Doctor Who/Recap/S16/E05 The Power of Kroll: Difference between revisions

=== Tropes ===

* [[Arms Dealer]]: Rohm Dutt, a smuggler from Delta Magna who's selling firearms to the local tribe.

* [[Crapsack World]]: it's an equal-opportunity-misanthropy depiction of colonialism where the colonists are all murderous racists or ineffectual wets, but the indigenous people are bloody-minded, backwards, sadistic, and worship a mindless monster just because it's big and scary. The ending gives the strong impression that the Doctor has absolutely no confidence in his standard "and now you must learn to live in peace together" speech and that the Swampies are going to execute the last surviving colonist as soon as he goes away.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The setting resembles any number of situations in Earth history where relatively primitive nations are exploited by their more civilised neighbours. Except for the bit about the giant squid.

* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: Thawn is impaled by a spear, complete with blood spewing through his fingers.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]