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[[File:The_Fires_Of_Pompeii_8560.jpg|frame| And we thought Rory was the only one who had [[Noodle Incident|mostly unseen]] [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31
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Donna and the Doctor land in [[Ancient Rome]], ready to have more fun than an amphora of monkeys.
Except they land in Pompeii, 23 August of 79 A.D., which means that Pompeii's streets are about to get re-paved with lava. The Doctor claims to be unable to do anything about this: he doesn't ''say'' "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S1
So they go for the ''other'' secret Time Lord maneuver: running away. Unfortunately, the TARDIS is missing; it's been sold to a local marble merchant with a taste for avant-garde art. It's not the first time [[Doctor Who/Recap/S17
The marble-worker who bought it is then attacked by a massive magma-thing (which is stopped by a bucket of water) and it is revealed that his oracle daughter is turning to stone. Also, a local prophet claims that there's something on Donna's back. This will be important later. And he says that a planet has apparently gone missing. This will be ''very'' important later. Meanwhile, the marble-worker has a circuit made of stone, so the Doctor decides to stick around a bit longer.
The Doctor confronts the oracles (with a water pistol) and finds out why someone ordered a bunch of marble power-converters.
The Doctor finds out that Vesuvius isn't going to erupt if he just leaves; he needs to ''make'' it erupt. If Pompeii doesn't erupt, then since the [[Monster of the Week|alien menace of the week]] hasn't been destroyed, a race of lava golems will turn humans into more golems, boil the ocean, and go conquer the world. Donna realizes for the first time that travelling with the Doctor can be very morally disturbing. They make the volcano erupt, both fully expecting to die, but it turns out the explosion device was inside an escape pod. Donna convinces the Doctor to go back and save the marble-worker and his family. Because not everyone is an über-depressed near-suicidal Time Lord, and sometimes the Doctor forgets that.
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* [[Big No]]: Lucius Petrus Dextrus and the High Priestess. Both do it twice.
* [[Call Back]]: The Doctor's mention of "Volcano Day" refers to a comment by Jack Harkness in ''The Empty Child''.
** Not to mention the Doctor mentioning that he had [[Doctor Who/Recap/S2
* [[Climactic Volcano Backdrop]]: ''Inside'' Vesuvius, no less.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: the Doctor's comment about the Great Fire of Rome is a reference back to "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S2
** It's [[Doctor Who
** The Doctor admits that Donna was right - sometimes he needs someone to stop him.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: [[Justified Trope|justified]], most of the heat is being taken by the Pyroviles.
* [[Creator
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The Doctor, when Donna is about to be sacrificed.
{{quote|'''Priestess''': This prattling voice will cease forever.
'''The Doctor''': Oh, that'll be the day. }}
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Donna sharing the burden with the Doctor of having to cause Vesuvius's eruption, and later pleading with him to save just one family. It's not hard to see why the Doctor considered her to be his best friend.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: The augur tells Donna that there is "something on her back". There will be, in [[Doctor Who
* [[Happily Married]]: Caecillius and Metella.
* [[I'm Mr. Future Pop Culture Reference]] with bonus [[I Am Spartacus]] joke included absolutely free.
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