History Recap / DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva

Now ''that'' spells "regeneration trauma". No wonder the Tenth Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion was bedridden and in need of a cup of tea]] after ''his'' regeneration ''(and little wonder the Sixth Doctor spent his regeneration recovery trying to kill anyone and everyone around him)''!

Previously on [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]], the Doctor took a nasty spill from disconnecting the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis Pharos Project]]'s power cable, prompting his fourth regeneration. Unfortunately, the regeneration is in danger of failing. That is, unless he can get some rest and healing in the TARDIS' Zero Room.

** FridgeHorror when you remember that Waterhouse was ''fifteen''.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The word "galaxy" is used repeatedly and prominently where "universe" was clearly intended. So much for teaching the kids about science.

** Please note: This was before the Hubble Space Telescope, so therefore the universe was generally assumed to only be a couple galaxies big instead of hundreds of billions.

* GigglingVillain: Anthony Ainley is quietly chuckling to himself all through this episode and [[Recap/DoctorWhS18E7Logopolis the last one]].

* ContinuityNod: The disoriented Doctor confuses his current companions for several previous ones, even going back to One's time when he calls Tegan "Vicki." He also takes on the mannerisms of the First ("I wonder, my boy, what you would do if you were me, hmm?", Second "Oh no! We've gone into the wrong part of the TARDIS! Jamie, you go back! When I say run, run!" and Third ("Won't be long now, Brigadier - if the ice warriors don't get there first!") Doctors before developing his own, new personality.

* GigglingVillain: Anthony Ainley is quietly chuckling to himself all through this episode and [[Recap/DoctorWhS18E8Logopolis the last one]].

* MeaningfulName: The above-mentioned anagram for Anthony Ainley.

* SignificantAnagram

* EnforcedMethodActing: According to TheOtherWiki, Matthew Waterhouse was severely hungover and vomiting behind a tree in the scene where the Doctor and Nyssa talk about landing the TARDIS. The intention was to show the ill effects on his health from being under the Master's control.

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Now ''that'' spells "regeneration trauma". No wonder the Tenth Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion spent a week in bed]] after ''his'' regeneration ''(and little wonder the Sixth Doctor spent his regeneration recovery trying to kill anyone and everyone around him)''!

* Main/{{Bizarrchitecture}}
* Main/ContinuityNod: The disoriented Doctor confuses his current companions for several previous ones, even going back to One's time when he calls Tegan "Vicki." He also takes on the mannerisms of the First ("I wonder, my boy, what you would do if you were me, hmm?", Second "Oh no! We've gone into the wrong part of the TARDIS! Jamie, you go back! When I say run, run!" and Third ("Won't be long now, Brigadier - if the ice warriors don't get there first!") Doctors before developing his own, new personality.

* Main/CrowningMomentOfFunny: Besides the "index file" gag quoted above, there's the moment when the Doctor asks for the quickest way out and everyone points in a different direction. "Yes, well, that's democracy for you."
* Main/EasyAmnesia
* Main/FakeMemories: Heck, the Castrovalvans have Fake ''History''
* Main/GlamourFailure
* Main/TheMaster
* Main/MeaningfulName: The above-mentioned anagram for Anthony Ainley.
* Main/MindProbe: The Master keeps Adric trapped in a hadron web that forcibly extracts Block Transfer Computations from his mind, and trying to force the Master out of his head seems to be [[TheWoobie pretty painful for the poor kid.]]
* Main/TheNthDoctor
* Main/PinchMe

* Main/SignificantAnagram
* Main/TomatoInTheMirror: For the Castrovalvans, especially Shardovan

->'''Tegan:''' If we had an index file, we could look it up in the index file... under "index file".
-->Tegan discovers recursion

!Tropes

* Main/ContinuityNod - The disoriented Doctor confuses his current companions for several previous ones, even going back to One's time when he calls Tegan "Vicki." He also takes on the mannerisms of the First ("I wonder, my boy, what you would do if you were me, hmm?", Second "Oh no! We've gone into the wrong part of the TARDIS! Jamie, you go back! When I say run, run!" and Third ("Won't be long now, Brigadier - if the ice warriors don't get there first!") Doctors before developing his own, new personality.

* Main/CrowningMomentOfFunny - Besides the "index file" gag quoted above, there's the moment when the Doctor asks for the quickest way out and everyone points in a different direction. "Yes, well, that's democracy for you."

* Main/FakeMemories - heck, the Castrovalvans have Fake ''History''

* Main/TomatoInTheMirror - for the Castrovalvans, especially Shardovan

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* Main/ContinuityNod - The disoriented Doctor confuses his current companions for several previous ones, even going back to One's time when he calls Tegan "Vicki."

* Main/MindRape: The Master keeps Adric trapped in a hadron web that forcibly extracts Block Transfer Computations from his mind, and trying to force the Master out of his head seems to be [[TheWoobie pretty painful for the poor kid.]]

Tegan and Nyssa put their heads together (as usual, Adric is being difficult ''and'' [[spoiler:(unwillingly) in league with the villain]]), consult the TARDIS manual (which, like the Collision Avoidance Circuitry, was one of those amazingly handy bits of TARDIS equipment that got used exactly once and then forgotten, probably because it would be entirely too useful to make for good television), and inexpertly steer it to "Castrovalva: the Dwellings of Simplicity". Its brochure makes it sound like an alien day spa; the perfect place for a bit of R&R.