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* PortalDoor: This story reveals that in emergency, the TARDIS can materialise as a door in a two-dimensional wall instead of as a three-dimensional object.
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* PortalDoor: This story reveals that in emergency, the TARDIS can materialise as a door in a two-dimensional wall instead of as a three-dimensional object. [[spoiler: It will do this again sometime later, when Sarah Jane gets married.]]
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* PlatonicKissing: The Doctor and Nyssa kiss as they say goodbye. This was improvised by Creator/PeterDavison and Creator/SarahSutton, originally they were supposed to just shake hands.
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* EverybodyLives: And that's probably the weirdest thing about this story.
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* EverybodyLives: And that's probably Strangely enough, despite the weirdest thing about this story.grim tone of the story and its themes of disease and death, it is the only story from season twenty in which no-one dies.
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* OutOfFocus: Tegan and Turlough do not have anything to do with this story's main plot, and they hardly interact with any of the guest cast members.
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* Bilingual Bonus: The Vanir are kept alive by a drug called Hydromel, which is actually French for "mead".
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* Bilingual Bonus: BilingualBonus: The Vanir are kept alive by a drug called Hydromel, which is actually French for "mead".
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-->'''Olvir:''' This is a ''lazar'' ship, where all the ''lepers'' come to ''die!'' We're ''all'' going to ''DIE!''
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-->'''Olvir:''' This is a ''lazar'' ship, where all the ''lepers'' come to ''die!'' We're ''all'' going to ''DIE!''''DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!''
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: After finding out that Nyssa plans on staying behind, Tegan has to be physically restrained from marching over to The Doctor and forcing him to make Nyssa stay.
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* NoIndoorVoice: The Black Guardian, who apparently doesn't think making your [[TheMole mole]] conspicuous might in any way get in the way of success.
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* NoIndoorVoice: The Black Guardian, who apparently doesn't think making your [[TheMole mole]] conspicuous might in any way get in the way impede his chances of success.
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* PantyShot: Nyssa.Nyssa, when she is lying prone on the decontamination chamber floor.
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* RecycledSoundtrack: A good chunk of the episode's incidental music is recycled from the season opener, "Arc of Infinity."
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* RecycledSoundtrack: A good chunk of the episode's incidental music is recycled from the season opener, "Arc of Infinity."" For Nyssa's departure, her theme from "The Keeper of Traken" is also reused.
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* SicklyGreenGlow: Hydromel
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* SicklyGreenGlow: HydromelHydromel, which looks much more like dangerous radioactive liquid than a cure for it.
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* MusicalNod: Nyssa's leitmotif from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E6TheKeeperOfTraken The Keeper of Traken]]" is played over the scene in which she declares her intention to stay behind on Terminus.
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* ParentService: Nyssa's skirt falls off for no explained reason. Creator/SarahSutton even admitted that this was deliberate fanservice (and her way of saying farewell to her character's fans) in a number of interviews after the episode aired.
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* ParentService: Nyssa's skirt falls off for no explained reason. Though official sources gave various explanations for this -- either the writer only had her removing her belt, which had to be changed due to Nyssa getting a new costume that didn't have pants earlier in the season, or the script editor deleted a line explaining she was dropping her skirt because of stomach pains -- years later Creator/SarahSutton even admitted that this it was deliberate purely an act of fanservice (and her way of saying farewell to her character's fans) in a number of interviews after the episode aired.
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* VaporWear: Nyssa is very obviously not wearing any bra under her skimpy white top, another bit of FanService in addition to the infamous skirt removal.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Strangely enough, averted. despite the grim tone of the story and its themes of disease and death, it is the only story from season 20 in which no-one dies.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Strangely enough, averted. despite the grim tone of the story and its themes of disease and death, it is the one of only story two stories from season 20 in which no-one dies.
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* CausedTheBigBang: Always remember to secure the fuel pods on your spaceship, so they don't fall back in time.
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--->"This is a '''lazar''' ship, where all the '''lepers''' come to '''die!''' We're '''all''' going to '''DIE!'''"
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* [[AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?]]: she would prefer not to.
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-->'''Tegan''': No. Don't know. If it was important. Save a friend, defend my life.
-->'''Turlough''': But cold-bloodedly?
-->'''Tegan''': You're weird, Turlough.
-->'''Turlough''': If ever you had to kill someone, could you do it?
-->'''Tegan''': No. Don't know. If it was important. Save a friend, defend my life.
-->'''Turlough''': But cold-bloodedly?
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* [[AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?]]: she AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: She would prefer not to.
