Spoilers Lucky Day grade and discussion thread

[jaime]

I have to admit it was a good ploy in the sense that when he insulted the Brigadier, it aggravated me. And agree they went that route to make you buy her actions. But that's like a cop beating a prisoner because he insulted your mom. I'm sure it happens but I'd also think Kate is better than that.

A realistic ending to the story would involve charging him with tax invasion as they implied he was doing in the story. That worked with Capone. Maybe not as satisfying storywise though!

The way to make it work is to have the thing escape because of his actions (not because it was waiting for an uber by sheer chance in that one set they have..) breaking in, it works its way up the tower, and then Kate giving the order to *not* help him. It’s what he requested. ‘I would not want to do anything with Conrad’s own consent’ and then it’s all pretty much fine. But they went for this instead, for… reasons.

 

[Starkers]

Meh, what does on between two consenting adults is their business.

She's literally his boss. Switch the genders around and see how that looks.

 

[Starkers]

First chance I've had to post about it and I saw it live!

Anyhoo. An odd one to call. I'll be honest, up until the twist I thought it was pretty poor (and I like Ruby).

I didn't see the twist coming, and it was way more interesting in the second half of the episode, though I still had issues with it. I get that sometimes episodes have to be on the nose, but this was so much of a sledge hammer I'd thought RTD had written it. Saw someone on Bluesky quote Garth Merenghi's "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards!"

Conrad was a much better villain than, say, the guy in Rosa, but it does seem amazing no one had heard of Think Tank, and UNIT's vetting procedure is obviously terrible.

Loved Kate being a badass, and guessed exactly what she was going to do. Thought the Doctor popping in at the end was a good performance from both actors but soooo heavy handed.

And how come the Doctor doesn't then recognise Conrad at the start given he clearly knew all about him/his history?

Decent but the weakest episode of the season so far for me. And the first that hasn't been better than the corresponding episode of last season (and yet again RTD has a clear pattern.)

Episode 1. The lighter, comedy episode that's actually darker than you think. Robot Revolution is better than Space Babies.

Episode 2. The play with the formula, crazy fantastical episode, a musical last season, a partially animated episode this year. Lux was better than The Devil's Chord.

Episode 3. The dark, gritty, filmed in a quarry episode where people gonna die horribly. Can't believe I'm going to say this but I think The Well is (just) better than Boom.

Episode 4. The Doctor lite, Ruby heavy episode featuring UNIT. 73 Yards was way better than this.

Can't tell about episode 5 yet but episode 6 seems a slam dunk as the mirror image of last season, the episode riffing on a popular cultural phenomena (Bridgerton/Eurovision)

 

[The Wormhole]

She's literally his boss. Switch the genders around and see how that looks.

Granted it is a questionable judgment call, but I'm not going to clutch pearls over it.