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{{quote|''You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies.''|'''--The Doctor'''}}
{{quote|''You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies.''|'''--The Doctor'''}}


The Doctor and Ace arrive at Coal Hill School, perhaps a month after the First Doctor and company left. It doesn't take long before they're mixed up in trouble of the Dalek kind -- two separate Dalek factions, the Renegades (Grey) and Imperials (White), respectively opposed and loyal to Davros (as seen in "Revelation of the Daleks"), wage war on each other for possession of the Hand of Omega, a Time Lord superweapon. And unfortunately for both groups, the Doctor has laid a trap for them; he just has to make the right conditions to spring it and ensure that Group Captain Gilmore and his men don't get diced in the crossfire.
The Doctor and Ace arrive at Coal Hill School, perhaps a month after the First Doctor and company left. It doesn't take long before they're mixed up in trouble of the Dalek kind—two separate Dalek factions, the Renegades (Grey) and Imperials (White), respectively opposed and loyal to Davros (as seen in "Revelation of the Daleks"), wage war on each other for possession of the Hand of Omega, a Time Lord superweapon. And unfortunately for both groups, the Doctor has laid a trap for them; he just has to make the right conditions to spring it and ensure that Group Captain Gilmore and his men don't get diced in the crossfire.



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Despite being aired in the show's 25th anniversary year and featuring many links to ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s very first serial, "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S1 E1 An Unearthly Child|An Unearthly Child]]", this is ''not'' the official 25th anniversary special. That was "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S25 E3 Silver Nemesis|Silver Nemesis]]", the first episode of which aired on the actual anniversary.
Despite being aired in the show's 25th anniversary year and featuring many links to ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s very first serial, "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S1/E01 An Unearthly Child|An Unearthly Child]]", this is ''not'' the official 25th anniversary special. That was "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S25/E03 Silver Nemesis|Silver Nemesis]]", the first episode of which aired on the actual anniversary.
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=== Tropes ===
== Tropes ==
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Used by the Doctor to mock Davros: "Crush the lesser races! Conquer the galaxy! Unimaginable power! Unlimited rice pudding! Et cetera! Et cetera!"
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Used by the Doctor to mock Davros: "Crush the lesser races! Conquer the galaxy! Unimaginable power! Unlimited rice pudding! Et cetera! Et cetera!"
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Mike and Radcliffe. Mike, when confronted by Ace about his racism, [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|doesn't even understand]] ''why'' she's furious.
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Mike and Radcliffe. Mike, when confronted by Ace about his racism, [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|doesn't even understand]] ''why'' she's furious.
** [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]] on that one. His racism was pretty much acceptable public opinion (or at least not far off) at the time.
** [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]] on that one. His racism was pretty much acceptable public opinion (or at least not far off) at the time.
* [[Attack Its Weak Point]]: The Doctor mentions that the Daleks are weakest in the eyepiece. So that's where Ace shoots one of them. With a rocket launcher.
* [[Attack Its Weak Point]]: The Doctor mentions that the Daleks are weakest in the eyepiece. So that's where Ace shoots one of them. With a rocket launcher.
* [[Batter Up]]:
* [[Batter Up]]: Giving us the '''''[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=d7pg6pv9&trope=CrowningMomentOfAwesome original]''''' [[Moment of Awesome]].
{{quote| '''Dalek:''' {{smallcaps|Small human female sighted on Level 3}}.<br />
{{quote|'''Dalek:''' {{smallcaps|Small human female sighted on Level 3}}.
'''Ace:''' ''[[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|Who are you calling "small?!"]]'' ''[[[Batter Up]]]'' }}
'''Ace:''' ''[[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|Who are you calling "small?!"]]'' ''[[[Batter Up]]]'' }}
* [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]: The Doctor just waltzes in to Rachel's van and starts asking a lot of technical questions, and at first she doesn't bat an eye. It takes her about a minute to start cottoning on and asking just ''who'' he is.
