History Recap / DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft

* ApocalypseHow: In the AlternateTimeline, the crises escalate into a ApocalypseHow/Class1 fallout over the course of less than two years. Britain ends up under martial law with the whole of Southern England flooded with radiation after the ''Titanic'' obliterates London, the many who are displaced from this are crowded into designated houses, and eventually the "[[ANaziByAnyOtherName England for the English]]" Law gets passed. Never mind France closing its borders after getting overwhelmed with refugees, or sixty million of America's population getting turned into Adipose.

* SeriesContinuityError: "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Voyage of the Damned]]" stated, in no uncertain terms, that the crash of the starship ''Titanic'' into the Earth would wipe out humanity- if not ''all life on the planet''- in short order, thanks to the explosion of the ship's engines. In this episode's timeline we see the ship crash, and while the impact ''does'' irradiate a big chunk of England, the world beyond the British isles seems to be just fine (or rather, not ''fine'', but suffering for unrelated reasons). No explanation is given for the change in this scenario.

** The Doctor, without Donna, wasn't willing to save himself during the business with the Racnoss. It's implied that the Doctor was feeling so depressed and alone after of the events of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday the previous episode]] that he doesn't really care whether he lives or dies, which would explain why he is killed permanently. Meeting Donna eased that loneliness and allowed him to reconnect with the world, which is why Donna was able to snap him back, so he wouldn't die with the Racnoss. Creator/RussellTDavies confirmed that this is the case; the Doctor chose not to regenerate. UNIT speculated that it happened "too fast for him to regenerate" (which has never been raised as a possibility before short of disintegration), but of course they wouldn't know the whole story.

* SoleSurvivor: Oliver Morgenstern is the only survivor of the Royal Hope Hospital Incident thanks to Martha giving him the last of her oxygen.

** The Doctor, without Donna, wasn't willing to save himself during the business with the Racnoss. It's implied that the Doctor was feeling so depressed and alone after of the events of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday the previous episode]] that he doesn't really care whether he lives or dies, which would explain why he is killed permanently. Meeting Donna eased that loneliness and allowed him to reconnect with the world, which is why Donna was able to snap him back, so he wouldn't die with the Racnoss. Russell T Davies confirmed that this is the case; the Doctor chose not to regenerate. UNIT speculated that it happened "too fast for him to regenerate" (which has never been raised as a possibility before short of disintegration), but of course they wouldn't know the whole story.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The reason Donna doesn't have anything to make her cling to her life in this alternative universe is that Creator/RussellTDavies gave up on his original idea of her having children during the middle of this havoc, since she already had a good marriage and children in Creator/StevenMoffat's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead episode]], which would air two weeks earlier. Also, the Doctor hints that there's something strange about the multiple alternative universes popping up around her because Russell and Steven were both using the same idea. It was worked into the plot after they exchanged e-mails about the episodes.

* TakeThat: Donna's family and the soundtrack both treat moving to Leeds [[FauxHorrific as a horrible fate]]. Russell T Davies considers rival northern city Manchester as his second home.

** The whole JustBeforeTheEnd meets KitchenSinkDrama feel hearkens back to ''Film/TheWarGame'' and Davies' own ''Series/TheSecondComing''.

->[[ArcWords Bad Wolf!]]

The one where Rose [[TheBusCameBack returns]] and we find out what the universe's like without the Doctor in it.

* PlanetOfHats: Shan Shen is basically FriendlyLocalChinatown on a planet wide scale. The banners, the fortune tellers, the ethnicity of its people, etc. Downplayed as we don't know if the whole planet is like this, or just one area.

* TakeThat: Donna's family and the soundtrack both treat moving to Leeds [[FauxHorrific as a horrible fate]]. Russell T Davies considers rival northern city Manchester as his second home.

* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: Played for genuine drama and horror. The disasters of Series 3 and 4 still happen and, without the Doctor to stop them, the world goes straight to hell.

* FinalSolution: It's heavily implied in the episode (and confirmed in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'') that the military government is systematically killing non-white, non-English residents as part of their "England for the English" Law. World War II veteran Wilfred quickly catches onto this after Mr. Colasanto is shipped off, and is reduced to tears by the knowledge that another Holocaust is occurring.

* DeadlyEuphemism: Wilfred (who lived through World War Two) readily recognizes that the emergency government's references to "labour camps" are actually a codeword for genocide.

--->"[[ANaziByAnyOtherName 'Labour camps']]. [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany That's what they called them]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII last time.]]"

* DeadlyEuphemism: Wilfred readily recognizes that the emergency government's references to "labour camps" are actually a codeword for genocide.

* PlanetOfHats: Shan Shen is basically FriendlyLocalChinatown on a planet wide scale. The banners, the fortune tellers, the ethnicity of its people, etc.

** Donna and her family sing [[Music/{{Queen}} "Bohemian Rhapsody"]] with the Colasantos.

* TookALevelInJerkass: It's made extremely clear that Donna's mellowing out was due to the Doctor — she's just as stubborn and obnoxious as she was in the Christmas special.

* WithholdingTheirName: Rose never tells Donna her name, or her UNIT allies for that matter. She explains that if she says the wrong word, it could "destabilise an entire causal nexus" (I.E. screw up the timeline). It also helps delay the Doctor's panicked reaction when Donna tells him about her experiences.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: The Daleks.]]

* KillEmAll: The Doctor, Martha, [[Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures Sarah Jane, Maria, Clyde, Luke]], [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Gwen, Ianto]]. With Donna and Rose the main characters of the episode, Jack immortal and Owen and Tosh already dead, that's every character that's ever had billing in all three series. Since this all gets reversed by the end of the episode, it's also an example of the SecondLawOfMetafictionalThermodynamics.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The "England for the English" law, passed by the new emergency government, involves labour camps for minorities.

''[cut to the perpetually optimistic Mr Colasanto, who is hugging his wife and breaking down in tears as they are hauled away]''[[note]]During the Second World War many Italian families were put to work in labour camps due to Italy being allies with Germany.[[/note]]

* FakeShemp: Creator/DavidTennant didn't actually play the Doctor when he was lying on the stretcher when his body from the Thames.

* {{Retcon}}: In ''Voyage of the Damned'', it was stated that the ''Titanic's'' nuclear storm engines would wipe out 6 billion humans (everyone on Earth) if she crashed. Here, the crash "only" destroys London and the southeast of England.

* {{Retcon:}} In ''Voyage of the Damned'', it was stated that the ''Titanic's'' nuclear storm engines would wipe out 6 billion humans (everyone on Earth) if she crashed. Here, the crash "only" destroys London and the southeast of England.

* AdultFear: Great Britain devolves into a police state and things get increasingly bleak with economic depression. It's made all the worse by the obvious Holocaust parallels at one point. The government sends foreigners away to "labour camps" as they're unable to simply deport them. Donna, while agitated, clearly doesn't grasp the situation in full. Her grandfather, Wilfred, lived through WWII and cries as he watches history repeat itself.