Doctor Who/Recap/S11/E02 Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Difference between revisions

The Doctor and the Brigadier raid the underground HQ of the conspiracy, helped when Sarah enlightens the "colonists", who rebel. In a struggle with the Doctor over the controls of the time machine, Whittaker accidentally transports himself and Grover back to the time of the dinosaurs. The Brigadier offers Yates the chance to resign quietly.

 

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Sarah tackles a knife wielding thug and stops him from stabbing the doctor.

* [[Don't Shoot the Message]]: The gist of the Doctor's speech at the end.

* [[Easily Forgiven]]: Yates is simply removed from UNIT.

* [[Evil Luddite]]: The villains' motivation.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Captain Yates.

** [[The Brute]]: Butler

** [[The Dark Chick]]: Mike Yates

** The Brigadier is strangely quick to forgive Mike for his betrayal. However, since this is the same man who ordered the total genocide of a sentient, hibernating race (in a story written by the same writer no less) it's easy to see why he would sympathise with Yates's actions.

* [[Have You Told Anyone Else?]]: General Finch to Sarah Jane. She didn't, but she left a note on the desk.

* [[Hit Me Dammit]]: Benton to the Doctor, when Finch orders him to hold the Doctor prisoner.

* [[Karmic Death]]: Grover and Whitaker are sent back in time when their device is sabotaged by the Doctor. Best case, they manage to eke out a meagre existence for a few years before falling victim to some disease they won't be able to cure. Worst case, they get dumped right in front of a Tyrannosaurus and rapidly become dino-chow.

* [[Missing Episode]]: This is the most recent ''Doctor Who'' story to be in some way incomplete, due to the fact that the master tape of the first episode was for some reason<ref>because it's title was simply "Invasion", which shared the name of a Patrick Troughton Cyberman serial "''The'' Invasion", it got junked along with the serial.</ref> destroyed almost immediately after its original transmission. Fortunately, this was one of the last ''Doctor Who'' stories that BBC also made a black and white film copy of, and the first episode survives in that form. For the DVD release, the episode was recoloured using the chroma dot automated colour recovery process, but the results were not 100% effective.

* [[The Mole]]: ''Three'' of them.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Sarah Jane, when she realizes she's revealed her findings to someone else in the plan.

* [[Pull the Thread]]: Sarah Jane does this with the [[Fauxtastic Voyage]].

* [[Reverse the Polarity]]

* [[Right Behind Me]]

* [[Spoiler Title]]: Aversion: Part One of Doctor Who serial "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" was simply titled "Invasion". However, as always ''Radio Times'' printed the full title and spoiled the twist.

* [[Spotlight-Stealing Title]]: The serial's really about Operation Golden Age's schemes. The dinosaurs are secondary to the plot. Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks (writer and script editor receptively) had wanted to name the story ''Timescoop'', but the higher powers vetoed it.

* [[Treacherous Advisor]]: Charles Grover

* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]/[[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Operation Golden Age

 

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