| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho recap index]]\ |
| 2 | '''Eleventh Doctor Era'''\ |
| 3 | '''Series 5:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour 1]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels 4]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone 5]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice 6]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice 7]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E8TheHungryEarth 8]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood 9]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor 10]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger 11]] | '''12''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang 13]] | [[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol CS]]\ |
| 4 | '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor <<< 2009 Specials]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut Series 6 >>>]]''']]-]]] |
| 5 | !The Pandorica Opens |
| 6 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/The_Pandorica_Opens_9395.jpg]] |
| 7 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/{{Se7en}} WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!]]]] |
| 8 | ->Written by Creator/StevenMoffat\ |
| 9 | Directed by Toby Haynes\ |
| 10 | '''Production code:''' 1.12\ |
| 11 | '''Air date:''' 19 June 2010\ |
| 12 | '''Part 1 of 2''' |
| 13 | |
| 14 | ->''"Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica takes the Universe! But bad news everyone -- 'cos guess [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall who]]! Hah! Except you lot -- all whizzing about, it's very distracting. Could you all just stay still for a minute, because'' '''''IIII!! AAAM!! TALKIIIIIIIING!!!"''''' |
| 15 | -->-- '''The Doctor''' |
| 16 | |
| 17 | JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here the madman gets put in a box, and Rory [[DisneyDeath got better]]. [[DeathIsCheap Again]]. [[ActuallyADoombot Sorta]]. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | The first part of the 2010 series finale. |
| 20 | ---- |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor France, 1890]]. Creator/VincentVanGogh is ill and screaming his head off, and the entire town can hear him. His doctor explains to Vincent's landlady that he's ill, but she's more concerned about his new painting. It's weirder than usual. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks Cabinet War Rooms, 1941]]. The Allies have found a painting in Arles, and it's confirmed as a genuine van Gogh. After seeing the painting, UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill gets on the phone to the Doctor. River Song, in a 51st century prison, gets the call instead (relayed by the TARDIS) and breaks out after talking to Churchill. She makes her way to the Royal Gallery and gets caught nicking the painting by [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow Liz Ten]], who lets her go after ''she'' sees the painting. River is then able to procure a Vortex manipulator fresh off the wrist of a Time Agent (so fresh they're still attached!) after a bit of haggling, and travels in time. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | We join the Doctor, who's taking Amy to the oldest planet in the universe. There's a message on the cliffside that no-one's ever translated, but that changes today. "Why today?", Amy asks. Because of the TARDIS' TranslatorMicrobes, answers the Doctor. They open the doors and see, in fifty-foot letters, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E6TheArmageddonFactor Θ Σ]][[labelnote:*]][[GratuitousGreek For those who don't know the Greek alphabet]]: [[DontExplainTheJoke Theta Sigma]][[/labelnote]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels Hello Sweetie!]]" River's also left the Doctor some coordinates, which take the TARDIS to Roman Britain (102 AD), where River's playing Cleopatra. As soon as the Doctor gets there, we finally get a peek at the painting: it's the TARDIS, and it's exploding! |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Luckily, Vincent has left date and map references on the painting, whose title is ''[[TitleDrop The Pandorica Opens]]''. The Doctor insists that it's a fairy tale, while River argues that if it is real, it's here, it's opening and it's related to the TARDIS going kaboom. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Cut to the trio on horseback, riding to Stonehenge. River and Amy have a Timey-Wimey conversation about their goodbye [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone last time]]; "I'll see you again when the Pandorica opens," River had said. Maybe she did say that, but she hasn't yet. Maybe she will have. They move aside a stone and go under Stonehenge. Inside, they find a huge box carved with complicated patterns and symbols: the Pandorica. More than just a fairy tale, then, and something's trapped inside. "There was a goblin. Or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. ''The'' most feared being in all the cosmos," the Doctor says. Indestructible, can't be caught or reasoned with; it would just drop out of the sky and tear down their world. How did it get caught? Like all fairy tales, a good wizard came and [[{{Foreshadowing}} tricked it]]. Amy takes a moment to mention that it's a bit like PandorasBox, her favourite book when she was a kid; all the bad things trapped inside it that came into the world when the box opened. This arouses the Doctor's suspicion: Amy's favourite subject at school, the Romans, and now her favourite childhood book. "Never overlook a coincidence. Unless you're busy, then always overlook a coincidence." |
| 31 | |
| 32 | It's opening from the inside, breaking all kinds of locks and safe-holders; what could get past all that? What could inspire that level of fear? And moreover, how did Vincent van Gogh know about it, since he won't even be born for centuries? Stonehenge is broadcasting a warning to everyone, everywhere and every''when''; the Pandorica is opening. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Wait a minute: a message to everyone, everywhere? So, who else is coming? |
| 35 | |
