History Recap / DoctorWhoNSS2E10LoveAndMonsters

* BerserkButton: Elton inadvertently hits Jackie's with his snooping. The fact that Jackie gets upset also hits Rose's as well.

--> '''Elton''': Great big absorbing creature from outer space and you're having a go at me?

* HeroicSacrifice

* ObviouslyEvil: Victor Kennedy aka the Abzorbaloff.
* OopNorth: Bridget.

* TakeThat: The episode is essentially an AffectionateParody of Series/DoctorWho fandom. Most of the Doctor's fans are rather odd and eccentric, but basically sweet and decent people. Victor, however, represents that small toxic minority of Doctor Who fandom (and fandoms in general) who completely ruin it for everyone.

* TooHappyToLive: Most of LINDA
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In-universe; LINDA's reaction to Bliss' sculpture.

* CurseCutShort: The Abzorbaloff's last words are "You stupid bast-"

** She's right there at the top of the page.
*** Top of the page isn't a webcam, is it?

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[BandOfBrothers Albert Blithe]] is looking a lot more cheerful now that he's not getting shot at by Nazis.
** Ursula is played by [[Film/HarryPotter Moaning Myrtle]].
*** [[PhoenixNights Brian Potter]] can walk now! But also absorbs people into him when he touches them, so there's that.

* TooHappyToLive: [[spoiler:Most of LINDA]]

* TrueCompanions: [=LInDA=].

Elton Pope, our manic, dorky and UnreliableNarrator, idolises the Doctor. He's been fascinated by the strange man and the weirdness that follows in his wake ever since the Doctor turned up in his house when he was a child. Like Clive from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E1Rose Rose]]", but more successfully, Elton forms a club (LINDA; London Investigation 'n' Detective Agency) with a few other like-minded individuals. They bond over their shared experiences with the supernatural, but quickly become fast friends. Over time, their weekly meetings drift away from the topic of the Doctor and towards baking sessions and ElectricLightOrchestra cover band practice. Elton even falls in love with fellow member [[ShirleyHenderson Ursula]].

* AerithAndBob: Raxacoricofallapatorius and its neighbouring planet, Clom.

* ScoobyDoobyDoors

* WhatTheHellHero: Elton's life is crumbling around him -- the fun, harmless little group he'd formed has been corrupted from within, and one-by-one been subjected to a FateWorseThanDeath, including the woman he's only just realised is his dream girl, and he's completely exhausted after being chased through London by a creature that's about to do the same to him -- and Rose and the Doctor choose now, of all times, to tell him off for what, compared to what the Abzorbaloff's been doing, doesn't even register a blip on the Atrocity-o-meter. Elton points it out:

A very sweet, silly and (mostly) drama-free episode that focuses on a minor character. ''Love & Monsters'' was the first example of a "Doctor-lite" episode in the new series: because the lead actors only appear for a few minutes in this episode, they're free to film another one simultaneously.

Elton Pope, our manic, dorky and UnreliableNarrator, idolizes the Doctor. He's been fascinated by the strange man and the weirdness that follows in his wake ever since the Doctor turned up in his house when he was a child. Like Clive from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E1Rose Rose]]", but more successfully, Elton forms a club with a few other like-minded individuals. They bond over their shared experiences with the supernatural, but quickly become fast friends. Over time, their weekly meetings drift away from the topic of the Doctor and towards baking sessions and ElectricLightOrchestra cover band practice. Elton even falls in love with fellow member [[ShirleyHenderson Ursula]].

If Elton wanted the Doctor's attention, he's got it now: the TARDIS materializes near him so that Rose can chew him out for hurting her mum. All three are just in time to see Victor Kennedy, who is now in his true form: the "Abzorbaloff" (coined by Elton after a few much sillier names), an alien that absorbs its victims but does not consume them. And now he's out to absorb the Doctor and all his knowledge. The Doctor is too late to save Ursula, or any of the other members who had been disappearing, but can grant her a semblance of continued life as an animated lump of concrete. What's left of her is still quite beautiful, and Elton takes her home in her new form as his loving girlfriend.

