History Recap / DoctorWhoS19E3Kinda

* HotScientist: Todd, who may well be wearing nothing under her LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine.

* MiniMecha: the Total Survival Suit. Standing still, one can imagine it to be an impressive, boxy, 80's-style power armor, folded up into storage mode. [[SpecialEffectsFailure then it starts moving...]]

->'''The Doctor''': ''An apple a day keeps the... Ah, never mind.''

'''WARNING! THERE MAY BE UNMARKED SPOILERS!'''

* ActorAllusion: Richard Todd, who played Sanders, was known in his younger days for playing straight versions of the kind of stiff-upper-lip British hero who Sanders and Hindle are parodies of.

* HilariousInHindsight: The story comes off as something of a poor man's ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' these days.

* HilariousInHindsight: The story comes off as something of a poor man's {{Avatar}} these days.

Sanders ventures out in a sort of medium-sized mecha and encounters Panna, a Kinda shaman, and her apprentice Karuna. It turns out that the Kinda are matriarchal, and only the most powerful women can speak, the men and weaker women communicating by telepathy. They give Sanders 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, where Hindle forces the Doctor to open it to see what it will do to him. It gives the Doctor and Todd a vision of Kinda culture, and luckily fails to drive them insane as well. Hindle also manage to enslave some Kinda by making them look into a mirror, tricking them into thinking he's captured their very souls in the reflective glass.

* AbsenteeActor: Nyssa only has cameos in episodes one and four, due to contractual issues related to her having been a guest character the previous season.

* DistaffCounterpart: Panna's short-temperedness and penchant for exposition brings to mind the [[WilliamHartnell First Doctor]].

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Nyssa is suffering from a [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho026Primeval mysterious mental clouding]] (well, from Sarah Sutton not being available for filming), and gets to stay in the [=TARDIS=] for the whole story. Tegan falls asleep under some magical wind chimes, and finds a tremendously sinister guy called Dukkha invading her {{Chiaroscuro}} dreamscape. He proceeds to MindRape her for two episodes until she finally agrees to let him possess her body.

The [=TARDIS=] arrives on the planet Deva Lokka, where the peaceful native Kinda are being screwed with by an evil imperialist human expedition[[note]]They even wear pith helmets[[/note]]. 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.

Nyssa is suffering from a mysterious mental clouding, and gets to stay in the [=TARDIS=] for the whole story. Tegan falls asleep under some wind chimes, and finds a sinister guy called Dukkha invading her dreamscape. He proceeds to MindRape her for two episodes until she finally agrees to let him possess her body.

Meanwhile, the Doctor and Adric encounter the explorers. Sanders leaves to explore, and Hindle promptly goes '''utterly''' batshit and has the Doctor and Todd imprisoned because he thinks the plants are plotting against him and the Doctor and Todd are in on it. Adric goes over to Hindle's side, although at least this time it's clearly because he's humouring Hindle and hopes that he can stop him from doing anything too horrific.

Sanders 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.

The possessed Tegan encounters a Kinda man, Aris, and transfers the possession to him. He develops the ability to talk and incites the Kinda to violently assault the human base. Meanwhile, Hindle and the childish Sanders have wired the place to explode rather than let themselves get taken. They then start playing like little boys with a model city.

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, an evil 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.

The Doctor, Todd and Karuna find Tegan and wake her up. She thinks she just had a horrible nightmare, but they explain to her how badly things are messed up. They all reach the human base in time to see Aris and the Kinda attack it, and Adric hold them off using a cyborg device that [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] him because he doesn't know how to use it properly[[note]]yes, there's a lot of that in this story[[/note]].

A now sane Hindle and Sanders reconcile with one another and decide to be nicer people in future, and all the humans decide to declare the planet unsuitable for human colonisation so the Kinda will be left in peace. The Doctor declares that the Mara has been defeated, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E2Snakedance a bit prematurely]]. The Doctor and companions leave for further adventures.

* SingleBiomePlanet

* FauxSymbolism: Writer Christopher Bailey derived the Mara from a demon of the same name in Buddhist philosophy which, as in Doctor Who, symbolises temptation rather than evil (at least, in the sense of "sinfulness"). In Kinda, Dukkha, Panna, Karuna, Anatta and Anicca's names and functions all derive from Buddhism as well.

* MentalFusion: [[spoiler: Panna and Karuna, after Panna's bodily death]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: all the Kinda, even when Hindle forces some of them into partial human uniforms.

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.

The Doctor, Todd and Karuna find Tegan and wake her up. She thinks she just had a horrible nightmare, but they explain to her how badly things are messed up. They all reach the human base in time to see Aris and the Kinda attack it, and Adric hold them off using a cyborg device that [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] him because he doesn't know how to use it properly[[hottip:*:yes, there's a lot of that in this story]].

* InsaneEqualsViolent: Hindle. Full Stop.

* [=~Me's 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.