History YMMV / DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames

* FoeYay: The War Chief is all over the Doctor, with lines such as "We are two of a kind" and "We need each other". This is one reason why [[EpilepticTrees some fans believe]] he's an earlier Master. Noted on the DVDCommentary by Frazer Hines:

--->'''Doctor''': Ccccoommmee onnnn!!!!
--->'''Zoe''': Wwhaatt iiss ittt??
--->'''Doctor''':Ttttiimmmmeee Llllloooordddss!!!

** In what seems to be a bit of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, the Doctor implies in the final episode that Time Lords have an unlimited number of regenerations, just so long as their body isn't too badly damaged. Following the revelations about the Doctor's true past in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren The Timeless Children]]" many years later, one has to wonder if he might have subconsciously started to remember his true nature.

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: It's the end of an era in many ways, and the first appearance of the Time Lords... but that's only at the end of a very long story which explores a war mystery and a conspiracy. It tends to be seen by some fans as loads of episodes of messing around before the Time Lords show up.

** When the resistance leader shoots Smythe in episode seven, he clearly misses him by at least a metre and a half.

* ItWasHisSled: The Doctor and the War Chief being of the same race might have come as an surprise back when the episode aired, but not so much nowadays when his status as a ''Time Lord'' is common knowledge.

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: It's the end of an era in many ways, and the first appearance of the Time Lords... but that's only at the end of a very long story which explores a war mystery and a conspiracy. Unfortunately, it now tends to be seen as loads of episodes of messing around before the Time Lords show up.

* ItWasHisSled: The Doctor and the War Chief being of the same race might have come as an surprise back when the episode aired, but not so much nowadays when his status as a ''Time Lord'' is common knowledge.

** When the resistance leader shoots Smythe in episode seven, he clearly misses him by at least meter and a half.

** Speaking of, it doesn't take much effort to decode the implications of a story where entire generations of lower-class soldiers throughout history are being systematically oppressed, exploited, and wiped out by aristocratic overseers and generals colluding and coordinating the most appropriate war spectacle they can manage.

* ItWasHisSled: The doctor and the War Chief being of the same race might have come as an surprise back when the episode aired, but not so much nowadays when his status as a ''Time Lord'' is common knowledge.

* ItWasHisSled: The doctor and the war chief being of the same race might have come as an surprise back when the episode aired, but not so much nowadays when his status as a ''Time Lord'' is common knowledge.

* {{Padding}}: The story just goes on, and on, and on, because it had to take up the space of a six-part serial ''and'' a four-part serial and its writers were [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants pretty much writing as they were going along]]. Every time they start wrapping up plots, they add in another bunch of historical soldiers to incorporate. And, since the very end of the story is [[OutsideContextProblem the Time Lords showing up and breaking the plot]], a lot of it is a ShaggyDogStory.

* HilariousInHindsight: One of the faces the Doctor is asked to choose from bears a striking resemblance to Creator/DavidTennant.

** The Time Lords ask the Doctor to choose his own face from a bunch of drawings projected on a screen. One (the one dismissed by the Doctor as 'too old') appears to be UsefulNotes/{{KarlMarx}}. Draw your own conclusions.

** The Time Lords ask the Doctor to choose his own face from a bunch of drawings projected on a screen. One (the one dismissed by the Doctor as 'too old') appears to be UsefulNotes/KarlMarx. Draw your own conclusions.

* FightSceneFailure: Part six has an absolutely laughable sequence. Jamie swings obviously wide of the mark blows vaguely at the bad guy's face, over and over and over, while a guard in the background of a fight sequence tries to escape, with a crummy slow-motion GirlyRun, before one of the heroes pulls him off a slope and onto a bed onto which he harmlessly bounces.

* The Time Lords ask the Doctor to choose his own face from a bunch of drawings projected on a screen. One (the one dismissed by the Doctor as 'too old') appears to be UsefulNotes/KarlMarx. Draw your own conclusions.
* Speaking of, it doesn't take much effort to decode the implications of a story where entire generations of lower-class soldiers throughout history are being systematically oppressed, exploited, and wiped out by aristocratic overseers and generals colluding and coordinating the most appropriate war spectacle they can manage.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: The Time Lords ask the Doctor to choose his own face from a bunch of drawings projected on a screen. One (the one dismissed by the Doctor as 'too old') appears to be UsefulNotes/KarlMarx. Draw your own conclusions.

* {{Padding}}: The story just goes on, and on, and on, because it had to take up the space of a six-part serial ''and'' a four-part serial and its writers were [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants pretty much writing as they were going along]]. Every time they start wrapping up plots, they add in another bunch of historical soldiers to incorporate. And, since the very end of the story is [[OutsideContextProblem the Time Lords showing up and breaking the plot]], a lot of it is a ShaggyDogStory.

* HarsherInHindsight: At the time, the concept of Regeneration really wasn't as fleshed out as it is now. At the time, the Time Lords were just making the Doctor 'change his appearance' in preparation for his exile. Now, it's more or less the Time Lords ''summarily executing the Doctor'' (in the sense of forcing him to regenerate) before they exile him.

--->'''Doctor''':Ttttiimmmmeee Llllloooordddss!!!

*** He tried it again later in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]". The result is just as heartbreaking.

** Likewise, Jamie and Zoe's fates (being mindwiped and sent back to their own time with no memory of their adventures or one another) seemed to have left a lasting scar on The Doctor, causing him to be a lot more distant to his Companions for a long time to come. But come 40-something years later and "Journey's End" where ''he'' has to be the one carrying out that fate to a Companion, despite her begging him not to? ''Ouch!''
*** He tried it again later in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]. The result is just as heartbreaking.

** Likewise, Jamie and Zoe's fates (being mindwiped and sent back to their own time with no memory of their adventures or one another) seemed to have left a lasting scar on The Doctor, causing him to be a lot more distant to his Companions for a long time to come. But come 40-something years later and "Journey's End" where ''he'' has to be the one carrying out that fate to a Companion, despite her begging him not to? ''Ouch!''

* HarsherInHindsight: At the time, the concept of Regeneration really wasn't as fleshed out as it is now. At the time, the Time Lords were just making the Doctor 'change his appearance' in preparation for his exile. Now, it's more or less the Time Lords ''killing the Doctor'' (in the sense of forcing him to use one of his 12 regenerations) before they exile him, in essence this was a summary execution.

* HarsherInHindsight: At the time, the concept of Regeneration really wasn't as fleshed out as it is now. At the time, the Time Lords were just making the Doctor 'change his appearance' in preparation for his exile. Now, it's more or less the Time Lords ''killing the Doctor'' (in the sense of forcing him to use one of his 12 regenerations) before they exile him, in essence this was a summary execution.

* HarsherInHindsight: At the time, the concept of Regeneration really wasn't as fleshed out as it is now. At the time, the Time Lords were just making the Doctor 'change his appearance' in preparation for his exile. Now, it's more or less the Time Lords ''killing the Doctor'' (in the sense of forcing him to use one of his 12 regenerations) before they exile him, in essence this was a summary execution.
* HellIsThatNoise: A low howling toward the end of episode 9 indicates the Time Lords' arrival.