Smile (TV story)

 was the second episode of the tenth series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.

Synopsis
The Doctor and Bill Potts travel to the future. They come across one of Earth's first colonies, but can they save the colonists from the Vardy?

Plot
The Twelfth Doctor and Bill are discussing where they should visit in the TARDIS when a knock on the door interrupts them. The Doctor answers saying "Mum", only to find companion Nardole. The two discuss plans, promises and premises before Nardole is ordered to put the kettle on.

The Doctor and Bill decide to have one trip, and be back before the kettle has boiled. The travellers embark on a journey... to the future.

The TARDIS materialises on a human colony planet, where they meet the Vardy.

To be continued...

Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
 * Bill - Pearl Mackie
 * Nardole - Matt Lucas
 * Kezzia - Kiran L Dadlani
 * Goodthing - Mina Anwar
 * Steadfast - Ralf Little
 * Praiseworthy - Kaizer Akhtar
 * Nate - Kalungi Ssebandeke
 * Emojibot - Kiran Shah
 * Emojibot - Craig Garner

Language

 * The Emojibots speak Emoji. Emoji used by them include:
 * 😃 – smiling face
 * 😊 - happy face
 * 💀 – a skull, a symbol of death
 * 😢 – crying face, one tear
 * 😭 - crying face, two tears
 * 💡 – a light bulb, symbolising a new idea forming
 * 😕 – puzzled face
 * 😮 - shocked face
 * 😯 - interested face
 * 😰 - worried face
 * 😦 - confused face
 * 🤔 - thoughtful face
 * can also have a drop of sweat
 * 😐 - suspicious face
 * 🤗 - open-armed smiling face
 * 😵 - dead face
 * 🔫 - under attack
 * 😡 - anger
 * 🗝 - key, interacting with locks
 * ❓ – question mark, indicating confusion
 * can also be a face with a question mark above
 * ❗️ - indicating awareness
 * 👍 – thumbs up, indicating approval
 * 💷 – pound sterling, indicating an interest in monetary gain

Culture

 * The Doctor says that the colonists will come expecting the Garden of Eden.
 * The Vardy identified grief as the enemy of happiness.
 * The Doctor tells the story of "The Magic Haddock".
 * Bill ask whether the Doctor has "stretchy arms" like Mister Fantastic.
 * Bill says Gliese was like a Student Union before the students arrive.
 * Because Bill is only served one jelly while the Doctor is given two, she asks whether they have food sexism even in the future.
 * The Doctor mention how Vikings used to turn boats upside down and use them as houses.
 * The record Bill looks into shows the entire human history.

Locations

 * The planet the Doctor and Bill visit is called Gliese 581d.
 * Bill suggests visiting Wiltshire or Aberdeen next time.
 * The spaceship the Doctor and Bill find on the planet is called the Erehwon.
 * The company that owns it is called United Earth.
 * The Doctor and Bill encounter an elephant on a frozen-over River Thames.

Species

 * The Vardy can eat other species, leaving behind bones and skulls.
 * The Vardy form the walls of buildings by interlinking with each other, but are also able to detatch themselves when needed.
 * They are now the indigenous species on the planet.
 * The Doctor calls the Vardies the "worker bees of the Third Industrial Revolution".
 * The Doctor and Bill encounter an elephant on the frozen River Thames.

People

 * The Doctor calls Nardole "mum", indicating that he acts like his boss.
 * Kezzia dies.
 * Goodthing mention her mum is dead.
 * Goodthing mention Hopeful is dead.
 * Goodthing mention Sunshine is dead.
 * Goodthing mention Eliza is dead.
 * The Doctor says he knew an emperor made of algae that fancied him.
 * The Doctor finds a medallion.
 * Steadfast is MedTech One.

Technology

 * The Emojibots are an interface of the Vardy.
 * The Doctor and Bill receive sound implants on arrival at the colony. The Doctor calls the sound implants "thingamabobs".
 * All inhabitants and visitors are given mood badges.
 * Bill's smart phone is also a camera phone, meaning she can take a picture of the map.
 * The colonists await their awakening aboard the Erehwon.
 * The Erewhon has a Fleishman Cold Fusion Engine.
 * The engine has a Kelvin calorimeter.

Anatomy and physiology

 * The Doctor mentions his binary vascular system, and tells Bill this does indeed lead to high blood pressure.
 * The Doctor says that smiling psycologically have an effect on the mood.