| 36 | At least 10,000 starships — but it could be 100,000, a million, a hundred million; the scanners are going into overload. A voice comes through; Daleks. Dalek battleships, at least 12,000 armed to the teeth. Not a problem because they have the element of surprise! The three of them can sneak attack the 12,000 battleships... and they'll be killed... you know what, never mind. Then Cybermen, too; but we can [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday turn them against each other]], the Daleks are so angry they'll fight anyone! Then there's more coming through: Sontarans, the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon Slitheen]] family, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Judoon]], [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride Roboform]], [[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures Chelonians]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace Nestene]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E1Galaxy4 Drahvins]], [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion Sycorax]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Zygons]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour Atraxi]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E3FrontierInSpace Draconians]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation Terileptils]]. They're all here for the Pandorica. What could it possibly be? Everything that's ever hated the Doctor is coming for him tonight. River tells him to run, just this once, just run; he can't win, he can't even fight. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | However, they have the greatest fighting force in the history of the Earth with them: the Romans. River rides back to get help, but it's not easy; the general has returned and seen through her Cleopatra gig. It mainly has to do with the real Cleo being in Egypt and dead (for 130 years in total), but don't worry, a faceless, voiceless Roman soldier appears in the doorway to help. Who could it possibly be? |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Back to Underhenge, the Doctor keeps scanning the Box, when Amy pulls out [[ChekhovsGun the engagement ring]]. "Are you proposing to someone?" she asks. No, it was a friend of his, the Doctor says, someone he lost. He tries to coax Amy into remembering Rory: sometimes, people fall out of the world, but they leave things behind; faces in photographs, half-eaten meals, luggage, rings. Nothing is ever completely forgotten; if they can be remembered they can come back. The night he picked Amy up — her house was too big, too many empty rooms. Doesn't it bother her that her life doesn't make any sense? |
| 41 | |
| 42 | Suddenly, something is shooting at them and the Doctor needs to get a closer look. He has a brilliant plan– |
| 43 | |
| 44 | "[[LookADistraction LOOK AT ME,]] [[ViolationOfCommonSense I'M A TARGET!]]" |
| 45 | |
| 46 | Amy runs out in front while the Doctor gets behind it, tackling it to the ground and disabling it. He warns Amy to stay where she is, while a disembodied Cyberhead approaches behind her. It's crawling and scrabbling around on its wires, and tangling around her wrists (at which point the dessicated ''human head'' is ejected) while the arm shocks the Doctor. She slams it against a stone wall, but, before she can escape, a sleeping dart is shot into her neck. "[[TheAssimilator YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED]]." The one-armed Cyberman walks in and picks up its head. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | Amy manages to stumble behind a big door and shut it. It rattles a bit and falls open, revealing the Cyberman with a sword stabbed through it and pinned to the wood. Amy passes out, but Rory, in full Roman gear, catches her and carries her over to a nearby slab. The Doctor scans her and starts babbling, looking at two huge [[{{BFG}} Cyberguns]]; Cybermen, Cyberweapons, why is one of them in there, was it locked in by one of its own? There's something right in his face that he's missing, something right in front of him, something big. He'll get it in a minute. He walks away from Rory and– |
| 49 | |
| 50 | Wait. |
| 51 | |
| 52 | He pokes Rory quite apprehensively. "Rory, I'm not trying to be rude, but you ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood died]]''. You died and then you were ''[[RetGone erased from time]]''. You didn't just die, you were ''never born at all''. You ''never existed''." Turns out, Rory doesn't have an answer either. He just died and became a Roman centurion. It's sort of distracting. He walks over to the sleeping Amy. [[DramaticIrony "Did she miss me?"]] Oh, Rory. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | There's a commotion above them before the Doctor can answer, and the sky above Stonehenge is filled with all kinds of alien spaceships. They're surrounded. The Doctor tells River to get the TARDIS to him, while he grabs the scanner and shouts into it. He addresses each and every single one of the starships: could they all stop whizzing about please, because "'''[[LargeHam I!]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern AM!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis TALKING!]]'''" Who has the Pandorica? He does, next question. Who's coming to take it? Look at him: |
| 55 | |
| 56 | ->'''The Doctor:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays No plans, no backup, no weapons worth a damn.]] Oh, and something else I don't have: Anything. To. Lose. So, if you're sitting up there with your silly little spaceships and your silly little guns and you've any plans on taking the Pandorica ''tonight''; just remember who's standing in your way. Remember every black day I ever stopped you. And then, [[ChewingTheScenery AND THEN]], do the smart thing. ''[{{beat}}]'' '''''Let somebody else try first.''''' |
| 57 | |
| 58 | The aliens must have dropped the VillainBall, because they all get the hell out. For half an hour, anyway, to decide who gets to take the first shot. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | On the TARDIS, River is having some problems. It's not dematerialising right, and it can't be controlled. |
| 61 | |
