History Recap / DoctorWhoS23E2Mindwarp

* DisneyDeath: The Doctor is shown a scene in which Peri, her mind hijacked by Kiv, is apparently killed. However, it is later reveled that the scene in question had been fabricated and Peri is "alive and well and living as a queen".

Time slowly resumes its normal course and [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Peri is now long since gone]] - replaced in her own body by Kiv. Yrcanos, having fallen for her over the course of the story, is devastated and blows everything up - whatever remains of Peri included. The Doctor, watching this from the courtroom, [[HeroicBSOD is shocked into silence]]. The Inquisitor and the Valeyard tell him that it was necessary to end Peri's life to prevent the disastrous consequences of Crozier's experiment, and the Valeyard further claims that Peri's death is ultimately the Doctor's fault as he abandoned her in the first place. But rather than numbly accept the accusations of the Valeyard, however, the Doctor angrily insists that there is something extremely fishy about this whole trial and that he was removed from time for other, more sinister reasons. He [[RageAgainstTheHeavens vows to get to the bottom of all this]], and that he will somehow avenge the loss of Peri.

* PlotHole: The Doctor's behavior during the flashback footage after Yrcanos frees him from the mind-machine. Supposedly, the Doctor was supposed to be blended with Yrcanos' personality -- but a serious communications problem prevented Colin Baker from getting this important piece of information. As such, the Doctor comes off as a royal {{jerkass}}. Baker explains the script problem in this [[http://drwhointerviews.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/colin-baker-nicola-bryant-1992/ interview]].
-->'''Colin Baker:''' He said "I don't know, you'd better ask Philip Martin", so I got in touch and gave him those three alternatives, he said "I don't know, Eric wrote the trial stuff, all the Matrix stuff was added after, by Eric, you'd better ask him." So I went to Creator/JohnNathanTurner, he said "Oh, [[ShrugOfGod whichever you like.]]"

* WorldOfHam: Perhaps one of the hammiest productions ''Doctor Who'' has ever done.

Time slowly resumes its normal course and [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Peri is now long since gone]] - replaced in her own body by Kiv. Yrcanos, having fallen for her over the course of the story, is devastated and blows everything up - whatever remains of Peri included. The Doctor, watching this from the courtroom, [[HeroicBSOD is shocked into silence]]. Rather than numbly accept the accusations of the Valeyard, however, the Doctor simply [[RageAgainstTheHeavens vows to get to the bottom of all this]], and that he will somehow avenge the loss of Peri.

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* WorldOfHam: Perhaps one of the hammiest productions ''Doctor Who'' has ever done.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Subverted; Peri's character's death was overturned in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E4TheUltimateFoe The Ultimate Foe]]''.

** The Doctor also calls out the Time Lords on their invention in Peri's rescue.

The footage shown to go along with the trial has the Doctor and Peri landing on the aforementioned Thoros Beta, a planet beach [[SpecialEffectsBeefUp with green sky, blue rocks and a pink oce]]. They meander around the beach before going into a cave - and are quickly captured by natives of the planet. Among those aliens is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros Sil]], whom the Doctor suspects is behind the problems of this planet as well. As it turns out, this is Sil's homeworld, the planet of his species: the Mentors. The Doctor and Peri are taken to a Doctor Crozier and his experiments - one of them being the ever-lovable [[Creator/BrianBlessed BRI... King Yrcanos]]. Before the Doctor can object, a lie detector is slapped on his head and the Mentors begin to probe his mind. Before it can do much, however, Yrcanos blows up the machine, breaking free and taking the Doctor and Peri with him. Yrcanos plans to go steal weaponry and blow up the Mentors, but the Doctor then whacks the king on the head and turns Yrcanos and Peri over to the Mentors.

* HamToHamCombat: Creator/BrianBlessed, Creator/ColinBaker, the entire damned cast...
** BRIAN is the unquestioned winner, though; even the Sixth Doctor is eventually left stunned in the awesome face of King Yrcanos' [[LargeHam loudly delivered calls to battle]]. Let that sink in for a moment.

->'''King Yrcarnos:''' ''"Today, prudence shall be our watchword. '''TOMORROW, I SHALL SOAK THE LAND IN BLOOD'''!"''
-->--{{BRIAN BLESSED}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1k-pvCZ2Kw at his finest.]]

The trial continues, and the Valeyard decides to bring out another piece of evidence against the Doctor: his antics on the planet of Thoros Beta. The footage shown to go along with the trial has the Doctor and Peri landing on... wait, this isn't a BBC Quarry! This is a planet beach with green sky, blue rocks and a pink oce... wow. [[SpecialEffectsBeefUp They did this on that budget]]?

Anyway, the Doctor and Peri meander around the beach before going into a cave - and are quickly captured by natives of the planet. Among those aliens is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros Sil]], whom the Doctor suspects is behind the problems of this planet as well. As it turns out, this is Sil's homeworld, the planet of his species: the Mentors. The Doctor and Peri are taken to a Doctor Crozier and his experiments - one of them being the ever-lovable [[{{BRIANBLESSED}} BRI... King Yrcanos]]. Before the Doctor can object, a lie detector is slapped on his head and the Mentors begin to probe his mind. Before it can do much, however, Yrcanos blows up the machine, breaking free and taking the Doctor and Peri with him. Yrcanos plans to go steal weaponry and blow up the Mentors, but the Doctor then whacks the king on the head and turns Yrcanos and Peri over to the Mentors.

