Line #20 Recap/BlakesSevenS3E10Ultraworld


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ultraworld.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:It's called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ultraworld]]. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Show of hands for reversing course?]]]]
3	[[AC:Written by Trevor Hoyle.\
4	Directed by Vere Lorrimer.\
5	Airdate: 10 March 1980.]]
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7	The Liberator encounters an artificial planet that turns out to be a vast computer system. When Cally teleports across to it without explanation the crew have to rescue her.
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9	!!This episode has the following tropes:
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11	* AesopAmnesia: You'd think after the last episode the crew would keep well away from any mysterious alien structures floating in space.
12	* AliensMadeThemDoIt: For some reason the Ultra's have little knowledge of human mating procedures, and insist that Dayna and Tarrant demonstrate for them.
13	* AManIsAlwaysEager: Averted. While the Ultras [[AliensMadeThemDoIt try and make them do it]], Tarrant is noticeably more reluctant than Dayna, and doesn't start playing along until [[ShipTease she practically jumps him]] (albeit as part of a FakeOutMakeout).
14	* BackhandedCompliment: Avon to Vila. "Orac is saying that a logical, rational intelligence is no match for yours."
15	* BodyHorror:
16	** The Ultras have external veins running over their bodies.
17	** As the Core collapses, the final Ultra's [[FacialHorror face starts to disintegrate]].
18	* BrainUploading: Happens to Cally and Avon, with their [[HumanResources bodies due to be absorbed into the Core]]. Fortunately Dayna and Tarrant are able to rescue them and retrieve their memory cylinders, though at the last minute Tarrant worries he might have [[FreakyFridayFlip accidentally loaded them into the wrong bodies]].
19	* ButIWouldReallyEnjoyIt: During their FakeOutMakeOut, Dayna has to tell Tarrant to go ahead and kiss her. "I can't be that repulsive."
20	* ButtMonkey: The episode goes out of its way to present Vila as a [[IdiotBall frivolous moron]].
21	* CallBack: Dayna deploys the same type of wheeled drone bomb that she used in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E6CityAtTheEdgeOfTheWorld City at the Edge of the World]]". And she still isn't carrying a pouch for it!
22	* ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: The line is delivered verbatim when Vila is alone on the ''Liberator'' and aliens start sending MindControl waves onto the ship.
23	* ConveyorBeltODoom: An unconscious Cally is strapped onto a conveyor belt to be assimilated into the giant brain running Ultraworld. She is saved at the last minute, the other characters having to contend with zombie-like baddies, who switch the machine back on each time they switch it off -- cue lots of fake fighting.....
24	* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: Avon really wants to check out the artificial planet; the others less so. They compromise on orbiting at what they assume is a safe distance.
25	* CutPhoneLines: The teleport bracelets get smashed.
26	* DefeatEqualsExplosion: Or in this case -- brain rupture, then explosion.
27	* DesignatedVictim: Cally has her mind taken over by aliens [[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E9Sarcophagus twice in a row!]]
28	* DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo
29	-->'''Tarrant:''' How was that, darling? More comfortable?
30	-->'''Dayna:''' Oh ''yes'', much better! Thank you, darling.
31	-->''(Throws a microgrenade. Ultra monitoring room shakes from an explosion)''
32	-->'''Ultra:''' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Is that the bonding ceremony?]]
33	* DontExplainTheJoke: Orac keeps doing this to Vila's horror.
34	* EmptyShell: The Menials
35	* EternalEnglish: Vila's puns reference parking meters and tin tacks, which apparently still exist in the future under those names.
36	* ExactEavesdropping: Tarrant overhears what the Ultras are really planning.
37	* FacePalm: Vila does a double face-palm when [[NotNowKiddo Orac is more interested in riddles]] than the Core trying to brainwash him.
38	* HyperspaceArsenal: Dayna doesn't have a pouch to hold the drone-bomb she uses to rescue Tarrant. Though justified with the microgrenade she has [[HiddenWeapons hidden in her mouth]].
39	* HypocriticalHumour
40	-->'''Tarrant:''' I still don't see why [Cally] went down. It doesn't make sense.
41	-->'''Dayna:''' That's what ''we're'' doing.
42	* IllTimedSneeze: Dayna sneezes causing a Menial to turn to face her... [[EmptyShell only to do nothing]], even when she waves her hand in front of his face.
43	* InsideAComputerSystem: The entire planet is a computer-brain and its support system.
44	* InsignificantBluePlanet: Earth is unremarkable, though apparently humans are still of interest.
