michael Wisher was in Ambassadors of Death as a tv commentator before playing Davros.
Paul Darrow went mad in at the hands of the Silurians before Tekker was totally mad.
oh and Commander Maxil would like a word.
