Doctor Who/Recap/S12/E02 The Ark in Space: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. [[Patrick Stewart Speech|They're indomitable.]]''|'''The Doctor'''}}

It seems that a race of giant insects - the Wirrn - are also aboard. Eggs have been laid in the solar stacks, and larvae are glimpsed. One of them infects the human leader, Noah, who begins turning into a Wirrn himself. The Doctor and his companions gain the trust of the other humans, now led by medical officer Vira, and together they lure the hatched Wirrn onto a shuttle craft and launch it into space. Noah, using the last vestiges of his humanity, deliberately doesn't set the shuttle's stabilisers and it explodes.

 

 

* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Sarah Jane is the only one thin enough to get through the vent.

* [[Apocalypse How]]: Solar flares toasted the Earth; probably rating around a Class 4 (biosphere extinction).

* [[The Ark]]

* [[Body Horror]]: Noah's transformation.

* [[Break Her Heart to Save Her]]: The Doctor intentionally insults Sarah Jane and hurts her feelings in order to help her achieve the [[Air Vent Passageway]] escape. Needless to say, he doesn't mean it.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Rogin

* [[Decontamination Chamber]]

* [[Executive Meddling]]: In the orignal script The Wirrn were simply ejected from the Ark in the shuttle. However the BBC feared that the possiblity of them surviving would frighten younger viewers, forcing Holmes to kill them off at the end.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Both Rogin and Noah.}}

* [[Humans Are Special]]: See the page quote.

* [[More Expendable Than You]]: {{spoiler|Rogin to the Doctor}}

* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]: The Doctor claims that his is honorary, and Sullivan can only treat sailors.

* [[Special Effect Failure]]: The larvae form of the Wirrn is done with green-painted bubblewrap (which was new at the time, so less well-known to audiences).

* [[The Virus]]

 

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