| 62 | Back to Stonehenge where Amy's waking up, she bumps into Rory and recognises him as the guy who... did the... swordy thing. The Doctor sends her up to get some fresh air. Rory is rather traumatised and angsts for a bit before the Doctor shuts him up and tosses him the ring. There's no explanation to this; Rory was eaten up by a crack in time and space and now he's here with a head full of Roman memories. It's unexplainable, and to be honest, rather distracting, but the universe is big and sometimes impossible things just happen and people call them miracles. The Doctor's never seen one, but this is close enough. Rory goes after Amy. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | The TARDIS and River have landed outside Amy's house on June 26th, 2010. However, the mainframe's screen is showing a mess of nothing. River goes out the door...and the screen cracks. Suddenly, we hear a creepy old man's voice coming from ''the screen itself'' as he announces this message... |
| 65 | |
| 66 | '''''[[ArcWords "SILENCE WILL FALL."]]''''' |
| 67 | |
| 68 | River exits the TARDIS and notices that the front door's been broken wide open and there are burn marks on the grass. In Amy's room, River finds a picture book of Romans and ''Pandora's Box''. They're exactly the same Roman soldiers from Stonehenge; maybe they're illusions, maybe they're cover-ups, but they were created from Amy's memories. Then she notices a photo of Amy and Rory together, the latter dressed as a centurion, and we realize that Rory is also a construct. |
| 69 | |
| 70 | Rory tries to get Amy to remember him. She's crying, but she doesn't know why. She's happy, but ''why'' is she happy? |
| 71 | |
| 72 | The TARDIS is still uncontrollable, the doors won't open and again that creepy voice from ''nowhere'' says "silence will fall". The Pandorica gives off a high-pitched whine and suddenly all the Romans stop, [[TomatoInTheMirror including Rory]]. A light comes from the Pandorica and when the Romans start up again, the ones underground are frog-marching the Doctor towards it. In reality, the Romans are perfected Autons, part of the Nestene consciousness, made to forget what they really were — until it was time. Rory's [[HumanityIsInfectious struggling to keep hold of his humanity]], while trying to get Amy away. "I'm Rory! I'm Rory! I'm Rory–" |
| 73 | |
| 74 | "–Williams. From Leadworth. My boyfriend. How could I ever forget you?" Oh, ''Amy''. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | Underground, Daleks have appeared, along with Cybermen, Judoon, Sontarans, etc. The Pandorica opens. It is ready. For what? For the Doctor. Above ground, Rory's lost his hold and shoots Amy while clinging to her. |
| 77 | |
| 78 | The aliens watch while the Doctor is dragged into the Pandorica. River re-wires the TARDIS. Amy dies. |
| 79 | |
| 80 | Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans; they've all [[LegionOfDoom formed an alliance against the Doctor]]. They have deduced that the cracks in time are threatening reality and erasing all other universes, and that they have spawned from the explosion of the TARDIS. They're here to save reality from the Doctor under the (false) logic that only he can pilot the TARDIS, shutting him in the Pandorica (while he shouts desperately) in hopes that the TARDIS won't explode without him around. Elsewhere in time and space, River opens the TARDIS doors to... a slab of concrete, as behind her the ship starts to explode. "[[TearJerker I'm sorry, my love.]]" The alliance has failed. We zoom out from Rory holding Amy's body, a shot of the Earth against stars and galaxies exploding until all fades out in a black void of nothingness– |
| 81 | |
| 82 | And then the [[SuddenSoundtrackStop background music stops]], mid-note. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | [[StealthPun Silence has fallen.]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | ---- |
| 87 | |
| 88 | [[center:'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang TO BE CONTINUED]]'''[[labelnote:note]]\ |
| 89 | Oh, and no "Next Time" trailer, either. Creator/StevenMoffat feeds on fear and anguish.[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 90 | |
| 91 | ---- |
| 92 | !!Tropes: |
| 93 | |
| 94 | * ActionPrologue: The prologue is over six thousand years of a painting travelling from Earth to the Doctor. The action kicks in when River Song is involved and breaks out of prison. |
| 95 | * AerithAndBob: Implied when Amy questions Rory's name. The other Romans presumably all have actual Roman name while Rory itself is a distinctly Gaelic name. |
| 96 | * AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Amy finds herself stroking Rory's face and can't understand why. |
| 97 | * AllThereInTheManual: Creator/StevenMoffat has said that the Cybermen seen in this episode, despite the fact that they have the Cybus logo on their chest, are actually the Mondasian Cybermen. The only reason they look that way is due to budget restraints. |
| 98 | * AndIMustScream: |
| 99 | ** Cyber-assimilation, according to the Doctor. |
| 100 | ** The fate intended for the occupant of the Pandorica is to be locked into a small cube forever. |
| 101 | * AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Amy thinks this is the case when the Doctor tries to remind her about Rory with his little speech about people "dropping out of the world", asking him if the "she" he lost was nice. The Doctor just decides to change tactics. |
| 102 | * ApocalypseHow: If the Alliance's predictions are to be believed, the history-erasing cracks in time will cause not just a ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 but a ''ApocalypseHow/ClassZ'' by deleting the main universe and every other universe. At the episode's very end, a severe ApocalypseHow/ClassX3 destroys every last star in the universe at every moment in history (essentially, every one of those stars are not only gone but retroactively never shone), leaving Earth floating alone in the void. |
| 103 | * ApologeticAttacker: Rory is forced to kill Amy, apologising all the time. |
| 104 | * ArcWords: "The Pandorica Opens" are wrapped up here, since it opens. |
| 105 | * ArmCannon: All of the Autons have them, and it's what Auton!Rory accidentally kills Amy with. |
| 106 | * ArtisticLicenceHistory: The Doctor correctly notes that Stonehenge was already ancient in 102 A.D., but fails to mention that it was a lot more complete, having been gradually quarried over the centuries until becoming a public site. Of course, rebuilding Stonehenge would have been beyond the show's budget. |
| 107 | * TheAssimilator: A Cyberman head tries to clamp around Amy and cyberize her. |
| 108 | * BackFromTheDead: Subverted. Rory has returned as an Auton doppelgänger with his memories. |
