History Recap / DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife

* VoiceOfTheLegion: The House when possessing people.

** Also confirmed the long held fanon belief that Time Lords can change sex during a regeneration.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: The Time Lords who came to House before the Doctor were cut up and sewn back together to make Auntie and Uncle.]]

** The Doctor finds that many Time Lords went to the junkyard at the end of the universe. Earlier, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E11Utopia "Utopia,"]] Captain Jack Harkness said the end of the universe was the perfect place for a Time Lord to hide from the Time War. Also from this episode, Idriss seems to confirm Martha Jones' musings on whether the Doctor's companions are just "strays".

* ChekhovsGun: Pretty much everything Idris says early on. Okay, not ''everything'' ("Biting's excellent! It's like kissing, only there's a ''winner!''"; or a line of apparent gibberish heard in her cell), but a lot.

*** And turns up a lot in ''AmericanGods''.

** When Amy and Rory are wondering whether the Doctor is going to be alright this time, Rory reminds her that the Doctor ''is'' a Time Lord, to which Amy replies that that doesn't mean he actually knows what he's doing. This is in stark contrast to [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E8FathersDay Father's Day]], when the Doctor is furious with Rose for disrupting the timeline, and when she points out that he's ''always'' messing about with the timeline he retorts "I'm a Time Lord, I know what I'm doing". To be fair, when it comes to not causing catastrophic paradoxes etc. the Doctor generally ''does'' seem to know what he's doing, however [[IndyPloy unplanned]] and [[SpannerInTheWorks chaotic]] he might be in other matters.

** The Doctor finds that many Time Lords went to the junkyard at the end of the universe. Earlier, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E11Utopia "Utopia,"]] Captain Jack Harkness said the end of the universe was the perfect place for a Time Lord to hide from the Time War.

** Idriss refers to the Doctor's companions as "strays", as did Martha Jones in [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E11Utopia Utopia]]

** Different universes are hardly a new thing. How about a disembodied, EldritchAbomination-like consciousness hailing from one of these universes with an agenda of physically transporting itself to the human dimension through manipulation and mind control? [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen Nope, we've done]][[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear that one too.]]

** The original opening involved the TARDIS team on the Planet of the Rain Gods being taken for sacrifice, and then abandoning that adventure when it had just gotten started because of the box message zooming up and scaring the locals, leaving the place unsorted.

** NeilGaiman has a long history of writing ManicPixieDreamGirl like Death of the Endless... he'd have suggested ToriAmos.

-->'''Amy''': No sonic screwdriver, also the doors seem to have locked behind us. Rory believes there's a perfectly innocent explanation, but ''I'' think you lied to us.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:The first thing Idris does upon seeing the Doctor is call him "Thief". As we find out later, she actually thinks of the Doctor as "her thief".]]

At the end a few attempts at explanations are made, the secret is spelt out "the only water in the forest is the river" and Amy & Rory get a new bedroom, possibly without bunk beds this time, although this is left uncertain since the Doctor seems to enjoy the idea of a bed with a ladder.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Amy and Rory asking the Doctor not to give them a bunk bed [[spoiler:in their new bedroom, as the old one got destroyed in that battle with House.]] If you think about it, a bunk bed is not conducive for... [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean fun time]].

** The Junkyard [[{{H2G2/ptitle8q6mygb4}} at the End of the Universe]], anyone?

* TheyKilledKenny: [[spoiler: Rory dies ''again'', though here it's a complete fake and somehow manages [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel to be even more horrifying than the one time he actually died.]] ]]

*** [[BigFinish Even]] [[EightDoctorAdventures older]] [[FactionParadox than]] [[OlderThanTheyThink they think, actually.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Pretty much everything Idris says early on. Okay, not ''everything'' ("Biting's excellent! It's like kissing, only there's a ''winner!''"), but a lot.

* FinalSpeech: OK, technically [[spoiler:The TARDIS]] isn't dying, but the fact she never expects to be able to speak to [[spoiler:her thief]] directly again makes her final conversation with the Doctor take on much of the same overtones.

** [[spoiler: In a softer and lighter version Idris/TARDIS initially refers to the Doctor as "My thief".]]

* PstandardPsychicPstance: Amy adopts this pose trying to think of the passcode to the control room. So does Rory, actually, when [[spoiler:Idris aims for the "pretty one" and gets him]] Semi-justified because they probably don't know any better.

* RoboShip: Like never before! [[spoiler:The soul of the TARDIS is ripped out and put into a woman, Idris, allowing the Doctor and his beloved ship to talk to each other for the first time. They spend most of the episode flirting and have an emotional goodbye when she has to return to the TARDIS. And in the ''Confidential'', they make [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc5mf6srrU4 this music video]].]]

** The original plan was to recreate one of the old-school console room sets for the climax, but there was no budget or studio space for one.