History Recap / DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric

* [=~It Won't Turn Off~=]: The ULTIMA machine.

The Doctor and Ace step out of their TARDIS into a 1940's English naval base, where Dr. Judson is using his ULTIMA machine[[hottip:*:That would be AlanTuring and the ENIGMA machine. It's unclear why they made a fictional version of him when the show has used real historical figures many times before.]] to crack inscriptions written on a Viking crypt. The inscription turns out to be a trigger for the eponymous curse and the awakening of an ancient evil named Fenric. What follows is a GambitPileup between Fenric and the Doctor.

--> '''Doctor:''' Kill her.

The Doctor and Ace step out of their TARDIS into a 1940's English naval base, where Dr. Judson is using his ULTIMA machine to crack inscriptions written on a Viking crypt. The inscription turns out to be a trigger for the eponymous curse and the awakening of an ancient evil named Fenric. What follows is a GambitPileup between Fenric and the Doctor.

* DawsonBabies: Audrey ([[CrossCastRole who is played by a baby BOY]])

* DawsonCasting: Jean and Phyllis, who are supposed to be teenagers, although both actresses were well into their twenties at the time of filming.

* DawsonCasting: Jean and Phyllis, who are supposed to be teenagers.

The Doctor and Ace step out of their TARDIS into a 1940's English naval base, where Dr. [[strike: Turing]] [[{{Expy}} Judson]] is using his [[strike: ULTRA]] ULTIMA machine to crack inscriptions written on a Viking crypt. The inscription turns out to be a trigger for the eponymous curse and the awakening of an ancient evil named Fenric. What follows is a GambitPileup between Fenric and the Doctor.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Played straight, then horribly subverted with [[spoiler:Reverend Wainwright's]] death.

* EightiesHair: Two of the Haemovores' victims have this. In the ''1940s''.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:The Ancient One]] agrees to help the Doctor after realizing that Fenric was using him.
* GrandTheftMe: Fenric. Takes over [[spoiler: Millington's]] body, then Judson's, then Sorin's.

--> '''Doctor:''' [[spoiler:Kill her.]]

* LukeIAmYourFather: Ace realises that [[spoiler:Kathleen is her grandmother]].

* TemporaryLoveInterest: Sorin is Ace's love interest for about...30 minutes.
* LastOfHisKind: In the far future, pollution destroys all life on Earth except for the Ancient One.

* StableTimeLoop: Ace causes [[spoiler:her own existence by sending her mother and grandmother to London.]]
* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Girls:]] Jean and Phyllis. They don't really do much, at least not while [[spoiler: they're alive.]]

* UnderwaterRuins: An ancient Viking ship sucks Viking descendants down into the water, killing them and [[spoiler: turning them into Haemovores when the curse activates.]]

The Doctor and Ace step out of their TARDIS into a 1940's English naval base, where Dr. [[strike: Turing]] [[{{Expy}} Judson]] is using his [[strike: ULTRA]] ULTIMA machine to crack inscriptions written on a Viking crypt. The inscription turns out to be a trigger for the eponymous curse and the awakening of an ancient evil named Fenric. What follows is a ThirtyGambitPileup between Fenric and the Doctor.

* KillEmAll: Because it's not DoctorWho if the bodies aren't piling up.

* ApocalypseLog: Most of the runes being translated by Dr. Judson tell the story of a Viking who was part of the raiding party who acquired the 'treasures' that included Fenric's resting place... and the terrible misfortunes that befell them. It ends bleakly.

* DawsonBabies: Audrey ([[CrossCastRole who is played by a baby BOY]]

* DawsonBabies: Audrey ([[CrossCastRose who is played by a baby BOY]]

* DawsonCasting: Jean and Phyllis.

The Doctor and Ace step out of their TARDIS into a 1940's English naval base, where Dr. [[strike: Turing]] [[{{Expy}} Judson]] is using his [[strike: ULTRA]] ULTIMA machine to crack inscriptions written on a Viking crypt. The inscription turns out to be a trigger for the eponymous curse and the awakening of an ancient evil named Fenric. What follows is a ThirtyXanatosPileup between Fenric and the Doctor.

* TooDumbToLive: Both the British and Soviet forces know that Haemovores are running around the area and killing people. Clearly, the logical thing to do is start attacking each other.

* WTHCastingAgency: Nicholas Parsons' casting as Reverend Wainwright might appear to be an example of this at first glance, given that he was best known for being a quiz show host at the time of the story's airing. In reality Parsons was actually a pretty experienced actor, although he hadn't done any TV acting work for over a decade when the story was made.

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-->''"I am the only one left now. I raise these stones to my wife, Astrid. May she forgive my sin. The day grows dark, and I sense the evil curse rising from the sea. I know now what the curse of Fenric seeks: the treasures from the Silk Lands in the east. I have heard the treasures whisper in my dreams. I have heard the magic words that will release great powers. I shall bury the treasure for ever. Tonight, I shall die, and the words die with me."''

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The Doctor's first protection from Fenric is... chanting the names of his previous companions. After all this time, he still has faith in them.

* DawsonCasting: Jean and Phyllis (Side note: When both actresses were real teenagers years earlier, they had been in ''{{Grange Hill}}'')

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Was no one else scared of those hellspawned monstrocities? Those screams...
* HoYay: The writer wanted this between Judson and Millington, but little of it appears in the final cut.
** It's a little more obvious between Jean and Phyllis. Ace gets in on the act a bit as well.

* MoralEventHorizon: Millington locks two men up in a cellar, leaving them to their Haemovorey death.
* {{Narm}}: Ace and one of the soldiers get involved in what may well be the worst seduction scene in TV history.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: ''Twice'' in one sequence. The Nitro-9 that Ace tried to blow up a brick wall with only made it wobble. But when the camera cuts back to the wall, the hole's there. Oops.

This episode provides examples of:

*TheXOfY
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