History Recap / DoctorWhoS31E8TheHungryEarth

* TranquilFury: When Alaya, the Silurian prisoner, tries to gain sympathy from the Doctor by lying about being the last of her species, his expression stays quite polite, until he begins talking. "I know what it's like to be the last of a species, because I'm the last of mine. I know how it sits in the heart so, ''please'', don't insult me." His expression goes [[DeathGlare ice-cold]].

The one where the Doctor should have muzzled a reptile [[DisasterDominoes before she martyred herself.]]

Amy is revealed to be in the Silurians' underground science lab, soon to be vivisected while still completely conscious, as frantically warned by Mo, who hasn't completely healed from his ordeal. Also, it's not just one little tribe, as the captured Silurian DamselInDistress says. It's an entire civilisation.

** Yet another Moff reference -- the sonic screwdriver [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary still doesn't do wood]]. (But don't say that. That's rubbish within earshot of the Doctor.)
--->'''The Doctor:''' Oi! Don't diss the Sonic!

** The Doctor vetoes Amy's idea to go and meet their future selves -- [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay bad things might happen]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E3MawdrynUndead if two different versions of a person meet]].

** While preparing for the Silurians' imminent arrival, the Doctor waves off the dyslexic kid when he mentions he left his headphones at home -- letting him wander off on his own while quite-possibly hostile ''natives'' are about to emerge. The Doctor's OhCrap face when he realises he was the last one to see the kid shows that he's aware of it.

* MadDoctor: The Silurian at the end was certainly a visual example of this trope, but [[SubvertedTrope he turns out to be]] a MadDoctor [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold with a Heart of Gold]]. He is far more reasonable than the GeneralRipper.

* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: The Doctor insists that Amy and Rory do not try to interact with their future selves on the hill.

-->'''The Doctor:''' ... ah. Maybe ''more'' than a dozen.

* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: There is no ''way'' it only took them nine minutes to set up their makeshift surveillance system. It extends over the entire community!

* ShoutOut: The [[NightVisionGoggles Night-Vision Shades]] were extremely reminiscent of ''Film/TheyLive''.

* HotScientist: Nasreen Chaudhry is attractive in a distinguished, ChristmasCake kind of way.

The one where the Doctor [[WeCouldHaveAvoidedThis should have muzzled a reptile]] [[DisasterDominoes before she martyred herself.]]

The second two-part story of the the Eleventh Doctor's first series. Written by Creator/ChrisChibnall, head writer of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'''s first and second series and the series 3 episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 42]]".

The one where the Doctor [[WeCouldHaveAvoidedThis should have]] [[DisasterDominoes muzzled]] a reptile.

The second two-part story of the the Eleventh Doctor's first series. Written by Creator/ChrisChibnall, head writer of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'''s first and second series and the series 3 episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 "42"]].

** As in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno "Inferno"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "The Satan Pit"]], [[DugTooDeep everything begins to go wrong when scientists want to drill very far down]], be it to the centre of a planet or simply through the crust.
** The Silurian force field is reminiscent of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour the Atraxi force field]]. "Isolated village cut off by energy barrier generated by something alien that's been buried underneath it for centuries" was also done in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons "The Dæmons"]].

** The "hungry earth" bit is reminiscent of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E3Frontios "Frontios"]].

-->'''Elliot:''' Have you met monsters before?\\

* [[LastOfHisKind Last of Her Kind]]: The female Silurian warrior [[BlatantLies claims to be the last of her species]]. The Doctor replies that as he ''is'' the last of his species, he knows "how that sits in the heart", and that faking it is an insult.

-->'''The Doctor:''' . . . ah. Maybe ''more'' than a dozen.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Played straight and inverted. The straight play comes to the fore in the following episode. The inversion comes in the Silurans. They're more than happy to kill stinking apes . . . and vivisect them . . . while they're awake.

The one where people fall in holes.

** Yet another Moff reference -- the sonic screwdriver [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary still doesn't do wood]] (but don't say that. That's rubbish within earshot of the Doctor).

** The Silurian force-field is reminiscent of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour the Atraxi force-field]]. "Isolated village cut off by energy barrier generated by something alien that's been buried underneath it for centuries" was also done in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons "The Dæmons"]].

** The Doctor vetoes Amy's idea to go and meet their future selves -- [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay bad things might happen]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E3MawdrynUndead if two different versions of a person meet.]]

* TranquilFury: When Alaya, the Silurian prisoner, tries to gain sympathy from the Doctor by lying about being the last of her species, his expression stays quite polite, until he begins talking. "I know what it's like to be the last of a species, because I'm the last of mine. I know how it sits in the heart so, ''please'', don't insult me." His expression goes [[DeathGlare Icy Cold]].

