History Recap / DoctorWhoS36E10TheEatersOfLight

* SuddenlyShouting

* NoodleIncident: The Doctor claims to have been a Roman governor, a farmer, and a [[CelibateHero vestal virgin]] 2nd class. [[ItsALongStory It's a long story.]]

* NoodleIncident: The Doctor claims to have been a Roman governor, a farmer, and a vestal virgin 2nd class. It's a long story.

* RescueRomance: Lucius is clearly hoping to invoke this, but unfortunately Bill is gay. They agree to be FireForgedFriends instead.

* TastesLikeFriendship: Nardole tries to invoke this with the Picts, and Lucius with Bill (despite Cornelius griping that they don't have much food to spare).

* StandingBetweenEnemies: Bill when the Picts encounter the Romans.

* LastLongingLook: Lucius to Bill as he goes through the portal.

* TheCharmer: Nardole tries to charm the Picts after they have captured him and the Doctor. The Doctor doesn't approve of charm, but it works. After two days, Nardole is enthralling them with stories and even has spirals of woad painted on his face.

** Bill talks about how she learned about the mystery of the Ninth Legion from a book, most likely the famous historical novel ''Literature/TheEagleOfTheNinth'' by Rosemary Sutcliff.[[note]]There are [[LostLegion many other books inspired the mystery]], but most offer SF explanations like "they were transported to another world" and are unlikely to be the source of Bill's conviction that the Legion was undone by mutiny.[[/note]]

** Bill talks about how she learned about the mystery of the Ninth Legion from a book, possibly the famous historical novel ''Literature/TheEagleOfTheNinth'' by Rosemary Sutcliff, but given her usual tastes it may have been Literature/CodexAlera by Creator/JimButcher.

Written by Rona Munro, who previously wrote "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]", the final serial of the original run of ''Doctor Who''.

The Doctor and Bill Potts, with a confused Nardole in tow, have arrived in ancient Scotland. The teacher and his pupil have a bet going regarding what became of the Ninth Legion of the Roman Army, which vanished without a trace here. He believes they were slaughtered to a man; she believes they simply left their posts. They split up, Bill vowing to return with a live Roman solider...

* InformedAbility: The titular creatures are never shown eating light, except for a throwaway comment about "eating the light from their bodies" ... whatever ''that'' means. Additionally, the Doctor has apparently never seen the creatures before yet he deduces that they will eat the sun and all the stars if freed despite no evidence for this being presented in the actual episode.

* SealedEvilInADuel: The eventual fate of Kar, all the surviving Romans, and some of the other Picts, heroically sacrificing themselves to fight off the monsters.

* TheCharmer: Nardole tries to charm the Picts after they have captured him and the Doctor. The Doctor doesn't approve of charm, but it works. After two days, Nardole is enthralling them with stories and even has facial tattoos.

Written by Rona Munro, who previously wrote [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival "Survival"]], the final serial of the original run of ''Doctor Who''.

* InformedAbility: The titular creatures are never shown eating light, except for a throwaway comment about "eating the light from their bodies" ... [[Technobabble whatever that means.]] Additionally, the Doctor has apparently never seen the creatures before yet he deduces that they will eat the sun and all the stars if freed despite no evidence for this being presented in the actual episode.

** Ancient humans with a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warrior culture]] fighting an alien menace beyond their comprehension recall the Vikings in "The Girl who Died".