Line #17 Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS3E3TheBeastOfOrlok


1	Lucie and the Eighth Doctor end up in the Black Forest of Germany, 1827. Pretty much immediately, they stumble on an adventure that's a seamless mix of Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, Myth/{{Faust}}, ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'', ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', The {{Golem}} and Franchise/{{Superman}}.
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3	Two siblings named Hans and Grete are reunited when Hans comes home from university for a bit. While Hans gets involved in some local monster attacks, Grete decides to go check out the local travelling mystic. They both find out that they're alien Golems (illegal soldier drones), and that they're prototypes for a new race of them that can feel, think, learn and adapt.
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5	The Doctor makes a requisite HeroicSacrifice, Lucie and the TARDIS save him, and they're all rewarded with delicious Black Forest cake.
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8	!!Tropes
9	* AristocratsAreEvil: The original Baron Teufel was the Beast of Orlok.
10	* ArtificialHuman: Hans and Grete.
11	* [[GirlOfTheWeek Boy of the Week]]: Hans and Lucie have a rather flirtatious relationship, leading up to what sounds an awful lot like a kiss at the end. But then she's got to hit the road with the Doctor.
12	* DeadpanSnarker: As usual, Eight turns into one when he's in a DeathTrap, to the point where it's starting to sound like a coping mechanism.
13	* DressingAsTheEnemy: Unintentionally -- Lucie gets mistaken for a Golem because her escape from the castle left her CoveredInMud.
14	* EyeScream: What Todd did to Teufel using a burning branch when he tried to take Hans and Grete. The fact Baron Teufel sees Lucie causes her to realise he's an imposter.
15	* FortuneTeller: Judah pretends to be one, for purposes that seem more nefarious than they really are.
16	* {{Golem}}
17	* HappilyAdopted: Hans and Grete.
18	* HistoricalInJoke: Lucie ends up advising Frau Tod to patent her old family recipe for what becomes known as Black Forest gateau.
19	* MadScientistLaboratory: The Doctor is quite impressed by the secret basement laboratory in the old castle, complete with en-suite bubbling tar pit.
20	* MamaBear: Frau Tod, ''hardcore''. She's willing to kill people to protect her adopted children.
21	* MeaningfulName: ''Everyone''. "Tod" means "death", "Hans" and "Grete" are the regular forms of "Hansel" and "Gretel" (which are cutesy versions), "Orlok" is the eponymous Film/{{Nosferatu}}, "Teufel" means "devil", and "Lugner" is a misspelling of "Lügner", meaning "liar". "Judah", the man who takes care of the Golems, evokes "Jude", meaning "jew".
22	* MuggleFosterParents: Frau Tod to Hans and Grete.
23	* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The Doctor jokes to Lucie that the TARDIS has a big red Doctor-homing button. When he's crushed underneath a building, Lucie actually ''finds'' that button, although it's in fact green and a lever. It's very possible that the TARDIS grew it by herself on the spot, just to save her Doctor.
24	* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Creator/PaulMcGann makes one valiant attempt at pronouncing "Schwarzwald", but after that, all German words and names are pronounced the British way by everyone.
25	* ScoobyDooHoax: Or not. Kind of, but not really.
26	* SherlockScan: The Doctor quickly deduces that they're in the late 1820s just from the type of pistol Hans is using and the fact that he didn't know what a meteorite was even though he's clearly an intelligent and well-educated young man.
27	* SpotTheImpostor: Todd realises that 'Baron Teufel' is an impostor when Lucie mentions the way the Baron looked at her because Todd blinded the real Baron.
28	* SuperSoldier: Golems.
29	* TomatoInTheMirror: Hans and Grete discover that they're a new kind of sentient Golems.

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