Amy is revealed to be in the Silurians' underground science lab, soon to be vivissected while still completely conscious, as frantically warned by Mo, who hasn't completely healed from his ordeal. Also, it's not just one little tribe, as the captured Silurian DamselInDistress says. It's an entire civilisation.

* BuffySpeak: The Doctor going on about the 'big mining thing'.

* FantasticRacism: The Silurians regard humans as "stinking apes" and want to wipe them out and reclaim the earth.

-->'''The Doctor:''' ...ah. Maybe ''more'' than a dozen.
* PlayingWithSyringes: The Silurian doctor has one as he approaches Amy with a mind to examine her internal organs.

* TranquilFury: When Alaya, the Silurian prisoner, tries to gain sympathy from the Doctor by lying about being the last of her species, his expression stays quite polite, until he begins talking. "I know what it's like to be the last of a species, because I'm the last of mine. I know how it sits in the heart so, ''please'', don't insult me." His expression goes [[DeathGlare Icy Cold]]..'

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Played straight and inverted. The straight play comes to the fore in the following episode. The inversion comes in the Silurans. They're more than happy to kill stinking apes... and vivisect them... while they're awake.

** The Silurian force-field is reminiscent of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour the Atraxi force-field]]. "Isolated village cut off by energy barrier generated by something alien that's been buried underneath it for centuries" was also done in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons The Dæmons]].

** -->'''Elliot:''' Have you met monsters before?\\

The second two-part story of the the Eleventh Doctor's first series. Written by Creator/ChrisChibnall, head writer of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'''s first and second series and the ''Doctor Who'' series 3 episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 "42"]].

The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive. (They were aiming for Rio, but the TARDIS disagreed.) The Doctor, never to be dissuaded from something of interest, tunes out Amy's complaints as he examines the strange feel of the ground beneath him and patches of blue grass all over the place. And there are people in the distance waving at them. According to the Doctor, who's the only one to have binoculars on him, it's a ten-years-older Rory and Amy, come to visit the place out of a sense of nostalgia. The Doctor explains that it would be a bad idea to meet up with them, and instead goes to have a look at the big mining thing.

Rory puts Amy's engagement ring in the TARDIS for safekeeping, and gets sidetracked by Elliot and Ambrose, who assume that he's a plain-clothes police officer come to investigate the disappearance of people buried in the graveyard, coffins and all. On the surface the graves haven't been touched, and it's as if the ground has all but swallowed them up.

Amy and the Doctor sonic-and-enter the premises of the drilling project, and come across Dr Nasreen Chaudhry and Tony Mack, the two people directing this project. They're trying to work out what's wrong with the drill, where Mo went to, and where that big hole in the floor came from. The Doctor's most worried by the last, especially since it's started to steam. And of course he's ''right'', as the ground situated under the room begins to tremble and more holes appear in the floor in quick succession. Nasreen and the Doctor make it to safety, but Tony gets stuck; Amy dashes to help him instead of making her own escape, and ''she'' starts getting pulled down into the earth for her trouble. She just gets pulled out of his grasp and under the earth.

The Doctor quickly mobilises the ragtag family into a makeshift army. A pitch-dark barrier dome appears around the area and Elliott disappears, but not before he manages to draw a very accurate map of the area and tremendously helps the Doctor. The Doctor realises that he should have watched the boy more carefully and vows to rescue him.

** Yet another Moff reference -- the sonic screwdriver still doesn't do wood (but don't say that. That's rubbish within earshot of the Doctor).

** As in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno "Inferno"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "The Satan Pit"]], [[DugTooDeep everything begins to go wrong when scientists want to drill very far down]], be it to the centre of a planet or simply through the crust.
** The Silurian force-field is reminiscent of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour the Atraxi force-field]]. "Isolated village cut off by energy barrier generated by something alien that's been buried underneath it for centuries" was also done in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons The Daemons]].

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-->'''Elliot:''' Have you met monsters before?\\

* DistressedDude: Mo clamped to the vivisection table.
* DoesntLikeGuns: Ambrose pulls out a stockpile of weapons. The Doctor asks her, [[BewareTheNiceOnes very kindly]], to put them away.

* GenderBlenderName: Ambrose

* HandWave: A brief one explaining why Silurians look so radically different compared to the older ones; they're a different tribe.

* LastOfHisKind: The female Silurian warrior [[BlatantLies claims to be the last of her species]]. The Doctor replies that he ''is'' the last of his species, he knows "how that sits in the heart", and that faking it is an insult.

* RousingSpeech: The Doctor gives one encouraging the gathered people to become "The best of humanity". Nasreen even starts clapping. She's the only one, unfortunately.

* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Amy and the drill worker are secured in chairs so the Silurian doctor can vivisect them.
* SunglassesAtNight: Justified; they're slimmed-down NightVisionGoggles.

* TitleDrop: Sort of. The Doctor references the episode's working title, "The Ground Beneath Their Feet".
* TranquilFury: When Alaya, the Silurian prisoner, tries to gain sympathy from the Doctor by lying about being the last of her species, his expression stays quite polite, until he begins talking, "I know what it's like to be the last of a species, because I'm the last of mine. I know how it sits in the heart so, ''please'', don't insult me." His expression goes [[DeathGlare Icy Cold]]..'

* IdiotBall: The MamaBear grabs hold of it quite firmly from minute one. She dismisses the local expert, stock piles weapons when said expert tells her not to, antagonises the hostage, etc.

* DugTooDeep: The Silurians wake up because the humans drilled deep enough to hit their live support system.

* BeneathTheEarth

** Yet another Moff reference -- the sonic screwdriver still doesn't do wood (but don't say that that's rubbish within earshot of the Doctor).

** While preparing for the Silurians' imminent arrival, the Doctor waves off the dyslexic kid when he mentions he left his headphones at home -- letting him run off on his own while quite-possibly hostile ''natives'' are about to emerge. The Doctor's OhCrap face when he realises he was the last one to see the kid shows that he's aware of it.

* ChekhovsBoomerang: One is thrown at the beginning of the episode with Amy and Rory standing on the hill, waving at their future selves. It does not work out well.

** What do you want to bet the engagement ring's going be significant by the end of the series? It is. Sort of. Twice.
** Ambrose's pile of weapons.
** The Meals on Wheels van.

** And as in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno "Inferno"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "The Satan Pit"]], [[DugTooDeep everything begins to go wrong when scientists want to drill very far down]], be it to the centre of a planet or simply through the crust.

* CuteMonsterGirl: Alaya, basically.

* DugTooDeep

* FantasticRacism: The Silurians regard humans as "stinking apes" and want to wipe us out. So what's new?

** Just as bad, Ambrose refuses to believe any of what the Doctor is saying, even though she was just outside looking up at a weird giant force field.

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Alaya, albeit a green-skinned subterranean babe.
* HandWave: A brief one explaining why Silurians look so radically different compared to the older ones.
* HotScientist: Nasreen Chaudhry, in a distinguished, ChristmasCake kind of way.
* IdiotBall: The MamaBear grabs hold of it quite firmly from minute one.

* MadDoctor: The Silurian at the end was certainly a visual example of this trope, but [[SubvertedTrope he turns out to be]] a MadDoctor [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold with a Heart of Gold]].
* MamaBear: Elliot's mother goes a little nuts after he's kidnapped.

* NonMammalMammaries: Despite being reptilian, the Silurian females do have some chest.
* NoOSHACompliance: Most basic mining safety rules include going to check out stuff in groups of two.

* PlayingWithSyringes: The Silurian doctor as he approaches Amy.

* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: There is no ''way'' it only took them nine minutes to set up their makeshift surveillance system.
* RousingSpeech: The Doctor gives one, following which Nasreen even starts clapping. She's the only one, unfortunately.

* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Amy and the drill worker.

* TranquilFury: When Alaya, the Silurian prisoner, tries to gain sympathy from the Doctor by lying about being the last of her species, his expression stays quite polite, until he begins talking, "I know what it's like to be the last of a species, because I'm the last of mine. I know how it sits in the heart so, ''please'', don't insult me." And his expression goes [[DeathGlare Icy Cold]]..'

* [[PromotedFanboy Promoted Fangirl]]: Meera Syal, who plays Nasreen, had watched the show since she was a little girl.

* LIsForDyslexia: Elliot is dyslexic and compensates through drawing a map of the area to help with surveillance, and is extremely attached to his audio books (which include ''Literature/SherlockHolmes''). The writers got a bit {{Anvilicious}} with how it's okay to be dyslexic.

** -->'''Elliot:''' Have you met monsters before?\\

* BigDamnKiss: Tony, afraid they're about to die, kisses Nasreen.

* DistressedDamsel: Amy, held hostage by the Silurians, and Alaya, held hostage by the humans.

* GenreBlind:

* WhatMeasureIsANonhuman: Played straight and inverted. The straight play comes to the fore in the following episode. The inversion comes in the Silurans. They're more than happy to kill stinking apes... and vivisect them... while they're awake.

* CallBack:
-->'''Elliot:''' Have you met monsters before?\\
'''The Doctor:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians Yes.]]\\
'''Elliot:''' Are you scared of them?\\
'''The Doctor:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace No. They're scared of me.]]

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

'''The Doctor:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E4TheGirlInTheFireplace No. They're scared of me.]]

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