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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The [=CyberKing=] looks like something out of a UsefulNotes/Playstation2 cutscene, even by the standards of 2008.

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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The [=CyberKing=] looks like something out of a UsefulNotes/Playstation2 Platform/PlayStation2 cutscene, even by the standards of 2008.
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Evil Is Sexy TRS; this has become an objective, in-universe trope.


* EvilIsSexy: Miss Hartigan, thanks to Dervla Kirwan's voice and red dress.
-->''"I saw you looking, you cheeky boy."''
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Could HAVE, not could of.


* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: In a sense. Once Jackson's identity is revealed and there is no longer a mystery to solve, Jackson himself becomes nothing more than an incidental character, with most of the work in the climax being done by the regular Doctor as Jackson stands by as a witness. As WebVideo/DiamandaHagan points out in her review, Jackson could have easily confronted the Cyber-King in his balloon, and the Doctor could of then stepped in to throw it into the Time Vortex.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: In a sense. Once Jackson's identity is revealed and there is no longer a mystery to solve, Jackson himself becomes nothing more than an incidental character, with most of the work in the climax being done by the regular Doctor as Jackson stands by as a witness. As WebVideo/DiamandaHagan points out in her review, Jackson could have easily confronted the Cyber-King in his balloon, and the Doctor could of then have stepped in to throw it into the Time Vortex.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: In a sense. Once Jackson's identity is revealed and there is no longer a mystery to solve, Jackson himself becomes nothing more than an incidental character, with most of the work in the climax being done by the regular Doctor as Jackson stands by as a witness. As WebVideo/DiamandaHagan points out in her review, Jackson could have easily confronted the Cyber-King in his balloon, and the Doctor could of then stepped in to throw it into the Time Vortex.

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I confused this with the Trivia page.


* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/RussellTDavies lamented that only after filming the special did he realize it would have been a better ending for the Doctor to convince the dying Miss Hartigan to spare London by phase shifting the falling [=CyberKing=] instead of introducing a "silly Dalek dimension vault" into the plot to do it.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/RussellTDavies lamented that only after filming the special did he realize it would have been a better ending for the Doctor to convince the dying Miss Hartigan to spare London by phase shifting the falling [=CyberKing=] instead of introducing a "silly Dalek dimension vault" into the plot to do it.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Before the twist is revealed, it appears this episode is about a future incarnation of the Doctor who doesn't remember his past incarnations. Come "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon Fugitive of the Judoon]]" in Series 12, it turns out that The Thirteenth Doctor is this for real.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Before the twist is revealed, it appears this episode is about a future incarnation of the Doctor who doesn't remember his past incarnations. Come "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon Fugitive of the Judoon]]" in Series 12, it turns out that The the Thirteenth Doctor is this for real.




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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/RussellTDavies lamented that only after filming the special did he realize it would have been a better ending for the Doctor to convince the dying Miss Hartigan to spare London by phase shifting the falling [=CyberKing=] instead of introducing a "silly Dalek dimension vault" into the plot to do it.
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->''"I saw you looking, you cheeky boy."''

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->''"I -->''"I saw you looking, you cheeky boy."'' "''
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* EvilIsSexy: Miss Hartigan, thanks to her sultry voice and red dress.

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* EvilIsSexy: Miss Hartigan, thanks to her sultry Dervla Kirwan's voice and red dress.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The Cyberking looks like something out of a UsefulNotes/Playstation2 cutscene, even by the standards of 2008.

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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The Cyberking [=CyberKing=] looks like something out of a UsefulNotes/Playstation2 cutscene, even by the standards of 2008.
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*EvilIsSexy: Miss Hartigan, thanks to her sultry voice and red dress.
->''"I saw you looking, you cheeky boy."''
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The Cyberking looks like something out of a UsefulNotes/Playstaion2 cutscene, even by the standards of 2008.

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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The Cyberking looks like something out of a UsefulNotes/Playstaion2 UsefulNotes/Playstation2 cutscene, even by the standards of 2008.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Before the twist is revealed, it appears this episode is about a future incarnation of the Doctor who doesn't remember his past incarnations. Come ''Fugitive of the Judoon'' in Series 12, it turns out that The Thirteenth Doctor is this for real.

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* FanficFuel: Creator/RussellTDavies said that he would like to write a BBC Books novel, set in the midst of that brief scene where Jackson Lake is in the Doctor's TARDIS in which the Doctor takes Jackson to another planet, ending with the "no no no" scene before Jackson invites the Doctor to spend Christmas dinner with him.
* HilariousInHindsight: Before the twist is revealed, it appears this episode is about a future incarnation of the Doctor who doesn't remember his past incarnations. Come ''Fugitive "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon Fugitive of the Judoon'' Judoon]]" in Series 12, it turns out that The Thirteenth Doctor is this for real.



* SpecialEffectsFailure: The Cyberking looks like something out of a [=PS2=] cutscene, even by the standards of 2008.

