History Recap / DoctorWhoS19E3Kinda

The [=TARDIS=] arrives on the planet Deva Lokka, where the peaceful native Kinda are being screwed with by an evil imperialist human expedition[[hottip:*:They even wear pith helmets]]. The expedition has been reduced to three people after three disappeared: Sanders, the bluff leader, Todd, the rational female scientist who sympathises with the Kinda, and Hindle, the security guy, a jobsworth who is being bullied into utter insanity by Sanders.

* OnlySaneMan: Adric, and not played for comedy. For most of the latter half, he's the only person inside the base who is ''not'' going insane or believes their soul to be trapped inside a mirror.

The Doctor and Todd escape from the base and meet up with Panna and Karuna. Panna tells them that the evil force that has taken over Tegan is the Mara, a ChaoticEvil entity that feeds off destruction. It also turns out that the Mara will take over any non-telepathic entity that uses the wind chimes for visionary dreams, so it's all the Doctor's fault for letting Tegan sleep under them. She shows the Doctor and Todd a vison of the horrible things that will happen if the Mara isn't stopped, and then drops dead. Fortunately, thanks to Kinda telepathy, Karuna gets her memories and some of her personality.

Fan consensus tends to be pretty solid on the merits of most episodes of Classic Who, but ''Kinda'''s star has risen and fallen somewhat over the years. Roundly panned when it came out, its Buddhist metaphors later made it a favorite of Who-fen of more philosophical bents.
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Todd manipulates Hindle into opening the Box of Jhana himself just as he is about to blow everyone up, and the experience shocks him back to sanity. The Doctor and Karuna then get the Kinda to help them trap Aris in a circle of mirrors (solar panels from the base) and the Mara leaves his body, materialises as [[SpecialEffectsFailure a really bad puppet snake]], and dies. Because evil can't take seeing itself reflected.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Each of The Doctor's companions was given a story where they could take a bigger role this season. This is Tegan's. She gets to get possessed!

* TheWoobie: Adric looks in very desperate need of a hug after his experience trying to pilot [[MindProbe the TSS]] to safety.

* NobleSavage

Todd encounters Panna, a Kinda shaman (the Kinda are matriarchal and only the most powerful women can speak, the men and weaker women communicating by telepathy), and her apprentice Karuna. They give him the Box of Jhana, a Kinda artefact that they think will hopefully communicate the Kinda worldview to him and make him and the other humans leave. However, it regresses him emotionally to the age of about ten. He takes the box back to the base. Hindle forces the Doctor to open it to see what it will do to him. It gives the Doctor and Todd a vision of how cool and deserving of respect Kinda culture is.

Todd encounters Panna, a Kinda shaman (the Kinda are matriarchicial and only the women can speak, the men communicating by telepathy), and her apprentice Karuna. They give him the Box of Jhana, a Kinda artefact that they think will hopefully communicate the Kinda worldview to him and make him and the other humans leave. However, it regresses him emotionally to the age of about ten. He takes the box back to the base. Hindle forces the Doctor to open it to see what it will do to him. It gives the Doctor and Todd a vision of how cool and deserving of respect Kinda culture is.

The [=TARDIS=] arrives on the planet Deva Lokka, where the peaceful native Kinda are being screwed with by an evil imperialist human expedition[[hottip:*:They even wear pith helmets]]. The exhibition has been reduced to three people after three disappeared: Sanders, the bluff leader, Todd, the rational female scientist who sympathises with the Kinda, and Hindle, the security guy, a jobsworth who is being bullied into utter insanity by Sanders.

On a remote planet of lush vegetation, an expeditionary force is surveying the place with an eye towards colonization. They occasionally send out explorers, who usually return with some of the planet's natives--the Kinda ("kinn-duh")--for imprisonment and interrogation, but they're increasingly staying holed up in their impregnable base, slowly going mad.

One day, the tedium is relieved when the Doctor and Adric show up in a little traveling bio-pod that the explorers carelessly left lying around. Though they loudly protest that they need to go back to rescue Tegan, who's fallen into some kind of hypnotic coma state induced by windchimes, the Doctor and Adric are promptly tossed in the brig, as narrative convention requires, where they meet two captured Kinda. They're mute, which has led most of the explorers to assume that they're primitive and/or non-sentient, but one of the guards points out the DNA-shaped necklace one is wearing as evidence that they may be intelligent. Or maybe they're just fans of ''Series/{{Heroes}}''.

Outside the base, one lone Kinda looks in forlornly. The action follows him back to Kinda HQ, where the shaman and her apprentice come out to meet him... and we discover that, while Kinda males may be mute, Kinda ''females'' are not. The shaman senses great fear in the returnee; and, as we all know, [[StarWars fear => anger => hate => suffering]]. So the Kinda have got to get sprung.

Tegan, meanwhile, has awoken from strange and highly symbolic dreams to find that she has been possessed by the evil snake god, the Mara. This cannot end well.

A Kinda artifact called the Box of Jhana turns up, and it turns out to have sanity-inducing properties. This is a good thing, because the crazy in the base is getting a mite out of control. One of the explorers gets de-crazied.

* AbsenteeActor: For actor availability reasons, Nyssa only has cameos in episodes one and four.

* {{Manchild}}: Sanders after he opens the box, although it's suggested to be the effect of shock.

* MadnessMantra: One of the explorers begins ranting about the plants being out to get them all... Then threatens to destroy the whole region with sounds like a gigantic fireball.
* {{Manchild}}: Sanders after he opens the box, although it's suggested to be shock.

* [=~Mes A Crowd~=]: In Tegan's nightmare, she is surrounded by illusory clones of herself, until she begins to doubt her own identity enough for the Mara to dominate her.

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* JamesBondage: The Doctor spends an entire episode being locked up in a cage.

* ManChild: Sanders after he opens the box, although it's suggested to be shock.
* MesACrowd: In Tegan's nightmare, she is surrounded by illusory clones of herself, until she begins to doubt her own identity enough for the Mara to dominate her.

* PsychopathicManChild: Hindle eventually ends up like this when Sanders leaves him in charge. The effect is chilling.

* UltimateEvil: The Mara qualifies for this... Until the Narmful SpecialEffectsFailure, unfortunately.

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One day, the tedium is relieved when the Doctor and Adric show up in a little traveling bio-pod that the explorers carelessly left lying around. Though they loudly protest that they need to go back to rescue Tegan, who's fallen into some kind of hypnotic coma state induced by windchimes, the Doctor and Adric are promptly tossed in the brig, as narrative convention requires, where they meet two captured Kinda. They're mute, which has led most of the explorers to assume that they're primitive and/or non-sentient, but one of the guards points out the DNA-shaped necklace one is wearing as evidence that they may be intelligent.

* ShoutOut: ''The Word for World is Forest'' by UrsulaKLeGuin is a definite influence.