| 109 | * BadassBoast: Eleven delivers his best speech here, telling everyone fighting over the Pandorica to remember just how many times he's beaten each of them, and to do the smart thing; "Let someone else try first." |
| 110 | * BadassNormal: At first, Rory seems like this because of his impressive "swording" of a Cyberman and then volunteering with fifty of his own soldiers to secure the Pandorica. Then it turns out that he's actually an Auton... |
| 111 | * BaitAndSwitch: The Doctor spends the entire episode trying to figure out what's going to come out of the Pandorica. Then it turns out that it's opening so that something can go ''in''; namely, him. |
| 112 | * BatmanGambit: The villains spread rumours of the Pandorica across space and time to trick the Doctor into going there. "A trap the Doctor couldn't resist!" |
| 113 | * BatPhone: Churchill calls the Doctor, but the call gets diverted to River Song. |
| 114 | * BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: "I hate good wizards in fairy tales. They always turn out to be him." It's a CallBack to the Seventh Doctor story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]", where the Doctor was revealed to be Merlin. It may be worth noting at this point that the Doctor's fate at the end of the episode is quite similar to Merlin's (sealed in an impenetrable cave/castle of air/whatever for the whole of eternity) and may lead to thematically similar results (without Merlin, Arthur's Britain falls; without the Doctor, the universe will cease to exist). |
| 115 | * BigBad: The New Dalek Paradigm take a leading role in the LegionOfDoom that imprison the Doctor in the Pandorica, but the unseen GreaterScopeVillain responsible for the destruction of the TARDIS (and thus the disaster that the alliance of enemies is trying to prevent) is the mysterious Silence. |
| 116 | * BigDamnHeroes: Rory kills the Cyberman in the crypt in the nick of time to save Amy. |
| 117 | * BodyHorror: The Cyberman helmet trying to assimilate Amy shows her the skull of the previous occupant. |
| 118 | * BuffySpeak: |
| 119 | ** "Oh, you're the guy, yeah? The one who did the swordy thing." "Thanks for the swording, nice swording." |
| 120 | ** Rory also gets one, too: "... and then I was here, a Roman soldier, a proper Roman, head full of Roman... stuff." |
| 121 | * CallBack: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor Vincent van Gogh]] creates the painting with the coordinates, and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks Edwin Bracewell, Winston Churchill]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow Liz Ten]] help deliver it. |
| 122 | ** "Theta Sigma" is also a call back to his name at the Time Lord Academy, first being used in the episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E6TheArmageddonFactor The Armageddon Factor]]. |
| 123 | * CatchPhrase: No River Song episode is complete without "Hello, sweetie" (always in a place you would never expect to find it) and "Spoilers!" |
| 124 | * ChekhovsGun: The ring that's been mounted on the fireplace is finally fired. |
| 125 | * ChickMagnet: River sees a virtual StalkerShrine of Doctor dolls and toy [=TARDISes=] in Amy's room and wonders why she lets the Doctor out of her sight. |
| 126 | * CombatTentacles: A Cyberman head located outside the Pandorica has a bunch of wires which function for attack and entanglement. |
| 127 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: Rory, who had been erased from time, but came back as a Nestene copy with all Rory's memories, notices that the Doctor FailedASpotCheck. |
| 128 | -->'''The Doctor:''' I'm missing something obvious, Rory. Something right slap in front of me, I can feel it!\ |
| 129 | '''Rory:''' Yeah, I think you probably are.\ |
| 130 | '''The Doctor:''' Well, I'll get it in a minute. |
| 131 | * ComfortingComforter: Rory gets a bit jealous when he finds one of his soldiers gave Amy a blanket. |
| 132 | * ContinuityCavalcade: An awful lot of alien species are seen or mentioned among the LegionOfDoom. |
| 133 | * ContinuityNod: |
| 134 | ** The episode is a "direct sequel", according to Moffat, to every episode except "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]": |
| 135 | *** The episode, from the Doctor's perspective, takes place very shortly after "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger The Lodger]]". |
| 136 | *** The episode also takes place at around the same wibbly-wobbly time as "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice The Vampires of Venice]]". |
| 137 | *** Part of the episode takes place shortly after the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone Flesh and Stone]]". |
| 138 | *** The episode takes place ''before'' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone Flesh and Stone]]" from River's perspective. |
| 139 | *** The Atraxi ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]"), Paradigm Daleks ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks Victory of the Daleks]]") and Silurians ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E8TheHungryEarth The Hungry Earth]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood Cold Blood]]") are part of the Alliance. |
| 140 | *** Every episode has either been meeting message couriers, discovering cracks or Amy and Rory's relationship developing. All three things become incredibly important in this episode. |
| 141 | ** River gets a Vortex manipulator "fresh off the wrist of a handsome Time Agent" (the people Captain Jack used to work for). Except it's ''on'' the wrist, so not Jack himself (unless he got a new wrist). |
| 142 | ** The Doctor's Academy nickname, ΘΣ or Theta Sigma, first mentioned as far back as the Fourth Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E6TheArmageddonFactor The Armageddon Factor]]", is part of River's message. |
| 143 | ** The Underhenge's background music contains a lot of cues from the Cybermen stories of the Tenth Doctor. |
| 144 | ** The Doctor sonics a severed but animate arm to deactivate it, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose only to have it come back to life and attack him]]. At least this time he realises the possibility of it playing possum. |
| 145 | ** This time Rory is the one wielding a sword, unlike [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice last time]]. |
