Doctor Who/Recap/S25/E03 Silver Nemesis: Difference between revisions

{{quote| '''The Doctor:''' I don't suppose you've completely ignored my instructions and secretly prepared any Nitro-9, have you?<br />

'''Ace:''' What if I had?<br />

'''The Doctor:''' Naturally, you wouldn't do anything so insanely dangerous as to carry it around with you, would you?<br />

=== Tropes ===

* [[Continuity Porn]]: references to Rassilon and Omega, Earth becoming "New Mondas", and in the deleted scenes the Doctor hypnotises some security guards by wearing spectacles in an overt reference to [[Doctor Who/Recap/S6 E7/E07 The War Games|"The War Games"]].

* [[Doing inIn Thethe Wizard]]: Taken on its own, this episode appears to claim that Lady Peinforte's powers are literal magic, making it the only Original Series episode to allow such a thing rather than [[Magic Byby Any Other Name|handwaving it somehow]] ("[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26 E1/E01 Battlefield|Battlefield]]" doesn't really count, because the Arthurian characters are visitors from another universe with different physical laws). However, a throwaway line in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26 E3/E03 The Curse of Fenric|The Curse Of Fenric]]" establishes that, in fact, Lady Peinforte got her powers from Fenric. [[Author's Saving Throw|So there.]]

* [[Exit, Pursued Byby a Bear]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded.]]

{{quote| '''Lady Peinforte''': The bear will not pursue us. Such things only happen in the theatre.}}

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Part of the plot involves breaking into the Peinforte family tomb -- wheretomb—where Richard, already a bit jumpy having come across his own gravestone, notes that there doesn't seem to be any sign of Lady Peinforte's body. She's too obsessed and blinkered for it to really register, because if it had then certain ominous implications for her future might have presented themselves...

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Ace points out that the resolution is exactly the same as that from [[Doctor Who/Recap/S25 E1/E01 Remembrance of the Daleks|Remembrance of the Daleks]], a story only two serials before this one.

* [[Minion Withwith an F In Evil]]: Richard, to the point where at the end of the story the Doctor and Ace take him home and let him play the recorder for them. He does seem a bit more sinister and thuggish at the beginning of the story, when he's at home and in his element, but his experiences as a [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]] go some way towards helping a [[Heel Face Turn]] along.

** During the scenes at Windsor Castle, the Doctor and Ace encounter a woman who ''theoretically'' is supposed to be [[HM theThe Queen|the Queen]]. Unfortunately the lookalike hired by the production team doesn't look all that much like the Queen, and in fact more resembles her daughter, Princess Anne.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Lady Peinforte says a [[Exit, Pursued Byby a Bear|bear wouldn't pursue them]] as such things [[The Winter's Tale (Theatre)|only happen in the theatre]].

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: the only twentieth-century TV ''Doctor Who'' story to feature actual Nazis, as opposed to evil fantasy cultures with a [[A Nazi Byby Any Other Name|suspicious resemblance]].

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