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So the TARDIS zips off to the Moon, landing neatly in 2045 on a shuttle that appears to be heading there itself...with 100 nuclear missiles inside it. The shuttle's staffed by the remnants of Earth's space programmes - after all, Earth collectively shrugged its shoulders when it came to space exploration some years back, and there haven't been many missions up there in quite some time. So what ''is'' up there? Well, mysterious fissures, getting wider and wider. Spider-like aliens with sharp teeth, who want to find out how you taste.

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So the TARDIS zips off to the Moon, landing neatly in 2045 on a shuttle that appears to be heading there itself...with 100 nuclear missiles inside it. The shuttle's staffed by the remnants of Earth's space programmes - after all, Earth collectively shrugged its shoulders when it came to space exploration some years back, and there haven't been many missions up there in quite some time. So what ''is'' up there? Well, mysterious fissures, getting wider and wider. Decrepit moonbases, filled with dessicated corpses. Spider-like aliens with sharp teeth, who want to find out how you taste.

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"In the near future, the Doctor and Clara arrive on a decrepit shuttle making a suicide mission to the Moon. Crashing on the lunar surface, they find a mining base full of eviscerated corpses, spider-like creatures scuttling about in the dark, and a terrible dilemma."

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"In What time is it? [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Adventure time!]] With Clara, the near future, Doctor...and Courtney! See, as it turns out, after the Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E6TheCaretaker showed Clara's wayward pupil the stars in the last episode]], he apparently informed her [[GoodIsNotNice that she wasn't particularly special, before unceremoniously booting her out.]] Courtney handled that as well as you could expect, and Clara arrive now she's off sulking and buying booze with the Doctor's psychic paper. Clara's none too pleased about that, and promptly brings Courtney back to the TARDIS so the Doctor can fix his mistake, and admit she's pretty special after all.

The Doctor...doesn't do that, because that's the boring way. ''But'', one of the perks of being a space-and-time-traveller is that if somebody needs to be special, he can ''make'' them special. And, actually, "Courtney the First Woman on the Moon" has a really nice ring to it.

So the TARDIS zips off to the Moon, landing neatly in 2045
on a decrepit shuttle making a suicide mission that appears to be heading there itself...with 100 nuclear missiles inside it. The shuttle's staffed by the Moon. Crashing on the lunar surface, they remnants of Earth's space programmes - after all, Earth collectively shrugged its shoulders when it came to space exploration some years back, and there haven't been many missions up there in quite some time. So what ''is'' up there? Well, mysterious fissures, getting wider and wider. Spider-like aliens with sharp teeth, who want to find a mining base full of eviscerated corpses, spider-like creatures scuttling about in out how you taste.

And for humanity,
the dark, astronauts, Clara and a terrible dilemma."
even Courtney, an impossible choice. Kill an innocent, or doom the entire Earth...
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** The tag line for the Radio Times poser is [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown}} "A Mission to the Unkown"]].

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** The tag line for the Radio Times poser is [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown}} "A Mission to the Unkown"]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kill_the_moon_poster_4469.jpg "A mission to the unknown", you say? Maybe you should reconsider that suggestion... [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown the last one]] [[TheBadGuyWins didn't]] [[AnyoneCanDie go]] [[KillEmAll so]] [[TotalPartyKill well]]. [[/labelnote]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kill_the_moon_poster_4469.jpg "A [[ContinuityNod mission to the unknown", unknown]]", you say? Maybe you should reconsider that suggestion... [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown the last one]] [[TheBadGuyWins didn't]] [[AnyoneCanDie go]] [[KillEmAll so]] [[TotalPartyKill well]]. [[/labelnote]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kill_the_moon_poster_4469.jpg "Mission to the unknown", you say? Maybe you should reconsider that suggestion... [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown the last one]] [[TheBadGuyWins didn't]] [[AnyoneCanDie go]] [[KillEmAll so]] [[TotalPartyKill well]]. [[/labelnote]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kill_the_moon_poster_4469.jpg "Mission "A mission to the unknown", you say? Maybe you should reconsider that suggestion... [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown the last one]] [[TheBadGuyWins didn't]] [[AnyoneCanDie go]] [[KillEmAll so]] [[TotalPartyKill well]]. [[/labelnote]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kill_the_moon_poster_4469.jpg "Mission to the unknown", you say? Maybe you should reconsider that suggestion... [[[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown the last one]] [[TheBadGuyWins didn't]] [[AnyoneCanDie go]] [[KillEmAll so]] [[TotalPartyKill well]]. [[/labelnote]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kill_the_moon_poster_4469.jpg "Mission to the unknown", you say? Maybe you should reconsider that suggestion... [[[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown the last one]] [[TheBadGuyWins didn't]] [[AnyoneCanDie go]] [[KillEmAll so]] [[TotalPartyKill well]]. [[/labelnote]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kill_the_moon_poster_4469.jpg "Mission to the unknown", you say? Maybe you should reconsider that suggestion... [[[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown the last one]] [[TheBadGuyWins didn't]] [[AnyoneCanDie go]] [[KillEmAll so]] [[TotalPartyKill well]]. [[/labelnote]]]]
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* TheBusCameBack: Writer [[TeasingCreator Peter Harness teased]] [[https://twitter.com/mrpeterharness/status/516859691750916096 one of the Doctor's old friends]] would be coming back for this episode.