| 146 | ** The Doctor's speech to scare off the alien fleet is possibly what River [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble will be/was referring to]] when she talks about armies fleeing in his wake in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]". |
| 147 | ** This isn't the first time someone's yelled [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern "I! AM! TALKING!"]] ...only that time, the Doctor was the one being shouted at. |
| 148 | ** The Doctor's "No plans, no backup, no weapons worth a damn!" calls back to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf Bad Wolf]]" in Series 1. |
| 149 | ** For the supposed threat of ending the existence of the universe, the Doctor is kept imprisoned by [[EnemyMine all of his enemies]] who are afraid of him. In this respect, he has become, in the eyes of his enemies, a threat no better than '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime RASSILON HIMSELF]]'''. |
| 150 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels You should never put the Doctor in a trap.]] |
| 151 | ** The Doctor's fate resembles Merlin's (trapped forever in an impenetrable prison by someone who uses his own power against him). In the Seventh Doctor story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]", the Doctor turns out to ''be'' Merlin. He should have paid attention to the end of that particular story... |
| 152 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber Not the first time the TARDIS has exploded.]] |
| 153 | * ConvictionByCounterfactualClue: In-universe example: "Only the Doctor can pilot the TARDIS." |
| 154 | * CraniumChase: Amy finds a Cyberman head that still manages to be a threat thanks to CombatTentacles. After she gets some distance... |
| 155 | -->'''Cyberman:''' [[AC:[[TheAssimilator You will be assimilated.]]]]\ |
| 156 | '''Amy:''' [[YouAndWhatArmy You and whose body?]]\ |
| 157 | ''[[[TemptingFate the rest of the Cyberman walks in and picks up its head]]]'' |
| 158 | * DarkestHour: To catalogue: Amy is dead, Rory's the undead Auton who killed her, the Doctor's locked in the perfect prison, River's in the exploding TARDIS, the crack in Amy's wall is about to devour all of time and space and that's because these things are all true. It could only be worse if there were snakes in there. |
| 159 | * DeadlyHug: Auton-Rory does this to Amy, who refuses to flee despite his increasingly desperate warnings that he will kill her. He does, and with a [[ArmCannon hand gun]]. |
| 160 | * DeadpanSnarker: "Yeah, I think you probably are." |
| 161 | * DelayedReaction: "I'm not exactly one to miss the obvious..." and, a few seconds later, "Missing something obvious, Rory, something big, something right slap in front of me, I can feel it!" "Yeah, I think you probably are..." "I'll get it in a minute!" He does. And "it" is that the guy he's talking to ''died and was erased from time quite a while ago''. The look on his face is priceless. |
| 162 | * DidntSeeThatComing: The alliance believe that imprisoning the Doctor in the Pandorica would prevent the universe from being completely destroyed. They discover how very wrong they were instantly when the universe is wiped out. |
| 163 | * {{Dissimile}}: The Doctor uses one to explain what the Cybermen do: "It's just like being an organ donor, except you're alive and sort of... screaming." |
| 164 | * DoubleConsciousness: After getting swallowed by the crack, Rory woke up as a Roman centurion with both his own memories and "a whole other life" in the native time period. He was starting to think the Doctor and Amy were just a dream before they arrived. His Roman memories turn out to be Auton programming. |
| 165 | * DownerEnding: Amy is killed by Auton!Rory, River is trapped in the TARDIS as it explodes, causing the time cracks which lead to the end of the universe, and the Doctor can't do anything about any of this because he's just been locked in the cosmos' best prison. |
| 166 | * DramaticDrop: The Doctor walks away from Rory carrying two Cyber guns. A clatter is heard from offscreen before he walks back in, it having dawned on him who he was just speaking to. |
| 167 | * DynamicEntry: Rory's BigDamnHeroes. |
| 168 | * EldritchAbomination: The Pandorica was built to hold "a nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies". It's [[HumanoidAbomination the Doctor]] himself. |
| 169 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The end of the episode — the whole universe has been {{retgone}}d. |
| 170 | * EvilVersusOblivion: Several of the Doctor's greatest enemies have teamed up to save the universe and all of time and space from being destroyed, because obviously that includes them. Unfortunately for the Doctor, however, he's the one they believe will be responsible for said apocalypse. |
| 171 | * FaceFramedInShadow: Rory's first appearance. |
| 172 | * FailedASpotCheck: The Doctor addresses Rory by name twice and walks out of the room before he realizes Rory's inexplicably come BackFromTheDead. |
| 173 | -->'''The Doctor:''' I'm missing something obvious, Rory, something right slap in front of me, I can feel it!\ |
| 174 | '''Rory:''' Yeah, I think you probably are.\ |
| 175 | '''The Doctor:''' Well, I'll get it in a minute. ''[walks out of the room carrying two Cyber guns]''\ |
| 176 | ''[a loud clatter is heard from outside]''\ |
| 177 | '''The Doctor:''' ''[slowly walks back into the room, staring at Rory, and pokes him in the chest]''\ |
| 178 | ''[Rory rocks back on his heels from the poke]''\ |
| 179 | '''The Doctor:''' ...Hello again. |
| 180 | * ForegoneConclusion: River has favourable memories of the events pertaining to the Pandorica, as established in each of the two stories we've seen connected to her. Then again, this is ''Doctor Who''; Timey-Wimey and all that... |
| 181 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 182 | ** The Doctor notices something's oddly coincidental when he finds out that PandorasBox was Amy's favourite book, and Roman history was Amy's favourite school subject. |
| 183 | ** The fact that the half-disassembled Cyberman attacks Amy and the Doctor in an attempt to assimilate them, yet hadn't done so to any of the Roman troops who'd been camped nearby, is an early sign that the Romans are plastic, not flesh. |