Elton records the whole story for us from his room, but his own camera never shows Ursula's new face... neatly leaving open the possibility that he's either exaggerating or plain bonkers. (though we do hear her voice, so probably not)

* {{Adorkable}}: Pretty much all of LINDA
* AerithAndBob: Raxacoricofallapatorius and its neighboring planet, Clom.
* AndIMustScream: Ursula gets turned into an immortal blow-job giving slab of concrete. So basically if Elton ever dies of a heart attack or whatever- and she's still back at home in his closet... Well, pretty terrible in itself, isn't it? Hell, the best she can ever hope for is that poor Elton dies of old age and she spends the next 1,000,000,000 years alone!

* ArcWords: This episode references not only "Torchwood" but also "Bad Wolf" from the previous season AND "Mr. Saxon" fron the next season. That's three arcs in one episode.

** However, the Doctor in "Journey's End" sarcastically remarks about Clom, indicating that the events did happen after all.

--> '''Rose''': You upset my mum!

* CurseCutShort: The Abzorbaloff's last words are "You stupid bast--"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Elton says that he and Ursula, who's reduced to a face on a block of concrete, "still have a love life."
** Also:
--> Elton (on Victor Kennedy's compliments to him for infiltrating Jackie's home): I had to work hard. She keeps everything very close to her chest.
--> Ursula: She's got one hell of a chest.

* WhatTheHellHero: Elton's life is crumbling around him - the fun, harmless little group he'd formed has been corrupted from within, and one-by-one been subjected to a FateWorseThanDeath, including the woman he's only just realized is his dream girl, and he's completely exhausted after being chased through London by a creature that's about to do the same to him - and Rose and the Doctor choose now, of all times, to chew him out for what, compared to what the Abzorbaloff's been doing, doesn't even register a blip on the Atrocity-o-meter. Elton points it out:

* CallForward: How much you want to bet the "living shadow" that killed Elton's Mum back in the day was a Vashta Nerada?

* AndIMustScream: Ursula gets [[NightmareFuel turned into an immortal blow-job giving slab of concrete]]. So basically if Elton ever dies of a heart attack or whatever- and she's still back at home in his closet... Well, pretty terrible in itself, isn't it? Hell, the best she can ever hope for is that poor Elton dies of old age and she spends the next 1,000,000,000 years alone!

Elton records the whole story for us from his room, but his own camera never shows Ursula's new face... neatly leaving open the possibility that he's either exaggerating or plain bonkers.

** Ursula is played by [[HarryPotter Moaning Myrtle]].

* AndIMustScream: Ursula gets [[NightmareFuel turned into an immortal blow-giving slab of concrete]]. So basically if Elton ever dies of a heart attack or whatever- and she's still back at home in his closet... Well, pretty terrible in itself, isn't it? Hell, the best she can ever hope for is that poor Elton dies of old age and she spends the next 1,000,000,000 years alone!

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Ursula, reduced to nothing more than a face, says that she and Elton "still have a love life".
** And another from Ursula:

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: It is commonly believed that Elton is insane, and is imagining the events of this episode.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Bliss' sculpture.

* LivingShadow: An "elemental shade" murdered Elton's mother. As said in "Arc Words", it's possible that it was a Vashta Nerada.

** Five. How much you want to bet the "living shadow" that killed Elton's Mum back in the day was a Vashta Nerada?
** The Vashta Nerada don't count, since that was never part of any arc.
** They were the villain that began the Silence arc, so they may count.

Elton Pope, our manic, dorky and UnreliableNarrator, idolizes the Doctor. He's been fascinated by the strange man and the weirdness that follows in his wake ever since the Doctor turned up in his house as a child. Like Clive from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E1Rose Rose]]", but more successfully, Elton forms a club with a few other like-minded individuals. They bond over their shared experiences with the supernatural, but quickly become fast friends. Over time, their weekly meetings drift away from the topic of the Doctor and towards baking sessions and ElectricLightOrchestra cover band practice. Elton even falls in love with fellow member [[ShirleyHenderson Ursula]].

** Four is you consider Clom being mentioned. In series 4, it becomes a missing planet.