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Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. Now reunited with the watch containing his Time Lord self, the Doctor's MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how it's just a regular human "low-level telepathy field" (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "You were born with it, just an extra-synaptic engram causing--"

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Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. Now reunited with With John now holding the watch containing that contains his Time Lord self, the Doctor's MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how it's just a regular human "low-level telepathy field" (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "You were born with it, just an extra-synaptic engram causing--"
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Still frightened and confused, John quizzes Martha on the Doctor, and is horrified by what he hears: a thousand-year-old survivor of the universe's greatest holocaust, as remote and inhuman as a force of nature, who -- for all his careful planning -- never ever considered that he might fall in ''love'' while hiding among humans.

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Still frightened and confused, John quizzes Martha on the Doctor, and is horrified by what he hears: a thousand-year-old an alien, the sole survivor of the universe's greatest holocaust, as remote and inhuman as a force of nature, who -- for all his careful planning -- never ever even considered that he might fall in ''love'' while hiding among humans.
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"Is that how he ''talks?''" John asks in utter horror, realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.

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"Is "--Is that how he ''talks?''" John asks in utter horror, realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.
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Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. Now reunited with the watch, the Doctor's MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how it's just a regular human "low-level telepathy field" (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "You were born with it, just an extra-synaptic engram causing--"

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Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. Now reunited with the watch, watch containing his Time Lord self, the Doctor's MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how it's just a regular human "low-level telepathy field" (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "You were born with it, just an extra-synaptic engram causing--"

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Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. Now reunited with the watch, the Doctor's MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how that's just the innate low-level psychic ability of all humans (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "Is that how he ''talks?''" John asks in utter horror, realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.

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Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. Now reunited with the watch, the Doctor's MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how that's it's just the innate low-level psychic ability of all humans a regular human "low-level telepathy field" (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "You were born with it, just an extra-synaptic engram causing--"

"Is that how he ''talks?''" John asks in utter horror, realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.

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Still frightened and confused, John quizzes Martha on the Doctor, and is horrified by what he hears: a thousand-year-old survivor of the universe's greatest holocaust, as remote and inhuman as a force of nature, who hadn't even considered that he might fall in love with a human girl. Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. Now reunited with the watch, the Doctor's MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how that's just the innate low-level psychic ability of all humans (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "Is that how he ''talks?''" John asks in utter horror, realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.

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Still frightened and confused, John quizzes Martha on the Doctor, and is horrified by what he hears: a thousand-year-old survivor of the universe's greatest holocaust, as remote and inhuman as a force of nature, who hadn't even -- for all his careful planning -- never ever considered that he might fall in love with a human girl. ''love'' while hiding among humans.

Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. Now reunited with the watch, the Doctor's MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how that's just the innate low-level psychic ability of all humans (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "Is that how he ''talks?''" John asks in utter horror, realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.
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Still frightened and confused, John quizzes Martha on the Doctor, and is horrified by what he hears: a thousand-year-old survivor of the universe's greatest holocaust, as remote and inhuman as a force of nature, who hadn't even considered that he might fall in love with a human girl. Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. Now connected to the watch, the Doctor's MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how that's just the innate low-level psychic ability of all humans (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "Is that how he ''talks?''" John asks in utter horror, realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.

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Still frightened and confused, John quizzes Martha on the Doctor, and is horrified by what he hears: a thousand-year-old survivor of the universe's greatest holocaust, as remote and inhuman as a force of nature, who hadn't even considered that he might fall in love with a human girl. Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. Now connected to reunited with the watch, the Doctor's MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how that's just the innate low-level psychic ability of all humans (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "Is that how he ''talks?''" John asks in utter horror, realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.
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Still frightened and confused, John quizzes Martha on the Doctor, and is horrified by what he hears: a thousand-year-old survivor of the universe's greatest holocaust, as remote and inhuman as a force of nature, who hadn't even considered that he might fall in love with a human girl. Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. John's MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how that's just the innate low-level psychic ability of all humans (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "Is that how he ''talks?''" he asks in utter horror, realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.

