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Line 2: [[File:Old_Doctor_1451.jpg\|frame\|Even when rapidly aged 500 years, the Doctor still doesn't look a day over 760.]] {{quote\| '''Brock:''' His scarf killed Stimson!~~<br />~~ '''The Doctor:''' Arrest the scarf then. }} The Doctor and Romana are in the mood for a holiday. After trying out the English ~~seaside--shown~~seaside—shown during an ''interminable'' 2-minute pan across a deserted ~~beach--during~~beach—during the off-season, when the weather's bad and everything's shut, and it turns out that K-9 isn't waterproof, they head for the Leisure Hive, a famous resort on the planet Argolis in the 23rd century. After Argolis was devastated in an interplanetary nuclear war, the survivors founded the Leisure Hive as a contribution to peace: a place where different races could mingle and get to know one another in laid-back surroundings. Not every Argolin, however, agrees with the Leisure Hive's peaceful mission statement. Also, Romana doesn't take long to notice that some of the Leisure Hive's technology is more advanced than it should be. And then the Doctor gets entangled in a murder investigation. Oh, and there's some kind of green scaly critter with great big claws lurking about, that's obviously up to no good... Line 14: * As mentioned above, it's [[The Eighties]]. That means we're taking a long trip to Synth City! * The Doctor wears a heavier, burgundy version of his hat-coat-scarf ensemble for the rest of the season, and his collar is now adorned with a question mark on each side. * Because K-9 has been deemed too overpowered by the new regime, he gets put through the wringer in every serial before his departure, with the exception of [[Doctor Who/Recap/S18 E4/E04 State of Decay\|State of Decay]], in which he gets one last chance to laser people. * The show is more firmly grounded in hard science than it was in the past. Don't know what tachyonics is? You're not alone. * The jokier elements of ''Doctor Who'' have been toned down, making this season [[Cerebus Syndrome\|much more somber]] [[Darker and Edgier\|in comparison]] to the 6 preceding it. Looking back from post-2005, the serial's villains are also noteworthy. There's a plot twist where it turns out that the alien monsters, rather than being part of a hostile racial monolith, are a bunch of profit-motivated criminals regarded as renegades by their own society. Another plot twist is that several apparently-human characters are actually the villainous aliens in skin-tight disguises, even though undisguised (as represented by an actor in a bulky monster suit) they're clearly larger than any of the humans they impersonate. There's even a scene involving a horrified bystander and a discarded skin in a closet. Does [[Doctor Who~~/NS~~/Recap/~~S1 E4~~S27/E04 Aliens of London\|anything remind you of this?]] ---- === Tropes === * [[Actual Pacifist]] * [[Animal Motifs]]: The Foamasi, with their penchant for disguise, look rather like chameleons. * [[Busman's Holiday]] {{quote\| '''Doctor:''' Anyway, there's been enough randomising on this job.~~<br />~~ '''Romana:''' Job? It was meant to be a holiday.~~<br />~~ '''Doctor:''' Well then, I'm going to be very glad to get back to work. }} * [[Crystal Spires and Togas]]: Argolis Line 32: * [[Explosive Instrumentation]]: K-9 literally blows his top, emitting a quite impressive fireball, the second he enters the water. * [[He Who Must Not Be Heard]]: The lawyer Klout never speaks a word on-screen, which turns out to be plot significant: {{spoiler\|He's one of the disguised Foamasi, and doesn't have the anatomy to speak English.}} * [[Latex Perfection]]: The Foamasi body-~~suits -- undetectable~~suits—undetectable when being worn, obvious rubber when they're taken off. * [[Leave the Camera Running]]: The notorious opening shot of Brighton Beach. * [[Me's a Crowd]]: Pangol's answer to the question "[[You and What Army?\|With what army?]]". (In the event, {{spoiler\|the Pangol-clones last only a few minutes -- and most of them turn out to be clones of that meddling Doctor, anyway}}.) * [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: The script describes the Foamasi as reptiles, the director wanted insects, the final result is a mixture of both. * [[No Waterproofing in the Future]]: K-9 * [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: In-story ~~example -- when~~example—when the suave Brock is attacked by a Foamasi, his posh demeanor cracks and he starts screaming at it to keep away from him in an accent several social rungs lower than the one he's been speaking in up to that point. * [[People in Rubber Suits]]: It's some kind of textured fabric, rather than rubber, but it's definitely a suit, with a great big seam down the front and visible stitches at the neckline. Nice try, though. * [[Rapid Aging]]: As a side-effect of the radiation, Argolins remain youthful for decades and then all their age catches up with them over the course of a few hours. 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