* [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]: The Doctor just waltzes in to Rachel's van and starts asking a lot of technical questions, and at first she doesn't bat an eye. It takes her about a minute to start cottoning on and asking just ''who'' he is.
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* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The [[Fantastic Racism]] of the Daleks is directly compared with the more prosaic unpleasantness of Nazi sympathiser Radcliffe and his organisation.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The [[Fantastic Racism]] of the Daleks is directly compared with the more prosaic unpleasantness of Nazi sympathiser Radcliffe and his organisation.
* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: Actually, Skaro-Shattering, but it's the same idea.
* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: Actually, Skaro-Shattering, but it's the same idea.
* [[Elite Mooks]]: Special Weapons Dalek (Pictured)
* [[Elite Mooks]]: Special Weapons Dalek (Pictured)
* [[Enemy Civil War]]
* [[Enemy Civil War]]
* [[Enfant Terrible]]
* [[Enfant Terrible]]
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Davros has ''completely'' lost his shit in this one.
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Davros has ''completely'' lost his shit in this one.
* [[Exact Words]]: In their confrontation, the Doctor tells Davros not to use the Hand of Omega, that it's something that's not to be trifled with, and that he's making a grave mistake in doing so -- all of which is true, but he doesn't mention ''why''.
* [[Exact Words]]: In their confrontation, the Doctor tells Davros not to use the Hand of Omega, that it's something that's not to be trifled with, and that he's making a grave mistake in doing so—all of which is true, but he doesn't mention ''why''.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The Daleks are in the story, so that's a given. But here we see for the first time just how fanatical they can get: they declared all out civil war just because the Imperial Daleks are a tiny bit different genetically. This is an [[Ironic Echo]] to the all-too-real racism present in 1963.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The Daleks are in the story, so that's a given. But here we see for the first time just how fanatical they can get: they declared all out civil war just because the Imperial Daleks are a tiny bit different genetically. This is an [[Ironic Echo]] to the all-too-real racism present in 1963.
* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]
* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]
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* [[Off-the-Shelf FX]]: The Time Controller
* [[Off-the-Shelf FX]]: The Time Controller
* [[Oh Crap]]: The Doctor's expression when, having escaped from a Dalek up a flight of stairs, he hears it powering up its antigravs.
* [[Oh Crap]]: The Doctor's expression when, having escaped from a Dalek up a flight of stairs, he hears it powering up its antigravs.
* [[Pin Pulling Teeth]]: In a possible allusion to this trope, the Doctor pops the cap off one of Ace's nitro-nine cannisters with his teeth.
* [[Pin-Pulling Teeth]]: In a possible allusion to this trope, the Doctor pops the cap off one of Ace's nitro-nine cannisters with his teeth.
* [[Politically-Correct History]]: Averted, for one of the few times in the history of ''Doctor Who''. Most noticeably with Ace discovering a "no coloureds allowed" sign. Mike Smith also makes reference to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|"keeping Britain pure"]]<ref> Ace has perhaps the most [[Backstory]] of any of the Classic companions. For one, as a child her friend Manisha's flat was firebombed by skinheads, so naturally she's less than pleased by both the sign and Mike's words</ref>.
* [[Politically-Correct History]]: Averted, for one of the few times in the history of ''Doctor Who''. Most noticeably with Ace discovering a "no coloureds allowed" sign. Mike Smith also makes reference to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|"keeping Britain pure"]].<ref>Ace has perhaps the most [[Backstory]] of any of the Classic companions. For one, as a child her friend Manisha's flat was firebombed by skinheads, so naturally she's less than pleased by both the sign and Mike's words</ref>
** Not only that, but the black cafe worker who serves the Doctor notes that the existence of sugar is the reason why his grandfather was kidnapped from Africa to become a slave, and his family subsequently became English.
** Not only that, but the black cafe worker who serves the Doctor notes that the existence of sugar is the reason why his grandfather was kidnapped from Africa to become a slave, and his family subsequently became English.
* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: Literally.
* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: Literally.
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* [[Talking the Monster to Death]]: The Doctor tells the last of the Renegade Daleks that it's got no kin left at all since its home world was blown up. It refuses to believe him at first but, unable to contact anyone, is brought to so much despair that it disintegrates itself.
* [[Talking the Monster to Death]]: The Doctor tells the last of the Renegade Daleks that it's got no kin left at all since its home world was blown up. It refuses to believe him at first but, unable to contact anyone, is brought to so much despair that it disintegrates itself.
* [[Tele Frag]]: The Doctor manages to make this happen to a Dalek on itself, by fiddling with the machine so that half of the Dalek materializes where the other half would be.
* [[Tele Frag]]: The Doctor manages to make this happen to a Dalek on itself, by fiddling with the machine so that half of the Dalek materializes where the other half would be.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: The <s>Abomination</s> Special Weapons Dalek. When the white Daleks can't gain the upper hand, they wheel out this thing. No plunger, no egg whisk, no eyestalk -- just a single massive cannon. When it opens up on the grey Daleks, there's nothing left except little patches of smouldering ash.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: The <s>Abomination</s> Special Weapons Dalek. When the white Daleks can't gain the upper hand, they wheel out this thing. No plunger, no egg whisk, no eyestalk—just a single massive cannon. When it opens up on the grey Daleks, there's nothing left except little patches of smouldering ash.
* [[This Cannot Be!]]
* [[This Cannot Be!]]
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Ratcliffe holds that Britain "fought for [[Dirty Communists|the wrong court]]" in the last war, and aims to correct that mistake.
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Ratcliffe holds that Britain "fought for [[Dirty Communists|the wrong court]]" in the last war, and aims to correct that mistake.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: The Daleks, who had been suffering from [[Villain Decay]] since [[Doctor Who/Recap/S17 E1 Destiny of the Daleks|Destiny of the Daleks]], finally decided to kick ass and take names. However, greater badassery [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E6 Dalek|is yet to come...]]
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: The Daleks, who had been suffering from [[Villain Decay]] since [[Doctor Who/Recap/S17/E01 Destiny of the Daleks|Destiny of the Daleks]], finally decided to kick ass and take names. However, greater badassery [[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E06 Dalek|is yet to come...]]
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Davros and the last Renegade Dalek.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Davros and the last Renegade Dalek.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Finally, all the "Daleks vs. stairs" jokes are obviated by showing Daleks [[Oh Crap|levitating on screen]].
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Finally, all the "Daleks vs. stairs" jokes are obviated by showing Daleks [[Oh Crap|levitating on screen]].
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Latest revision as of 11:07, 11 April 2017


"I think I might have miscalculated".
You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies.
—--The Doctor

The Doctor and Ace arrive at Coal Hill School, perhaps a month after the First Doctor and company left. It doesn't take long before they're mixed up in trouble of the Dalek kind—two separate Dalek factions, the Renegades (Grey) and Imperials (White), respectively opposed and loyal to Davros (as seen in "Revelation of the Daleks"), wage war on each other for possession of the Hand of Omega, a Time Lord superweapon. And unfortunately for both groups, the Doctor has laid a trap for them; he just has to make the right conditions to spring it and ensure that Group Captain Gilmore and his men don't get diced in the crossfire.


Despite being aired in the show's 25th anniversary year and featuring many links to Doctor Who's very first serial, "An Unearthly Child", this is not the official 25th anniversary special. That was "Silver Nemesis", the first episode of which aired on the actual anniversary.

Tropes

Dalek: Small human female sighted on Level 3.
Ace: Who are you calling "small?!" [[[Batter Up]]]

  1. ↑ Ace has perhaps the most Backstory of any of the Classic companions. For one, as a child her friend Manisha's flat was firebombed by skinheads, so naturally she's less than pleased by both the sign and Mike's words
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