The latest episode "Doctor Who" has a little bit of a doctor, nor does he have much of his current companion Belinda. Instead, it is a story tied to the country after former companion Ruby (Milli Gibson) as he enters a seemingly beautiful young man named Conrad (Jonah Hower-King).

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Conrad leaves an unusual first impression: His first scene shows him as a child who grossly grabs a coin from the doctor's hand even though the doctor happily offered him. But when we catch Conrad as an adult, he seems to have matured mostly. He began a healthy podcast for the doctor, and when he first meets Ruby, he first behaves like a nervous fan.

For the first half of this episode, it seems that the episode writer, Pete Maktig, aims the same spark as another well-known episode of Doctor-Light: "Loveuboub and Monsters". Although that episode is (rightly!) Having fans for his terrible last act, it is easy to forget that her first two -thirds were wonderful. It was fun to see a bunch of normal people united by the feeling of miracle to the doctor. It was nice to give the doctor a break for a week, to offer fans to look at what the country looks like when it is not around. Although "Love & Monsters" was a bust, the writers "Doctor who" smart realized that the aspect of the doctor was not guilty. They gave us Classics like "Blink" And "turn left" shortly afterwards.

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But instead of trying to catch the spirit of "blinking" or "turn left", this latest episode focuses on giving "Loveubeub and Monsters" dark restart. Like "L&M", "Happy Day" shows how much the doctor may have a random person. A forgotten adventure for the doctor may not want to change the whole course of a passerby's life for better or worse.

In the case of Conrad, at first it seems that he was changed for the better. Introduced as an offensive mother, Conrad seems to have adhered to a miracle feeling to the doctor as a kind of emotional life. No matter how difficult his home life is, his hopes to learn more about the doctor could always attract him during the day. Of course, it becomes the difference between "Loveum and Monsters" and "Happy Day" a lot Obviously in the second half of this episode. Since "Loveube and Monsters" remained optimistic (even when there shouldn't be), "Happiness Day" becomes pleasant.

In the big turn of the episode, we find out that Conrad is not someone who guarded his doctor's belief despite resolving his offensive mother. Instead he basically got up His mother, finding the power to call other people's liars about what they believe in what he has ever done. Conrad's entire Ruby's relationship turns out to be a trick for him to expose the lying unit to the public. It is a crazy cruel trick by Conrad; He gained the confidence of Ruby and pretended to love her for weeks, as long as we could see from Ruby's perspective on how much this new relationship meant to her. Conrad doesn't just reveal to Ruby that he's lying all the time. He reveals that he has hated her from the beginning and secret sneezing of everything entrusted to him. Remind of "73 yards" from last seasonWhere Ruby is thrown through an absurd amount of emotional turmoil without a doctor around to help.

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To make Conrad's actions even worse is how dishonest they are, not only to Ruby, but to his followers. His plan to "expose" Ruby's corruption and the unit actually proves nothing, but he and his friends are certainly behaving as he does. Social media and right -wing news algorithms are happy to go along with his unused round of victory, and Conrad uses this media impetus to further destroy Ruby's life and undermines the work of the unit.

This is the point of the story where the doctor's absence really shines. Without Tardis to run away, Ruby must deal with real -time Conrad abuse. And without a doctor to solve the problem, we must see Kate Lodbridge Stuart (EMEMA Redgrew) to deal with Conrad alone. Her decision to set a stranger to Conrad is cold, avenging and undeniable as a hell. I've never been impressed by Kate - I feel the show always builds her to be bad, but then the plot forces her to be useless - but she's incredible here. "Happy Day" gives us a version of Kate which is actually interesting, something that the episode could not do if the doctor was around.

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Overall, "Love & Monsters" was a fun story of how the Internet can help unite foreigners with a well -intentioned intention with the usual niches. "Happy Day" is about how the Internet can encourage people's worst instincts and can allow people of bad faith to spread misinformation and hatred at the rate previously unthinkable. It is a narrative reflection of how our collective understanding of the Internet has spilled over time. Most of us no longer believe that the Internet makes us smarter or kinda in general, and a "doctor who" no longer believes in this. Maybe the doctor himself still believes that, but he is not here.

The decision to focus a whole episode of Ruby, someone who is no longer the current companion, is quite unseen. Nearest parallel with ruby ​​in Original era of Russell T. Davis It was Martha, who appeared here and there throughout the season of Donna Noble, but during those episodes, Donna and the doctor were still the main focus. Marta's involvement was a fun bonus, but a little more.

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What makes a "happy day" extra strange is that it comes in one season only eight episodes, not the 13 episodes that enjoyed the older seasons. For fans who hope to get as much as possible from the new companion Belinda in our limited time with her, this bypass may be a little frustrating. On the bright side, "Happiness Day" seems to apologize for how Ruby was in a hurry and the doctor's dynamics were last season; Fans complained of the tricky time jumping between their adventures, but this episode is back and giving us an overview of their lives between episodes. "Doctor who" makes the lost time with Ruby and the doctor, but does so to the detriment of Doctor and Belinda.

Of course, there is a chance that it all leads to an exciting season 3. Perhaps this episode of Ruby-Centrik sets the foundations for the final of Season 2, where Ruby returns to Tardis. I hope Belinda develops its own taste for adventure and choose to stick around - this can lead to A. a lot A fun season where the doctor is, Ruby and Belinda all have fun through time and space. Most of my favorite epochs on the show have more than one companion in Tardis, so if a "doctor who" could withdraw this with Ruby and Belinda, it would definitely be on the ship.

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Unfortunately, the future of a "doctor who" is not clear right now. Has not yet been updated for a new season, and has Rumors about the show go through another interruption. It is a shame, because allowing Nkuti's Gatva doctor to enjoy the third season with the two companions would be the perfect way to come out of his era. We didn't get enough time with Ruby in her first season and now we don't get enough time with Belinda. The final season with the two in Tardis would be huge.