History Recap / DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen

Written by Jamie Mathieson.

--> '''The Doctor:''' We're like workers everywhere. It's us against [[JustForPun the suits]].

* AsTheGoodBookSays: The Doctor of all people quotes Corinthians 15:55 when he says, "Death, where is thy sting?"

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oxygen.jpg The song by Music/{{Berlin}} comes to mind, doesn't it?]][[/labelnote]]

The one with a man who looks suspiciously like a young [[ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Yondu]].

* ColdEquation: Played with when it looks like Bill has been abandoned when her suit refuses to move. The company who runs the space station pull their own version when they decide to KillEmAll to save profit.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Mining Station ''Chasm Forge''.

-->'''Nardole:''' [[SarcasmMode Yeah, I saw through your cunning ruse.]]

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* GoLookAtTheDistraction: This time the Doctor sent Nardole to Birmingham for a pack of crisps.
-->'''Nardole:''' [[SarcasmMode Yeah, I saw through your cunning ruse.]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The station's passageways are measured in "breaths", not linear distances. But human breaths' size is not constant: it varies slightly between individuals, and ''drastically'' depending on how much the breather is exerting their muscles.
** That said it is described as "Average Breaths," presumably based on a calm average human.

--->"I'm the man who's going to save all your lives, and you're going to spend the rest of them wondering who I am."

--->"Bill, I've got no TARDIS, no sonic, about ten minutes of oxygen left, and now I'm blind. Can you imagine how unbearable I'm going to be when I pull this off?"

* ExactTimeToFailure: The suits list how many average breaths you have left. Not the time you have left, because you breathe faster under stress, say if you're being pursued by your dead colleagues in those same suits...
* EurekaMoment: The Doctor has one when he realizes why the suits killed their wearers, and simultaneously that Bill's suit won't be able to kill her.

'''Dahh-Ren:''' You do know we're still here, right?\\

* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Averted despite the UsedFuture look; the miners have {{Energy Weapon}}s.

* ThatLiarLies
** Nardole knows the TARDIS fluid link is needed to fly the TARDIS, so he removed it. How does he know the fluid link is needed to fly? The Doctor told him; he was lying. Nardole, somehow, did not see that coming.
** Nardole demands the Doctor tell him the truth. His response?
--->'''The Doctor:''' Don't be unreasonable.

* {{Robosexual}}: Nardole recognises the voice of Bill's suit as belonging to an actress he used to date. "Left me for an AI in a call centre."
* SayingTooMuch: Nardole mentions they're in Section 12, so the suit-AI realises there is a section not included on its map. This is why the Doctor refuses to explain his own plan, realising the AI will overhear.

* SpaceJews: Implied about Dahh'Ren's species when Nardole says "some of my best friends are bluish". (Though admittedly it could just be [[IncrediblyLamePun a bad pun]].)

* CapitalismIsBad: As the official episode summary reads: "the TARDIS crew battle for survival against '''the darkest evil of all'''." The Doctor makes numerous derogatory comments about capitalism and the idea of controlling oxygen on a spaceship for profit throughout the episode. At the end, he alludes to the fact that what happened aboard ''Chasm Forge'' will serve as a catalyst for a rebellion which leads to capitalism's downfall... until humanity finds another great mistake, but that's another story. The "capitalism" in this story isn't the watered down post-unionization modern version either, it's full-out Robber Baron stuff.