Line #7 Recap/DoctorWho2009ASDreamland


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4	-> ''"Oh, come on. I thought the fifties were supposed to be a time for optimism. I mean, you think you're going to have flying cars in another ten years."''
5	-->-- '''The Doctor'''
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7	JustForFun/{{The one\|With}} that's ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2007TDWASTheInfiniteQuest not]]'' animated in [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]]!
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9	A [[AllCGICartoon CGI-animated]] ''Series/DoctorWho'' miniseries. Set between "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]", during the gap where the Doctor is running from his death.
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11	The Doctor breezes into a GreasySpoon in [[TheFifties 1950s]] New Mexico, in search of some quality junk food. Behind the counter of this one is Creator/GeorgiaMoffett, sporting a surprisingly good American accent; in front of the counter is Jimmy Stalkingwolf, a Stereotypical Native American; and on the counter is a [[PowerGlows weird glowy thing]], left over from a flying saucer crash a few years ago.
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13	''This'' should end well.
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15	Within minutes, they've been spotted by a Viperox battle drone, nearly captured by a [[TheMenInBlack Man in Black]], and then ''really'' captured by Colonel Stark and the rest of TheArmy, and taken to Area 51, a.k.a. Dreamland, a.k.a. the SecretGovernmentWarehouse full of cool alien stuff.
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17	Less cool and more horrible is an actual ''alien'', a live one, being held prisoner in the ElaborateUndergroundBase ever since her spaceship crashed several years before. Our Heroes don't get a chance to do much more than wave at her before they're bustled off to have their memories wiped, but the Doctor makes a mental note on his to-do list.
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19	So once they've escaped, Jimmy Stalkingwolf takes them to see his grandpa, Night Eagle, only to get captured by TheMenInBlack — actually Robots in Black — and get saved by Night Eagle and his buddies, who take out the robots using ''bows and arrows'', of all things. Night Eagle and friends are keeping ''another'' alien, of the same race as the Army's, in hiding. He's the husband of the first one, the one being kept prisoner in Dreamland, and he knows that the cool glowy thing in Cassie's diner isn't benign: it's a ''genocide bomb''.
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22	!!Tropes:
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24	* TheFifties: The setting for this story.
25	* ActionPrologue: Begins with an alien ship being pursued and attacked, crashing into the New Mexico Desert in 1947.
26	* AirVentPassageway: Used by the Doctor, Jimmy and Cassie to make their escape from Dreamland.
27	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Viperox are your typical ScaryDogmaticAliens intent on destroying all in their path... but the Doctor reveals they are still evolving, and by a future miracle will become more peaceful.
28	* AnimeHair: The Tenth Doctor's already distinctive gelled hair is taken up to eleven.
29	* ApocalypseHow: From the sounds of it, the Viperox inflict a ApocalypseHow/Class2 on every world they successfully conquer (possibly a ApocalypseHow/Class4 in terms of the non-sapient biosphere). The Doctor states the Viperox "savage and decimate" every attacked world, but also that there's a good chance that there could well be ''something'' (if not much) left of the Gray aliens' homeworld for them to live on and salvage after the Viperox attacked it. The Viperox's plan is to "tear [planet Earth] to shreds" for humanity as soon as their TeethClenchedTeamwork is at an end.
30	* Area51: A.k.a. [[TitleDrop Dreamland]].
31	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: [[http://www.sfreporter.com/uploads/2009/11/drwho_roswell.JPG This anachronistic sign]] from the establishing shot of the first episode places Interstate 25 within 35 miles (36 kilometres, for the rest of the world) of Roswell, when [[AnachronismStew Interstates didn't exist yet]], and I-25, when built, would be more than 100 miles (160 kilometres) west of Roswell at its closest point.
32	* AttackDrone: The Viperox.
33	* TheBigBoard: Complete with the Soviet Union marked in red with a Hammer and Sickle (subtlety never really worked in ''Series/DoctorWho'').
34	* BigDamnHeroes: Thanks to Night Eagle's ImprobableAimingSkills.
35	* {{Bowdlerise}}: Colonel Stark's unsubtle line about the only cure for a communist being a bullet is usually cut out of reruns.
36	* TheBrigadier: Stark (after a spell as [[GeneralRipper Colonel Ripper]]).