| 184 | ** Subverted when River complains that "the good wizard" in the stories is always the Doctor. Turns out he's the evil trickster that drops out of the sky and destroys your world. |
| 185 | * FreezeFrameBonus: The Doctor mimes a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone nose]] very quickly, after informing Amy that if something’s remembered it can come back. |
| 186 | * FridgeLogic: "Does it ever bother you, Amy, that your life doesn't make any sense?", for an InUniverse example. |
| 187 | %% For out-of-universe FridgeLogic, see Headscratchers/DoctorWhoSeries5. |
| 188 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: During the Doctor's phone call with River, while she's at Amy's house, you can see a Roman briefly wielding the Cyberman's weapon, trying to look badass. Several of them, in fact. As the scene continues, it's clear that they've lined up to have their turn at it. |
| 189 | * GodGuise: Variant. River masquerades as Cleopatra to get the aid of the Romans. The commander is unfortunately out of the camp when she arrives and only returns shortly before she does. |
| 190 | * GoMadFromTheRevelation: {{Implied}} to be what happened to poor Vincent van Gogh - he had a vision of [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ all of reality collapsing in on itself]] and it was too much for him. |
| 191 | * GreenEyedMonster: Rory wants to know which Roman gave Amy her blanket. |
| 192 | * HeroicWillpower: Rory uses this to fight his Auton programing. He lasts much longer than the other Autons, but the ArmCannon comes out regardless. |
| 193 | * HiddenVillain: Even though we know they caused the cracks by destroying the TARDIS, the BigBad isn't revealed until [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor Eleven's regeneration episode]]. |
| 194 | * HopeSpot: The aliens were scared off by the Doctor's BadassBoast! Rory's been brought back! And then things ''really'' start taking a turn for the worse. |
| 195 | * HollywoodTorches: Which the Doctor lights with his sonic screwdriver. |
| 196 | * HumanityEnsues: Auton-Rory is the only one to fight his programming. |
| 197 | * InternalHomage: |
| 198 | ** The new race of realistic "autonomous Autons", with emotions and memories, first appeared in the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS2E3BraveNewTown Brave New Town]]". |
| 199 | ** Roman Britain, with aliens including a Dalek, and a BadFuture seems based off "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear Seasons of Fear]]". This becomes more prevalent in the next episode. |
| 200 | * IronicEcho: |
| 201 | ** Variation — the message relayed by the one-off heroes at the beginning turns out to have been sent by the LegionOfDoom pretending to respond to it. |
| 202 | ** According to River, the Doctor usually turns out to be "the good wizard". Turns out that this time he's the "goblin" of the story. Like in the story, he's tricked. |
| 203 | * InstantSedation: Averted; Amy takes a long time to go down after being hit with a tranquilliser, and feels significant effects before she does so. |
| 204 | * {{Irony}}: The Doctor makes a big, grandiose speech to all the alien spaceships, telling them that if they want the Pandorica, they have to get through him, and reminding them of all the times he beat them. It turns out that the aliens weren't after the Pandorica at all, and it was instead a trap set by them to imprison The Doctor. Bet that speech doesn't seem so grand now. |
| 205 | * KansasCityShuffle: The entire legend of the Pandorica is just a cover story for the villain alliance's plan to lure the Doctor to the Pandorica and trap him inside. [[WellIntentionedExtremist By doing this, they aim to stop the cracks destroying the universe.]] |
| 206 | * LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: Stonehenge is an X that marks the Pandorica. If you were to bury the most dangerous thing in the universe, you'd want to remember where you put it. |
| 207 | * LargeHam: The Doctor's BadassBoast speech is loud, dramatic and ''awesome''. |
| 208 | -->'''The Doctor:''' Could you lot just stay still for a minute 'cos [[PunctuatedForEmphasis IIIII! AAAAAAAMM! TAAALKIIIIING!]] |
| 209 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: June 26, 2010, the date of the explosion that caused the cracks in time and space, is the airdate of the next episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang The Big Bang]]". |
| 210 | * LegionOfDoom: The Daleks, Cybermen, the Sontarans, the Judoon, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters the Hoix]], [[Series/{{Torchwood}} the Weevils, the Blowfish]], [[Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures the Uvodni]], [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion the Sycorax]], the Silurians, the Autons and Nestenes, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour the Atraxi]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation the Terileptils]], the Draconians, [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride the Roboforms]], the Zygons, the Slitheen, the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E1Galaxy4 Drahvin]] and the Chelonians (from the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]]) have all joined forces to attempt to prevent the explosion of the TARDIS and thus TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt by imprisoning the Doctor in the Pandorica. It also counts as an EnemyMine for the Daleks and Cybermen in regards to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday Doomsday]]". Of note is that the Atraxi, Weevils, Uvodni and the Blowfish are merely easily-missed extras in crowd shots, and the Terileptils, Draconians, Drahvin, Chelonians and Slitheen only "appear" as name-checks by River, leaving the the Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Judoon, Hoix, Sycorax, Silurians, Autons and Roboforms to be the most prominent members. |
| 211 | * LookADistraction: The Doctor and Amy both do this in turn to draw the Cyber-arm's fire. "LOOK AT ME! I'M A TARGET!" |
| 212 | * LosingYourHead: The decapitated Cyberman spends most of the episode trying to regain its head. |
| 213 | * ManchurianAgent: The Romans are actually Autons programmed to think they're human, including Rory. They're so well-programmed that they even respond to River's lipstick. |
