The Sarah Jane Adventures/Recap/S4/E05 E6 Death of the Doctor: Difference between revisions

''UNIT comes to Sarah Jane's house to inform her of the Doctor's death.''

 

 

We start with a webcam chat between Luke and the gang. Luke casually refers to someone he's met at uni as his "best mate ever", and gives Clyde a few seconds to get rather adorably jealous before letting him off the hook. Mr Smith interrupts to warn them all that UNIT is converging on the house, with all the subtlety of...[[Shaped Like Itself|a bunch of gun-toting, beret-wearing soldiers standing around in the middle of Ealing.]] As you can probably tell by the title, they've got bad news.

* [[A God Am I]]: The Shansheeth plan to use time travel to prevent ''every'' death.

* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: "That takes me back..."

* [[Big Good]]: The Doctor jokes that if the day ever comes when he ''does'' die, the universe itself might just shiver. Then brushes it off with a laugh.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: "The coffin was the trap, the coffin was the solution. [[Lampshade Hanging|That's so neat I could write a thesis...]]"

* [[Continuity Nod]]: The fates of several companions, including the long-wondered closure for Ace. {{spoiler|She became a charity worker.}}

* [[For the Evulz]]: The Shanseeth want to make a TARDIS key by ripping it from Jo and Sarah Jane's memories, despite the fact that the Doctor would be perfectly happy to give them the real one.

** It was more that [[Genre Savvy|they didn't believe him.]]

* [[Genius Loci]]: The honeymoon planet

* [[Happily Married]]: Jo and Cliff are still together, and Ian and Barbara apparently tied the knot some time after leaving the Doctor.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Clyde himself is ashamed of his "relations with Santiago" quip.

* [[Meaningful Echo]]: Thematically, in "School Reunion" Sarah-Jane was at first jealous of Rose as if she was the Doctor's favourite. This time, Jo is at first jealous of Sarah-Jane as if she was the Doctor's favourite.

* [[Sadistic Choice]]: Karim forces the Doctor to choose between saving Sarah-Jane and Jo, who have been captured by Shansheeth, or the children, who are trapped in a ventilator shaft that is overheating. {{spoiler|He saves the children.}}

* [[Thousand-Yard Stare]]: The Doctor briefly sports one when Jo jokes that joining him again would likely get him in trouble with the ''Time Lords''.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Shansheeth have seen so much grief and loss that they want to use the TARDIS to prevent death. Sarah-Jane disagrees - remember her speech to the Doctor back in "School Reunion" ("Everything has its time, and everything ends").