Line #7 Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheLastDay


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2	[[caption-width-right:330:Pictured: 15 airborne Daleks on Gallifrey (and the butt of one partially off-image). Not pictured: approximately '''a billion billion''' more.[[note]]And, no, that's ''not'' an accidental repeat of a word as, according to the War Doctor, there are "a billion billion Daleks" firing on the planet in ''The Day of the Doctor''. That is, '''one ''quintillion''''', a one followed by ''18'' zeroes.[[/note]] Welcome to the final day of the Time War. [[PrepareToDie Prepare to be exterminated.]] Be warned - it's gonna ''suck.'']]
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4	->''"Nothing can get past the sky trench. But if just one Dalek made it through, it could destroy this entire city. That's all it would take. One Dalek. One Dalek, acting alone, and we're finished."''
5	-->-- A '''Time Lord soldier''' who had '''NO''' idea how bad the situation was about to get.
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7	JustForFun/{{The one w\|ith}}here the Daleks ZergRush Gallifrey.
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9	A ''Doctor Who'' minisode released on iTunes on the 20th of November 2013, serving as [[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor another prequel]] to "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]". It takes place shortly after the events of the novel ''[[Recap/NewSeriesAdventuresEnginesOfWar Engines of War]]''.
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13	Someone is fitted with a head-cam which, in the event of his death, will transmit all the information to his family drive. It is an ordinary day for this new recruit. However, the installation of his head-cam is giving him problems. He can't speak, and it's causing terrifying mental flashes that indicate ominous events are approaching. He is at Arcadia, apparently "the safest place on Gallifrey". Another soldier tells him that Arcadia is protected by 400 sky-trenches, nobody in history has got through even two[[note]] Although we all know The Doctor's probably tried it before, just because he can![[/note]]. However, one Dalek would be enough to destroy them all.
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15	The first soldier has the recruit try out the scanners in his head-cam. While scanning, he notices a blur in the clouds. Zooming in to focus, he sees a Dalek. The recruit's heart starts pulsing madly as the other soldier urges him to lock on and follow that Dalek wherever it goes. Arcadia goes on maximum alert. An alarm is sounded for one Dalek incoming, but then the true threat strikes, as '''approximately a billion billion Daleks''' pour down from the skies. One stops in front of the recruit and fires, killing the recruit.
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17	The rest... well, that ends about as well as you'd ''expect'' it to end.
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19	You can watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eem2Ehq_xBI on YouTube]].
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22	The last day of the Time War is underway. That same soldier who thought one Dalek was bad enough will now rush down to the residential areas of Gallifrey, after the sky trenches have been lost. He tells the War Council that Arcadia has fallen, and retreats to a ruined street for cover. Here, he will meet an elderly man out of nowhere, [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor asking the soldier that he needs to borrow his gun...]]
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25	!!Tropes:
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27	* ContinuityNod:
28	** The soldiers' red armour and round helmet design resemble the Chancellery Guards' uniforms from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime The Invasion of Time]]".
29	** One of the POV soldier's hallucinations/premonitions involves [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary Vashta]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Nerada]].
30	* {{Determinator}}: To the Daleks, who have been so dogged at removing the Time Lords from the universe for the better part of four centuries that they've finally [[WeHaveReserves sent just about every one of their kind to one place]] so they could perform a one-sided veritable slaughter of the species.
31	* DizzyCam: Done from the POV of a soldier who is among the first to see the Daleks have got through the sky-trenches.
32	* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: It's mentioned it would take only one Dalek getting through the sky trenches to destroy all of Arcadia. Now imagine what '''a billion billion of them''' would do...
33	* HeroicMime: The POV character temporarily lost the ability to speak when first integrated into his armour.
34	* InsistentTerminology: The visions of their impending imminent death are '''{{hallucinations}}''', not premonitions.
35	* JustBeforeTheEnd: The Last Day of Gallifrey.
36	* MirrorScare: With the POV soldier seeing his face as a Vashta Nerada.
37	* MoodWhiplash: It's a fairly low-key short as you see the Time Lord soldier being outfitted with a suit of armor. Then the screen suddenly flips to the same soldier outfitting the viewpoint guy screaming "RUN! EVERYBODY, JUST '''RUN'''!"
38	* OhCrap: The soldier helping him absolutely freaks out when he sees a Dalek has got through.
39	* POVCam: The screen is the soldier's personal camera. This lets the audience see the war as if they were the soldier.
40	* ShockingDefeatLegacy: Arcadia, "safest place on Gallifrey", falls to the Daleks.
41	* SoundEffectBleep: "There's a language filter, so it will cut any time you say--" (''screen pixels out, then jump cuts to a later moment'')
42	* TemptingFate: Safest place on Gallifrey indeed... Nothing can get through the sky-trenches indeed...
43	* ThisCannotBe: That couldn't possibly be a Dalek.... There are 400 sky trenches....
44	* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Saying nothing can get through the sky-trenches.
45	* YouWontFeelAThing: "From now on the head-cam is downloading directly to your memory. A tiny part of your brain is now a hard-drive. Takes up hardly any space, you won't feel a thing. Now, at the beginning sometimes this has side effects--" ''[cut to vision of a screaming soldier]''
46	* WhamLine: One for those who remember the Tenth Doctor's admission in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday Doomsday]]"...
47	--> '''Time Lord Soldier:''' Welcome to [[ResolvedNoodleIncident Arcadia]].
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49	-->'''''"RUN, EVERYBODY RUN!! JUST RUN!!!"'''''

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