Doctor Who/Recap/S7/E02 Doctor Who and the Silurians: Difference between revisions

=== Tropes ===

 

* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: The Brigadier scoffs at the Doctor when he first tells him that there are intelligent reptilian beings living in the caves. Yeah, as if that's any weirder than [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S5 E5 The Web of Fear|robotic yetis]], [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S6 E3 The Invasion|alien cyborgs]] and [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S7 E1 Spearhead From Space|living plastic mannequins]]...

* [[Character Name and The Noun Phrase]]: The only one, due to an error in the script department.

* [[Downer Ending]]

* [[Evil Army]]: Both the Silurians and humans have this trope

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: The Young Silurian to The Brigadier. Both rebel against more level headed elders vying for peace, both show extreme courage and determination when their respective races are threatened and both are utterly prepared to wipe out the other party to ensure that their people survive. However, this trope is arguably subverted, as neither one is truly more evil than the other, and while the Young Silurian is foiled the Brigadier's orders to have the Silurians wiped out go off without a hitch.

* [[Vague Age]]: Even the Doctor can't get his age straight:

{{quote| ''I'm beginning to lose confidence for the first time in my life - and that covers several thousand years.''}}

 

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