History Recap / DoctorWhoS29E742

Before Martha and the other guy make it to the finish, though, another crew member gets infected with the mysterious burning illness and corners Martha and another crew member in an escape pod. The Doctor freezes the infected crewman, but it is too late, and the escape pod has already been released. Martha and the crewman are falling into the sun, and the escape pod retrieval controls are on the outside of the ship... Fat lot of good they'll do there.

** The Doctor being [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight scared shitless and powerless under the influence of something he barely comprehends]].

* DisproportionateRetribution: The sun goes AxCrazy about stealing some of its substance for fuel and begins possessing and brutally murdering the crew. While not specified exactly what its importance is, given it's a ''sun'', it seems equivalent to going on a killing spree for forcibly taking a blood sample.

* HeroicBSOD: After all's said and done, Martha finds the Doctor staring into space. Foreshadows the even bigger one he has in "Midnight"...

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: The Captain tries this with her (now former) husband. It works for a little bit -- long enough for the Captain to jettison herself and her former husband into the sun.

* KarmaHoudini: The team do not defeat the sun, they merely give it what it demands. True, the crew took part of its substance first, but its AxCrazy [[DisproportionateRetribution killing spree over it]] crosses it off as a mere victim.

* MotorMouth: The Doctor during his explanation of happy primes.
* OhCrap: "''Burn with me...''" Dialed UpToEleven near the end. ''"Burn with me, Martha..."''

* TooDumbToLive: Erina, griping about being asked to fetch tools to fix the ship ''while it's falling into the sun because of instrument failure''.
* UsedFuture: This space ship is old, failing, and has to resort to illegal method of fueling itself up.

* WhatTheHellHero: The agonised and semi possessed Doctor gives one to [=McDonnel=] for not checking they were stealing from a living form. Martha refuses her help to treat him, snapping coldly that she's done enough.

It's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]], InTheStyleOf ''Series/TwentyFour''... InSpace

* DisproportionateRetribution: The sun goes AxCrazy about stealing some of it's substance for fuel and begins possessing and brutally murdering the crew. While not specified exactly it's importance, given it's a planet, it seems equivalent to going on a killing spree for forcibly taking a blood sample.
* DwindlingParty: The ship starts off with seven crew members (McDonnell, Korwin, Ashton, Abi, Erina, Riley and Scannell). Of those seven, only two (Riley and Scannell) are alive at the end of the episode.

** The Doctor being scared shitless and powerless underneath something he barely comprehends foreshadows "Midnight".

* KarmaHoudini: The team do not defeat the sun, they merely give it what it demands. True, the crew took part of it's substance first, but it's AxCrazy [[DisproportionateRetribution killing spree over it]] crosses it off as a mere victim all that much.

* KarmaHoudini: The team do not defeat the sun, they merely give it what it demands. True, the crew took part of it's substance first, but it's AxCrazy [[DisproportionateRetribution killing spree over it]] checks it off as a victim all that much.

* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: The sun itself.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mr Saxon sent people to listen to Martha's mother's phone.

* GeniusLoci: The Sun. And it's ''pissed off''.

* TheHeartless: The sun was essentially turned into this, driving it insane.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: This is probably the only time the Doctor ever ''says'' that he's scared.

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* TemptingFate: Erina, annoyed with being the one asked to fetch tools, also wishes she were dead, a wish the infected crew member is more than willing to grant.

* RealTime

* TakingYouWithMe: How [=McDonnel=] ended up.

* UsedFuture
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection

* ConvectionSchmonvection: As per "The End of the World", the one thing that stops everyone aboard from getting fried are heat shields.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mr. Saxon sent people to listen to Martha's mother's phone.

* GeniusLoci: The Sun. And it's ''pissed''.

* OhCrap: "''Burn with me...''" Dialed UpToEleven near the end. ''"Burn with me, Martha.."''

** Also marks the first appearance of [[spoiler:the Master]]'s {{Leitmotif}} and the drumbeat.

* {{Leitmotif}}: The aforementioned [[spoiler: "The Master Vainglorious", which foreshadows the oncoming Saxon revelation]]. Also "All the Strange, Strange Creatures", the main action beat of Series 3, culminates in this episode; seeing as how it's one of the most dangerous adventures of the season. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ejiGU_3rmc It simply owns the last fifteen minutes (thanks in no small part to the badass choir)]].

* {{Leitmotif}}: The aforementioned [[spoiler: "The Master Vainglorious", which foreshadows the oncoming Saxon revelation]]. Also "All the Strange, Strange Creatures", the main action beat of Series 3, culminates in this episode; seeing as how it's one of the most dangerous adventures of the season. It simply owns the last fifteen minutes (thanks in no small part to the badass choir).

* {{Leitmotif}}: The aforementioned "The Master Vainglorious", which foreshadows the oncoming Saxon revelation. Also "All the Strange, Strange Creatures", the main action beat of Series 3, culminates in this episode; seeing as how it's one of the most dangerous adventures of the season. It simply owns the last fifteen minutes (mainly due to the badass choir).

* {{Leitmotif}}: The aforementioned "The Master Vainglorious", which foreshadows the oncoming Saxon revelation. Also "All the Strange, Strange Creatures", the main action beat of Series 3 since "Gridlock", culminates in this episode, seeing as how it's one of the most dangerous adventures of the season. It simply owns the last fifteen minutes of the episode (mainly due to the badass choir).

* {{Leitmotif}}: "The Master Vainglorious", a pivotal theme that is literally woven into the plot of later episodes, makes it's first appearance in the coda; foreshadowing the oncoming Saxon revelation. Also "All the Strange, Strange Creatures", the main action beat of Series 3 since "Gridlock", owns the last fifteen minutes of the episode (mainly due to the badass choir).

* Leitmotif - "The Master Vainglorious", a pivotal theme that is literally woven into the plot of later episodes, makes it's first appearance in the coda. Also "All the Strange, Strange Creatures", the main action beat of Series 3, owns the last fifteen minutes of the episode.

'''WARNING! THERE MAY BE UNMARKED SPOILERS!'''

** Also marks the first appearance of [[spoiler:the Master]]'s {{Leitmotif}} and the [[HellIsThatNoise drumbeat.]]

* DuelingMovies: Or "Duelling Episode and Movie", as the basic plot of this episode shares a striking similarity with the plot of Creator/DannyBoyle's film ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'' which came out a few months after the episode aired. This episode was even edited after filming to change the name of the ship to Pentallian -- originally, it was "Icarus", the same as in ''Film/{{Sunshine}}''! In fact, in a brief close-up of the Doctor in his orange space suit at around 31 min, you can read the word "Icarus" at the top of his helmet (and the word "Transtellar" at the bottom).