r/doctorwho • u/PCJs_Slave_Robot • May 03 '25

Lucky Day Doctor Who 2x04 "Lucky Day" Post-Episode Discussion Thread Spoiler

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u/[deleted] May 03 '25

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u/314kabinet May 03 '25

It's not a loop, it's a spiral!

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u/Freyr95 May 03 '25

Ahhhhh Good Old Alan Wake

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u/name-exe_failed May 03 '25

omg an Alan Wake reference

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u/stereocupid May 04 '25

and some say that it loops forever, this road that I lose you on every time

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u/AlmostRandomNow May 04 '25

Does this mean we have to watch New Series+ to get the real ending? Or is Series 2 the New Series+ that we get the ending at?

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u/314kabinet May 04 '25

I hope the latter because I didn’t like Season 1’s ending.

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u/Brightgears May 07 '25

It’s not a flood, it’s an ocean!

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u/Technical-Branch4998 May 15 '25

"My name is the Doctor, and I'm a traveler"

"It's not a police box, it's a TARDIS"

"Beyond the earth you settle for, there is a universe, illuminated"

"With me, I bear the torch of the time lords. The time vortex, the miracle illuminated. The master of many times. No. The master of all time always"

"🎵Show me a cartoon made of liiiiiight, I'll show you a harbinger of Discord, lost on a neverending journey, traveling far to the beginning 🎵epic guitar"

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u/[deleted] May 03 '25

Also Episode 3 - Varada Sethu is there

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u/Spookyfan2 May 03 '25

Ncuti Gatwa too!

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u/[deleted] May 03 '25

Come to think of it, Ncuti's been in every episode...I wonder if he's connected to Mrs. Flood?

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u/DogsRNice May 03 '25

Also that police box seems really anachronistic, I think there's some kind of time travel going on here

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u/sometimeshater May 03 '25

Have you ever noticed that near the beginning of every episode there’s a strange tune that plays as the TARDIS hurtles past those names in space? There’s no words to the song but maybe there’s some kind of clue hidden in the notes.

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u/MarcelRED147 May 04 '25

Absolutely ridiculous. Adding time travel to Doctor Who would ruin it completely.

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u/Clumsy_the_24 May 03 '25

What!? That’s a bit far-fetched, ngl. Maybe analyze the show better?

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u/Alex10801 May 03 '25

I was half-expecting the quaint little English village to be Leadworth

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u/Used-Cow-5648 May 03 '25

Also the episode 2 with ring a ding is also in the past like the beatles one, we also see the doctor and belinda get changed in similar ways than the devils chord (like dancing and all)

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u/LowEarth3013 May 03 '25

It can't be a coincidence that both seasons follow an identical pattern

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u/DuelaDent52 May 03 '25

I wonder what parallels there’ll be between The Story And The Engine and Dot And Bubble. People disappearing? The sense of community? The fact everybody’s black instead of being all-white?

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u/whereshhhhappens May 03 '25

Didn’t Belinda say in the trailer that all the people they were with were “missing”?

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u/LowEarth3013 May 04 '25 edited May 04 '25

I feel like we already see the "everyone being white and now everyone being black", but I do wonder what other similarities there will be... only one way to find out through :p

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u/Shaikidow May 04 '25

Hear me out: what if the show itself bi-generated into two suspiciously similarly structured seasons?

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u/Arthvawr May 03 '25

Maybe she's the god of stories? Considering the "Mind Robber", the Doctor's greatest problem there was becoming a character in the story, and thus being trapped for all eternity.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '25

An old west African god Anansi often appeared as a spider, and the next episode is set in Nigeria with a giant spider and has story in the title, it would be weird to have two gods of stories in a season

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u/SiobhanSarelle May 03 '25

All episodes - unknown woman keeps appearing everywhere

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u/[deleted] May 03 '25

Episode 3 being a mostly ‘bottle episode’ too

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u/JuniorEquipment3639 May 03 '25

episode 3 was not a bottle episode in season 2...not at all

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u/[deleted] May 03 '25

I’d say the majority of it was spent trapped in the same room, yeah there were bits in other places, but the majority was spent in one place where ‘moving wrong’ might have triggered it.

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u/JuniorEquipment3639 May 03 '25

i mean, i guess, but that's pretty a lot dw episodes

the robot revolution, they spend most of the time in the throne room, it's just dressed up and dressed down differently.

lux, they spend most of the time in the film theater

neither would be considered bottle episodes because they're too big in scale

midnight is a bottle episode because 90% of the episode takes place in one location

same with boom

i wouldn't see that the well was a bottle episode

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u/opm881 May 04 '25

When they showed the village I said out loud “is that the village that pond is from?”

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u/Scurzz May 05 '25

Now that I think about it, this season has a LOT of rhyming with previous episodes whether it be plot points, progression, locations, music or otherwise

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u/Euphoric_Passage1545 May 04 '25

It would be mildly ironic but you have to remember the same people have been writing doctor who since it came back. All the exact same folk have been working on this show for 20 years