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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: This was the first story that Creator/LallaWard filmed as Romana and the script had her playing Mary Tamm's incarnation, even wearing a similar white dress.
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** The monster in this one has a terribly UnfortunateCharacterDesign that has to be seen to be believed, and resembles a giant, warty green cock-and-balls. The costume department claims it was unintentional, but the scripted innuendo and its MeaningfulName - "Erato" - a few letters away from "erotic" and the name of the Muse of pornography - is enough to make a case that it wasn't. They didn't quite get away with it - the creature had to have its appendage altered between episodes. Tom Baker, for his part, has a lovely time rubbing his mouth and licking his lips a lot while talking to it. There is one particular scene where he greets it by moaning, "you have beautiful skin..." before moving in to caress its 'body', sighing his dialogue and rubbing his cheek against it. Then he takes its appendage in his hands, rubs his hands up and down it, puts the end of it in his mouth, and mimes blowing and sucking. Later the Doctor actually allows Erato to use his throat (the creature needs to use other people's larynxes to talk), which Tom Baker decides to play as if he's allowing Erato to do something quite intimate, cuddling up to Erato's side and gesturing towards his throat with his hands.
** The Doctor gets put in the stocks by a villain who takes the opportunity to stroke and admire the Doctor's nose while he's powerless to resist.
** Romana makes at least one BDSM joke about her relationship with the Doctor.
** Forget her relationship with the Doctor; Romana spends half the serial being tied up, interrogated, slapped across the face and claimed as a 'handmaiden' by a woman in red-and-black leather who calls her "my dear" and seems to enjoy manhandling her whenever possible.
** The monster in this one has a terribly UnfortunateCharacterDesign that has to be seen to be believed, and resembles a giant, warty green cock-and-balls. The costume department claims it was unintentional, but the scripted innuendo and its MeaningfulName - "Erato" - a few letters away from "erotic" and the name of the Muse of pornography - is enough to make a case that it wasn't. They didn't quite get away with it - the creature had to have its appendage altered between episodes. Tom Baker, for his part, has a lovely time rubbing his mouth and licking his lips a lot while talking to it. There is one particular scene where he greets it by moaning, "you have beautiful skin..." before moving in to caress its 'body', sighing his dialogue and rubbing his cheek against it. Then he takes its appendage in his hands, rubs his hands up and down it, puts the end of it in his mouth, and mimes blowing and sucking. Later the Doctor actually allows Erato to use his throat (the creature needs to use other people's larynxes to talk), which Tom Baker decides to play as if he's allowing Erato to do something quite intimate, cuddling up to Erato's side and gesturing towards his throat with his hands.
** The Doctor gets put in the stocks by a villain who takes the opportunity to stroke and admire the Doctor's nose while he's powerless to resist.
** Romana makes at least one BDSM joke about her relationship with the Doctor.
** Forget her relationship with the Doctor; Romana spends half the serial being tied up, interrogated, slapped across the face and claimed as a 'handmaiden' by a woman in red-and-black leather who calls her "my dear" and seems to enjoy manhandling her whenever possible.
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** The Doctor gets put in the stocks by a villain who takes the opportunity to stroke and admire the Doctor's nose while he's powerless to resist.
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-->'''Bandit Leader:''' ''(after being stabbed)'' "Tempered steel... is that [[OnlyElectricSheepAreCheap really...tempered steel?]]"
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* StellarName: "Adrasta" is one letter off "ad astra", Latin for "to the stars" (as in "Ad astra per aspera", "A rough road leads to the stars", the state motto of Kansas).
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* StellarName: "Adrasta" is one letter off "ad astra", Latin for "to the stars" (as in "Ad astra per aspera", "A rough road leads "Per Ardua Ad Astra", "Through adversity to the stars", the state motto of Kansas).The Royal Air force).
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* ILikeThoseOdds: When Romana calculates their odds of success at 740,384,338 to one against, the Doctor claims that this is his lucky number.
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Maybe Sexy doesn't like Tibetan.
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: The Doctor finds himself at the bottom of the titular pit, and wants to climb out. So he takes out of his pocket a book to help people climb Mount Everest. The book is in Tibetan...so he takes out a Tibetan learning book, also from his pocket. While this is not often touched upon in the classic series, the Doctor should be able to understand Tibetan thanks to the Tardis's TranslatorMicrobes. It is probably just RuleOfFunny, though.
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: Although the Doctor's solution to the problem of the neutron star, weaving a shell of aluminium around it, has been criticised as silly, the idea was in fact proposed to David Fisher by members of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.
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* AllThereInTheManual: In the novelisation, cutaway scenes explain Chloris from the perspective of the ex-miners-turned-bandits.
** Adrasta's first meeting with Erato is featured.
** The novelisation details how Tythonians have sex.
** How Erato gets out of the pit is elaborated on.
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* AsideGlance: The Doctor forces Lady Adrasta's hand onto Erato's larynx machine and the creature starts speaking through her. As she goes through her VillainousBreakdown, we can see the Doctor lurking at the edge of the shot, looking straight at the camera out of the corner of his eye and smirking.
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* ContinuityNod: A number of the Doctor's old costumes appear on the TARDIS hatstand. His coats from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsOfDoom The Seeds of Doom]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]" are two of these.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Doctor claims a ball of string Romana finds in the TARDIS helped Theseus and Ariadne out of the Minotaur's maze. This may have been foreshadowing "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E5TheHornsOfNimon The Horns of Nimon]]".
