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** Throughout this episode and the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature previous one]], the song "He Who Would Valiant Be" is sung. One of the lines from this song is "Follow the master".
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->''"Who am I then? Nothing...? I'm just a story?"''
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->''"Who am I I, then? Nothing...? I'm just a story?"''
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->''"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them."''
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'''Tenth Doctor Era'''\\
'''Series 3:''' [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride CS]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones 1]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E3Gridlock 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan 4]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks 5]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment 6]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 7]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature 8]] | '''9''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink 10]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia 11]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums 12]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords 13]]\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion <<< Series 2]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Series 4 >>>]]''']]-]]]
!The Family of Blood
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'''Tenth Doctor Era'''\\
'''Series 3:''' [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride CS]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones 1]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E3Gridlock 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan 4]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks 5]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment 6]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 7]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature 8]] | '''9''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink 10]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia 11]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums 12]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords 13]]\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion <<< Series 2]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Series 4 >>>]]''']]-]]]
!The Family of Blood
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->Written by Creator/PaulCornell\\
Directed by Charles Palmer\\
'''Production code:''' 3.9\\
'''Air date:''' 2 June 2007\\
'''Part 2 of 2'''
Directed by Charles Palmer\\
'''Production code:''' 3.9\\
'''Air date:''' 2 June 2007\\
'''Part 2 of 2'''
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'''Original air date:''' June 2, 2007
'''Production code:''' 3.9
'''Production code:''' 3.9
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Written by Creator/PaulCornell. Continued from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature Human Nature]]".
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* CoverIdentityAnomaly: As Joan gets more and more suspicious of John Smith, she asks him to tell her about his childhood. It all falls apart as while John can "recall" his parents and where he grew up, he can only recite dry facts, not personal details, like where he might've played as a child.
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* IHatePastMe: The more John learns about the Doctor, the more he is appalled by him.
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* ChildSoldiers: The children at the school are armed with an array of machine guns and facing a very powerful enemy. When they realise they only shot down scarecrows, even the nastiest bully is relieved. Then it hits you that it's only one year later that some of those school kids are crawling through barbed wire and bullets.
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* ChildSoldiers: The children at the school are armed with an array of machine guns and facing a very powerful enemy. When they realise they only shot down scarecrows, even the nastiest bully is relieved. Then it hits you that it's only one year later that some of those school kids are will be crawling through barbed wire and bullets.
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[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia Not much later]], the Gallifreyan technique to hide in human form will become important again. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon Much later]], though...
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* UngratefulBitch: Joan towards the Doctor, despite everything he did to help save the day in the end.
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** Son of Mine has a disturbingly lopsided one that seems to be permanently plastered on his face throughout practically the entire episode.
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** Son of Mine has a disturbingly lopsided one that seems to be permanently plastered on his face throughout practically the entire episode. episode, and it doesn't change even when he's shouting.
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[[AwfulTruth "–Is that how he]] ''[[AwfulTruth talks?]]''[[AwfulTruth " John asks in utter horror]], realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.
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[[AwfulTruth "–Is that how he]] ''[[AwfulTruth he ]]''[[AwfulTruth talks?]]''[[AwfulTruth " John asks in utter horror]], realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.
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[[AwfulTruth "–Is that how he]] ''[[AwfulTruth talks]]''[[AwfulTruth ?" John asks in utter horror]], realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.
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[[AwfulTruth "–Is that how he]] ''[[AwfulTruth talks]]''[[AwfulTruth ?" talks?]]''[[AwfulTruth " John asks in utter horror]], realizing fully that this Doctor is ''real'', and inside him, and that he needs to make the most horrible decision of his life.
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* GoodIsNotNice: The Doctor's punishments for the Family: Father of Mine is bound in unbreakable chains and thrown down a deep shaft, Mother of Mine is jettisoned into a collapsing galaxy, Daughter of Mine is trapped inside a mirror, ''every'' mirror, and Son of Mine is immobilised and used as a scarecrow. All this is ''after'' the Doctor [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor granted them their wish to never die]]. Remember, the Doctor will give you one chance; fail to take it, and suffer his wrath.
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* GoodIsNotNice: GoodIsNotSoft: The Doctor's punishments for the Family: Father of Mine is bound in unbreakable chains and thrown down a deep shaft, Mother of Mine is jettisoned into a collapsing galaxy, Daughter of Mine is trapped inside a mirror, ''every'' mirror, and Son of Mine is immobilised and used as a scarecrow. All this is ''after'' the Doctor [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor granted them their wish to never die]]. Remember, the Doctor will give you one chance; fail to take it, and suffer his wrath.
