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** Eve says that she is the only survivor of her species after they were "exterminated" by the Daleks in The Last Great Time War.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Luke's role is minimalised, due to Tommy Knight having to sit his {=GCSE=} exams.

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* MeaningfulName: Adam and Eve who turn out to be connected, of course.
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** When Ship looks into Sarah Jane's past, clips of her childhood from "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E7E8TheTemptationOfSarahJaneSmith The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]", "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E3E4TheDayOfTheClown The Day of the Clown]]" and "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E7E8WhateverHappenedToSarahJane Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]"; these are followed by scenes of her time with the Doctor from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior The Time Warrior]]" (her introduction) and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders Planet of the Spiders]]", and when she returned to Earth in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear The Hand of Fear]]"; she is also shown with K-9 Mark III from "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]" and with the Daleks in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]".

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** When Ship looks into Sarah Jane's past, clips of her childhood from "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E7E8TheTemptationOfSarahJaneSmith "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E9E10TheTemptationOfSarahJaneSmith The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]", "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E3E4TheDayOfTheClown The Day of the Clown]]" and "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E7E8WhateverHappenedToSarahJane Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]"; these are followed by scenes of her time with the Doctor from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior The Time Warrior]]" (her introduction) and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders Planet of the Spiders]]", and when she returned to Earth in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear The Hand of Fear]]"; she is also shown with K-9 Mark III from "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]" and with the Daleks in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TheStolenEarth "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]".


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* ShoutOut: Danemouth was the fictional town in ''Literature/TheBodyInTheLibrary''.

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishForAbortedArc: Due to Creator/ElisabethSladen's untimely death in 2011, the series would not have a fully-realised conclusion that gave absolute closure to the series. However, this episode provided a glimpse of Rani Chandra's future in a timeline that could be considered the true ending of the series. The question of whether or not she got together with Clyde Langer is also hinted to be true, considering the mixed ethnicity of her children.
* AllThereInTheManual: Eve says that her people were "exterminated" in a war. The alien file on the website confirms that the Daleks and Time Lords did the exterminating.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Ship claims that it is "rather...improbable" that there is a robot dog hovering in an alternate dimension keeping a black hole from sucking up the Earth. This despite the fact that it is an Artificial Intelligence belonging to an orphaned alien with the ability to alter time and control and read minds and that it runs on black holes.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Rani feels left out when the rest of the team start reminiscing with former member Maria, so after running away when her old friend calls her to investigate supernatural activity, she wishes that they (Sarah Jane, Luke, and Clyde) would "leave [her] alone". Later on, after the group restore Eve's ship, the ship decides to grant Rani's earlier wish, to thank her for her help. This results in Sarah Jane, Luke, and Clyde, being erased from existence. Cut to about fifty years later, and Rani is living alone in Sarah Jane's attic, still resentful of the wish she made, until a kid named Adam comes along and, after listening to her story, decides to undo the wish for her, sending her back to the moment the ship regained power.



* ContinuityNod: To both ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' when Ship reads Rani and Sarah Jane's pasts.

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* ContinuityNod: To both ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' when Ship reads Rani and Sarah Jane's pasts.



** We get to see several clips from various Series/DoctorWho serials when Sarah Jane is shown her past
** Eve says that her people were "exterminated" in a war. The alien file on the website confirms that the Daleks and Time Lords did the exterminating.

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** We get to see several When Ship looks into Sarah Jane's past, clips of her childhood from various Series/DoctorWho serials when "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E7E8TheTemptationOfSarahJaneSmith The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]", "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E3E4TheDayOfTheClown The Day of the Clown]]" and "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E7E8WhateverHappenedToSarahJane Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]"; these are followed by scenes of her time with the Doctor from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior The Time Warrior]]" (her introduction) and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders Planet of the Spiders]]", and when she returned to Earth in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear The Hand of Fear]]"; she is also shown her past
** Eve says that her people were "exterminated" in a war.
with K-9 Mark III from "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The alien file on the website confirms that Five Doctors]]" and with the Daleks in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]".
** Sarah's reference to the Terrible Zodin is a continuation of a running joke — Zodin is referenced on screen but never seen — dating back to "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]". Although various Doctors
and Time Lords did companions have claimed to have encountered her, this is the exterminating.first time Sarah had made such a claim.



