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What?
But what about the ''library'' of the ''future'', and the people-eating shadows, and River Song and everything? And then, we see a familiar person in Donna's world: Miss Evangelista, one of the [[Red Shirt
Miss Evangelista takes off her veil and reveals that her face has become glitched. The little girl, watching all this on her TV, ''screams''. So do you, because, [[Steven Moffat]].
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* [[Brain Uploading]]
* [[Call Back]]: River's end-of-episode speech has her quote the 9th Doctor: "Everybody lives."
** Also the "squareness gun" Captain Jack Harkness used on his [[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E10 The Doctor Dances|first appearance]]. [[Word of God]] says it is the ''same''
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The screwdriver. ''He gave her his screwdriver.''
** And ''she told the Doctor his own name.''
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* [[Hope Spot]]: Donna really loves her virtual husband, and promises to look for him in the real world as she's yanked out of the computer system. In the real world as everyone is restored, she seems to have already given up on this. However, ''he'' sees her and tries to call out her name, but is halted by his stutter and is teleported home before he can reach her.
* [[I Know Your True Name]]
* [[Informed Attribute]]: CAL loved books more than anything. That must be why we never see her reading any, instead always drawing or watching TV. (To be perfectly fair, she ''had'' just seen THE
** {{spoiler|Also she was in sleep mode with her mental energies already at capacity trying to sustain those people. She litterally wasn't herself at the moment}}
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: "If he dies, I'll kill him!"
* [[Jerkass Facade]]: Strackman Lux, set up as a paranoid, un-co-operative type obsessed with patents and IP, but it's all a front to keep CAL
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: The scenes appearing on CAL's TV, complete with music. She, like many of the viewers, spends a good part of the episode clutching a pillow and trying not to scream.
** Time in the computer progresses "like a dream"
* [[Living Shadow]] - Invisible air piranhas, who are very light-sensitive (or maybe just appear as shadows, and are very slow-moving) but can strip the flesh from a chicken leg in the time it takes to fall to the ground. And they learn quickly...
* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: The imaginary world created by CAL.
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{{quote|'''Doctor:''' Why am I handcuffed...[[Fetish Fuel|why do you even have handcuffs?]]<br />
'''River:''' ''(smirking)'' Spoilers... }}
* [[Single Biome Planet]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]]—it's a purpose-built artificial planet, so the biome is "library."
** This also makes it a [[Single-Purpose Planet]].
* [[Spooky Silent Library]]
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: The Sonic Screwdriver, among others. Many of River Song's mannerisms and rules, including Spoilers and the blue diary, she initially got from the Doctor, who in turn got them from her. We see one "end" of the time loop here, and the other in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E08 Let's Kill Hitler|Let's Kill Hitler]]". Another example is the way of opening the TARDIS by with a click of the fingers; it seem the Doctor hadn't even thought of doing that until River mentioned it.
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