Big Finish Doctor Who/Recap/054 The Natural History of Fear

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  • 001 The Sirens of Time
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  • 028 Invaders From Mars
  • 029 The Chimes of Midnight
  • 030 Seasons of Fear
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  • 035 ...ish
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  • 038 The Church and the Crown
  • 039 Bang Bang a Boom
  • 040 Jubilee
  • 043 Doctor Who and the Pirates
  • 044 Creatures of Beauty
  • 046 Flip Flop
  • 048 Davros
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  • 054 The Natural History of Fear
  • 057 Arrangements for War
  • 071 The Council of Nicaea
  • 074 Night Thoughts
  • 085 Red
  • 086 The Reaping
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  • 091 Circular Time
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  • 102 The Minds Eye
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  • 123 The Company of Friends
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  • 134 The Wreck of the Titan
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  • 137 The Whispering Forest
  • 140 A Death in the Family
  • 142 The Demons of Red Lodge
  • 144 The Feast of Axos
  • 146 Heroes of Sontar
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    • E06 No More Lies
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    • E07 Human Resources Part One
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    • E08 Human Resources Part Two
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    • E01 Dead London
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    • E02 Max Warp
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    • E07 The Eight Truths
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    • E04 The Book of Kells
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    • E07 Relative Dimensions
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    • E07 Peri and the Piscon Paradox
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    • E08 The Perpetual Bond
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    • E12 The Cold Equations
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    • E05 The Crystal of Cantus
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    • E04 Summer of Love
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    • E01 The Tub Full of Cats
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The Doctor, Charlie and C'rizz land in Light City, a bright, clean city that uses mind erasure to ensure that its inhabitants don't cause trouble. The trio arrive in the middle of Jubilee, the one day of the year citizens are allowed to ask questions. When they're swept up by the crowd and captured, the Doctor makes a bargain with the Mayor to save his companions. And...it gets infinitely weirder and darker from there.

"This is the voice Light City. Welcome to your new work day."

Tropes

• Ascetic Aesthetic
• Big Brother Is Watching
• Chekhov's Gun: The spinning top.
• Dystopia
• The Ending Changes Everything
• Happiness Is Mandatory: "Happiness through acceptance, productivity through happiness."
• Homage: The whole thing is a homage to the concepts explored in Dark City.
• In Medias Res
• Language Equals Thought
• Laser-Guided Amnesia
• Light Is Not Good
• Painting the Medium: and done beautifully.
• Mind Rape
• Mind Screw
• Mind Wipe
• Released to Elsewhere: "going on holiday" does not mean what it means. You don't die, though, you just get mindwiped.
• Show Within a Show: There's a version of Doctor Who in this story.
• Shout Out: The memory-erasing faction is called Ministry of Tourism.
• Tomato Surprise
• Wham Line: "Eight, of course!"