| 214 | * NotNowWereTooBusyCryingOverYou: The episode makes an OverlyLongGag out of the Doctor completely failing to make the connection that the person he's talking to is Rory, a companion he had mourned the loss of in a previous episode. He ends up being just a simulacrum of Rory, but one that seems to have Rory's soul. |
| 215 | -->'''The Doctor:''' No, I'm missing something obvious, Rory, something big, something right slap in front of me, I can feel it... \ |
| 216 | '''Rory:''' Yeah, I think you probably are.\ |
| 217 | '''The Doctor:''' I'll get it in a minute.\ |
| 218 | ''[after the Doctor has exited and then re-entered the room]''\ |
| 219 | '''The Doctor:''' Hello again.\ |
| 220 | '''Rory:''' Hello. |
| 221 | * NotUsingTheZWord: Just like in their [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose only previous appearance]] in the revival series, the Autons are never referred to as Autons. Them being controlled by the Nestene Consciousness is mentioned, but not their name. |
| 222 | * NothingIsScarier: Never have the words "silence will fall" been more scary. Even the background music stops. Earlier in the episode, we suddenly hear "silence will fall" spoken by a hideous, rasping voice out of nowhere, just before the TARDIS is hijacked. The source of the sound, and hence the source of the tampering, is never shown. |
| 223 | * ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: The Doctor tells us of the legend of the being trapped inside the Pandorica: "There was a goblin. Or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it — one day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world." The Doctor doesn't seem to realise that sounds exactly like what his enemies would describe him as. |
| 224 | * OhCrap: |
| 225 | ** River as she watches the TARDIS exploding. |
| 226 | *** She wrenches the TARDIS doors open, as the BBC orchestra play a triumphant high note. Only to find a concrete wall in her way. Biggest OhCrap moment ever. |
| 227 | ** The Doctor has one as well when the Alliance reveal that they truly did make the Pandorica to trap what they consider the most dangerous being in creation: '''Him'''. |
| 228 | ** Dorium, the black market salesman in the beginning, when River Song reveals that she drugged his drink with micro-explosives. |
| 229 | * OpeningShoutOut: The scene of River flying the TARDIS through the Vortex while dodging lighting strikes. |
| 230 | * PaintingTheMedium: A favourite of Moffat's: in the last few seconds of the episode ''[[MusicalisInterruptus even the BGM stops]]''. "''Silence''... will fall." |
| 231 | * PlayingTheHeartStrings: As the LegionOfDoom marches the Doctor into the Pandorica, only the [[SoundtrackDissonance swelling strings]] can be heard. |
| 232 | * PoisonAndCureGambit: River puts micro-explosives into a dealer's wine and then offers him the detonator to trade for her black-market Vortex manipulator. |
| 233 | * PreemptiveDeclaration: |
| 234 | -->'''Dorium Maldovar:''' What kind of micro-explosives? ''[takes a drink]''\ |
| 235 | '''River:''' The kind I just put in your wine. |
| 236 | * RealAfterAll: The Pandorica is no fairy tale. The intergalactic coalition uses the myth of the Pandorica to trick the Doctor into finding it, so they can trap them. Then they place the Doctor inside, effectively making the myth true. |
| 237 | * RealFakeDoor: When River opens the TARDIS doors from the inside, revealing the concrete wall. |
| 238 | * RevengeBeforeReason: The Alliance is too busy locking the Doctor away to listen to him explaining why locking him in the Pandorica is a bad idea. |
| 239 | * RoboticReveal: Rory and the other Romans are revealed to be Autons when they react to the signal and produce [[ArmCannon handguns]]. |
| 240 | * RocksFallEveryoneDies: It certainly looks that way at the end when the stars explode. |
| 241 | * RunningGag: "Hello, sweetie." |
| 242 | * SealedEvilInACan: The Doctor investigates the eponymous Pandorica, which is advertised as containing the most feared being in the universe and is starting to open. It's empty. The Pandorica was created by [[LegionOfDoom a coalition of the Doctor's enemies]] to trap him inside, because they believe he will destroy the universe, and it's opening so that they can put him in — due to time travel, he has arrived before the myth started. The Doctor is predictably fascinated; "What could be so dangerous?" |
| 243 | * SealedGoodInACan: Although from the point of view of those sealing the can, they're sealing an evil. |
| 244 | * ShipperOnDeck: The Doctor throws the engagement ring to Rory and tells him to go get the girl. |
| 245 | * ShoutOut: |
| 246 | ** The "oldest text in the universe" that River uses to communicate with the Doctor near the beginning sounds very similar in the Doctor's description to God's Final Message to His Creation from ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish''. [[note]]although in the book they're only 30 feet high[[/note]] Especially since, thanks to Creator/DouglasAdams being a ''Doctor Who'' writer and script editor, there's already been a fair amount of crossover and cross-pollination. |
| 247 | *** It could also be a shout-out to the [[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures spin-off novel]] ''Set Piece'', where one of the Doctor's companions uses the same trick to arrange a rescue after being stranded in Ancient Egypt. |
| 248 | ** The Cyberman head crawling along on tentacles is straight out of ''Film/TheThing1982'' or the facehuggers in ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''. It's also reminiscent of Brainiac's head fighting for life in the fabled ComicBook/{{Superman}} story "ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow". |
| 249 | ** The knockout dart the Cyberman head fires at Amy looks [[Film/AttackOfTheClones familiar]]... |
| 250 | ** The Cyberman head saying "You will be assimilated" to Amy is a nod to the arguments about whether [[Franchise/StarTrek the Borg]] was copied from the classic Cybermen and whether the new series Cybermen were overly influenced by the Borg. |
| 251 | ** The Cyberman re-attaching its head is very similar to a scene in ''Film/TheFaculty'' or a certain death-scene from the game ''Franchise/DeadSpace''. |
| 252 | ** The idea of agents/replicants who do not know their true nature and, on a signal, activate their attack goes back to ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'' (hence the ManchurianAgent trope) and ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' (Rory's shock as he activates and tries to march off is similar to the TomatoInTheMirror Cylons). |