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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The Cyberking looks like something out of a [=PS2=] UsefulNotes/Playstaion2 cutscene, even by the standards of 2008.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: The "Next" Doctor is actually [[Series/TheWalkingDead the Governor]].

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* {{Narm}}: Miss Hartigan screaming extremely hammily as the Cybermen and she blow up is the most unintentionally hilarious moment in the entirety of the Tenth Doctor's run.
* RetroactiveRecognition: The "Next" Doctor is actually [[Series/TheWalkingDead the Governor]]. Governor]].
* SpecialEffectsFailure: The Cyberking looks like something out of a [=PS2=] cutscene, even by the standards of 2008.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Before the twist is revealed, it appears this episode is about a future incarnation of the Doctor who doesn't remember his past incarnations. Come ''Fugitive of the Judoon'' in Series 12, it turns out that The Thirteenth Doctor is this for real.



* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Well, ''wasted'' may not be the word, but despite the brilliance of the twist here, the untwisted concept of this episode is still arresting: getting to meet a future Doctor before they make their actual debut through a multi-Doctor episode where, instead of past selves coming back, it's a future self coming to help the then-current Doctor. We ''technically'' got that with Creator/PeterCapaldi's cameo in [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]], but first, that was only one episode before the actual regeneration, making it a bit moot, and second, it was a one-second thing that didn't even really show his face, rather than a whole episode's worth of interaction.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Well, ''wasted'' may not be the word, but despite the brilliance of the twist here, the untwisted concept of this episode is still arresting: getting to meet a future Doctor before they make their actual debut through a multi-Doctor episode where, instead of past selves coming back, it's a future self coming to help the then-current Doctor. We ''technically'' got that with Creator/PeterCapaldi's cameo in [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]], but first, that was only one episode before the actual regeneration, making it a bit moot, and second, it was a one-second thing that didn't even really show his face, rather than a whole episode's worth of interaction.
interaction. This may have not happened if the episode hadn't falsely advertised the next Doctor and been upfront about its premise.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Well, ''wasted'' may not be the word, but despite the brilliance of the twist here, the untwisted concept of this episode is still arresting: getting to meet a future Doctor before they make their actual debut through a multi-Doctor episode where, instead of past selves coming back, it's a future self coming to help the then-current Doctor. We ''technically'' got that with Peter Capaldi's cameo in [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]], but first, that was only one episode before the actual regeneration, making it a bit moot, and second, it was a one-second thing that didn't even really show his face, rather than a whole episode's worth of interaction.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Well, ''wasted'' may not be the word, but despite the brilliance of the twist here, the untwisted concept of this episode is still arresting: getting to meet a future Doctor before they make their actual debut through a multi-Doctor episode where, instead of past selves coming back, it's a future self coming to help the then-current Doctor. We ''technically'' got that with Peter Capaldi's Creator/PeterCapaldi's cameo in [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]], but first, that was only one episode before the actual regeneration, making it a bit moot, and second, it was a one-second thing that didn't even really show his face, rather than a whole episode's worth of interaction.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: The "Next" Doctor is actually [[Series/TheWalkingDead The Governor]].
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Well, ''wasted'' may not be the word, but despite the brilliance of the twist here, the untwisted concept of this episode is still arresting: getting to meet a future Doctor before they make their actual debut through a multi-Doctor episode where, instead of past selves coming back, it's a future self coming to help the then-current Doctor. We ''technically'' got that with Peter Capaldi's cameo in ''Day of the Doctor'', but first, that was only one episode before the actual regeneration, making it a bit moot, and second, it was a one-second thing that didn't even really show his face, rather than a whole episode's worth of interaction.

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* IAmNotShazam: Strangely, the "Doctor Who" misconception rears its head in the closing credits, making this the only new series episode after Series 1 not to credit the actor playing the Doctor as "The Doctor".
* RetroactiveRecognition: The "Next" Doctor is actually [[Series/TheWalkingDead The the Governor]].
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Well, ''wasted'' may not be the word, but despite the brilliance of the twist here, the untwisted concept of this episode is still arresting: getting to meet a future Doctor before they make their actual debut through a multi-Doctor episode where, instead of past selves coming back, it's a future self coming to help the then-current Doctor. We ''technically'' got that with Peter Capaldi's cameo in ''Day [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor'', Doctor"]], but first, that was only one episode before the actual regeneration, making it a bit moot, and second, it was a one-second thing that didn't even really show his face, rather than a whole episode's worth of interaction.interaction.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: The "Next" Doctor is actually [[Series/TheWalkingDead The Governor]].
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Well, ''wasted'' may not be the word, but despite the brilliance of the twist here, the untwisted concept of this episode is still arresting: getting to meet a future Doctor before they make their actual debut through a multi-Doctor episode where, instead of past selves coming back, it's a future self coming to help the then-current Doctor. We ''technically'' got that with Peter Capaldi's cameo in ''Day of the Doctor'', but first, that was only one episode before the actual regeneration, making it a bit moot, and second, it was a one-second thing that didn't even really show his face, rather than a whole episode's worth of interaction.

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