Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E09 The Family of Blood: Difference between revisions

{{quote|"Who am I then? Nothing...? I'm just a story?"|'''John'''}}

 

 

Mild-mannered [[The Edwardian Era|Edwardian]] schoolteacher John Smith is baffled when alien monsters turn up and demand that he turn himself into "The Doctor". But the strangeness is jogging memories deep inside him, memories of a life he's sure he never lived but only dreamed, and more and more fragments of his dreams are turning out to be real. Deny it he tries, but eventually John has to consider the possibility that Martha and the aliens are telling the truth: "the Doctor", his dream-self, is the reality, and John Smith is the fabrication.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The fates of the Family, as meted out by the Doctor. It's revealed that the Doctor wasn't running from the Family because he was scared of them… but because he was scared of ''what he could do to them.''

* [[Flash Forward]]: John and Joan's aborted future together.

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: This episode is why the Doctor {{spoiler|is afraid to regenerate in "The End of Time"--he remembers John Smith's death.}}

* [[Future Me Scares Me]]

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Son of Mine. "Super, super fun!"

{{quote|''We'll blast them into dust, then fuse them into glass, then SHATTER THEM ALL OVER AGAIN!''}}

* [[Puppet Master]]s: The Family.

* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Joan. See [[What the Hell, Hero?]] below.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: A ''[[Tranquil Fury|calm]]'' example.

{{quote|'''Son of Mine:''' [[War Is Hell|War is coming. In foreign fields, war of the whole wide world, with all your boys falling down in the mud]]. Do you think they will thank the man who taught them it was glorious?<br />

'''Headmaster:''' Don't you forget, boy, I've been a soldier. I was in [[Second Boer War|South Africa]], I used my dead mates as sandbags, I fought with the butt of my rifle when the bullets ran out, and I would go back there tomorrow ''[[Patriotic Fervor|for King and country!]]''<br />

** A valid explanation is put forward in Series 5.

* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: {{spoiler|The Family certainly don't by the end.}}

* [[The X of Y]]

 

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