History Recap / DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned

The Doctor has the usual motley collection of eccentrics around him: nice waitress Astrid, HappilyMarried contest winners Morvin and Foon, {{JerkAss}} KarmaHoudini Rickston Slade, Mister Copper the alleged Earth expert, and Bannakaffalatta, who defies simple description. They first try to make their way to the bridge--which is under the inexpert if enthusiastic command of one Midshipman Frame, after the captain's untimely death--but one of the evil robots is coaxed into revealing that the ''real'' source of evil leadership is on Deck 31. Now they must defy the dying ship and the creepy angel robots to get there.

There are deaths. The Doctor discovers that he gets to ask the Host (the robot angels) questions three, but wastes two of them.[[hottip:* :One of the deleted scenes has him discovering this and going "Information: Damn."]] Eventually, Deck 31 is reached and proves to contain the ''Titanic'''s ludicrously wealthy yet cyborgified and unhappy owner, Max Capricorn, who is bent on crashing it into Earth, riding out the impact in an impact-proof chamber[[hottip:* :''{{Torchwood}}'' could use one of these]], in a complicated revenge scheme against the board of directors that owns the ship and locked him out of the company. And the Doctor is powerless in the arms of the robot angels, so Astrid has to take the HeroicSacrifice on herself.

* BadassBoast - "I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I'm [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 903 years]][[BlatantLies old]], and I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"

* BlatantLies - "I travel alone." Seriously?

* FantasticRacism - Against cyborgs, for some reason.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Near the end of the story after the danger has passed, Mr. Copper and Rickston Slade are the only ones from The Doctor's group that have made it. Mr. Copper comments that "Of all the people to survive, Slade is not the one you would have chosen, is he? But if you could choose, Doctor, if you could decide who lives and who dies, that would make you a monster." Of course then cue the events of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]] when he [[spoiler: does try to choose who lives and dies. Although we don't see it for very long, the potential horrors of the Time Lord Victorious are all too apparent.]]

* NoOSHACompliance: Long rickety two-foot-wide bridges as the only way over a nuclear reactor engine?

* {{Narm}}[=/=]NarmCharm - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vF4mAhlvpY The Flying Angel Doctor]]. Russell T. Davies ''really'' likes to forgo subtlety sometimes.

* BadassBoast - "I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I'm [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 903 years old]], and I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"

* FlatWhat: At the ColdOpen, the Doctor's trademark escalating [[BigWhat "What? WHAT? ''WHAT?!''"]] ends with a life preserver rolling into his hands with the word "TITANIC" written on it. Cue this.

* AnyoneCanDie - The deaths of Morvin and Astrid are very unexpected.
** As are Foon's and Bannakaffalatta's.

* SortingAlgorithmOfMortality: Subverted. Every scrap of GenreSavvy says that [[{{Jerkass}} Rickston]] will have [[DropABridgeOnHim a bridge dropped on him]] early on, while Astrid will survive and leave with the Doctor; [[KarmaHoudini no such]] [[HeroicSacrifice luck]].

* RealLifeWritesThePlot - Astrid is set up to join the Doctor as a new companion, but KylieMinogue probably can't spend a year filming in Wales.

* VerbalTic - The Host can not begin a single sentence without first saying: "Information"

* Verbal Tic - The Host can not begin a single sentence without first saying: "Information"

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Near the end of the story after the danger has passed, Mr. Copper and Rickston Slade are the only ones from The Doctor's group that have made it. Mr. Copper comments that "Of all the people to survive, [[Slade]] is not the one you would have chosen, is he? But if you could choose, Doctor, if you could decide who lives and who dies, that would make you a monster." Of course then cue the events of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]] when he [[spoiler: does try to choose who lives and dies. Although we don't see it for very long, the potential horrors of the Time Lord Victorious are all too apparent.]]

* UnflinchingWalk - Also a CMoA.

* TheXOfY
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The Doctor has the usual motley collection of eccentrics around him: nice waitress Astrid, HappilyMarried contest winners Morvin and Foon, Mister Copper the alleged Earth expert, and Bannakaffalatta, who defies simple description. They first try to make their way to the bridge--which is under the inexpert if enthusiastic command of one Midshipman Frame, after the captain's untimely death--but one of the evil robots is coaxed into revealing that the ''real'' source of evil leadership is on Deck 31. Now they must defy the dying ship and the creepy angel robots to get there.

* DeadStarWalking