History Recap / DoctorWhoNSS4E8SilenceInTheLibrary

* LateToTheParty

* [[spoiler: EveryoneLives]]: Strangely enough, this is the end result.

* DarknessEqualsDeath: Quite literally

* HellIsThatNoise : "Hey! who turned out the lights?"
* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=] - example of note: Miss Evangelista's actress is in the latest ''StTrinians'' movie. [[ContractualPurity No one told Phil Collinson she got her kit off in it when he went to see it during filming. He dropped his popcorn and felt uncomfortable around her the next day.]]

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Spoilers~!

* SingleBiomePlanet: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]; it's a purpose-built artificial planet, so the biome is "library."
* SpookySilentLibrary: Another trope which was written up due to this episode having an example
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: River has a bit of this talking about her history with the Doctor.

** Sadder when it starts to sound like "I scream.".

* IKnewIt: The dust in sunbeams used to terrify me as a small child. I would tell my mother that "the fluffs were going to get me". When I watched this episode, I rose to my feet and shouted "IKnewIt!"

A team of archeologists show up, one of whom, River Song, knows the Doctor ''very'' intimately, though what kind of intimacy they have is not revealed... [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS31E04TheTimeOfAngels yet]]. At any rate, the Doctor has never met ''her''. No time to dwell on that, though, as the library is infested with flesh-eating shadows. The shadows kill two archeologists and invade one's space suit, leaving an animated, flesh-eating space suit with a stripped-clean skull leering out of it chasing after the protagonists, its appearance heralded by the eerie digital echo of the victim's last words.

A team of archeologists show up, one of whom, River Song, knows the Doctor ''very'' intimately, though what kind of intimacy they have is never made clear. At any rate, the Doctor has never met ''her''. No time to dwell on that, though, as the library is infested with flesh-eating shadows. The shadows kill two archeologists and invade one's space suit, leaving an animated, flesh-eating space suit with a stripped-clean skull leering out of it chasing after the protagonists, its appearance heralded by the eerie digital echo of the victim's last words.

** Well, this was also subverted in an earlier Moffat episode [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink}} "Blink"]]. Sally and the doctor were not San Dimas synchronized.

* [[spoiler: ''PoweredByAForsakenChild'']]: Subverted because using the [[spoiler: little girl]] as part of [[spoiler: the library planet's central computer]] was done in kindness.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E04TheTimeOfAngels crash of the]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E04FleshAndStone Byzantium]]'' is mentioned.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E04TheTimeOfAngels crash of the]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E04TheTimeOfAngels Byzantium]]'' is mentioned.

-->'''The Doctor''': Daleks - [[AttackItsWeakPoint aim for the eyestalk]]. Sontarans - [[WeaksauceWeakness back of the neck]]. Vashta Nerada...''run''. [[DontAskJustRun Just run]].

* AdventurerArchaeologist - River Song and her crew.
* AlasPoorScrappy - Miss Evangelista's death.
* ApocalypticLog - the messages on the computer at the beginning.
* BeyondTheImpossible - scaring viewers into hiding behind the sofa was no longer enough, this is the episode designed to make it scary back there.

* ConversationalTroping - the Doctor and Donna discuss how TimeTravel can lead to {{Spoiler}}s about life.
* DarknessEqualsDeath - quite literally

* TheDitz - Miss Evangelista, bordering on RalphWiggum.
* {{Foreshadowing}} - The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E04TheTimeOfAngels crash of the]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E04TheTimeOfAngels Byzantium]]'' is mentionned.

* LateToTheParty
* LivingShadow - TropeNamer!

* MindScrew - The whole girl in therapy / Doctor in the library flip-flopping.
* NarmCharm - "Hey - who turned out the lights?"
* NightmareFuel. Every single second of screen time, from the pre-titles sequence on, there is not a second of screen time that is not NightmareFuel or NightmareFuelUnleaded.
** It's by StevenMoffat. What did you expect?
* NoNameGiven - "the girl" and "dad".
* NotNowKiddo - Miss Evangelista getting blown off when the panel opens up.
* OneSteveLimit - Subverted with the two Daves, it's a subversion and not an aversion because your attention is drawn to it by the fact that they call themselves Proper Dave and Other Dave.
* ParanoiaFuel - That's right, kids, you should be scared of the dark. Sleep tight.

* ShoutOut - the skeleton in the space suit may well be a ''ScoobyDoo'' reference, specifically the Spooky Space Kook from way back in 1969.
** Debunked by the online commentary, which reveals the first the writer and executive producer knew of it was when the connection was highlighted in a tabloid newspaper.
*** Besides, everyone knows it was really [[TopGear The Stig]].
* SingleBiomePlanet - [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], because it's a purpose-built artificial planet
* SpookySilentLibrary - Another trope which was written up due to this episode having an example
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble - River has a bit of this talking about her history with the Doctor
* TearJerker - Miss Evangelista's death - who knew someone saying "ice cream, ice cream" could be so sad?

* TooDumbToLive - Miss Evangelista.
* WaifProphet - "the girl".
* ZombieGait - a variation thereof.

* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=] - example of note: Miss Evangelista's actor is in the latest ''StTrinians'' movie. [[ContractualPurity No one told Phil Collinson she got her kit off in it when he went to see it during filming. He dropped his popcorn and felt uncomfortable around her the next day.]]

* LivingShadow - I actually wrote it because I realized we didn't have a trope that accurately described the Vashta Nerada.
** Gadzooks! Another TropeNamer!

* NightmareFuel. Every single second of screen time, from the pre-titles sequence on there is not a second of screen time that is not NightmareFuel or NightmareFuelUnleaded.

* [[spoiler: ''PoweredByAForsakenChild'']]: Subverted because using the [[spolier: little girl]] as part of the library planet's central computer was done in kindness.

* {{PoweredByAForsakenChild}}: Subverted because using the {{little girl}} as part of the library planet's central computer was done in kindness.

* ParanoiaFuel - That's right, kids, you should be scared of the dark. Sleep tight.

* {{Narm}} - [[YourMileageMayVary Subjective]]; some managed to both laugh their head off and/or be scared witless by the whole "Hey - who turned out the lights?" section. Good ol' Moffat.

Ohh, ''{{Steven|Moffat}}''... you ''do'' know what creeps the hell out of us. Do you own stock in a light bulb company or something?

-->'''The Doctor''': Daleks - [[AttackItsWeakPoint aim for the eyestalk]]. Sontarans - [[WeaksauceWeakness back of the neck]]. Vashta Nerada...''run''. Just run.