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* ThoseTwoGuys: Garron and Unstoffe
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* AttackAnimal: Shrivenzale guards the vault holding ribos wealth and the jethrik
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* HoYay: The Graff and Sholakh, particularly in the latter's death scene.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: The Shrivenzale is poor even by contemporary standards.
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It's a RobertHolmes story and one of the best of Season 16; the dialogue is great.
It's a RobertHolmes story and one of the best of Season 16; the dialogue is great.
** For an entirely studio-bound story from the hyper-inflating late 1970s, it looks brilliant. Big furry hats off to the designers.
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* NiceHat: There are a good deal of them in this story.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Garron finally letting the Graff have it for all the trouble he's caused.
--> '''The Graff:''' And where are (the Doctor and Romana) - your two accomplices?
--> '''Garron:''' Not accomplices, Highness! You mean the security agents!
--> '''The Graff:''' ''(rattled)'' Security agents?!
--> '''Garron:''' Yeah! That's the irony of it! They only arrested us for landing on a Class 3 planet, and didn't even ''know'' of your presence ''until you made it felt!''
--> '''The Graff:''' You ''lie!''
--> '''Garron:''' Why should I bother?! No, Graff! Their report will be with the Alliance shortly, and you'll no longer be a nobleman of the Serenic Empire and an honoured war veteran! ''You'll just be a common criminal like us!''
--> '''The Graff:''' And where are (the Doctor and Romana) - your two accomplices?
--> '''Garron:''' Not accomplices, Highness! You mean the security agents!
--> '''The Graff:''' ''(rattled)'' Security agents?!
--> '''Garron:''' Yeah! That's the irony of it! They only arrested us for landing on a Class 3 planet, and didn't even ''know'' of your presence ''until you made it felt!''
--> '''The Graff:''' You ''lie!''
--> '''Garron:''' Why should I bother?! No, Graff! Their report will be with the Alliance shortly, and you'll no longer be a nobleman of the Serenic Empire and an honoured war veteran! ''You'll just be a common criminal like us!''
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Watch it [[http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/xz2jv_tardismedia_the-ribos-operation/ here]]
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: A peculiar variant. Unstoffe affects a strong [[BritishAccents Somerset accent]] as part of his con, apparently to sound like more of a rube. The Doctor identifies it as such, and goes so far as to wonder why an accent specific to [[TheWestCountry a few counties]] on an InsignificantLittleBluePlanet is being heard on Ribos, but ultimately it's never explained.
** Given that his partner is from Earth originally, Unstoffe may have picked it up from him.
** Given that his partner is from Earth originally, Unstoffe may have picked it up from him.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: A peculiar variant. Unstoffe Garron affects a strong [[BritishAccents Somerset accent]] as part of his con, apparently to sound like more of a rube. The Doctor identifies it as such, and goes so far as to wonder why an accent specific to [[TheWestCountry a few counties]] on an InsignificantLittleBluePlanet is being heard on Ribos, but ultimately it's never explained.
** GivenRibos. [[JustifiedTrope It eventually turns out that his partner Garron is from Earth originally, Unstoffe may have picked it up from him.either a native of Earth, or spent some time there in the past]].
** Given
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** Given that his partner is from Earth originally, Unstoffe may have picked it up from him.
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FeudalFuture: On another planet, with pre-industrial technology.
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* LandmarkSale: Mentioned as part of Garron's back story. Apparently he once sold Sydney Harbour when he was still on Earth.
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The first of the "Key to Time" stories and another RobertHolmes work, which means it's pretty good.
The first of the "Key to Time" stories and another RobertHolmes work, which means it's pretty good.
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* AliensOfLondon: AliensSpeakingEnglish: A peculiar variant, possibly with shades of TohokuRegionalAccent.variant. Unstoffe affects a strong [[BritishAccents Somerset accent]] as part of his con, apparently to sound like more of a rube. The Doctor identifies it as such, and goes so far as to wonder why an accent specific to [[TheWestCountry a few counties]] on an InsignificantLittleBluePlanet is being heard on Ribos, but ultimately it's never explained.
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It works, and the Graff's million-opek down payment is stored in the royal treasury for the night. The GenreSavvy will not be surprised to learn that, next morning, the money and the jethrik is gone, and the guards have no idea what the Graff Vynda-K is ranting about.
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* AliensOfLondon: A peculiar variant, possibly with shades of TohokuRegionalAccent. Unstoffe affects a strong [[BritishAccents Somerset accent]] as part of his con, apparently to sound like more of a rube. The Doctor identifies it as such, and goes so far as to wonder why an accent specific to [[TheWestCountry a few counties counties]] on an InsignificantLittleBluePlanet is being heard on an alien planet, Ribos, but ultimately it's never explained.
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* AliensOfLondon: A peculiar variant, possibly with shades of TohokuRegionalAccent. Unstoffe affects a strong [[BritishAccents Somerset accent]] as part of his con, apparently to sound like more of a rube. The Doctor identifies it as such, and goes so far as to wonder why an accent specific to a few counties on an InsignificantLittleBluePlanet is being heard on an alien planet, but ultimately it's never explained.
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-->'''The Doctor''': ''Ah! You want me to volunteer, is that it? And if I don't?''
-->'''The Guardian''': ''Nothing.''
-->'''The Doctor''': ''What? Nothing? You mean nothing will happen to me?''
-->'''The Guardian''': ''Nothing at all. (pause) Ever.''
-->'''The Doctor''': ''Ah! You want me to volunteer, is that it? And if I don't?''
-->'''The Guardian''': ''Nothing.''
-->'''The Doctor''': ''What? Nothing? You mean nothing will happen to me?''
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* Really700YearsOld: Romana gives her age as about 140 years old - a mere time tot!
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* {{Seers}}: The Seeker
* {{Seers}}: The Seeker
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* VindicatedByHistory: Unstoffe tells Binro the Heretic that he will be.
-->'''Unstoffe:''' Someday, even here, people will look at each other and say: ''"Binro was right!"''
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* FateWorseThanDeath: The White Guardian hints at one (see page quote)
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* GrimUpNorth: The universal cover story for aliens visiting Ribos is to claim to be "from the North," where the winters are harsher and there are fewer settlements.
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* [[GreenRocks Blue Rocks]]: The jethrik.
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*FantasyCounterpartCulture: Ribos looks a lot like old Russia. This may be why it looks so damn cool. That or good worldbuilding.WorldBuilding. Or both.
