Re: Doctor Who S15/S2 - Ep 4: Lucky Day

On 04.05.25, Blueshirt  <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

"Lucky Day" is this season's Doctor-lite episode and without the
Doctor around it becomes a chapter in the "Adventures of Ruby
Sunday"... which basically means, it's companion soap opera
time; Ruby gets a boyfriend (Conrad), her Mum(s) and Gran are
happy for her and all is looking rosy as the two of them head
off for a weekend away in the country. Conrad even carries
Ruby's bag for her when they get off the bus. A nice looking guy
and a gentleman too. What could possibly go wrong?

[SPOILERS]

Yes, we all knew that Conrad was going to be a bit of a
bastard...

I didn't.

Poor Ruby. As if being an ex-companion of the Doctor
wasn't traumatic enough for her whilst she tries to adapt back
to a normal life in London without the Doctor, now she goes and
falls for a hot guy that was only faking his interest in her.
Ain't life a bitch baby?! The moral of the story is, beware of
toxic masculinity... it'll only lead you astray!

I didn't see hot, nor masculinity. Just some average a bit dumb looking
dude.

Oh, and beware of fake news too... we all know about that one
don't we? So never believe what they tell you. It's all a
conspiracy! #DemandTheTruth

Yeah, Soap boxing, sigh. Reminded me of good old Quincy, where every
episode was about one soap box or another.

as well as being a [kind of] prequel setting up "The War Between the
Land and the Sea"

What? What did I miss?

Probably a lot. Asked google something about Doctor Who yesterday, and
found something about a 17th Doctor. What!?

Some minor points of note; Conrad knows of Belinda Chandra,

Yes, Belinda was there at the start of the episode when they met little
Conrad. Doctor introduced them.

But from what time was the Doctor supposed to be?

the Doctor DIDN'T cry in this episode,

Didn't have enough screen time, did he?

Mrs Flood refers to herself as The Governor, and with her big bunch
of keys is probably going to let Conrad out of jail...

So she's posing as the governor of that prison right then. The episode
was so stupid, her appearing in it even turned the _whole_ Mrs Flood
thing into something lame and boring. Who cares what she's up to? Mrs 
Flood mystery has been tainted by stupid episode.

so it's possible the cad will be back later in the season.

The cad?

So my rating for "Lucky Day" is 6/10...

First thought, not another episode about some guy who met the doctor.

Wandering around house with shriek, boring.

Idiot being idiot for not taking antidote.

Idiot revealed as being an even bigger idiot.

Soap-boxing.

Even Ruby and the nice people from UNIT couldn't save this episode. Can 
I give it a negative score? If not, 0/10. (Ruby + Unit 7, idiot idiot -9 
at the least.)

Can we please have Doctor 10/14 and Donna's family run into new Doctor 
somewhere, also trying to get back to the same date? (We know they're 
doing trips in the duplicated TARDIS, after all.)

Imagine Belinda turning a corner, running into Donna, who asks "Have you 
seen the Doctor?", Belinda points to where new Doctor is, then speeds 
along to wherever she was going, runs into Doctor 10/14. "Who are you?" 
- "The Doctor."

Wouldn't that be fun? :))

There, now I'm grinning again. (Was the opposite after watching this 
episode.)


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Mickmane