History Recap / DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth

We open on young Ryan Sinclair on a Website/YouTube vlog, where he says he'll tell us all about the most amazing woman he's ever known. It all begins with the fact that, at nineteen, he can't ride a bicycle (though this is due to his having dyspraxia, a neurological condition which causes — at ''best'' — poor coordination). Scene change to his grandma Grace and her second husband, Graham, trying to teach him to ride (over rough ground near a cliff). After falling, Ryan chucks the bicycle over the edge and into the woods below. And since Nan and Graham's train is leaving soon, it's up to Ryan to go retrieve the bike. Just as he finds it hanging in a tree out of reach, a pattern of light appears in the air nearby, with a [[SchmuckBait glowing button]] in the centre, which Ryan of course touches. The lights disappear, and a giant Hershey's Kiss appears on the ground nearby. Which Ryan also touches. It's burning cold. Ryan calls the police. Probationary Officer Yasmin Khan, an old schoolmate of Ryan's, shows up and is initially disdainful of his claim that the pod just appeared, ordering him to remove it before he convinces her he didn't put it there.

* DisneyVillainDeath: As Tim Shaw starts to dissolve, Karl kicks him off the crane.

* PyrrhicVictory: The Doctor's intervention saves one life — Karl's — but Grace dies instead. Both of them accomplished their objective, but the latter died in the process. Not to mention those who Tim Shaw killed during his hunt for Karl.

Meanwhile, a mechanical thing that looks like the Flying Spaghetti Monster soon attacks a train, containing Graham, Grace and a third random guy. By sheer coincidence (or for dramatic purposes, because the TARDIS doesn't normally do coincidences), it is also into that train that the newly-regenerated Thirteenth Doctor, [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime who has been falling from the sky for a little bit]], makes rather a rough landing... right on to of the MonsterOfTheWeek — nice shot TARDIS. Gotta love the first fifteen hours of a regeneration. Only barely noticing she changed her gender in the past half an hour -- and liking it when it's pointed out -- she assumes command even over the protest of policewoman Yaz, who has just arrived with Ryan in response to a cut-off call Ryan got from his Nan about the stalled train. The Doctor zaps the thing with a loose electrical cable, but since the sonic fell out of her pocket mid-fall, she's unable to stop the spaghetti monster from zapping all six of them and flying off. They return to the woods only to find the pod also gone.

The one where a guy throws a bike off a cliff, plus something that's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

The new friends all attend Grace's funeral, where Ryan's dad, her son, is conspicuously absent. Afterwards the Doctor heads to a charity shop to replace the Twelfth Doctor's damaged clothes at the insistence of Yaz, and chooses a rainbow shirt with a longcoat and some braces. They all go back to the warehouse, where with her new friends' help she uses the rest of the travel pod and even more eclectic junk to adapt the Stenza teleporting device, hoping to get to her TARDIS...

We open on young Ryan Sinclair on a Website/YouTube vlog, where he says he'll tell us all about the most amazing woman he's ever known. It all begins with the fact that, at nineteen, he can't ride a bicycle (though this is due to his having dyspraxia, a neurological condition which causes — at best — poor coordination). Scene change to his grandma Grace and her second husband, Graham, trying to teach him to ride (over rough ground near a cliff). After falling, Ryan chucks the bicycle over the edge and into the woods below. And since Nan and Graham's train is leaving soon, it's up to Ryan to go retrieve the bike. Just as he finds it hanging in a tree out of reach, a pattern of light appears in the air nearby, with a [[SchmuckBait glowing button]] in the centre, which Ryan of course touches. The lights disappear, and a giant Hershey's Kiss appears on the ground nearby. Which Ryan also touches. It's burning cold. Ryan calls the police. Probationary Officer Yasmin Khan, an old schoolmate of Ryan's, shows up and is initially disdainful of his claim that the pod just appeared, ordering him to remove it before he convinces her he didn't put it there.