45	* TheInternetIsForPorn: Apparently not in the future, as the Ultras know everything about humans except their mating practices.
46	* InvisibleAliens: Averted; the Ultras have recorded millions of species.
47	* LamePunReaction: The first time Vila tells a riddle, Orac switches itself off in irritation.
48	* LaughingAtYourOwnJokes: Vila, presumably because no-one else finds them funny.
49	* LeeroyJenkins: Tarrant and Dayna want to rush to Cally's rescue. As they point out, how can you plan when facing an OutsideContextProblem?
50	* LuredIntoATrap: With a fake DistressCall from Cally.
51	* MechanisticAlienCulture: The Ultra are blue-skinned humanoid creatures either summoned or created by Ultraworld (a living, artificial planet/giant computer centered around an enormous brain) to interact with captured starship crews, whom Ultraworld intends to [[TheAssimilator absorb into its gestalt]]. They walk with a jerky gait and speak in odd, robot-like cadences. The "menials," assimilated humanoid servants, are also examples of this trope: their identity, memories and emotions are recorded on a tube and stored in a library. They behave mechanistically as they toil about, maintaining Ultraworld.
52	* MomentKiller: Dayna and Tarrant are snogging when a camera lowers down from the roof.
53	-->'''Ultra:''' Has the bonding ceremony begun?
54	-->'''Dayna:''' [[SarcasmMode You could say so, but we do better without interruptions.]] ''(pulls Tarrant down onto the bed)''
55	* MyBrainIsBig: The Core is a huge brain at the heart of Ultraworld.
56	* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Cally looks apprehensive the moment she lays eyes on Ultraworld. Then she has a hallucination of a [[NightmareRetardant glitter ball]] and covers her face in horror.
57	* NeverSleepAgain: Avon struggles not to fall unconscious so his mind can be wiped, but eventually succumbs.
58	* NeverTellMeTheOdds
59	-->'''Tarrant:''' It's a calculated risk.
60	-->'''Avon:''' [[SarcasmMode Calculated on what -- your fingers?]]
61	* NothingUpMySleeve: Lampshaded by Tarrant when Dayna turns out to have a bomb in her ''tooth!''
62	* NotSoAboveItAll: Orac finds it's interested in Vila's riddles after all.
63	* OurDoorsAreDifferent: Triangular doors open in the artificial planet to [[MegaMawManeuver admit the Liberator]].
64	* {{Planetville}}: Justified as it's an artificial construction with a single purpose.
65	* PsychicStatic: Vila resists the brainwashing with limericks. Orac feeds this nonsense back to the Core as a LogicBomb.
66	* RammingAlwaysWorks: The Liberator is held in the capture hold with enormous metal pylons. Our heroes turn the ship against the pylons and maintain thrust until they snap.
67	* ResistanceIsFutile
68	-->'''Ultra:''' They struggle. They fight against it. But none can resist the power of the Core.
69	* RightThroughHisPants: Justified as Dayna and Tarrant are just doing a FakeOutMakeout until they can escape. They'd want to keep their clothes on so they can move quickly, and the Ultras [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove don't seem to understand the 'bonding' anyway]].
70	* SeriesContinuityError: The Ultras say that Avon attempted to embezzle 500 million credits, whereas in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E2SpaceFall Space Fall]]" it was said to be five million. Still, as this information was taken from Cally's memory, perhaps he was boasting?
71	* SleightOfTongue: During their FakeOutMakeout, Tarrant helps remove a microgrenade Dayna has hidden in a tooth. She then [[PinPullingTeeth primes it with her teeth]] and throws it over her shoulder after quietly counting down the timer with Tarrant.
72	* StompyMooks: The Menials tramp in formation.
73	* {{Technobabble}}
74	-->'''Ultra 2:''' There is another process involved. Nucleoplasmic absorption.
75	-->'''Tarrant:''' Oh, well that’s a relief. I thought it might be something complicated.
76	* ThisCannotBe
77	** The Ultras response when the Core starts collapsing.
78	** Avon's response when Vila says he's teaching Orac (about riddles)
79	-->'''Avon:''' Vila is teaching Orac? No, it doesn't make sense.
80	* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: After being [[MindControl frozen in place]] the first time he draws a weapon on the Ultras, Tarrant fires the moment he encounters them again.
81	* WeakWilled: The Ultras use this exact term to describe Vila, whom they attempt to brainwash so he can hand over the Liberator.
82	* WorldOfSnark: "Ignore him. That's what passes for wit on our ship."
83	* YouWontFeelAThing

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