* DeadpanSnarker: about half of Sarah Jane and Clyde's dialogue is them snarking at each other.
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* DeadpanSnarker: about half of Sarah Jane {{Foreshadowing}}: This episode foreshadows Luke leaving for university in "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS4E1E2TheNightmareMan The Nightmare Man]]", and Clyde's dialogue the events of [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS3E5E6TheWeddingOfSarahJaneSmith the next story]].
* FutureMeScaresMe: The title character
is them snarking a future version of Rani, who is appalled at each other.
** Also Mr. Smith and K-9
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* LiteralGenie: Ship.

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* LiteralGenie: Ship.Rani gets angry at her friends and shouts, "I wish they would just leave me alone!" Later on, a sentient alien spaceship is grateful to Rani for helping its passenger and grants her wish, making all her friends disappear forever. Fortunately, fifty years later when Rani is a lonely old woman living in Sarah Jane's attic, she gets the chance to take it back.



* NoAntagonist: As Rani states, for once, the aliens don't want to rule the world.

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* NoAntagonist: As Rani states, for once, This is the aliens don't want to rule only episode of the world. series to not have an actual villain per se, as neither Eve nor Ship are depicted as having ill-intent, despite their actions.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Where the cruk is Clyde at the end?

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* SnarkToSnarkCombat: About half of Sarah Jane and Clyde's dialogue is them snarking at each other.
** Also Mr. Smith and K-9.
* TimeshiftedActor: Souad Faress plays the older Rani.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Where the cruk is Clyde at the end?end?
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "This is Eve, and she's not trying to take over the Earth." Best Line Ever!
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "This is Eve, and she's not trying to take over the Earth." Best Line Ever!
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* ContinuityNod: To both ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''TheSarahJaneAdventures'' when Ship reads Rani and Sarah Jane's pasts.

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* DeadpanSnarker: about half of Sarah Jane and Clyde's dialogue is them snarking at each other

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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Eve



* NoAntagonist: While Eve and Ship do some pretty mean things to the gang, such as possession and ''accidentally erasing them from reality'', their motivations were to make friends to protect their charge respectively without villainous intent. As Rani states, for once the aliens don't want to rule the Earth.

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* NoAntagonist: While Eve and Ship do some pretty mean things to the gang, such as possession and ''accidentally erasing them from reality'', their motivations were to make friends to protect their charge respectively without villainous intent. As Rani states, for once once, the aliens don't want to rule the Earth.world.
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* NoAntagonist: While Eve and Ship do some pretty mean things to the gang, such as possession and ''accidentally erasing them from reality'', their motivations were to make friends to protect their charge respectively without villainous intent. As Rani states, for once the aliens don't want to rule the Earth.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Eve


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* DeadpanSnarker: about half of Sarah Jane and Clyde's dialogue is them snarking at each other
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** We get to see several clips from various DoctorWho serials when Sarah Jane is shown her past
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Possible inversion, since neither Eve nor her possessed "friends" are at all malevolent, just creepy.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: To ''The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination'', which in turn is referring to Mrs Rochester in ''JaneEyre''.

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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: To ''The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination'', which in turn is referring to Mrs Rochester in ''JaneEyre''.''Literature/JaneEyre''.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: To ''The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination'', which in turn is referring to Mrs Rochester in ''JaneEyre''.
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** Eve says that her people were "exterminated" in a war, likely referring to the Daleks.

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** Eve says that her people were "exterminated" in a war, likely referring to war. The alien file on the Daleks.website confirms that the Daleks and Time Lords did the exterminating.

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