* BigOMG: The entire Fam, staring in disbelief, all utter a slow "Oh, my God" as they watch the Doctor back up and then run to make the attempted leap onto Karl's crane.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Some of this can be attributed to her post-regeneration haze. This time.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Graham (briefly) insists that there's no such thing as aliens, earning an incredulous look from the Doctor. One wonders where he's been for the past few years.

** Then there's a sign: Site Safety Starts Here, and another showing a [[{{foreshadowing}} falling man and DANGER OF DEATH]].

** Then there's a sign: Site Safety Starts Here.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor
** Yaz is frustrated with handling parking disputes and tells her supervisor to give her something more interesting.
** After TheReveal that he's the designated target in the hunt, we cut to Karl listening to a self-improvement tape saying "I am special. I am valued. Somebody out there wants me."

* TantrumThrowing: Ryan gets so frustrated at his difficulties learning to ride a bicycle that he throws the bike off a cliff. He regrets it immediately afterwards.

* EagerRookie: Yaz is still just a probationary Police Constable, so her superiors don't give her anything more challenging than resolving parking disputes and dismiss her out-of-hand when she wants to handle bigger things.

* AskAStupidQuestion:
-->'''Yaz:''' You don't know your own name?\\
'''The Doctor:''' Of course I know it! I just can't ''remember'' it.

* DisneyVillainDeath: As Tim Shaw starts to dissolve, Karl kicks him off the crane.

* IronicFear: Karl, who operates a tower crane for a living, is — by his own admission — "not very good with heights".

Meanwhile, a mechanical thing that looks like the Flying Spaghetti Monster soon attacks a train, containing Graham, Grace and a third random guy. By sheer coincidence (or for dramatic purposes, because the TARDIS doesn't normally do coincidences), it is also into that train that the newly-regenerated Thirteenth Doctor, [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime who has been falling from the sky for half an hour]], makes rather a rough landing... right on to of the MonsterOfTheWeek — nice shot TARDIS. Gotta love the first fifteen hours of a regeneration. Only barely noticing her changed gender -- and liking it when it's pointed out -- she assumes command even over the protest of policewoman Yaz, who has just arrived with Ryan in response to a cut-off call Ryan got from his Nan about the stalled train. The Doctor zaps the thing with a loose electrical cable, but since the sonic fell out of her pocket mid-fall, she's unable to stop the spaghetti monster from zapping all six of them and flying off. They return to the woods only to find the pod also gone.

The new friends all attend Grace's funeral, where Ryan's dad, her son, is conspicuously absent. Afterwards the Doctor heads to a charity shop for new clothes at the insistence of Yaz, then they all go back to the warehouse, where with her new friends' help she uses the rest of the travel pod and even more eclectic junk to adapt the Stenza teleporting device, hoping to get to her TARDIS...

* RealityEnsues:
** When the drunk man stumbles across Tim Shaw, how does he react? [[TooDumbToLive Mocking him for]] [[YourCostumeNeedsWork dressing up for Halloween a month early,]] [[ProducePelting and then throwing bits of salad at him.]]
** After Grace dies, Ryan decides he's going to try learning to ride a bike again. After many tries, he... keeps falling over. It's going to take a long time to be able to ride a bike well with dyspraxia.
** Likewise, on Ryan's heartfelt video about Grace, [[{{Jerkass}} two people thumbed it down]]. [[InternetJerk This is the Internet, after all.]]
** The Doctor wires a bunch of human tech with alien tech that she doesn't fully understand. Normally, she'd save the day regardless — here, she beams everyone into outer space.
** What's the first thing Ryan does on finding a strange, unnaturally cold alien object in the woods? Call the police.

* LimitedWardrobe: Late in the denouement, Yaz suggests to the Doctor that she get some new clothes, as she's been wearing the wreckage of Twelve's clothes for ''several days'', including to Grace's funeral.