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* HiddenDepths: The Headmaster, who is revealed not simply to be bleating on about how WarIsGlorious from a position of ignorance — he ''knows'' how awful it can be, and believes in fighting anyway.
** He also catches on to the fact that one of those is possessed by the Family of Blood (in this case Baines/Son of Mine) faster than more or less anyone else, remarking that "You speak with someone else's voice, Baines. Who might that be?" And this, mark you, from someone who is not disposed to believe in the supernatural.
** He also catches on to the fact that one of those is possessed by the Family of Blood (in this case Baines/Son of Mine) faster than more or less anyone else, remarking that "You speak with someone else's voice, Baines. Who might that be?" And this, mark you, from someone who is not disposed to believe in the supernatural.
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* HiddenDepths: The Headmaster, who is who's revealed to not simply to be bleating on about how WarIsGlorious from a position of ignorance — he ''knows'' how awful it can be, and believes in fighting anyway.
** He also catches on to the fact that one of those is possessed by the Family of Blood (in this case Baines/Son of Mine) faster than more or less anyone else, remarking that "You speak with someone else's voice, Baines. Who might that be?" And this, mark you, from someonewho is who's not disposed to believe in the supernatural.
** He also catches on to the fact that one of those is possessed by the Family of Blood (in this case Baines/Son of Mine) faster than more or less anyone else, remarking that "You speak with someone else's voice, Baines. Who might that be?" And this, mark you, from someone
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'''Rocastle:''' [[RetiredBadass Don't you forget, boy, I've been a soldier.]] [[UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar I was in South Africa]], [[TheDeterminator I used my dead mates as sandbags, I fought with the butt of my rifle when the bullets ran out]], and I would go back there tomorrow ''[[PatrioticFervor for King and country]]''!\\
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'''Rocastle:''' [[RetiredBadass Don't you forget, boy, I've been a soldier.]] [[UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar I was in South Africa]], [[TheDeterminator [[{{Determinator}} I used my dead mates as sandbags, I fought with the butt of my rifle when the bullets ran out]], and I would go back there tomorrow ''[[PatrioticFervor for King and country]]''!\\
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* RecklessPacifist: Downplayed; while the Doctor’s attempt to be “kind” and let the Family die naturally ends up being futile and leads to more deaths and wreaks more havoc in people’s lives than if he had simply defeated them in the first place. That being said, they did make the choice to come after him.
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* RecklessPacifist: Downplayed; while the Doctor’s attempt to be “kind” and let the Family die naturally ends up being futile and leads to more deaths and wreaks more havoc in people’s lives than if he had simply defeated them in the first place. That being said, they did ''did'' make the choice to come after him.
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* RuleOfScary: There's no practical reason for the Doctor to hand out such CoolAndUnusualPunishment in the end. He could have just killed them (that would have been the practical thing to do), or he could have used the same punishment on all of them. As it is, this trope allows the writers to scare us with common everyday things, as they like to do: ''When you're standing in front of a mirror and see something move, that's Daughter of Mine trapped in there forever. Son of Mine gets stuck suspended in time as a scarecrow on a lonely hill.''
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* RuleOfScary: There's no practical reason for the Doctor to hand out such a CoolAndUnusualPunishment in the end. He could have just killed them (that would have been the practical thing to do), or he could have used the same punishment on all of them. As it is, this trope allows the writers to scare us with common everyday things, as they like to do: ''When you're standing in front of a mirror and see something move, that's Daughter of Mine trapped in there forever. Son of Mine gets stuck suspended in time as a scarecrow on a lonely hill.''
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Still frightened and confused, John quizzes Martha on the Doctor, and is horrified by her description: a tremendously lonely alien, the sole survivor of the universe's greatest holocaust, as remote and inhuman as a force of nature, who — for all his careful planning — never even considered that he might fall in ''love'' while hiding among humans.
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Still frightened and confused, John quizzes Martha on the Doctor, and is horrified by her description: a tremendously lonely alien, the sole survivor SoleSurvivor of the universe's greatest holocaust, as remote and inhuman as a force of nature, who — for all his careful planning — never even considered that he might fall in ''love'' while hiding among humans.
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[[caption-width-right:330:Huh, walking scarecrows?... [[Literature/{{Goosebumps}} must be midnight]]...]]
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* ImagineSpot: It's ambiguous, because it's Time Lord technology, but when John takes Joan's hand with the Time Lord watch, he sees their life together, a long and full life with children and grandchildren, finally dying of old age with all his family safe.
