History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWho064TheNextLife

** The Doctor asks if a shapeshifting being can turn into a [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguin]], saying [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsTheMaltesePenguin he's always liked penguins]].

* AlienLunch: The Doctor is served a dish of jungle bugs. He ''loves'' it.

* TheChessmaster: Rassilon.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Charley in the last episode admits she is this.
* ColdHam: Guidance. Comes with being played by Creator/PaulDarrow.

* DismantledMacGuffin: Two halves of a single amulet.
* DoomMagnet: The Doctor's tendency to get into trouble gets called out on.
* DrivenToSuicide: Perfection, a long time ago. You probably would be too, if you were hitched to Keep.
* EgomaniacHunter: Keep.
* EvilVsEvil: By the end 3 sides. Rassilon, Keep and Zagreus.
* EvilLaugh: Rassilon gives one at the end of episode 5.
* EurekaMoment
* FemmeFatale: Perfection.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith
* GambitPileup
* GenderBender: Zagreus.
* GiantEnemyCrab
* GoldDigger: Perfection will readily admit it.
* GrandFinale: For ''the entire plot'' since [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho016StormWarning "Storm Warning"]].

* GroundhogDayLoop: On a universal scale.
* HealingFactor: The Keep

* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame
* INeverToldYouMyName: Is how the Doctor finds out TheReveal.

* TheLoad: Kro'Ak reveals that this is how C'rizz thinks of himself.
* LotusEaterMachine
* [[LukeIAmYourFather C'rizz, I Am Your Father]]: Though C'rizz himself is already aware of this, and this is only a surprise to the audience.
* MindScrewdriver

* [[TheNameIsBondJamesBond Pollard, Charley Pollard]]

* NeverSmileAtACrocodile
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine
* OffTheRails

* OutGambitted: The Divergence / The Keep are more clever than Rassilon. [[GroundHogDayLoop 84 times so far.]]
* PlayingBothSides: Rassilon.
* PullTheThread: C'rizz does this to figure out where he is.
* QuicksandSucks
* TheScottishTrope: The Doctor invokes the play again. As does Rassilon.

* TitleDrop
* UnholyMatrimony: Keep and Zagreus, at the end.

* TheWatson / TheChick: Charley demonstrates how one is ''ought'' to go "Doctor! Doctor, what's HAPPENING Doctor!?"

* WeHaveReserves: [[ObviouslyEvil The Keep]] thinks this of the porters.
* WickedCultured: Rassilon quotes Shakespeare.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Perfection to the Doctor. She's pretty and all, but he's just not in the mood. Taken UpToEleven when he realises she's Zagreus.

* {{Yandere}}: C'rizz seems to think this about Charley, since he accuses her of being a "bunny boiler", despite having only just learned what a bunny is in ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho063Caerdroia Caerdroia]]''. Maybe he watched ''FatalAttraction'' on the [=TARDIS=] some time.

* ColdHam: Guidance. Comes with being played by Paul Darrow.

* ActorSharedBackground The Doctor has an excellent knowledge of Liverpool FC - [[Creator/PaulMcGann Paul McGann]] is a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUZQWQOvG4 lifelong Liverpool supporter]].

* ArtifactTitle: The Doctor's "everlasting matches" only last for about 3 minutes, according to Charley.

* [[LukeIAmYourFather C'rizz, I Am Your Father]]

* WeakWilled: It's finally revealed why C'rizz never seemed to have much of a personality. His identity is as chameleonic as his skin. Completely PlayedForDrama.

* NotSoDifferent: The Keep is what Charley and the Doctor could have turned into if they hadn't undone their FusionDance in [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho052Scherzo Scherzo]].

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between the Doctor and Perfection. Subverted; she was Zagreus all along, trying to manipulate him with his/her newly acquired feminine wiles. And he knew it from almost the moment they met, so, assuming he's not the type to enjoy being propositioned by sapient anti-time viruses that pretty much only just got done possessing him, he was probably pretending to be into her so she wouldn't realize she'd been found out.

This episode marks the end of the Divergent Universe arc, as well as the end of the Zagreus arc. Released in December of 2004, it was also the very last episode in which Paul [=McGann=] was the incumbent Doctor - between this and his next episode, the series would return and introduce Creator/ChristopherEccleston his successor.

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!Tropes:

--> '''Charley''': "We're home then?"
--> '''Daleks''': " YOU ARE THE DOC-TOR!"
--> '''Davros''': "Ah, Doctor. Welcome back. I've... ''We've'' been waiting for you."
--> '''The Doctor''': "Yes Charley, we're home."

--> '''The Doctor''': "Oh come on Doctor, a bad pun for an epitaph?"

* {{Yandere}}: C'rizz seems to think this about Charley, since he accuses her of being a "bunny boiler", despite having only just learned what a bunny is in ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho063Caerdroia Caerdroia]]''. Maybe he watched ''FatalAttraction'' on the [=TARDIS=] some time.

** The Doctor has an excellent knowledge of Liverpool FC - [[Creator/PaulMcGann Paul McGann]] is a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUZQWQOvG4 lifelong Liverpool supporter]].

This episode marks the end of the Divergent Universe arc, as well as the end of the Zagreus arc. Released in December of 2004, it was also the very last episode in which Paul McGann was the incumbent Doctor - between this and his next episode, the series would return and introduce Creator/ChristopherEccleston his successor.

This episode marks the end of the Divergent Universe arc, as well as the end of the Zagreus arc.

** The Doctor, whilst adrift in the ocean, calls himself RobinsonCrusoe and is looking for a good man Friday.

* BritishEnglish: During TheReveal, Perfection uses some Cockney Rhyming Slang.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith

---> '''Charley''': "We're home then?"
---> '''Daleks''': " YOU ARE THE DOC-TOR!"
---> '''Davros''': "Ah, Doctor. Welcome back. I've... ''We've'' been waiting for you."
---> '''The Doctor''': "Yes Charley, we're home."

* FateWorseThanDeath: Rassilon and the Kro'ka are cast into Scherzo, with all of their memories intact, and forced to act out the exact same dialogue that the Doctor and Charley went through. And with no Keep or Zagreus willing to check up on the experiment, it's entirely unclear what, if any, chance of escape they'll have.

One day, the Eighth Doctor is stranded on a little blue planetoid in space, made of water and inhabited by savages. The TARDIS is nowhere to be found.

* ReliableTraitor: The Doctor knows the Kro'ka is this, which enables him to convince him to stop the lava flow. The Kro'ka tries to join Keep, but is thrown away with Rassilon.

The Doctor, meanwhile, meets three people on the planetoid: Guidance, the leader of the Foundation cult; Keep, an inexplicably French GreatWhiteHunter; and Keep's wife, Perfection, who's played by ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie Daphne freaking Ashbrook]]''! Perfection is pretty tired of her idiotic husband, and decides to get the Doctor out of his shirt and into her bed instead. The Doctor's a bit confused, especially when a little savage girl is accidentally killed and he and Perfection find themselves hunted as [HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the most dangerous game]].