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This was the first story in the Companion Chronicles range to feature a companion who saw regular use in the Main Range with their Doctor, as the Chronicles were originally designed to get around the ActorExistenceFailure deaths of the first three actors to portray the Doctor and Tom Baker's initial refusal to work with Big Finish. After this story featuring Nyssa, Companion Chronicles featuring stories with Big Finish's "current" Doctors would become more regular.
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* BadassInANiceSuit: Damasin Hyde, immortal assassin of the stars, wears a beautiful black suit, with explicit comparisons being made between him and The Master's manner of dress.
* BizarreAlienBiology: We discover that Alzarians have some of their organs on the opposite side of their bodies from humans, including their hearts, which turns out to be very lucky indeed when Damasin stabs him in the left side of his chest.
* BizarreAlienBiology: We discover that Alzarians have some of their organs on the opposite side of their bodies from humans, including their hearts, which turns out to be very lucky indeed when Damasin stabs him in the left side of his chest.
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* BadassInANiceSuit: Damasin Hyde, immortal assassin of the stars, wears a beautiful black suit, with explicit comparisons being made between him and The the Master's manner of dress.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Damasin's cabinet traps him and Nyssa in one of these, in a mindscape that looks like Nyssa's grove on Traken. [[spoiler:Nyssa wins]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Damasin makes the fatal error of confusing Nyssa's gentle nature for weakness and taunts her about her dead father. [[spoiler:It's the last thing he ever does]].
* BizarreAlienBiology:We discover It is revealed that Alzarians have some of their organs on the opposite side of their bodies from humans, including their hearts, which turns out to be very lucky indeed when Damasin stabs him Adric in the left side of his chest.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Damasin's cabinet traps him and Nyssa in one of these, in a mindscape that looks like Nyssa's grove on Traken. [[spoiler:Nyssa wins]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Damasin makes the fatal error of confusing Nyssa's gentle nature for weakness and taunts her about her dead father. [[spoiler:It's the last thing he ever does]].
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This was the first story in the Companion Chronicles range to feature a companion who saw regular use in the Main Range with their Doctor, as the Chronicles were originally designed to get around the ActorExistenceFailure of the first three actors to portray The the Doctor and Tom Baker's initial refusal to work with Big Finish. After this story featuring Nyssa, Companion Chronicles featuring stories with Big Finish's "current" Doctors would become more regular.
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* HiddenDepths: Despite her fear and knowing she is hopelessly outmatched against Damasin, Tegan was still about to rush him before The Doctor stopped her.
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* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:By accessing the power of The Doctor's energy inside Damasin's cabinet, Nyssa is able to turn the assassin into stone.]]
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* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:By accessing the power of The the Doctor's energy inside Damasin's cabinet, Nyssa is able to turn the assassin into stone.]]
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* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:By accessing the power of The Doctor's energy inside Damasin's cabinet, Nyssa is able to turn the assassin into stone.
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* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:By accessing the power of The Doctor's energy inside Damasin's cabinet, Nyssa is able to turn the assassin into stone.]]
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While investigating a debris-littered battlefield in deep space, the TARDIS crew are salvaged by an ancient race of collectors known as Dar Traders.
Separated from the Doctor after an accident, Adric, Tegan and Nyssa find themselves at the mercy of the Traders' curiosity. But the Traders have salvaged a cabinet from the battle that could be very dangerous indeed.
What does the suave assassin, Damasin Hyde, know of the cabinet? And why is everybody so interested in the missing Time Lord?
To find the Doctor, the TARDIS crew will have to enter a violent inter-planetary war. Where someone will die, and it will change everything.
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This was the first story in the Companion Chronicles range to feature a companion who saw regular use in the Main Range with their Doctor, as the Chronicles were originally designed to get around the ActorExistenceFailure of the first three actors to portray The Doctor and Tom Baker's initial refusal to work with Big Finish. After this story featuring Nyssa, Companion Chronicles featuring stories with Big Finish's "current" Doctors would become more regular.
!!''The Darkening Eye'' contains examples of:
* BadassInANiceSuit: Damasin Hyde, immortal assassin of the stars, wears a beautiful black suit, with explicit comparisons being made between him and The Master's manner of dress.
* BizarreAlienBiology: We discover that Alzarians have some of their organs on the opposite side of their bodies from humans, including their hearts, which turns out to be very lucky indeed when Damasin stabs him in the left side of his chest.
* CallBack:
** The pod retrieved by the Dar Traders is made of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E5WarriorsGate dwarf star alloy]].
** Though not explicitly named, it is clear that the patient whom Nyssa is treating suffers from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Lazar's Disease]], and Nyssa tells him that she herself had been infected with it.
** Adric demonstrates [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E3FullCircle once]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation again]] that Alzarians heal much faster than humans.
** The Dar Traders say that death follows Adric very closely. At the time of the story, Nyssa and Tegan think they are talking about the almost fatal stab wound that he suffers here, but the older Nyssa says that another death was coming for Adric [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock all too soon]].
** Upon finding Damasin Hyde in the stasis chamber, Nyssa at first mistakes him for The Master [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E6TheKeeperOfTraken wearing her father's body]].