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* DistressCallDistressCall: What kicks off the episode is the Doctor responding to one of these.
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* CrazyPrepared: parodied.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The infamous scene where the Doctor "communicates" with the creature.
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** Theinfamous monster in this one has a terribly UnfortunateCharacterDesign that has to be seen to be believed, and resembles a giant, warty green cock-and-balls. The costume department claims it was unintentional, but the scripted innuendo and its MeaningfulName - "Erato" - a few letters away from "erotic" and the name of the Muse of pornography - is enough to make a case that it wasn't. They didn't quite get away with it - the creature had to have its appendage altered between episodes. Tom Baker, for his part, has a lovely time rubbing his mouth and licking his lips a lot while talking to it. There is one particular scene where he greets it by moaning, "you have beautiful skin..." before moving in to caress its 'body', sighing his dialogue and rubbing his cheek against it. Then he takes its appendage in his hands, rubs his hands up and down it, puts the end of it in his mouth, and mimes blowing and sucking. Later the Doctor "communicates" actually allows Erato to use his throat (the creature needs to use other people's larynxes to talk), which Tom Baker decides to play as if he's allowing Erato to do something quite intimate, cuddling up to Erato's side and gesturing towards his throat with his hands.
** The Doctor gets put in the stocks by a villain who takes the opportunity to stroke and admire the Doctor's nose while he's powerless to resist.
** Romana makes at least one BDSM joke about her relationship with thecreature.Doctor.
** Forget her relationship with the Doctor; Romana spends half the serial being tied up, interrogated, slapped across the face and claimed as a 'handmaiden' by a woman in red-and-black leather who calls her "my dear" and seems to enjoy manhandling her whenever possible.
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* {{Corpsing}}: During the scene where the Doctor has to approach a monster that looks like a giant green penis and scrotum and "communicate" with it, Creator/TomBaker, normally very good at keeping a straight face during such things, is clearly about to crack up and even has to hide his smile with his hand at one point.
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* MeaningfulName: The Creature in the Pit is called Erato, which means "sexually desired" and is the name of the muse of erotic poetry in Greek mythology. In the story, Erato is a force of love and creativity. And, more prosaically, it looks like a giant cock and balls and Creator/TomBaker's acting exploits this for all it is worth.
* MetalPoorPlanet: The story takes place on the planet Chloris which has an over-abundance of plant life and virtually no metal; the local dictator's power comes from having control of the only mine.
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Lady Adrasta is killed with about 20 minutes to go, seemingly leaving the Doctor to simply arrange a treaty between Chloris and Tythonus. Then the Tythonians decide to destroy Chloris in retribution for her actions and various minor villains get in the way of the Doctor trying to stop them.
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* SpecificSituationBooks: While trying to climb out of the Pit, the Doctor produces a book from his pocket called ''Everest in Easy Stages''. Sadly, it's in Tibetan, so he produces another book called ''Teach Yourself Tibetan''.
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* ShoutOut: Two character names were inspired by GreekMythology:
** Lady Adrasta was inspired by Andromeda, who attracted a sea monster which plagued her homeland.
** Erato was one of a group of goddesses called the Muses, specifically the Muse of erotic poetry; significantly, her name means “lovely”.
** The story's setting, Chloris, came from “chlorophyll”, the green pigment found in most vegetation.
** Lady Adrasta was inspired by Andromeda, who attracted a sea monster which plagued her homeland.
** Erato was one of a group of goddesses called the Muses, specifically the Muse of erotic poetry; significantly, her name means “lovely”.
** The story's setting, Chloris, came from “chlorophyll”, the green pigment found in most vegetation.
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* {{Expy}}: Torvin was clearly modeled on [[Literature/OliverTwist Fagin]].
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* TheOtherDarrin: K-9, who now has a different voice after being temporarily put out of action by robo-laryngitis earlier in the season. In real-life, previous voice actor John Leeson had quit the series and had been replaced by David Brierly.
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* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: The creature from the pit - Oh '''God''' the creature! Take a look at [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/3b70dd8bbde2a83011d6e8302c83ab19/tumblr_inline_nddoowCmlC1slakn1.jpg this]] design of the alien, and what the Doctor is doing to "communicate" with it.
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* AllThereInTheManual: In the novelisation, cutaway scenes explain Chloris from the perspective of the ex-miners-turned-bandits.
** Adrasta's first meeting with Erato is featured.
** The novelisation details how Tythonians have sex.
** How Erato gets out of the pit is elaborated on.
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* Heel-FaceTurn: The Huntsman spends most of the story leading his wolfweeds on Adrasta's behalf. When he learns the truth, however, he becomes the first of his people to turn against her and refuses to turn the wolfweeds on the Doctor.
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* Heel-FaceTurn: HeelFaceTurn: The Huntsman spends most of the story leading his wolfweeds on Adrasta's behalf. When he learns the truth, however, he becomes the first of his people to turn against her and refuses to turn the wolfweeds on the Doctor.
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* Heel-FaceTurn: The Huntsman spends most of the story leading his wolfweeds on Adrasta's behalf. When he learns the truth, however, he becomes the first of his people to turn against her and refuses to turn the wolfweeds on the Doctor.
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* LadyLandLadyLand: Chloris is a matriarchy, although under Lady Adrasta it's somewhat autocratic in general.
