Woah! Doing some early planning for Class: Ongoing and noticed something I never realised before.
After For Tonight We Might Die, I made a post highlighting all the references on the Roll of Honours. One of these was A. Dunlop, seemingly the teacher from Magician’s Apprentice who fetched Clara, who apparently died sometime in the next year (but was for some reason listed on the board before Danny and Clara).
What I never realised, however, is that Dunlop is played by Aaron Neil, the same actor who plays Ram’s dad Varun.
I don’t know what to do with this information, but that’s wild! Multi-casting actors is common in Doctor Who (fun fact, Aaron Neil has also done a number of Big Finish stories) but this is a pretty major casting coincidence. This would imply that Ram was being taught by someone identical to his dad throughout secondary school.
On one hand, I’m now imagining a young Ram accidentally calling Dunlop ‘Dad’ during lessons and being hilariously embarrassed. On the other hand, I’m now wondering if there could be a deeper metatemporal meaning for this...