* CompleteImmortality: Thanks to the power of his cabinet, Damasin doesn't just not age, his body is frozen in time, unable to be killed. [[spoiler:Nyssa finds [[TakenForGranite another way]] to stop him.]]
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: The corpses of people the Dar Traders have "salvaged" are hung on the walls of their ship. It's very much ForScience, but Tegan still calls them ghouls for it.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Nyssa is stabbed by one of the soldiers and Tegan holds her as she dies. It's only for three minutes, as the Dar Traders bring her back, but it still counts.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Nyssa starts to have visions of herself in the near future, dying surrounded by leaves.
* ForegoneConclusion: Since the story is being told by an older Nyssa on Terminus, it's clear that the visions she has of her own death aren't going to come to pass.
* FramingDevice: An older Nyssa on the spaceship Terminus relates this tale to one of her patients suffering from Lazar's Disease.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Adric gets stabbed in the heart (or where the heart would have been [[HumanAliens if he were human]]), but because of his rapid healing he recovers by the time the story is over.
* HiddenDepths: Despite her fear and knowing she is hopelessly outmatched against Damasin, Tegan was still about to rush him before The Doctor stopped her.
* NoNameGiven: The patient Nyssa tells the story to is only ever called "The Patient".
* {{Prequel}}: For [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho109TheDeathCollectors "The Death Collectors"]], when the Doctor encounters the Dar Traders again in his seventh incarnation.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Thanks to the advanced technology of his time cabinet, Damasin is incredibly old.
* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:By accessing the power of The Doctor's energy inside Damasin's cabinet, Nyssa is able to turn the assassin into stone.
Separated from the Doctor after an accident, Adric, Tegan and Nyssa find themselves at the mercy of the Traders' curiosity. But the Traders have salvaged a cabinet from the battle that could be very dangerous indeed.
What does the suave assassin, Damasin Hyde, know of the cabinet? And why is everybody so interested in the missing Time Lord?
To find the Doctor, the TARDIS crew will have to enter a violent inter-planetary war. Where someone will die, and it will change everything.
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This was the first story in the Companion Chronicles range to feature a companion who saw regular use in the Main Range with their Doctor, as the Chronicles were originally designed to get around the ActorExistenceFailure of the first three actors to portray The Doctor and Tom Baker's initial refusal to work with Big Finish. After this story featuring Nyssa, Companion Chronicles featuring stories with Big Finish's "current" Doctors would become more regular.
!!''The Darkening Eye'' contains examples of:
* BadassInANiceSuit: Damasin Hyde, immortal assassin of the stars, wears a beautiful black suit, with explicit comparisons being made between him and The Master's manner of dress.
* BizarreAlienBiology: We discover that Alzarians have some of their organs on the opposite side of their bodies from humans, including their hearts, which turns out to be very lucky indeed when Damasin stabs him in the left side of his chest.
* CallBack:
** The pod retrieved by the Dar Traders is made of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E5WarriorsGate dwarf star alloy]].
** Though not explicitly named, it is clear that the patient whom Nyssa is treating suffers from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Lazar's Disease]], and Nyssa tells him that she herself had been infected with it.
** Adric demonstrates [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E3FullCircle once]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation again]] that Alzarians heal much faster than humans.
** The Dar Traders say that death follows Adric very closely. At the time of the story, Nyssa and Tegan think they are talking about the almost fatal stab wound that he suffers here, but the older Nyssa says that another death was coming for Adric [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock all too soon]].
** Upon finding Damasin Hyde in the stasis chamber, Nyssa at first mistakes him for The Master [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E6TheKeeperOfTraken wearing her father's body]].
* CompleteImmortality: Thanks to the power of his cabinet, Damasin doesn't just not age, his body is frozen in time, unable to be killed. [[spoiler:Nyssa finds [[TakenForGranite another way]] to stop him.]]
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: The corpses of people the Dar Traders have "salvaged" are hung on the walls of their ship. It's very much ForScience, but Tegan still calls them ghouls for it.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Nyssa is stabbed by one of the soldiers and Tegan holds her as she dies. It's only for three minutes, as the Dar Traders bring her back, but it still counts.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Nyssa starts to have visions of herself in the near future, dying surrounded by leaves.
* ForegoneConclusion: Since the story is being told by an older Nyssa on Terminus, it's clear that the visions she has of her own death aren't going to come to pass.
* FramingDevice: An older Nyssa on the spaceship Terminus relates this tale to one of her patients suffering from Lazar's Disease.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Adric gets stabbed in the heart (or where the heart would have been [[HumanAliens if he were human]]), but because of his rapid healing he recovers by the time the story is over.
* HiddenDepths: Despite her fear and knowing she is hopelessly outmatched against Damasin, Tegan was still about to rush him before The Doctor stopped her.
* NoNameGiven: The patient Nyssa tells the story to is only ever called "The Patient".
* {{Prequel}}: For [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho109TheDeathCollectors "The Death Collectors"]], when the Doctor encounters the Dar Traders again in his seventh incarnation.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Thanks to the advanced technology of his time cabinet, Damasin is incredibly old.
* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler:By accessing the power of The Doctor's energy inside Damasin's cabinet, Nyssa is able to turn the assassin into stone.
