Warning! The next comprises spoilers for the Physician Who episode “Fortunate Day.” Stream it with a Disney+ subscription and browse at your individual threat!
When it was revealed Physician Who was bringing again Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday, I am unsure followers anticipated the return to go down the way in which it did. Issues acquired a bit twisted for the previous companion when her boyfriend was later revealed to be a conspiracy theorist satisfied that UNIT was faking all of the alien exercise the world had seen for years. Jonah Hauer-King performed that position to a T, and was very useful in answering the large questions I had about his character Conrad’s future and that massive showdown with The Physician.
Jonah Hauer-King, who some could bear in mind as a result of he performed the completely jacked model of Prince Eric within the live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, was gracious sufficient to talk to CinemaBlend about his thrilling new position as a boyfriend-turned-villain on Physician Who. Throughout our dialogue, I needed to ask the actor what Conrad’s situation with The Physician was, contemplating they’d solely beforehand had a nice trade in his childhood. The actor described the state of affairs as he noticed it, pondering he lumped The Physician in with UNIT:
Yeah, I believe The Physician for him is the image of UNIT, and I believe in the end Conrad is sort of a small man and needs to be the focal point. The physician isn’t a small man, and is the focal point, not as a result of he craves it or goes after it, however merely due to who he’s and the sort of adventures that he is on and the those who he is serving to and saving. I believe in the end that makes Conrad really feel small as a result of he is very insecure, and he does not really feel liked. He does not really feel seen, and he rightly or wrongly tasks all of these issues onto The Physician.
I believe that tracks, contemplating all we noticed from Conrad within the episode. The truth is, it appeared at a number of factors within the episode that he had some envy of The Physician and needed to be a hero in his personal method. He discovered neighborhood amongst a neighborhood of conspiracists, who drew him in with acceptance as he sought out solutions behind seeing The Physician and the TARDIS as a baby.
This started his campaign to steer the cost in exposing UNIT, regardless of understanding deep down that The Physician, aliens, and all of what he’d seen beforehand have been true. Jonah Hauer-King went on to clarify that it set him on a path that led to him raiding UNIT with a gun, and the way that is one thing the character seemingly did not wish to do:
Conrad at all times has this agenda in his mission at first of the episode, however I believe it will get a bit out of hand. I believe it goes loads additional than he was actually anticipating. And what begins as this sort of conniving, divisive mission turns into one thing greater. I believe it snowballs past what even he was anticipating. And I believe he now, while being insecure and feeling small as is commonly the way in which with folks like that, is that they have this inflated sense of self. And so I believe abruptly he needs to attempt to go toe-to-toe with The Physician, and his finest method of doing that’s sort of making himself appear greater than he truly is.
After The Physician gave Conrad tongue-lashing for hurting his buddy Ruby Sunday, he left the villain to rot in his jail cell. Conrad did not have to attend lengthy earlier than he obtained an sudden go to from one other being, the mysterious Mrs. Flood. This time, she appeared as one of many jailers on the jail he was in, and she or he instructed him it was his “fortunate day” as she flashed the keys to his cell in her hand.
Physician Who followers seemingly do not want somebody to attach the dots that The Little Mermaid actor has an opportunity of showing on the present once more after Conrad’s launch.
Nonetheless, I made a decision to attempt to pull some solutions out of him anyway. Whereas I knew the actor seemingly wasn’t cleared to verify when his character could return, it appears he cannot even give a timeline of once we might even see him once more:
Who is aware of? I will admit that that is the way in which it seems. However [Russell T. Davies], he retains us guessing. He has a thoughts of his personal. Uh, it may very well be sooner, may it’s later. We simply, we’ll have to attend and see.
Whereas Jonah Hauer-King wasn’t budging on a solution, I’ve a suspicion we’ll see Conrad pop again up within the season finale. In spite of everything, the episode is known as “The Actuality Warfare,” and whereas I initially theorized this might imply Physician Who is lastly embracing the multiverse, what if it has a extra direct tie to Conrad’s efforts to reveal UNIT as a fraud?
What if it seems the conspiracy theorists have been onto one thing in spite of everything, and The Physician is trapped in a false actuality? We have already seen him come face-to-face with followers of Physician Who, and now we study there are individuals who assume it is all a sham? Let’s not neglect his very existence started with a bi-generation, which appears like an unprecedented fairy story twist within the first place.
I am speculating that Mrs. Flood is pulling the strings behind this grand phantasm, and she or he would possibly’ve simply enlisted Conrad as a key participant in her efforts to proceed to maintain The Physician fooled for so long as attainable. In fact, I may very well be lifeless improper, and we could not even see Conrad once more this season or maybe ever. He would not be the primary Physician Who character to get a return hinted at solely to by no means be heard from once more. I do hope we get him again, although, as a result of Jonah Hauer-King’s efficiency was devilishly entertaining.
Physician Who streams on Disney+ on Saturdays. Make sure to get present, as a result of it seems like subsequent week’s episode may need some reveals on what’s actually occurring this season!