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->"Nobody talk to me- nobody '''HUMAN''' ''HAS ANYTHING TO SAY TO ME TODAY!!''"

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->"Nobody talk ->''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Tricky situation, Doctor. Potentially very dangerous. I think I'm going to me- nobody '''HUMAN''' ''HAS ANYTHING TO SAY TO ME TODAY!!''"need you."]]''
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** The rhyme recited by the girl on the Vator video-screen starts out with "A horse and a man, above, below". What do people use horses for? Carrying people and/or pulling vehicles.

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[[WMG:[[center:[-''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho recap index]]\\
'''Eleventh Doctor Era'''\\
'''Series 5:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour 1]] | '''2''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels 4]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone 5]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice 6]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice 7]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E8TheHungryEarth 8]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood 9]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor 10]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger 11]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens 12]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang 13]] | [[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol CS]]\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor <<< 2009 Specials]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut Series 6 >>>]]''']]-]]]
!The Beast Below




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->Written by Creator/StevenMoffat\\
Directed by Andrew Gunn\\
'''Production code:''' 1.2\\
'''Air date:''' 10 April 2010



'''Original air date:''' April 10, 2010

'''Production code:''' 1.2




Written by Creator/StevenMoffat.

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* EasilyForgiven: The whale decides not to make a big thing about being tortured for 300-odd years and continues to serve humanity voluntarily.



* EmpireWithADarkSecret: England, Wales, and Northern Ireland (Scotland as mentioned in the episode built their own ship) are being carried through space [[spoiler:on a star whale which they torture to control the speed]] -- they know they can't justify their actions, but they're afraid [[spoiler:that freeing the whale will destroy the ship. Thank goodness for Amy Pond, really.]] There's also the fact that [[spoiler:they feed anyone who finds out the truth and disagrees with it to the whale]]. Or simply someone who doesn't do his homework. Luckily, [[spoiler:the whale won't eat children]].

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* EmpireWithADarkSecret: England, Wales, and Northern Ireland (Scotland as mentioned in the episode built their own ship) are being carried through space [[spoiler:on on a star whale which they torture to control the speed]] speed -- they know they can't justify their actions, but they're afraid [[spoiler:that that freeing the whale will destroy the ship. Thank goodness for Amy Pond, really.]] There's also the fact that [[spoiler:they they feed anyone who finds out the truth and disagrees with it to the whale]].whale. Or simply someone who doesn't do his homework. Luckily, [[spoiler:the the whale won't eat children]].children.
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** The story seems to [[WholePlotReference take some cues]] from Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin's story ''Literature/TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas'', especially with regard to the "[[AC:protest]]" and "[[AC:forget]]" buttons. In this case, however, the ones who walk away from Omelas - or indeed Starship UK - don't so much ''walk'' away as they are fed to the titular Beast.



* StealthInsult: After the Doctor hits the Protest button and he and Amy fall about 500 metres down, Amy asks where they are. The Doctor takes a long smell and says "I'd say [sniff] Lancashire". They're standing on a tongue covered in rubbish.

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* StealthInsult: After the Doctor hits the Protest [[AC:protest]] button and he and Amy fall about 500 metres down, Amy asks where they are. The Doctor takes a long smell and says "I'd say [sniff] Lancashire". They're standing on a tongue covered in rubbish.
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* FamousFamousFictional: Inverted: Queen Elizabeth X lists various of her ancestors who have met the Doctor before in reverse order. Before [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII Liz II]] and [[UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria Vicky]] and [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI the Virgin Queen]], she mentions that the Doctor was the drinking buddy of a King Henry XII.

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Afterwards, the Doctor tells Amy she couldn't have known that. She responds that maybe ''he'' couldn't have known, but that an alien, the last of his kind, who has been through pain and anguish, and just become kinder and unable to see children cry, was something ''she'd'' already seen. The Doctor stares at her for a minute, then yanks her into his arms and buries his face in her shoulder; given that it's been ''less than twenty four hours since he regenerated'' he has not had a good day - crashing into Earth and now this. They return to the TARDIS when the console's phone starts ringing. It's UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks he wants the Doctor's help, while a Dalek is standing in his office]].

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Afterwards, the Doctor tells Amy she couldn't have known that. She responds that maybe ''he'' couldn't have known, but that an alien, the last of his kind, LastOfHisKind, who has been through such pain and anguish, and just become kinder and unable to see children cry, was something ''she'd'' already seen. The Doctor stares at her for a minute, then yanks her into his arms and buries his face in her shoulder; given that it's been ''less than twenty four hours since he regenerated'' he has not had a good day - crashing into Earth and now this. They return to the TARDIS when the console's phone starts ringing. It's UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks he wants the Doctor's help, while a Dalek is standing in his office]].




