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'''Peri:''' So what? I'm Perpugilliam Brown, and I can shout just as loud as you can! }}
Our story begins by focusing on a random group of desert dwellers on the planet of Sarn. There isn't a whole lot to know about these guys, outside the fact that they worship a god named Logar and they have a Chosen One, named Malkon, who is declared so because of a special double-triangle symbol burned into his flesh. A lot of the opening of this episode, and indeed a lot of the serial, generally contains two groups of these people bickering on if their god really exists or not... and it generally goes nowhere, seeing how it's a 'C' plot in a ''Doctor Who'' story that's already got a rather busy 'A' and 'B' plot running.
Off in the TARDIS, the Doctor hasn't taken [[Doctor Who/Recap/S21
Well, it turns out that Kamelion has somehow tired of <s>the wild and awesome adventures he's been having with the Doctor</s> sitting around doing jack shit and decided to off himself. Or he's accidentally plugged himself into the wrong part of the TARDIS. Or something. All it looks like is that the Kamelion prop is laying on the ground sparking as a cable stretches into a wall of the TARDIS set. But the Doctor isn't especially worried, as ''he just leaves the guy laying there on the ground to, apparently, die.''
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: While sleeping in the TARDIS, Peri has a [[Bad Dreams|nightmare]] about her stepfather, begging him "I-I'm sorry Howard. I didn't mean it. No Howard, p-please don't leave me alone! Do-don't turn out the lights! HOWWAAAARD!".
** It goes further in the [[Expanded Universe]]. Peri's step father molested her as a child.
* [[Beach Episode]]: (at least at the start) providing an excuse for high levels of [[Fan Service]] from Nicola Bryant and [[Shirtless Scene|Mark]] [[Show Some Leg|Strickson]]. Actor [[David Tennant]] and producer Phil Collinson reminisce fondly about this episode in the hidden commentary on "[[Doctor Who/Recap/20th AS the Five Doctors
* [[Big Little Man]]: Done as a [[Cliff Hanger]] reveal when it turns out the Master has accidentally shrunk himself to a small size, and has been directing the shapeshifter robot that everyone thinks is him from a control box.
* [[Birthmark of Destiny]]: Malkon's brand is interpreted as one of these by the people of Sarn.
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* [[Fan Service]]: This episode is pretty much the apotheosis of John Nathan-Turner's "something for the dads" policy. Although the costumes of some of the male characters are more revealing than usual, making it more equal opportunity.
* [[Ham-to-Ham Combat]]: This adventure features a particularly hammy [[Peter Davison]] taking on an even hammier Anthony Ainley. And it is ''glorious.''
** Peter Davison notes on the DVD's "making of" documentary that Ainley originally tried to underplay the role much more than he does in the finished product. However, the serial's director, Fiona Cumming was known to favour very hammy, over-the-top performances from her actors, and made Ainley turn his performance [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[Home, Sweet Home]]: Turlough's motive for leaving is that he has a chance to go home, and as a hero no less.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Peri's stepfather.
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* [[Male Gaze]]: This is the ''very first shot'' of Peri, setting the stage for pretty much her entire tenure on the show.
* [[Mark of Shame]]: The Turlough brothers.
* [[The Master (trope)|The Master]]
* [[Mercy Kill]]
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: ''Burning the Master alive''. For a guy who's supposed to be fixated on saving people, he pretty much kicks back, lets the Master burn, shrugs, and walks away.
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