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Doctor Who Recap: Pod Complex
This week, we’re hitting pause on the Doctor and Belinda’s adventures to see how former companion Ruby Sunday is holding up.
Jonah Hauer-King’s Conrad Clark is initially presented to us as a nice rebound who’s helping her reintegrate into everyday society by allowing her to be vulnerable, validating her, and generally just not putting her life in danger when they hang out. This episode is, in part, a story about dealing with PTSD, but the idea that Ruby should relax or let her guard down is complicated by the fact that it actually makes sense that a past companion with a direct line to UNIT could still in be danger … and not necessarily only from gods or predator aliens. The Doctor rounds the corner with Ruby — still an active companion at this point, fresh off of meeting Maestro and the Beatles — and explains that the green goo is essentially vomit that identifies the future prey of a Shreek.
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