* ActionGirl: Liz 10 oneshots a Smiler each with her dual pistols.

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\n* ActionGirl: Liz 10 oneshots a Smiler each with her [[GunsAkimbo dual pistols.pistols]].



** The Doctor's extremely brief explanation that he is the last of his kind. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek Bad]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords day]]" [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime indeed...]]

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** The Doctor's extremely brief explanation that he is the last of his kind.LastOfHisKind. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek Bad]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords day]]" [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime indeed...]]
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->[[labelnote:Forget]]''A horse and a man: above, below/One has a plan, but both must go/Mile after mile, above, beneath/One has a smile, and one has teeth/Though the man above might say hello/Expect no love from the beast below.''\\

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->[[labelnote:Forget]]''A ->[[labelnote:FORGET]]''A horse and a man: above, below/One has a plan, but both must go/Mile after mile, above, beneath/One has a smile, and one has teeth/Though the man above might say hello/Expect no love from the beast below.''\\



->[[labelnote:Protest]]''In bed above we're deep asleep/While greater love lies further deep/This dream must end, this world must know/We all depend on the beast below.''\\

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->[[labelnote:Protest]]''In ->[[labelnote:PROTEST]]''In bed above we're deep asleep/While greater love lies further deep/This dream must end, this world must know/We all depend on the beast below.''\\



->[--''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/wysiwyg_source_editor.php?groupname=Recap&title=DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow&load=source Record]]''--]

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* EmpireWithADarkSecret: England, Wales, and Northern Ireland (Scotland as mentioned in the episode built their own ship) are being carried through space [[spoiler:on a star whale which they torture to control the speed]] -- they know they can't justify their actions, but they're afraid [[spoiler:that freeing the whale will destroy the ship. Thank goodness for Amy Pond, really.]] There's also the fact that [[spoiler:they feed anyone who finds out the truth and disagrees with it to the whale]]. Or simply someone who doesn't do his homework. Luckily, [[spoiler:the whale won't eat children]].
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'''Production code:''' 1.2
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* NecessaryEvil: The humans torture the whale because they believed it was the only way to navigate the ship and they fed it rubbish and people because they thought it was the only way to feed it. However, the humans couldn't understand what the whale was doing, it came to them willingly to save the children and they didn't need to torture it.

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* NecessaryEvil: NecessarilyEvil: The humans torture the whale because they believed it was the only way to navigate the ship and they fed it rubbish and people because they thought it was the only way to feed it. However, the humans couldn't understand what the whale was doing, it came to them willingly to save the children and they didn't need to torture it.
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->[--''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow?action=edit Record]]''--]

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-- Creepy Little Girl[[/labelnote]]

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-- Creepy '''Creepy Little Girl[[/labelnote]]
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-- Amy[[/labelnote]]

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-- Amy[[/labelnote]]
'''Amy'''[[/labelnote]]



The one where the Doctor and Amy get un-vored.

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The JustForFun/{{The one where w|ith}}here the Doctor and Amy get un-vored.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor And then I'll have to find a new name, cause I won't be the Doctor anymore]]".[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent And in the future happens to the Doctor himself something similar to what happened to the Queen.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
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"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor And then I'll have to find a new name, cause I won't be the Doctor anymore]]".anymore]]".
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[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent And in the future One face later,]] something happens to the Doctor himself something that's similar to what happened to the Queen.]]
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* TwoFaced: The Smilers have three faces, one for happiness, one for displeasure, and one for rage. Since their heads turn 180 degrees and not 120 degrees, they apparently have a hidden arm in the back that switches whichever faces are not in use.
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* BigBad: Hawthorne, the head of the British government who oversees the secret police known as Winders and is responsible for the torture of the Star Whale. He initially appears to be working against Liz 10, only for it to turn out that he's actually [[PunchClockVillain acting under her orders]]...[[LaserGuidedAmnesia she just can't remember giving them]].
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'''Original air date:''' April 10, 2010
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The one where the Doctor and Amy get un-vored.[[note]]Whoever wrote that sentence...you have taken me today to horizons I did not want to go.[[/note]]

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The one where the Doctor and Amy get un-vored.[[note]]Whoever wrote that sentence...you have taken me today to horizons I did not want to go.[[/note]]
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