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* [[Green Aesop]]: You cut down a load of trees, make the trees into books, put the books in a library… and then get eaten by the shadows that hatch from the books!
* [[Green Aesop]]: You cut down a load of trees, make the trees into books, put the books in a library… and then get eaten by the shadows that hatch from the books!
** [[Space Whale Aesop]]
** [[Space Whale Aesop]]
** Also either a [[Broken Aesop]] or a [[Family Unfriendly Aesop]]. Books, reading and libraries are supposed to be ''good for you'', and certainly non-threatening. Apparently, though, making libraries too big is dangerous. No, not because knowledge is power or something like that, just because all that wood pulp contains the seeds of air piranhas.
** Also either a [[Broken Aesop]] or a [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]. Books, reading and libraries are supposed to be ''good for you'', and certainly non-threatening. Apparently, though, making libraries too big is dangerous. No, not because knowledge is power or something like that, just because all that wood pulp contains the seeds of air piranhas.
** Almost surely not so much Broken or Family Unfriendly as just plain [[Accidental Aesop|not intended to exist]]. Bringing in the Vashta Nerada was a horrifying, horrifying tragic accident. These things happen in the Whoniverse.
** Almost surely not so much Broken or Family Unfriendly as just plain [[Accidental Aesop|not intended to exist]]. Bringing in the Vashta Nerada was a horrifying, horrifying tragic accident. These things happen in the Whoniverse.
** It being an [[Accidental Aesop]] is made extremely likely by the Doctor spending the beginning of the episode before going on about how books are awesome even though there are all kinds of digital and holographic ways to store them and never once does he say in any way shape or form that it was wrong for the books to be made.
** It being an [[Accidental Aesop]] is made extremely likely by the Doctor spending the beginning of the episode before going on about how books are awesome even though there are all kinds of digital and holographic ways to store them and never once does he say in any way shape or form that it was wrong for the books to be made.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: CAL is an acronym of the girl's full name. Also, there's Dr Moon, the doctor moon.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: CAL is an acronym of the girl's full name. Also, there's Dr Moon, the doctor moon.
* [[More Expendable Than You]]: River takes out the Doctor to do a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in his place.
* [[More Expendable Than You]]: River takes out the Doctor to do a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in his place.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero]]: CAL. First she (inadvertently) "kills" her father after being upset at [[The Reveal]]. Then she tries to break the remote, triggering the self-destruct mechanism. ''Then'' she "kills" Doctor Moon, ''on purpose'', when he tries to stop her. Granted, she's been hit with the [[Tomato in The Mirror]], and Doctor Moon [[Unexplained Recovery|recovers]] but still.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: CAL. First she (inadvertently) "kills" her father after being upset at [[The Reveal]]. Then she tries to break the remote, triggering the self-destruct mechanism. ''Then'' she "kills" Doctor Moon, ''on purpose'', when he tries to stop her. Granted, she's been hit with the [[Tomato in The Mirror]], and Doctor Moon [[Unexplained Recovery|recovers]] but still.
** It isn't necessarily an unexplained recovery since all we know is that she removed them from her virtual reality, it isn't ever indicated that she deleted them.
** It isn't necessarily an unexplained recovery since all we know is that she removed them from her virtual reality, it isn't ever indicated that she deleted them.
* [[Orphean Rescue]]: Getting Donna back out of the computer.
* [[Orphean Rescue]]: Getting Donna back out of the computer.
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* [[Powered By a Forsaken Child]]: The Library exists for the sole purpose of keeping CAL occupied, which makes this an inversion.
* [[Powered By a Forsaken Child]]: The Library exists for the sole purpose of keeping CAL occupied, which makes this an inversion.
** The library itself is an inversion - there is a child with a terminal, incurable illness, but her family is rich, so [[Brain Uploading|her brain is uploaded]] and she is given a library the size of a planet to keep her entertained. However, when something threatened the people in the library, they all tried to [[Teleporter Accident|teleport away at once]] and wound up getting stored in the computer. That was causing problems for the child, so in a way the lifeboats were [[Powered By a Forsaken Child]].
** The library itself is an inversion - there is a child with a terminal, incurable illness, but her family is rich, so [[Brain Uploading|her brain is uploaded]] and she is given a library the size of a planet to keep her entertained. However, when something threatened the people in the library, they all tried to [[Teleporter Accident|teleport away at once]] and wound up getting stored in the computer. That was causing problems for the child, so in a way the lifeboats were [[Powered By a Forsaken Child]].
* [[Self Destruct Mechanism]]
* [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]
* [[Ship Tease]]: The Doctor and River.
* [[Ship Tease]]: The Doctor and River.
{{quote| '''The Doctor''': Oh, I ''like'' you.<br />
{{quote| '''The Doctor''': Oh, I ''like'' you.<br />
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The metric that "Other Dave" was told to pull The Doctor out of his first talk with the Vashta Nerada.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The metric that "Other Dave" was told to pull The Doctor out of his first talk with the Vashta Nerada.
* [[Trust Password]]: River manages to convince the Doctor to trust her by {{spoiler|telling him his real name}}.
* [[Trust Password]]: River manages to convince the Doctor to trust her by {{spoiler|telling him his real name}}.
* [[The Un Reveal]]: {{spoiler|River Song knows the Doctor's real name, but only whispers it to the Doctor. We never hear it.}}
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: {{spoiler|River Song knows the Doctor's real name, but only whispers it to the Doctor. We never hear it.}}
* [[Wham Line]]: {{spoiler|"River, you know my name."}}
* [[Wham Line]]: {{spoiler|"River, you know my name."}}
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: The Doctor just lets Other Dave stand there while he's talking to the Vashta Nerada! [[Idiot Ball|You're better than that, Doctor!]]
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: The Doctor just lets Other Dave stand there while he's talking to the Vashta Nerada! [[Idiot Ball|You're better than that, Doctor!]]
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