Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E09 Night Terrors: Difference between revisions

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Written by [[Mark Gatiss]]. The working title was "What Are Little Boys Made Of?", but the title length wasn't allowed.

After a considerable amount of time, the Doctor finds the apartment of George. He introduces himself to Alex, George's father, who assumes that this is the doctor his wife told him she found. As the Doctor talks to George about the monsters, Amy and Rory go into an elevator, only for it to plummet. The duo find themselves in a really conspicuous-looking house.

 

 

And then, a few more of the residents start having really bad things happening to them. They get sucked into the earth.

* [[Badass Boast]]: The Doctor has a couple of these.

* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: The dollhouse. Even accounting for the shrinking, it's much larger and more intricate than it should be in scale.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: When Amy, Rory and the Doctor are knocking on doors they claim rather ridiculous things.

* [[Body Horror]]: {{spoiler|Being turned into a doll. Creepy.}}

* [[Buffy-Speak]]: Rory's almost Doctor Lite at this point, he Buffies so much. "The TARDIS has gone funny again. It's some time... slippy... thing."

* [[Creepy Doll]]: Giant creepy dolls that {{spoiler|turn others into giant creepy dolls}}. All they want to do is play.

* [[Creepy Twins]]: At least Amy thinks so.

** As the initial dolls also look like the twins, [[Fridge Logic|George may agree]].

* [[Deliberately Cute Child]]: George is an incredibly powerful psychic alien cuckoo baby who's desperate to fit in.

* [[Fake Memories]]: The reason that Alex and Claire {{spoiler|believe George is their son.}}

* [[Fear Is the Appropriate Response]]: The Doctor, once he gets a look at the readings coming from the wardrobe, and later when it sucks him and Alex into it. Also Rory and Amy once they realise the dolls can turn people into one of them.

* [[Four Is Death]]: Though as this is a British production it's probably unintentional. When Rory and Amy get into the lift she presses the 4 button before it drops causing Rory to think they're dead ''again''.

* [[Frying Pan of Doom]]: Amy brandishes a wooden one, though it doesn't get used.

* [[Hollywood Darkness]]: Averted.

* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]: In spades. Throughout the episode a creepy off-note one plays as the soundtrack. Here's the full version:

Even for {{spoiler|the Doctor…}} }}

* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: {{spoiler|The landlord who threatens Alex with a dog is the first one to get turned into a [[Creepy Doll]]. He gets better. Unfortunately}}.

* [[Mirror Scare]]

* [[Monster Clown]]: George is afraid of clowns.

'''Doctor:''' Understandable. }}

* [[Oblivious Adoption]]: {{spoiler|As in, "not even the ''parents'' knew their kid was a psychic alien".}}

* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: {{spoiler|When the Doctor tries to confront George about his alien nature, George freaks out and traps him and his father in the dollhouse}}.

* [[Wham! Line]]: Boy howdy:

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