Doctor Who/Recap/S21/E01 Warriors of the Deep: Difference between revisions

The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough wind up in a military undersea base c.2084 and the Cold War is at it again. [[The Great Politics Mess -Up|Or still at it, possibly, as this was made in 1984.]] The trio explore this base, and the companions are quickly captured so the Doctor can rescue them later on. As it turns out, this base is the futuristic equivalent of an underwater nuclear missile silo - with Cold-War-ish tensions rising quickly and a spy within the base trying to either capture the base or start the third (fourth? fifth?) world war.

Eventually, it's discovered that a group of indigenous intelligent reptoids ([[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S7 E2/E02 Doctor Who and Thethe Silurians|the Silurians]] and [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S9 E3/E03 The Sea Devils|the Sea Devils]]) are invading this base to stop the humans from making the next world war so that... the <s>aliens</s> indigenous reptoids themselves can start up the next world war. Don't bother asking why they didn't just sit and wait, it's a perfect excuse for them to whip out the dreaded Myrka - an bio-engineered weapon so fearsome that humans run up to be embraced by its deadly hugs and random spurts of electricity. Fed up with no one listening to him, the Doctor essentially goes commando on the whole base and ''(not through lack of trying to save the day)'' every single person on the base who wasn't in the TARDIS at the start of the adventure (except one) ''[[Kill'Em All|winds up dead]].''

=== Tropes ===

* [[Blinded Byby the Light]]: The Myrka is killed by an intense ray of ultraviolet light aimed at its eyes.

* [[Franchise Original Sin]]: The aforementioned fight scene with Solow and the Myrka was presented by executives who wanted [[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]] axed to [[BBC 1]] Controller [[Michael Grade]], and it worked... for 18 months.

* [[The Great Politics Mess -Up]]: Maybe averted since we're never explicitly told much of anything about either of the power blocs, just that there's two of them.

* [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]:

{{quote| '''The Doctor:''' ''I sometimes wonder why I like the people of this miserable planet so much.'' }}