Doctor Who Flux: 10 Huge Questions After Village Of The Angels

We were expecting Bel and Vinder’s story to be reserved for Survivors of the Flux so it was a surprise to see Bel’s search for Vinder included as a side quest this week. Despite the direct connection of the Angels to the ongoing story, these scenes felt like an unnecessary interruption to an otherwise compelling storyline.

There is growing speculation that they are being set up to be the Doctor’s parents, no doubt a hangover from the revelations in The Timeless Children. The Doctor’s origins go back way further than her time with the Division and while we would feel cheated if Chibnall did not provide answers about the latter, there is no need to look into the Doctor’s pre-Tecteun history.

Vinder’s story is especially interesting in that it parallels both the Doctor and the rogue Angel’s. Like them, he has defied his paymasters and, although somewhat fortuitously because of the Flux, he is also on the run. He could turn out to have been another member of the Fugitive Doctor’s team, unknown to even him thanks to the use of a chameleon arc. He could have been playing himself in those memory scenes in Once, Upon Time, with Yaz the Weeping Angel.

Bel and Vinder look like they are being set up to be the ones who release the prisoners held inside the Passengers. Although Bel’s pregnancy was completely ignored, and whoever their baby turns out to be, don’t bet against the child’s birth being the final scene of Doctor Who Flux.