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Still frightened and confused, John quizzes Martha on the Doctor, and is horrified by what he hears: a thousand-year-old survivor of the universe's greatest holocaust, as remote and inhuman as a force of nature, who hadn't even considered that he might fall in love with a human girl. Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. John's Now connected to the watch, the Doctor's MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how that's just the innate low-level psychic ability of all humans (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "Is that how he ''talks?''" he John asks in utter horror, realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.
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Still frightened and confused, John quizzes Martha on the Doctor, and is horrified by what he hears: a thousand-year-old survivor of the universe's greatest holocaust, as remote and inhuman as a force of nature, who hadn't even considered that he might fall in love with a human girl. Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. John is horrified as his MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how that's just the innate low-level psychic ability of all humans (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "Is that how he talks?" he asks, realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.

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Still frightened and confused, John quizzes Martha on the Doctor, and is horrified by what he hears: a thousand-year-old survivor of the universe's greatest holocaust, as remote and inhuman as a force of nature, who hadn't even considered that he might fall in love with a human girl. Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. John is horrified as his John's MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how that's just the innate low-level psychic ability of all humans (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "Is that how he talks?" ''talks?''" he asks, asks in utter horror, realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.
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Mild-mannered [[TheEdwardianEra Edwardian]] schoolteacher John Smith is baffled when alien monsters turn up and demand that he turn himself into "The Doctor". But the strangeness is jogging memories deep inside him, memories of a life he's sure he never lived but only dreamed, and more and more fragments of his dreams are turning out to be real. Deny it he tries, but eventually even John realizes that Martha and the aliens are telling the truth: "the Doctor", his dream-self, is the reality, and John Smith is the fabrication.

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Mild-mannered [[TheEdwardianEra Edwardian]] schoolteacher John Smith is baffled when alien monsters turn up and demand that he turn himself into "The Doctor". But the strangeness is jogging memories deep inside him, memories of a life he's sure he never lived but only dreamed, and more and more fragments of his dreams are turning out to be real. Deny it he tries, but eventually even John realizes has to consider the possibility that Martha and the aliens are telling the truth: "the Doctor", his dream-self, is the reality, and John Smith is the fabrication.
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With the help of Timothy, John eventually makes the decision to open the watch, essentially commit suicide and become the Doctor again. He defeats the aliens without much effort, as punishment for what they've done, traps them in different time event horizons... for all eternity. The creatures realize that the Doctor wasn't simply escaping from them -- he was being ''kind'' to them, in giving them a chance to die without ever encountering him.

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With the help of Timothy, John eventually makes the decision to open the watch, essentially commit suicide and become the Doctor again. He defeats the aliens without much effort, and as punishment for what they've done, traps them in different time event horizons... for all eternity. The creatures realize that the Doctor wasn't simply escaping from them -- he was being ''kind'' to them, in giving them a chance to die without ever encountering him.

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Still frightened and confused, John quizzes Martha on the Doctor, and is horrified by what he hears: a thousand-year-old survivor of the universe's greatest holocaust, as remote and inhuman as a force of nature, probably incapable of love as a human would understand it. John would rather stay human and marry Joan, with whom he has fallen in love. He even has a brief vision of that future: a long and happy life and a peaceful death, secure in the knowledge that everyone he loves is safe. But even that future is illusory, as the aliens are closing in on John and will spread destruction across the galaxy if they win. John must sacrifice himself and become the Doctor, though he doesn't even know if any fragment of his identity will survive.

With the help of the school boy Timothy, John eventually makes the decision to open the watch, essentially commit suicide and become the Doctor again. He defeats the aliens without much effort, as punishment for what they've done, traps them in different time event horizons... for all eternity. The creatures realize that the Doctor wasn't simply escaping from them -- he was being ''kind'' to them, in giving them a chance to die without ever encountering him.