'''The Doctor:''' Oh yeah... I remember! Sorry. Half an hour ago I was a white-haired Scotsman.

** Likewise, on Ryan's heartfelt video about Grace, [[{{Jerkass}} two people thumbed it down]]. [[{{GIFT}} This is the Internet, after all.]]

Meanwhile, a mechanical thing that looks like the Flying Spaghetti Monster soon attacks a train, containing Graham, Grace and a third random guy. By sheer coincidence (or for dramatic purposes, and also because the TARDIS doesn't normally do coincidences), it is also into that train that the newly-regenerated Thirteenth Doctor, [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime who has been falling from the sky for half an hour]], makes rather a rough landing... right on to of the MonsterOfTheWeek — nice shot TARDIS. Gotta love the first fifteen hours of a regeneration. Only barely noticing her changed gender -- and liking it when it's pointed out -- she assumes command even over the protest of policewoman Yaz, who has just arrived with Ryan in response to a cut-off call Ryan got from his Nan about the stalled train. The Doctor zaps the thing with a loose electrical cable, but since the sonic fell out of her pocket mid-fall, she's unable to stop the spaghetti monster from zapping all six of them and flying off. They return to the woods only to find the pod also gone.

Meanwhile, a mechanical thing that looks like the Flying Spaghetti Monster soon attacks a train, containing Graham, Grace and a third random guy. By sheer coincidence (or for dramatic purposes, and also because the TARDIS doesn't normally do coincidences), it is also into that train that the newly-regenerated Thirteenth Doctor, [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime who has been falling from the sky for half an hour]], makes rather a rough landing... right on to of the MonsterOfTheWeek — nice shot TARDIS. Gotta love the first fifteen hours of a regeneration. Only barely noticing her changed gender -- and liking it when it's pointed out -- she assumes command even over the protest of policewoman Yaz, who has just arrived with Ryan in response to a cut-off call Ryan got from his Nan about the stalled train. The Doctor zaps the thing with a loose electrical cable, but since the sonic fell out of her pocket mid-fall, she's unable to stop the spaghetti monster from zapping all six of them and flying off. They return to the woods only to find the pod also gone.

Meanwhile, a Flying Spaghetti Monster soon attacks a train, containing Graham, Grace and a third random guy. By sheer coincidence (and for dramatic purposes, and also because the TARDIS doesn't normally do coincidences), it is also into that train that the Doctor, who has been falling from the sky for half an hour, makes rather a rough landing... right on to of the MonsterOfTheWeek — nice shot TARDIS. Gotta love the first fifteen hours of a regeneration. Only barely noticing her changed gender -- and liking it when it's pointed out -- she assumes command even over the protest of policewoman Yaz, who has just arrived with Ryan in response to a cut-off call Ryan got from his Nan about the stalled train. The Doctor zaps the thing with a loose electrical cable, but since the sonic fell out of her pocket mid-fall, she's unable to stop the spaghetti monster from zapping all six of them and flying off. They return to the woods only to find the pod also gone.

The new friends all attend Grace's funeral, where Ryan's dad, her son, is conspicuously absent. After, at Yaz's insistence, the Doctor heads to a charity shop for new clothes, then they all go back to the warehouse, where with her new friends' help she uses the rest of the travel pod and even more eclectic junk to adapt the Stenza teleporting device, hoping to get to her TARDIS...

*** The Doctor doesn't have access to either the TARDIS or sonic screwdriver when the adventure begins.

* TookALevelInKindness: The Doctor takes the trouble to genuinely apologise to these new humans, something the previous Doctor had [[InnocentlyInsensitive trouble doing convincingly]]. This may be due to Twelve's advice to Thirteen: "Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind."

* WrongLineOfWork: Carl is a tower crane operator with a fear of heights. He shows signs of low self-esteem while working, and is implied to only have the job as a result of {{Nepotism}} from his father.

* AbsurdPhobia: Karl is a tower crane operator who is afraid of heights.