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* TheBusCameBack: Writer [[TeasingCreator Peter Harness teased]] [[https://twitter.com/mrpeterharness/status/516859691750916096 one of the Doctor's old friends]] friends would be coming back for this episode.



* DarkerAndEdgier: Harness was allegedly told to "[[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Philip_Hinchcliffe Hinchcliffe]] the shit out of the first half of the episode".

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Harness was allegedly told to "[[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Philip_Hinchcliffe Hinchcliffe]] the shit s**t out of the first half of the episode".
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* TeasingCreator: See also "TheBusCameBack".

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* TeasingCreator: See also "TheBusCameBack"."TheBusCameBack".
* WhatTheHellHero: To an ultimate extent.
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* SeventhEpisodeTwist: Series 8's game-changer episode.

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* SeventhEpisodeTwist: Series 8's game-changer episode.8 has seen many dark moments, but this is the first episode with an utterly catastrophic repercussion.

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* SeventhEpisodeTwist: Series 8's game-changer episode.



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* DarkerAndEdgier: Harness was allegedly told to "[[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Philip_Hinchcliffe Hinchcliffe]] the shit out of the first half of the episode". [[labelnote:Note]]Phillip Hinchcliffe gained the reputation as one of the scariest producers (executive producer nowadays) of the entire series.[[/labelnote]]

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Harness was allegedly told to "[[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Philip_Hinchcliffe Hinchcliffe]] the shit out of the first half of the episode". [[labelnote:Note]]Phillip Hinchcliffe gained the reputation as one of the scariest producers (executive producer nowadays) of the entire series.[[/labelnote]]

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Harness was allegedly told to "[[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Philip_Hinchcliffe Hinchcliffe]] the shit out of the first half of the episode". [[labelnote:Note]]Phillip Hinchcliffe was known as the scariest producer of Doctor Who in the 70s as well as creating some of the finest stories of the entire series[[/labelnote]]

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Harness was allegedly told to "[[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Philip_Hinchcliffe Hinchcliffe]] the shit out of the first half of the episode". [[labelnote:Note]]Phillip Hinchcliffe was known gained the reputation as one of the scariest producers (executive producer of Doctor Who in the 70s as well as creating some of the finest stories nowadays) of the entire series[[/labelnote]]series.[[/labelnote]]
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* TheBusCameBack: Writer [[TeasingCreator Peter harness teased]] [[https://twitter.com/mrpeterharness/status/516859691750916096 one of the Doctor's old friends]] would be coming back for this episode.

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* TheBusCameBack: Writer [[TeasingCreator Peter harness Harness teased]] [[https://twitter.com/mrpeterharness/status/516859691750916096 one of the Doctor's old friends]] would be coming back for this episode.
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* TheBusCameBack: Writer [[TeasingCreator Peter harness teased]] [[https://twitter.com/mrpeterharness/status/516859691750916096 one of the Doctor's old friends]] would be coming back for this episode.



* SpidersAreScary: ''Very'' scary.

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* SpidersAreScary: ''Very'' scary.scary.
* TeasingCreator: See also "TheBusCameBack".
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[[caption-width-right:350:War? On the moon? It's more likely than you think.]]

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* BorrowedCatchphrase: The Doctor employs [[Creator/PatrickTroughton the Second Doctor's]]: "When I say run, run."
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* CallBack: Strax declared war on the moon back in ''The Great Detective", noting that its inhabitants have had a tactical advantage for far too long. [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight Has he been on the right track this entire time?]]
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: The spiders.
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* SadisticChoice: "An innocent life vs the future of the Earth."
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* DemonicSpiders: ''Very''.
* ShoutOut: The Spider Creatures' [[Film/JurassicPark vision is based on movement]].

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* DemonicSpiders: ''Very''.
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"In the near future, the Doctor and Clara arrive on a decrepit shuttle making a suicide mission to the Moon. Crashing on the lunar surface, they find a mining base full of eviscerated corpses, spider-like creatures scuttling about in the dark, and a terrible dilemma."

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"In the near future, the Doctor and Clara arrive on a decrepit shuttle making a suicide mission to the Moon. Crashing on the lunar surface, they find a mining base full of eviscerated corpses, spider-like creatures scuttling about in the dark, and a terrible dilemma.""

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* ShoutOut: The Spider Creatures' [[Film/JurassicPark vision is based on movement]].
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Written by Peter Harness.

"In the near future, the Doctor and Clara arrive on a decrepit shuttle making a suicide mission to the Moon. Crashing on the lunar surface, they find a mining base full of eviscerated corpses, spider-like creatures scuttling about in the dark, and a terrible dilemma."

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