History Recap / DoctorWhoS18E6TheKeeperOfTraken

* TheBadGuyWins: The Master may not get control of Traken but he gets what he wanted most, a new body.

* FlowersOfRomance: Kassia became gradually infatuated when she was a child to the Melkur (giving flowers to the humanoid). However, the Melkur turned out to be [[spoiler:The Master]], who manipulated her into [[LoveMakesYouEvil killing and manipulating others]] in order to achieve the Keepership.

And yet the Trakenites are ''good'' to the evil statues. They are so good that they assign people to ''look after'' the statues: bring them little bouquets of flowers, inquire after their families, wipe off the bird poo, persuade them to forsake wickedness, etc., until such time as the statue's residual sentience fades away from sheer irritation. Then the stone crumbles into harmless dust and enriches the Trakenite soil.

* TheOtherDarrin: Crispy!Master is played by a different actor in his second appearance. WordOfGod says they were meant to be the same regeneration, so it's not a case of TheNthDoctor.

->''They say the atmosphere there was so full of goodness that evil just shriveled up and died. Maybe that's why I never went there.''

* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: The Master may not get control of Traken but he gets what he wanted most, a new body.]]

Welcome to Traken, a world so perfect that evil can't survive! Seriously: any evil that tries to enter the atmosphere will literally crystalise out of the Trakenite air, ending up as a nugget of evil enclosed in a creepy humanoid statue with glowing red eyes.

'''WARNING! THERE MAY BE UNMARKED SPOILERS!'''

* TheOtherDarrin: Crispy!Master is played by a different actor in his second appearance. WordOfGod says they were meant to be the identical regeneration, so it's not a case of TheNthDoctor.
* RunningGag: Turlough, just like in the TV series, keeps getting trapped, or taken prisoner. This time he ends up in a kennel.

* FaceHeelTurn: Kassia

* CrystalSpiresAndTogas, but with cooler art design: Traken

Actually, Kassia kills him. ''Actually'' actually, the Melkur controlling her killed him, by shooting laser beams from her eyes (this sounds cooler than it looks).

And yet the Trakenites are ''good'' to the evil statues. They are so good that they assign people to ''look after'' the statues: bring them little bouquets of flowers, enquire after their families, wipe off the bird poo, persuade them to forsake wickedness, etc., until such time as the statue's residual sentience fades away from sheer irritation. Then the stone crumbles into harmless dust and enriches the Trakenite soil.

* AscendedExtra: Nyssa - she was originally created just for this story, but the producers saw potential for her character as a companion and wrote her into the following story (though she was phased into it rather than joining the Doctor right away)

* HijackedByGanon: contrary to the beliefs of some fans, people who watched this story unspoiled do claim to have been surprised when the Master was revealed.

* MagnificentBastard: The Master's greatest story, arguably.

* UncannyValley: The partially healed Master looks way creepier than in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin his last appearance]], which was obviously just a rubber mask.

* SignificantAnagram: Averted, unusually enough for ''DoctorWho''. "Tremas" is an obvious enough anagram for "Master", leading the viewer to think he's a baddie--but he is a good man and a staunch ally of the Doctor throughout.

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The Master and the Doctor do their [[FoeYay usual dance]] of trying to beat each other, and while the Doctor does keep the Master from taking over the Source (some sort of HiveMind for Trakenites), the Master has the [[EvilLaugh last laugh]]. He [[GrandTheftMe hijacks Tremas's body]], de-aging himself out of the Crispy Fried Master he has been and exulting in "a new body . . . at last".

* Main/AscendedExtra: Nyssa - she was originally created just for this story, but the producers saw potential for her character as a companion and wrote her into the following story (though she was phased into it rather than joining the Doctor right away
* Main/CrystalSpiresAndTogas, but with cooler art design: Traken
* Main/EyeBeams
* Main/FaceHeelTurn: Kassia
* Main/GrandTheftMe: Tremas's body gets hijacked by the Master.
* Main/HijackedByGanon: contrary to the beliefs of some fans, people who watched this story unspoiled do claim to have been surprised when the Master was revealed.
* Main/LoveMakesYouEvil: Kassia is tricked into serving the Melkur because she doesn't want to lose Tremas.

* Main/TheMaster
* Main/TheOtherDarrin: Crispy!Master is played by a different actor in his second appearance. WordOfGod says they were meant to be the identical regeneration, despite fan theories that he managed to partially regenerate at the end of "The Deadly Assassin".
* Main/SealedEvilInACan
* Main/SignificantAnagram: Averted, unusually enough for ''DoctorWho''. "Tremas" is an obvious enough anagram for "Master", leading the viewer to think he's a baddie--but he is a good man and a staunch ally of the Doctor throughout.

-->'''The Doctor'''

And yet the Trakenites are ''good'' to the evil statues. They are so good that they assign people to ''look after'' the statues: bring them little bouquets of flowers, inquire after their families, wipe off the bird poo, persuade them to forsake wickedness, etc., until such time as the statue's residual sentience fades away from sheer irritation. Then the stone crumbles into harmless dust and enriches the Trakenite soil.

!Tropes

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