YMMV / Doctor Who S14 E1 "The Masque of Mandragora"

• Ho Yay:
  • Duke Giuliano and Marco are beyond blatant, with Undying Loyalty on both ends. Giuliano trusts Marco enough to confide in him unquestioningly despite his uncle's spies being everywhere, while Marco is so devoted to the Duke he'll willingly endure Medieval-style torture rather than betray him. Marco also says "We have weapons of our own" while staring at Guiliano's crotch.
  • Giuliano appears to be attracted to the Doctor in their first scene together, looking him up and down appraisingly and remarking, "a most uncommon spy!". At the end of the story he literally gives the Doctor a large sausage.
• Memetic Mutation: Thanks to the 2018 Twitch stream, the Doctor's exclamation of "I wouldn't even say no to a salami sandwich" has become this, becoming the stream's biggest meme since "London 1965".
• Special Effect Failure: With a keen eye, one can figure out that that the Mandragora Helix in Part 1 is just a shot of polystyrene (styrofoam for US viewers) pellets being stirred in a whirlpool of blue paint.
• Viewer Pronunciation Confusion: The word "Mandragora" is clearly pronounced as "man-DRAG-uh-ra" throughtout the story, but many fans instead pronounce it as "man-dra-GORE-a".

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