Doctor Who Flux: 10 Huge Questions After Once, Upon Time
3. Will Vinder And Bel Be Reunited?
After next week’s Village of the Angels, Bel’s story will be picked up again in episode five – Survivors of the Flux. In the midst of such a dark storyline, it would be great to see her reconciled with Vinder. Hopefully their story at least will have a happy ending. There’s something inherently sweet about the notion of two lovers separated across space and time, yet connected by their unborn child. But Doctor Who’s default optimism has taken quite a battering under Chibnall, so don’t be surprised if there’s a tragic ending in store for them.
The baby will likely be more than a cheap way of generating sympathy for the couple or adding another risk factor into the equation. A baby becomes a symbol of hope in an apocalypse story, but its identity could also prove to be significant. It’s unlikely to tie into the Doctor’s origins story, given that the baby would be born after the events of the Flux, but in a narrative in which people are frequently being shifted to different times and places anything is possible.
The idea that love is more than just an emotion has already
been explored in the context of a Cyberman story, with Danny Pink’s love for
Clara being a promise that enables him to fight against his conditioning (Death
in Heaven). Once again the emotion-phobic Cybermen fail to appreciate the power
of love, which for Bel functions as a mission statement. Love itself can be a
call to arms and this may well be key to defeating the Flux and the Ravagers.