Botany

 * The colony has rosemaries in the garden, which reminds Bill of home.

Food and beverages

 * The Doctor mention the colony will have wheat and olive groves.
 * The Doctor and Bill are served squares of algae jelly.
 * According to Bill, it smells of fish.
 * The Doctor does not like fish. Except socially.

Science

 * The Doctor explains that because space is curved, the Earth is in any direction you choose to look in.

Music

 * The Doctor recites the line "I'm happy, hope you're happy too" from the David Bowie song,.

TARDIS

 * Bill asks why the chairs in the TARDIS are so far from the console.
 * Bill asks whether she has to wear a seatbelt during flight.
 * Bill also asks if there is a steering wheel.
 * The Doctor says that you negotiate with the TARDIS.
 * She questions the Doctor on the police box exterior, and deduces that he likes it because of the sign—which reads, "Advice & assistance obtainable immediately / Officer & cars respond to all calls".
 * Bill asks how much a TARDIS trip costs.
 * The Doctor says the TARDIS has broadband and suggest she watch some movies or something to pass the time.

Story notes

 * Bill asks why the Doctor is Scottish.
 * The Doctor says that Scotland demands independence every planet they go to. In real world current events, at the time of this episode's release, Scotland was again from the United Kingdom, as a result of Brexit.
 * This story also shares a narrative theme with The Happiness Patrol, the theme being the fact that if you're not happy you would be executed.
 * Bill and the Doctor use the "turn it off and on" joke.

Ratings
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Filming locations

 * The City of Arts and Sciences (Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias), in Valencia, Spain, is the real setting for the Gliese 581d scenes.

Production errors

 * Kezzia states that she is using the Vardy to pollinate the wheat. However, the field used in filming is not a field of wheat, but a field of barley.

Continuity

 * The Doctor mention Bill's first trip. (TV: The Pilot)
 * The Doctor says that he stole the TARDIS. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
 * Nardole reminds the Doctor that he can't go off-world because he promised. (TV: The Pilot)
 * Bill again calls the Doctor "a penguin with its arse on fire" when she sees him run. (TV: The Pilot)
 * The Doctor states that the TARDIS takes him where they need to go, rather than where they want to. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
 * Bill asks why the TARDIS is a police box. She mention she knows it's a "cloaking device". (TV: Doctor Who, The Pilot)
 * The Doctor again avoid long explanations by saying "a thing happened". (TV: The Husbands of River Song)
 * There's a bust of Queen Nefertiti in the spaceship. (TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
 * The Doctor tells Bill to not look at his browser history. (TV: The Zygon Inversion)
 * The Doctor mention Vikings. He has met Vikings before. (TV: The Time Meddler, The Girl Who Died, PROSE: Dark Horizons)
 * Bill says the Doctor is the helpline. (TV: The Bells of Saint John, Death in Heaven)
 * Bill mention that the Doctor couldn't leave her serving chips. (TV: The Pilot)
 * Bill says the Doctor is an awesome tutor. (TV: The Pilot)
 * Bill suggest the slaughter took place in a day. The Doctor had experienced events being a one days work before. (TV: The Doctor's Doctor)
 * The Doctor still has a blackboard in the TARDIS. (TV: Into the Dalek et al.)
 * The Doctor mentions having previously encountered human colony ships, (TV: The Ark, The Beast Below, PROSE: The Lost Generation) and stations of colonists in cryogenic suspension. (TV: The Ark in Space)
 * The record of human history Bill finds includes Tribal people (TV: An Unearthly Child), Vincent van Gogh's self-portrait (TV: Vincent and the Doctor) and Stonehenge. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)
 * The Doctor had once before visited a human colony in which unhappy people were killed. (TV: The Happiness Patrol)
 * The Doctor mentions Scotland wanting independence everywhere they go, such as when they wanted a separate ship from Starship UK. (TV: The Beast Below)
 * Bill says that she is in a "proper spaceship". The Tenth Doctor was previously offended when Donna Noble said something similar. (TV: Planet of the Ood)
 * The Doctor has previously encountered nanorobots that caused trouble for humans. (TV: The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances)
 * The Doctor has met tiny creatures that could turn a living human into a skeleton in seconds before. (TV: Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead)

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