As it turns out, the Mentors are being evolved into higher beings by Doctor Crosier - and the leader Kiv now needs a new body before his brain essentially explodes. Trying to avoid himself becoming a target of that transplant, the Doctor interrogates Peri and accuses her of being against the Mentors repeatedly. Meanwhile, the Doctor is denying that this happened at all during the trial - and that he's being manipulated by someone who's messing with the Matrix ''([[Film/TheMatrix again, not that one]])''. Finally, Yrcanos escapes with Peri and both join the [[LaResistance resistance]] against the Mentors - and plan a massive attack against the Mentors as well.

Then Peri and Yrcanos are captured. Again. They're really not good at this, I swear.

Finally, the Doctor frees Yrcanos - but Doctor Crosier has already decided to use Peri as the next body for Lord Kiv. As they run to go save her, the Time Lords intervene and rip the Doctor out of time... and then purposely delay Yrcanos' strike force from actually freeing Peri until after the experiment is over with. As you can guess, the Doctor ''(finally remembering the events of this story, piece by piece)'' is not pleased with this at all.

This serial is most notable for featuring venerated actor Creator/{{BRIAN BLESSED}} in a major role as King Yrcanos. This serial is more notable among the fans, though, for having a companion killed off rather than given a happy ending... at least until ExecutiveMeddling went about and reversed it at the end of the season.

* BigNo: Three guesses who, first two don't count.
* CrapsackWorld: Thoros Beta

* HamToHamCombat: {{BRIAN BLESSED}}, Creator/ColinBaker, the entire damned cast...

* HeroicBSOD: Played straight with the Doctor at the end of the serial. Also subverted with King Yrcanos, as he suffers from a heroic version... that ends with the typical results of a VillainousBreakdown instead.

* PlotHole: The Doctor's behavior during the flashback footage after Yrcanos frees him from the mind-machine. Supposedly, the Doctor was supposed to be blended with Yrcanos' personality -- but a serious communications problem prevented Colin Baker from getting this important piece of information. As such, the Doctor comes off as a royal {{Jerkass}}. Baker explains the script problem in this [[http://drwhointerviews.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/colin-baker-nicola-bryant-1992/ interview]].
-->"He said 'I don’t know, you’d better ask Philip Martin', so I got in touch and gave him those three alternatives, he said 'I don’t know, Eric wrote the trial stuff, all the Matrix stuff was added after, by Eric, you’d better ask him.' So I went to Creator/JohnNathanTurner, he said 'Oh, [[ShrugOfGod whichever you like.]]"
* SdrawkcabName: Averted; Yrcanos certainly looks like it could be reversed into something decipherable, but "sonacry" is just as meaningless.
* ShoutOut - When first in Crozier's Lab The Doctor Examines a [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Chest Burster]] in a glass tube.

* WasOnceAMan: The Lukoser. Now he's a sort of [[TragicMonster horrifying mutant]] [[WolfMan man-wolf hybrid]], though his mind is still clear enough to fight for Yrcanos.
* WhatTheHellHero: The Doctor is called on his MoralDissonance behavior by Peri, who is just as confused as the audience as to what the hell is going on.

* WorldOfHam: Perhaps one of the hammiest productions ''Series/DoctorWho'' has ever done. Certainly, this world is built upon non-kosher shores and celebrates the juicy cliffs of bacon.

* MoralDissonance: Most of the Doctor's attitude during the flashback footage after Yrcanos frees him from the mind-machine. Supposedly, the Doctor was supposed to be blended with Yrcanos' personality - but a serious communications problem prevented Colin Baker from getting this important piece of information. As such, the Doctor comes off as a royal {{Jerkass}}. Baker explains the script problem in this [[http://drwhointerviews.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/colin-baker-nicola-bryant-1992/ interview]].

-->{{BRIAN BLESSED}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1k-pvCZ2Kw at his finest.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Looks like Peri's [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture Ilia]] auditions are going well. Oh, and blah blah blah [[RunningGag the Doctor's coat]].]]

This serial is most notable for featuring venerated actor BrianBlessed in a major role as King Yrcanos. This serial is more notable among the fans, though, for having a companion killed off rather than given a happy ending... at least until ExecutiveMeddling went about and reversed it at the end of the season.

[[caption-width-right:350: Looks like Peri's [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture Ilia]] auditions are going well.]]

[[caption-width-right:320: Looks like Peri's [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture Ilia]] auditions are going well.]]

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

* SpecialEffectsBeefUp: Just... damn. The scenery has been turned into something fantastic with just a subtle application of something called a 'paint box.' Think of it as a 1980's Photoshop for film.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Aside from BRIANBLESSED which nearly everybody will recognize, fans of nu-Who will recognize the voice of [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E4TheSontaranStratagem General Staal]] from underneath all that green make up as Kiv.

* {{Padding}}: Actually Lampshaded, as at the trial the Doctor asks what exactly the "silliness" between him and Peri has to do with the case against him.

* HamToHamCombat: {{BRIAN BLESSED}}, ColinBaker, the entire damned cast...