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Still frightened and confused, John quizzes Martha on the Doctor, and is horrified by what he hears: a thousand-year-old survivor of the universe's greatest holocaust, as remote and inhuman as a force of nature, probably incapable of who hadn't even considered that he might fall in love as with a human would understand it. girl. Timothy asks how it's possible that he himself can learn things from John's watch and even see the future sometimes. John is horrified as his MotorMouth starts automatically explaining how that's just the innate low-level psychic ability of all humans (which will become [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords important later]]). "Is that how he talks?" he asks, realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.

John would rather give anything to stay human and marry Joan, Joan. While spending his last evening with whom her, he has fallen in love. He even has a brief vision of that future: a long and happy life and a peaceful death, secure in the knowledge that everyone he loves is safe. But even that future is illusory, as the aliens are closing in on John and will spread destruction across the galaxy if they win. John must sacrifice himself and become the Doctor, though he doesn't even know if any fragment of his identity will survive.

With the help of the school boy Timothy, John eventually makes the decision to open the watch, essentially commit suicide and become the Doctor again. He defeats the aliens without much effort, as punishment for what they've done, traps them in different time event horizons... for all eternity. The creatures realize that the Doctor wasn't simply escaping from them -- he was being ''kind'' to them, in giving them a chance to die without ever encountering him.
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Continued from [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E8HumanNature]].

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Continued from [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E8HumanNature]].Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E8HumanNature.
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Continued from [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E8HumanNature]].


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With the help of the school boy Timothy, John eventually makes the decision to open the watch, essentially commit suicide and become the Doctor again. He defeats the aliens without much effort, as punishment for what they've done, traps them in different time event horizons... for all eternity. The creatures realize that the Doctor wasn't simply escaping from them -- he was being ''kind'' to them, in giving them a chance to die without ever encountering him.

The Doctor returns for Joan. She's horrified to see him, even though he tells her that John is part of him now, somewhere deep inside him. He invites her to the TARDIS, and asks her if she wants to give him a proper chance for what he really is, starting their relationship again from a blank slate. She refuses. Decades into the future, Martha and the Doctor visit Timothy, now a war veteran, and give him some closure.

[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E11Utopia Much later]], the Gallifreyan technique to hide in human form will become important again...
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* HeyItsThatGuy / HeyItsThatVoice: [[PhineasAndFerb Well, no wonder Ferb is so good with semi-futuristic technology.]] [[LoveActually And why Sam can get through airport security so easily.]]
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* UncannyValley: All of the Family, Most notable offenders are Son of Mine and Daughter of Mine.
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* LargeHam: Son of Mine. [[VerbalTic DON'T YOU LIKE IT, SIR?]]

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* LargeHam: Son of Mine. [[VerbalTic "[[VerbalTic DON'T YOU LIKE IT, SIR?]]SIR?]]"
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Okay, you guys want to live forever so badly? ''Be my guest.''

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Okay, you guys You want to live forever so badly? ''Be my guest.''The Doctor can arrange that.
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* FridgeBrilliance: This episode is why the Doctor [[spoiler: is afraid to regenerate in "The End of Time"--he remembers John Smith's death.]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Oh so very much - the Family wanted to live forever. They did.
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* [=~What The Hell, Hero?~=]: Joan delivers a devastating TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in the episode's denouement. Too bad the Doctor doesn't seem to have listened.

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* [=~What The Hell, Hero?~=]: WhatTheHellHero: Joan delivers a devastating TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in the episode's denouement. Too bad the Doctor doesn't seem to have listened.

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Okay, you guys want to live forever so badly? ''Be my guest.''



* SomebodyElsesProblem: Joan's complaint with the Doctor is not that he refused to kill the Family of Blood when they first began chasing him, but that he lead them to this village. Presumably she would have had no problem if he had lead them somewhere else and let them kill to their hearts content.

