Episode Discussion: Lucky Day

His favourite story is Galaxy 4, calling it now.

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They finally defrosted him

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Is the guy who plays Conrad related to Paul McGann at all? I wouldn’t be surprised if he is.

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I agree. So much of the negativity reeks of insincerity. Trolling to rile people and create discord. It’s the modern playbook.

Now, what was that quote?

“
along comes this
 noise. All day long, this relentless noise. Cowards like you, weaponising lies, taking people’s insecurities and fear, and making it currency. You are exhausting. You stamp on the truth, choke our bandwidth, and shred our patience. Because the only strategy you have is to wear us down.”

Apt.

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Not sure if anyone’s mentioned this, but when the Doctor meets young Conrad back in 2007, at that point he’d already had that confrontation with adult Conrad in the Tardis. I wonder if he put together that it was partially due to him that Conrad went on his dark path, as in the scene it didn’t look like any bells rung.

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I don’t think he realized it was the same person , maybe he will

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SAMEE I also thought he kinda looked like him

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I think the Doctor meets a lot of people, not sure he realised the link, or maybe he might have tried to do something different?

It’s a paradox, not sure where they are going with this.

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This was allright,
Not my fav episode as it was very Belinda and Doctor lite.
Gave it 3 stars, as it’s middle of the road for me.

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I think if I had to take a major mark against it, I’d like a Kate episode where her father isn’t mentioned. There’s this tendency to always bring up the Brigadier in some way, making it harder for Kate to stand on her own. Although, it was interesting seeing what happens when someone speaks ill of him in her presence. I think Conrad touched a nerve, and that’s part of why she arguably went a step overboard.

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To quote myself from the discord

McTighe, I take it all back, I wasn’t aware of your game

Well, maybe not all of it

Kerblam! still sucks, and Praxeus is fine but not stunning

but this was a whole load of fun

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I did feel like they made this episode less about Ruby more about Unit - it wasn’t a bad episode.
Also slight nit pick at all the people Kate hires - only a few appear at a time.

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If I had one complaint about the episode, it would be agreeing that yeah, the Brig didn’t need to be mentioned again, but also it feels completely in character for Conrad to do so in that way

Also I kind of wish the companion support group from PotD showed up again at the end (or at least got nodded towards), but also I loved the line about Ruby collecting mums

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Do you mean Ruby could go there to get some emotional support?

Because that is a really good idea, she should definitely seek them out.

However when I read your comment I thought you meant the support group should show up with makeshift weapons and kick Conrad’s ass :laughing:

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To be fair, UNIT is a world-wide organisation, in this episode they mention that Mel’s off doing setup for The War Between in another country.

As for the other people we’ve seen working at UNIT, I reckon there’s good enough reasons they’re not here:

  • Donna - Gets a bunch of time off
  • Rose - Most of this takes place at night, between UNIT and School, she probably needs the sleep (Plus I get the vibe that when 15’s not around, she’s not usually on the main floor)
  • Morris - I kind of assume that given him and Shirley have the same role within UNIT, they only need one person in that position on the ‘main floor’ at a time, he’s probably just downstairs
  • Susan - Also doesn’t feel like she’d be given a ‘main floor’ job, plus she’s splitting time between UNIT and Triad anyway
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I hope this features at some point.

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Yeah, I mean Mel was there, so she probably knows it exists, I think Ruby and Yaz would get along

Obviously William Russell has passed away, but I’m imagining 90 year old Ian beating Conrad half to death with a cane lmao

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Gonna watch this later with my dad. And we’re gonna watch The Well as he hasn’t seen it.

It feels so good not being the only adult watching the show again :heart::smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

He also bought me some cola for when we watch too.

Read some of y’all replies here but haven’t been spoiled yet. Just my luck ig.

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Not sure how I feel about this one yet, gonna have to rewatch it with my parents tonight to form a solid opinion. (Also for some reason I was having audio issues? Most of Ruby’s lines sounded super canny.)

The “TV Show” theorists are gonna have a field day with Conrad directly calling the monsters costumes and special effects :eyes:

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