37	* BugWar: TheGreys are at war with the insectoid Viperox.
38	* {{Cliffhanger}}: Being broadcast in 7-10 minute parts does that.
39	* CapturedSuperEntity: The alien at Area 51.
40	* ContinuityNod: ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' has made a few references to this episode. Androvax has a ship based on blueprints from the Roswell crash, and the Alliance of Shades themselves appear in the series four story [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS4E3E4TheVaultOfSecrets "The Vault of Secrets"]].
41	* {{Eagleland}}: America (especially the military) is painted in a negative light.
42	* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The Viperox hive beneath Dreamland.
43	* ETGaveUsWiFi: The amnesia gas is extraterrestrial.
44	* EvilBrit: [[Creator/DavidWarner Lord Azlok]] is the only other character in all 6 episodes to have a British accent.
45	* ExplosiveBreeders: The Viperox don't transport an invasion force to a targeted world...
46	-->'''The Doctor:''' They land, go underground and ''hatch one''.
47	* FlyingSaucer: It’s a story set in Roswell, [[RoswellThatEndsWell this is a given]].
48	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Another hint is dropped of the Doctor's impending fate.
49	-->"Your day ''will'' come, Doctor!"
50	* GeneralRipper: Colonel Stark plays his role, until the Doctor informs him of Lord Azlok’s intentions,
51	* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Weaponised version.
52	* GiantFlyer: The Viperox have wings and can fly.
53	* GreasySpoon: Cassie works in Sammie’s Pitshop, which she inherited from her mother. WordOfGod is that it gets destroyed during the chaos.
54	* TheGreys: The captured alien and her husband.
55	* HeelRaceTurn: The Doctor states the Viperox will one day make this and become peace-loving, suggesting he knows from seeing the future, and it's part of his justification for actively avoiding inflicting the Viperox's total extinction.
56	* IdiotBall: The soldiers ''never'' confiscate the sonic screwdriver even after the Doctor uses it to escape multiple times.
57	* ImmuneToBullets: The Viperox continue this great ''Series/DoctorWho'' tradition.
58	* ImprobableAimingSkills: Possessed by Night Eagle.
59	* InkSuitActor: Creator/GeorgiaMoffett's character Cassie.
60	* MagicalNativeAmerican: Borderline example in practice but definitely in spirit.
61	* TheMenInBlack: Robot Men in Black with SinisterShades. (It is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] that their organisation is called the Alliance of Shades.)
62	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The head Alliance of Shades agent introduces himself as Mr Dread. The Doctor quips that the others must be Mr Fear, Mr Terror and Mr Apprehension.
63	* PowerGlows: The modified Ionic Fusion Bar that Mr. Dread is after.
64	* PungeonMaster: The Doctor gets in a particularly groan-worthy one after escaping the warehouse in a crate.
65	* RedScare: Colonel Stark is intent on removing communism from the world.
66	* RoswellThatEndsWell: The aliens at Roswell were escaping from their enemies with a secret weapon to win their war.
67	* SecretGovernmentWarehouse: With Area 51 as a prominent setting, this is a given.
68	* ShoutOut:
69	** [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk The warehouse might seem familiar]] to fans of Franchise/IndianaJones.
70	** When the Doctor and the female alien are hiding in a box, she asks if his plan is to [[VideoGame/MetalGear escape like a snake]].
71	* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: The Doctor and his companions in the first part, though they escape in short order.
72	* TakeMeToYourLeader: The Doctor says this when the military arrests him and the others,
73	* TakeThat: Briefly touched on in a very bitter, but thankfully not-long statement by Jimmy in regards to the army. Specifically, that the US military can do whatever it wants if it's deemed necessary, and has been doing so since the infamous Bear River Massacre (one of the very many less-than-redeemable behaviours of US expansionism against the American Indians).
74	* WastelandElder: Night Eagle, Jimmy Stalkingwolf's grandfather.
75	* WindowLove: How Rivesh Mantilax interacts with his wife when they’re separated.
76	* XenomorphXerox: The Viperox Queen has a similar look and posture to Alien Queen from ''Film/{{Aliens}}''.
77	* YoureInsane: Lord Azlok's response to the Doctor insisting the Viperox will one day become a peaceful species is to derisively call his assertion madness.
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