History Recap / DoctorWhoS35E9SleepNoMore

->''"I do hope you've enjoyed the show. I did try to make it exciting. All those scary bits. All those death-defying scrapes, monsters, and a proper climax with a really big one at the end! Compulsive viewing. I did tell you not to watch. '''There's nothing left of Rassmussen any more. Only us. Only us. You will show this film to your family, won't you? And your friends. And everyone, really. Then we can all be together, dust to dust. Excuse me, you've got something... there... just in the corner of your eye.'''"''

JustForFun/TheOneWith ''[[Film/TheBlairWitchProject The Doctor Who Project]]''. Also the only episode in this season to ''NOT'' be a multi-parter (let alone connected to one)![[note]]Oh, and depending on who you ask, it's also considered one of the worse episodes.[[/note]]

JustForFun/TheOneWith ''[[Film/TheBlairWitchProject The Doctor Who Project]]''.

The one with ''[[Film/TheBlairWitchProject The Doctor Who Project]]''.

* KillEmAll: Nagata is the only member of the guest cast to survive.

* [[ArtisticLicensePhysics Artistic Licence - Physics]]: When the gravity generators fail, the station starts to fall into Neptune, and everyone on the station experiences the higher gravity of Neptune itself. But, objects in freefall don't experience weight (because they're falling), so the higher gravity is irrelevant. Additionally, Neptune might be a lot more massive than Earth, but it's also a lot larger -- so, the gravity even directly at the surface is actually only about 10% higher than that on Earth. The Doctor lampshades this near the end. In Rassmussen's final gloating monologue, he seems to hint that all of it was made up as an exciting story to keep viewers watching and receiving, which would account for the physics, and much else, not making sense.

* CocaPepsiInc: By the 38th century, Japan and India have become one nation. The Doctor's reference to a "Great Catastrophe" and geological shifts suggests this was a ''physical'' [[InferredHolocaust merger]], not just political.

* RedShirtArmy: The SpaceMarines prove to be utterly useless against the Sandmen, apart from being killed. They panic easily, split up and never even fire their weapons at the non Patient Zero creatures at any point to find out if FiveRoundsRapid works, and each save the Lieutenant are killed in the course of the episode.

* TooDumbToLive: The [[MildlyMilitary soldiers]], who never even try to test their advanced weapons against the ordinary Sandmen to see if they can kill them conventionally, which seems like it would work, since 474 is able to remove one's arm with physical force. The more evolved Patient Zero one appears resistant to the Lieutenant's shots, but we never find out if this is the case for the lesser ones.

* RedShirtArmy: The SpaceMarines prove to be utterly useless against the Sandmen, apart from being killed. They never even fire their weapons at the creatures at any point to find out if FiveRoundsRapid works, and each save the Lieutenant are killed in the course of the episode.

* TooDumbToLive: The soldiers, who never even try to test their advanced weapons against the Sandmen to see if they can kill them conventionally, which seems like it would work, since 474 is able to remove one's arm with physical force.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The series' first-ever FoundFootage adventure. There isn't even a proper title sequence, just a bunch of streaming letters showing the names of the characters and the series title. Also, it's the only standalone story in Series 9.

* VolumetricMouth: The Sandmen have mouths that extend all the way to their chests.

* WhamLine: "We don't have helmet cams."

* CreditsGag: For the very first time ever in the 50+ year history of ''Doctor Who'', the title sequence and theme tune do not appear at all in this episode, tying in with the FoundFootage format; their place is taken by a burst of visual static out of which the words "Doctor" and "Who" briefly emerge.

* HypocriticalHumour: The Doctor goes on a long poetic rant about how wonderful sleep is and that only humans would be stupid enough to try and stop such an essential life process that all species share. Then Clara points out that he himself never sleeps.[[note]]Time Lords ''do'' sleep, they just don't need to do it for nearly as long or as often as humans, making it easy for him to give the impression he doesn't sleep at all.[[/note]]

--->''[[ILied "There are no spores, no infection.]] The Morpheus process remains the same. [[BrownNote An electronic signal that affects the sleep centres of the brain. Changes them.]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou An electronic signal that's contained in this recording.]]" (Static flicker) [[TheBadGuyWins "There it is. Tickles, doesn't it?"]]

---> ''[[ILied There are no spores, no infection.]] The Morpheus process remains the same. [[BrownNote An electronic signal that affects the sleep centres of the brain. Changes them.]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou An electronic signal that's contained in this recording.]] (static flicker.) There it is.

** Nagata starts to tell the Doctor "Consider yourself [under her orders]", and he quips back with a quote from the musical ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}''.
** The voice of the rescue shuttle's AI is clearly modeled on [[{{VideoGame/Portal}} GLaDOS]].