| 253 | ** The various ships zoom around Stonehenge like the alien ships around Devil's Tower in ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''. |
| 254 | * SkywardScream: The Doctor calling out to every monster in the sky: "'''I. AM. TALKING!'''" |
| 255 | * SoundtrackDissonance: A beautifully tranquil version of Amy's theme plays in the episode's final scene as Amy dies in Rory's arms, the Doctor is sealed in the Pandorica, River fails to prevent the TARDIS from exploding, and the universe ends. |
| 256 | * SpyCatsuit: River, breaking into the Royal Collection, wears a tight black outfit that shows off her cleavage. |
| 257 | * StableTimeLoop: The Alliance creates the Pandorica based on a book Amy read, which recounts the myth of PandorasBox. Since the Pandorica is shown to transmit its signal to all time periods, it's implied to be the original inspiration for the myth. |
| 258 | * SubvertedTrope: Count 'em. |
| 259 | ** BackFromTheDead, DeathIsCheap: Nope, that's not the real Rory. |
| 260 | ** EvilVersusEvil: Looks like the LegionOfDoom's been just fooling the Doctor with their fleet. |
| 261 | ** RealAfterAll: The Doctor has passed off the Pandorica as a fairy tale, now he sees the real thing. Except it actually ''is'' just a fairy tale, and this one has been created by the allied villains as both the trap and bait for him. |
| 262 | ** SealedEvilInACan was actually Sealed Nothing in a Can and a BatmanGambit. Although the Alliance are attempting to seal someone they see as an evil being into the sturdiest can they can make. |
| 263 | ** BadassBoast: The boast, while awesome, didn't really make the Legion of Evil Aliens flee, they just flew off to argue about who would get to take the first shot. Then the extra reveal: they weren't even arguing. They wanted the Doctor near the Pandorica. It was all according to plan. |
| 264 | ** VillainousRescue: Hohoho, they think they're saving the universe. [[UnwittingPawn They're not.]] [[DoubleSubversion As of the next episode, they actually did.]] Just not as they intended. |
| 265 | ** HeroicWillpower: Auton!Rory can't stop himself from killing Amy. |
| 266 | * SuddenSoundtrackStop: "Silence will fall" because the universe has just ended and the musicians no longer exist, that's why. |
| 267 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Commander Stark for [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem General Staal]]. Completely justified, as the Sontarans are a clone race, but it's still only the third time in the entire series, old or new, that the same actor has been brought back to play a different Sontaran. Since the Sontarans only appeared in four classic-series stories, it's even more justified. |
| 268 | * SympatheticPOV: When all of the alien species conspire together to put the Doctor in the Pandorica, it shows us that, from their POV, the Doctor is the bad guy, whereas we've always seen him as the good guy who always defeats the evil aliens. |
| 269 | * TailorMadePrison: The Pandorica has every form of security, from time stops and deadlocks to matter lines. Layers upon layers of it to hold the single most dangerous being in all the universe. |
| 270 | * TearsOfJoy: Amy cries once Rory names himself to her, and she has no idea why she's so happy. |
| 271 | * ThisIsMyBoomstick: River awes the Romans this way. |
| 272 | -->'''River:''' When you fight barbarians, what must they think of you?\ |
| 273 | '''Roman Commander:''' Riddles now?\ |
| 274 | '''River:''' Where do they think you come from?\ |
| 275 | '''Roman Commander:''' ''[draws sword]'' A place more deadly and more powerful and more ''impatient'' than their tiny minds can imagine.\ |
| 276 | '''River:''' ''[pulls out a blaster and disintegrates a table]'' Where do I come from? |
| 277 | * TimeTravelTenseTrouble: |
| 278 | -->'''Amy:''' Okay, this Pandorica thing. Last time we saw you, you warned us about it, after we climbed out of the ''Byzantium''.\ |
| 279 | '''River:''' Spoilers!\ |
| 280 | '''Amy:''' No, but you told the Doctor you'd see him again when the Pandorica opens.\ |
| 281 | '''River:''' Maybe I did. But I haven't yet. But I will have. |
| 282 | * TitleDrop: Two. |
| 283 | ** ''The Pandorica Opens'' is the title of Vincent's painting. |
| 284 | ** The instance quoted above in TimeTravelTenseTrouble. |
| 285 | * TomatoInTheMirror: Rory is not the human Amy and the Doctor travelled with. He's an Auton. |
| 286 | * TookALevelInBadass: |
| 287 | ** Rory is no longer making a fool out of himself when he tries to fight. Now he's a Roman centurion, a proper Roman, filled with "Roman stuff" who can bring down a Cyberman! With a sword. |
| 288 | ** The Nestene Consciousness also applies, as it's now capable of creating fully lifelike Autons that can fool humans. The ExpandedUniverse also makes claim to the Nestene being the leader of the Alliance, meaning it managed to corral the likes of the Daleks and the Cybermen into an EnemyMine. |
| 289 | * UnwittingPawn: Vincent, Churchill and River Song unknowingly aid the villain alliance's KansasCityShuffle to trap the Doctor along with the Doctor himself. River again, and potentially the villains themselves, for the as-yet-unrevealed real BigBad. |
| 290 | * VictoriasSecretCompartment: In the jail scene, look carefully where River takes her hallucinogenic lipstick out from. |
| 291 | * VictoryThroughIntimidation: Subverted. The Doctor's epic speech seems to work, but it turns out that his enemies are luring him into a trap. |
| 292 | * VillainTeamUp: Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Autons and several other evil and aggressive aliens want to prevent the Doctor from destroying the universe. Hence the Alliance. |
| 293 | * WhamEpisode: Rory's an Auton, Amy's dead, River's stuck in the TARDIS, the Doctor's sealed inside the greatest prison in the universe, and the universe has ended. |
| 294 | * WhoWillBellTheCat: The Doctor points this out in his speech; he's defeated all of them, time and again, so who wants to take a shot first? |
| 295 | * YouAndWhatArmy: Or, rather, "You and whose body?" Cue the rest of the Cyberman's body walking out of a side room. |
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