Doctor Who/Recap/S28/E10 Love and Monsters: Difference between revisions

Elton Pope, our manic, dorky and [[Unreliable Narrator]], idolizes the Doctor. He's been fascinated by the strange man and the weirdness that follows in his wake ever since the Doctor turned up in his house when he was a child. Like Clive from "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E1S27/E01 Rose|Rose]]", but more successfully, Elton forms a club with a few other like-minded individuals. They bond over their shared experiences with the supernatural, but quickly become fast friends. Over time, their weekly meetings drift away from the topic of the Doctor and towards baking sessions and [[Electric Light Orchestra]] cover band practice. Elton even falls in love with fellow member [[Shirley Henderson|Ursula]].

Then Victor Kennedy shows up. The neatly-dressed man (who claims he can't be touched because of his ''"eczeeeema"'') takes over the group and begins to act as its boss, assigning members the task of following up on this lead or that lead. Some of the members don't seem to agree, and they've suddenly and mysteriously stopped coming -- orcoming—or, indeed, responding to ''any'' contact from other members -- butmembers—but Elton is still interested in the Doctor, and stays on. Elton is given a snapshot of the Doctor in the company of an unknown blonde woman, and told to find her. He stumbles across her identity -- Rose Tyler --identity—Rose fairlyTyler—fairly quickly, and Victor instructs him to ingratiate himself with Jackie Tyler, Rose's mum. Elton does so, but grows to genuinely like Jackie (who sees him as a very nice piece of ass) and is prepared to tell Victor off... until Jackie finds the photo of the Doctor and Rose, and deduces that he has been using her to get close to the Doctor. Enraged, she orders him out.

If Elton wanted the Doctor's attention, he's got it now: the TARDIS materializes near him so that Rose can chew him out for hurting her mum. All three are just in time to see Victor Kennedy, who is now in his true form: the "Abzorbaloff" (coined by Elton after a few much sillier names), an alien that absorbs its victims but does not consume them. And now he's out to absorb the Doctor and all his knowledge. The Doctor is too late to save Ursula, or any of the other members who had been disappearing, but can grant her a semblance of continued life as an animated lump of concrete. What's left of her is still quite beautiful, and Elton takes her home in her new form as his loving girlfriend.

Elton records the whole story for us from his room, but his own camera never shows Ursula's new face... neatly leaving open the possibility that he's either exaggerating or plain bonkers.

* [[Fun Withwith Acronyms]]: Lampshaded, as Elton made up a cool acronym for his club long before he founded it.

{{quote| Elton (on Victor Kennedy's compliments to him for infiltrating Jackie's home): I had to work hard. She keeps everything very close to her chest.<br />

* [[Most Wonderful Sound]]: Elton describes the TARDIS noises as "the most beautiful sound... ''in the world''."

* [[Romance-Inducing Smudge]]: Jackie uses this trope on Elton to [[Shirtless Scene|get him to take his shirt off]].

* [[Take That]]: The episode is essentially an [[Affectionate Parody]] of [[Doctor Who]] fandom. Most of the Doctor's fans are rather odd and eccentric, but basically sweet and decent people. Victor, however, represents that small toxic minority of Doctor Who fandom (and fandoms in general) who completely ruin it for everyone.

** Rumour has it that the character of Victor is a [[Take That]] aimed at one toxic fan in particular.

{{quote| '''Rose:''' You upset my mum.<br />

'''Elton:''' Great big absorbing creature from outer space, and you're having a go at me?<br />