History YMMV / DoctorWhoS16E3TheStonesOfBlood

* LesYay: There is a definite, if subtle, romantic undertone to Rumford and Fay's relationship. Creator/MaryTamm herself said "We were all so innocent back then" when the LesYay was pointed out to her.

* MagnificentBitch: [[ConArtist Cessiar of Diplos]] is an intergalactic professional criminal and possibly an agent of the Black Guardian. Arrested for numerous crimes, including stealing the Key to Time's third segment of and three [[SiliconBasedLife Ogri]], she manages to take control of the ship and escapes to Earth. Using her advanced tech and manipulative skills, Cessair tricked the Celts into [[GodGuise worshiping her as the Callieach]] and training the Ogri to obey her. Using multiple invented identities for four thousand years she retains absolute power over her fiefdom. In the present she continues to rule the area from behind the scenes using a sect of modern druids. Warned the Doctor is coming, Cessair orders the druids to dispose of him and taking his form she lures Romana to a cliff's edge and pushes her off. Using the Ogri to wipe out the druids when they fail, Cessiar traps Romana and after giving the Doctor a chance to leave her be, lures him onto the prison ship then traps him with the Ogri. Her plan only failing due to the [[MechanicalAbomination Megara]]'s intervention, Cessair manipulates them, [[NearVillainVictory coming within a hair's breadth of having them kill the Doctor]].

** Cessairs fate. AndIMustScream Indeed. The look of sheer horror on her face when the Megara pass sentence says it all.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Cessair of Diplos is, on the face of it, an alien criminal who happens to be in posession of the third segment of the Key to Time, disguised as the Great Seal of Diplos and will stop at nothing to prevent the Doctor from obtaining it. But the story hints that there's more than this than meets the eye: is she an agent of the Black Guardian who is trying to stop the Doctor getting the segment on the Guardian's behalf? Maybe, but a third explanation arises from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E6TheArmageddonFactor The Armageddon Factor]]": Cessair was a false agent of the Black Guardian. She was given the task of stealing the Great Seal, supposedly to stop the Doctor getting his hands on it, but actually to help him. The Guardian's plan was to trick the Doctor into giving him the complete Key. By this reasoning, Cessair stole the Great Seal, and was actually doing what would have been the dirty work. End result: the Doctor has the relatively easy job of recovering the Seal from a criminal as opposed to stealing it from its proper home on Diplos. Cessair got [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]] for her efforts. The Doctor was then able to seek the remaining segments.

* MagnificentBitch: [[ConArtist Cessiar of Diplos]] is an intergalactic professional criminal and possibly an agent of the Black Guardian. Arrested for numerous crimes, including stealing the Key to Time's third segment of and three [[SiliconBasedLife Orgi]], she manages to take control of the ship and escapes to Earth. Using her advanced tech and manipulative skills, Cessair tricked the Celts into [[GodGuise worshiping her as the Callieach]] and training the Orgi to obey her. Using multiple invented identities for four thousand years she retains absolute power over her fiefdom. In the present she continues to rule the area from behind the scenes using a sect of modern druids. Warned the Doctor is coming, Cessiar orders the druids to dispose of him and taking his form she lures Romana to a cliff's edge and pushes her off. Using the Orgi to wipe out the druids when they fail, Cessiar traps Romana and after giving the Doctor a chance to leave her be, lures him onto the prison ship then traps him with the Orgi. Her plan only failing due to the [[MechanicalAbomination Megara]]'s intervention, Cessair manipulates them, [[NearVillainVictory coming within a hair's breadth of having them kill the Doctor]].

* LesYay: There is a definite, if subtle, romantic undertone to Rumford and Fay's relationship. Mary Tamm herself said "We were all so innocent back then" when the LesYay was pointed out to her.

* MagnificentBastard: Cessair of Diplos. She absconded with part of the Key to Time and three Ogri, which she used as attack "dogs". With the ship hauling her to prison stuck in hyperspace by Earth, she passed herself off as a deity among the locals. For ages they fed her Ogri (with animal blood once human sacrifice was abolished), and she bought up the land her shrine was on, through the ages. Oh, and she may have been an agent of the Black Guardian.

* NightmareFuel:
** The scene with the 2 campers. Especially the closeup of the hand.
** Cessairs fate. AndIMustScream Indeed. The look of sheer horror on her face when the Megara pass sentence says it all.

** The scene with the 2 campers [[spoiler: Especially the closeup of the hand]]
** Cessairs fate. AndIMustScream: Indeed. The look of sheer horror on her face when the Megara pass sentence says it all.

** Cessairs fate. AndIMustScream: Indeed. The look of sheer horror on her face when the Mugara pass sentence says it all.

* MagnificentBastard: Cessair of Diplos. She absconded with part of the Key to Time and three Ogri, which she used as attack "dogs". With the ship hauling her to prison stuck in hyperspace by Earth, she passed herself off as a deity among the locals. For ages they fed her Ogri (with animal blood once human sacrifice was abolished), and she bought up the land her shrine was on, through the ages. Oh, and she may have been an agent of the Black Guardian.