Line #8 Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E3E4EyeOfTheGorgon


1	A mysterious nun haunts the residents of the local nursing home. It soon turns out that an entire sisterhood serves under an old famous mythical beast...
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3	!!Tropes
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5	* AncientAstronauts: The Gorgons of Greek myth.
6	* BigDamnHeroes: Maria shows up at the climax and uses Bea's mirror to block the transfer and send the snake entities back at the Gorgon.
7	* BitchInSheepsClothing: The nuns are generally outright evil, but when Alan walks up to one of them, she switches to what the script calls “Creator/JulieAndrews mode”.
8	* ContinuityNod:
9	** Bea Nelson-Stanley, who was an AdventurerArchaeologist in her younger days, recalls having encountered the Sontarans among other alien races.
10	** Clyde jokes that he'll never grow old because someday, he'll be able to transplant his brain into a robot. Sarah Jane responds with an exasperated sigh, likely thinking about the Cybermen.
11	** Chrissie Jackson's taxi had an advert on it for Henrik's - the store Rose worked at in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]".
12	* DramaticIrony: Alan reckons he would look good as a Greek statue.
13	* IWasQuiteALooker: Mrs Randall claims this.
14	* ItWasHereISwear: Chrissie returns to Sarah's house right after Alan is released from the petrification, none the wiser, protesting that Sarah has gotten carried away by making a statue of Alan, but now that he has changed back to normal, she cannot incriminate his neighbour for this, finally giving up.
15	* LightIsNotGood: Oh, so very much.
16	* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: Luke in the cellar full of gardening tools.
17	* MythologyGag:
18	** There's only one person a ''Series/DoctorWho'' fan will be thinking of when Luke says "I need a screwdriver."
19	** The Gorgon Medusa is defeated with a mirror. [[DontExplainTheJoke It's a Greek Mythology gag.]]
20	* NoodleIncident: Edgar had a run-in with the Sontarans at some point.
21	* RetiredBadass: Judging by her moment of lucidity, Bea Nelson-Stanley must have been a force to be reckoned with in her younger years.
22	* ShoutOut:
23	** A nun threatens to show how her boss will "[[Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic solve a problem like Maria]]."
24	** There is a mention of the 1964 movie ''Film/TheGorgon'' starring Creator/ChristopherLee, Creator/BarbaraShelley, and Creator/PatrickTroughton. The mention of the latter also makes it a MythologyGag.
25	** When she finds the 'statue of Alan', Chrissie refers to Sarah Jane as a '[[Film/FatalAttraction bunny boiler]]'.
26	** When she realises Maria doesn't know the connection between mirrors and gorgons, she rolls her eyes and murmurs [[Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe "what do they teach them in schools these days?"]]
27	* StalkerShrine: Chrissie mistakes her petrified ex-husband for one of these when she sees him standing in Sarah Jane's living room.
28	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Bea has dementia, not some alien effect. She has a moment of lucidity but the Gorgon's amulet cannot magically cure her, only give her something to anchor her memories to. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments But that's not nothing.]]
29	* TakenForGranite: Several {{Innocent Bystander}}s, one alien collaborator and Alan; though luckily for Alan, the process hadn't finished so he got better. Also [[spoiler:the gorgon]].
30	* TheXOfY
31	* YouWatchTooMuchX: The nun's response when Clyde guesses she has tentacles under her habit. It turns out that the nuns are ordinary humans brainwashed into helping parasitic aliens.

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