History Recap / DoctorWhoS15E1HorrorOfFangRock

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* {{Foil}}: Adelaide is Leela's foil, being a rich, spoiled and whiny ScreamingWoman.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Leela slapping Adelaide.

* TheSiege: A "base under siege" story like many before it.

** The Doctor quotes Creator/WilfridGibson's poem ''The Ballad of Flannan Isle'' as they leave Fang Rock.

** HarsherInHindsight: Considering the Doctor doesn't manage to save ''any'' of the secondary cast this episode....

* AllThereInTheManual: In the novelisation, the Doctor gives a rational explanation for the original legend of the beast of Fang Rock.
** A deleted scene where the survivors reach the island is reinstated.
** Vince's motives for burning the £50 given to him by Lord Palmerdale before he turns to the others for help are added.

-->"Aye, though we hunted high and low, and hunted everywhere, of the three men's fate we found no trace. In any time, in any place. But a door ajar and an untouched needle and an over-toppled chair".

** "Teshnician."

** Vince's motives for burning the fifty pounds given to him by Lord Palmerdale before he turns to the others for help are added.

* BlueBlood: Lord Palmerdale and company. The Doctor bottles up his contempt for them.

* ExospeakGag: "The localised condition of planetary atmospheric condensation caused a malfunction in the visual orientation circuits. Or to put it another way, we got lost in the fog."

* ActionGirl: Leela has already shown herself to be one, but she's particularly BadAss in this episode, slapping a character who goes into hysterics, personally going out into the fog with her knife to kill the alien and later smashing Ruben's door down with a sledgehammer she was earlier taking practice swings with.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The reason Leela's eyes are bleached by the explosion in the lighthouse at the end of part four was more practical than story-based: Louise Jameson hated the brown contacts she had to wear, citing them as irritating and painful. As a result, she stated that she would only stay for Season 15 if she could stop wearing the contacts, causing Creator/TerrenceDicks to incorporate a re-write into the script to explain the color change in-universe.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Leela's eyes changed from brown to blue as a result of the Doctor's laser, but the ''real'' reason was that actor Louise Jameson had decided to stop wearing the painful brown contact lenses.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Companion Leela's eyes changed from brown to blue as a result of the Doctor's laser, but the ''real'' reason was that actor Louise Jameson had decided to stop wearing the painful brown contact lenses.

On a trivia note, this is the only classic-era ''Who'' story to be taped in Birmingham rather than London.

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[-"[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion#WGN-TV Well, if you're wondering what happened, so am I.]]"-]

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'''''[-[[Series/MaxHeadroom That]] [[PlayfulHacker does]] [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment it!]] [[WordSaladHorror He's a frigging nerd!]] [[EvilLaugh Heeheehee!]]-] Yeah, he thinks I'm better than Chuck Swirsky, frickin liberaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal!!!! Catch the wave? HAAAA HAAA HAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Cha cha cha cha cha cha cha-- I still see the X! Cha cha cha cha cha cha cha. OOOOOOOHHHHH OH, MY PILES!!! AHH-HAAAUGH!!! (farts) I just made a giant masterpiece for all the World's Greatest Newspaper Nerds! Hahahahaha! ... My brother is wearing the other glove, but it's dirty; it's got blood spots on it.

"They're coming to get me!" "Bend over, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!" (spanks accomplice with a flyswatter) "OHHHH, OWWWWW, MAKE IT STOP!!!! OOOOOHOOOOOOH!!!"'''''

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'''''[-[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t32JpruyLZk bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]]-]'''''

'''''[-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]]-]'''''
erading as lighthouse-keeper Reuben.

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'''''[-[[Series/MaxHeadroom That]] [[PlayfulHacker does]] [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment it!]] [[WordSaladHorror He's a frigging nerd!]] [[EvilLaugh Heeheehee!]]-]'''''

'''''[-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion SSKK!]]-]''''' that can take other forms and has been masquerading as lighthouse-keeper Reuben.
The Rutans are described by the Doctor as being the ancient and implacable enemies of the Sontarans, who have appeared multiple times in the show's history (though this is the only appearance so far of the Rutans). Everyone who's not on team TARDIS dies. The Doctor kills the Rutan warrior with a makeshift explosive, and then uses a diamond that one of the survivors had been carrying to focus the lighthouse's light into a laser beam to destroy the incoming Rutan mothership. Despite the Doctor's warning, Leela looks at the explosion and gets blinded. She promptly tells the Doctor to kill her, because she's a liability, but he explains that the blindness is temporary -- although it did change her eye color permanently, from brown to blue. [[note]]Louise Jameson demanded the change because she hated wearing brown contact lenses.[[/note]]

->''The localised condition of planetary atmospheric condensation caused a malfunction in the visual orientation circuits. Or to put it another way, we got lost in the fog.''

The Rutans are described by the Doctor as being the ancient and implacable enemies of the Sontarans, who have appeared multiple times in the show's history (though this is the only appearance so far of the Rutans). Everyone who's not on team TARDIS dies. The Doctor kills the Rutan warrior with a makeshift explosive, and then uses a diamond that one of the survivors had been carrying to focus the lighthouse's light into a laser beam to destroy the incoming Rutan mothership. Despite the Doctor's warning, Leela looks at the explosion and gets blinded. She promptly tells the Doctor to kill her, because she's a liability, but he explains that the blindless is temporary -- although it did change her eye color permanently, from brown to blue.