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* [[FireForgedFriends FireForgedFriends: Tegan and Turlough don't quite get that far, but they do make it to Fire-Forged Grudging Mutual Toleration]]: Tegan and TurloughToleration.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The novelisation adds a scene where Turlough tries to kill Tegan.
* AllThereInTheManual: According to the novelisation, the ship is from another universe.
** The Garm was imported from a radioactive planet.
** The raiders prepare for raids with self-hypnosis.
** Olvir turned to piracy when his sister's medical bills broke his family's wealth.
* AllThereInTheManual: According to the novelisation, the ship is from another universe.
** The Garm was imported from a radioactive planet.
** The raiders prepare for raids with self-hypnosis.
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* TheEighties: feast your eyes on those space pirates - the EightiesHair! The ShouldersOfDoom!
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* TheEighties: feast Feast your eyes on those space pirates - the EightiesHair! The ShouldersOfDoom!
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* GoOutWithASmile: Bor spends most of the serial dying, but seems cheerfully resigned to it
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* IChooseToStay: Nyssa elects to stay behind to help others.
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* PersonalEffectsReveal: Apparently Adric was quite a magpie, as his old room is chock-full of {{Continuity Nod}}s including his pirate outfit from "Black Orchid" and a double-helix necklace from "Kinda."
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* PersonalEffectsReveal: Apparently Adric was quite a magpie, as his old room is chock-full of {{Continuity Nod}}s including his pirate outfit from "Black Orchid" "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E5BlackOrchid Black Orchid]]" and a double-helix necklace from "Kinda."
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* ShootOutTheLock: The Doctor uses a laser pistol to shoot the lock off the Hydromel case at the end of the story.
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* WaifFu: Nyssa, who is one of the smallest [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]] companions, manages to overpower Valgard, who is wearing armor, by pushing his head, knocking him back onto some stairs.
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* WaifFu: Nyssa, who is one of the smallest [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]] companions, manages to overpower Valgard, who is wearing armor, by pushing his head, knocking him back onto some stairs.
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* ContinuityNod: Turlough inherits Adric's old room, last seen in Part One of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Earthshock]]", the story in which Adric was killed off.
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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
** Turlough inherits Adric's old room, last seen in Part One of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Earthshock]]", the story in which Adric was killedoff.off. It's virtually untouched and still contains [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E3Kinda a caduceus necklace from the Kinda tribe]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation the Terileptil android's skull mask from its "Death" costume]]. In addition, the star chart from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis Logopolis]]" is visible in the back of the room.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva The Doctor uses the term, "Event One", to describe the Big Bang]].
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* ChewingTheScenery: All of the secondary characters chewed the scenery a fair bit.
--->"This is a '''lazar''' ship, where all the '''lepers''' come to '''die!''' We're '''all''' going to '''DIE!'''"
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Bor
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* ParentService: Nyssa's skirt falls off for no explained reason. Creator/SarahSutton even admitted that this was deliberate fanservice (and her way of saying farewell to her character's fans) in a number of interviews after the episode aired.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The novelisation adds a scene where Turlough tries to kill Tegan.
* AllThereInTheManual: According to the novelisation, the ship is from another universe.
** The Garm was imported from a radioactive planet.
** The raiders prepare for raids with self-hypnosis.
** Olvir turned to piracy when his sister's medical bills broke his family's wealth.
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** The Garm was imported from a radioactive planet.
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** Olvir turned to piracy when his sister's medical bills broke his family's wealth.
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* [[FireForgedFriends Fire Forged Grudging Mutual Toleration]]: Tegan and Turlough
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* PersonalEffectsReveal: Apparently Adric was quite a magpie, as his old room is chock-full of [[ContinuityNod Continuity Nods]] including his pirate outfit from "Black Orchid" and a double-helix necklace from "Kinda."
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* PersonalEffectsReveal: Apparently Adric was quite a magpie, as his old room is chock-full of [[ContinuityNod Continuity Nods]] {{Continuity Nod}}s including his pirate outfit from "Black Orchid" and a double-helix necklace from "Kinda."
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* RealitySubtext: Sarah Sutton obviously left at the same time as Nyssa, and it was ''not'' her choice. Nyssa's tears when saying goodbye to Tegan are real.
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* BlandNameProduct: Unwittingly inverted; the announcer aboard the ship was credited as "Tannoy Voice," which unbeknownst to the production team is actually a trademark of the Tannoy company rather than a generic term for a PA system, resulting in the BBC being threatened with legal action.
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