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* SomebodyElsesProblem: Joan's complaint with the Doctor is not that he refused to kill the Family --> '''Son of Blood when they first began chasing him, but that he lead them to this village. Presumably she would have had no problem if he had lead them somewhere else and let them kill to their hearts content.Mine:''' ''Etcetera, etcetera!''
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* ChekhovsGun: [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E11Utopia The watch]]
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I love this episode, I truly do, but her \"If the Doctor had never come here\" speech ALWAYS riled me up, because the answer is YES. Yes, people WOULD have died even if the Doctor had not chosen this village, they just would have died somewhere else. You can criticize him fro not killing the Family of Blood in the first place, and that\'s a valid argument to make, but her complaint only seems to be that people died HERE. That\'s just not cool

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* SomebodyElsesProblem: Joan's complaint with the Doctor is not that he refused to kill the Family of Blood when they first began chasing him, but that he lead them to this village. Presumably she would have had no problem if he had lead them somewhere else and let them kill to their hearts content.
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** Though the end of the episode shows that at least two people ''survived'' because of him, thanks to Latimer's knowledge of the future.

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* [=~What The Hell, Hero?~=]: "If the Doctor had never chosen this place - ''on a whim'' - would anyone here have died?"

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* [=~What The Hell, Hero?~=]: "If Joan delivers a devastating TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in the episode's denouement. Too bad the Doctor doesn't seem to have listened.
-->''He was braver than you, in the end — that ordinary man. You chose to change. He chose to die. … If
the Doctor had never visited us, never chosen this place - ''on a whim'' - would anyone here have died?"died?''
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--> '''Tim Latimer''': He's like fire, and ice, and rage. He's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. He burns at the centre of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's ''wonderful''.

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--> '''Tim Latimer''': He's like fire, and ice, and rage. He's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. He burns at the centre of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... And… he's ''wonderful''.



* IdiotBall: Somehow the Family completely fails to notice the fact that [[Smith / the Doctor seems to be going out of his way to trip over himself and press certain buttons.]] It's not all that well concealed.

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* IdiotBall: Somehow the Family completely fails to notice the fact that [[Smith [[spoiler:Smith / the Doctor seems to be going out of his way to trip over himself and press certain buttons.]] It's not all that well concealed.



--> '''Headmaster:''' Don't you forget, boy, I've been a soldier. I was in [[SecondBoerWar South Africa]], I used my dead mates as sandbags, I fought with the butt of my rifle when the bullets ran out, and I would go back there tomorrow ''for King and Country!''

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--> '''Headmaster:''' Don't you forget, boy, I've been a soldier. I was in [[SecondBoerWar South Africa]], I used my dead mates as sandbags, I fought with the butt of my rifle when the bullets ran out, and I would go back there tomorrow ''for ''[[PatrioticFervor for King and Country!''country!]]''



* TranquilFury: The ending scenes.
* VisibleInvisibility: when Baines strikes the ship's invisibility field, it briefly becomes visible.

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* TranquilFury: The ending scenes.
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* VisibleInvisibility: when When Baines strikes the ship's invisibility field, it briefly becomes visible.
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* AccidentalNightmareFuel: What happens to Daughter of Mine. You'd be forgiven for thinking StevenMoffat came up with this one.
--> '''Son of Mine:''' [[spoiler:''There she is, can you see? He trapped her inside a mirror.'' Every ''mirror. If ever you look at your reflection and see something move behind you, just look for a second. That's her. That's'' always ''her.'']]


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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:John, offscreen.]]
* IdiotBall: Somehow the Family completely fails to notice the fact that [[Smith / the Doctor seems to be going out of his way to trip over himself and press certain buttons.]] It's not all that well concealed.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: "The Time Lord has such adventures… but he could never have a life like that."


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-->''We'll blast them into dust, then fuse them into glass, then SHATTER THEM ALL OVER AGAIN!''


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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''The entire episode'' falls into this trope. Although [[spoiler:a descendant of Joan Redfern has written a book about John Smith and his Journal of Impossible Things]] in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]'', the Family's attack on the village, from the disappearances to an ''aerial bombardment'', seem to have completely vanished from English history, as the show never mentions it again.
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* CreepyChild: Daughter of Mine.

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* CreepyChild: Daughter of Mine. Making a SelfMadeOrphan out of her human host helps.

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