All The Tropes

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

Page Discussion

Doctor Who/Recap/S28/E10 Love and Monsters (view source)

Revision as of 12:04, 25 January 2014

19 bytes removed ,  10 years ago
m
Mass update links
VisualWikitext
m (Mass update links)
Line 9:
----
 
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 (TV)/NS/Recap/S1 E1 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 -- or, indeed, responding to ''any'' contact from other members -- 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 -- 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.
Line 36:
Ursula: She's got one hell of a chest. }}
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Band of Brothers|Albert Blithe]] is looking a lot more cheerful now that he's not getting shot at by Nazis.
** Ursula is played by [[Harry Potter|Moaning Myrtle]].
*** [[Phoenix Nights|Brian Potter]] can walk now! But also absorbs people into him when he touches them, so there's that.
Line 48:
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Victor Kennedy aka the Abzorbaloff.
* [[Oop North]]: Bridget.
* [[Romance -Inducing Smudge]]: Jackie uses this trope on Elton to [[Shirtless Scene|get him to take his shirt off]].
* [[Scooby -Dooby Doors]]
* [[Strange Minds Think Alike]]: Both Elton and the Doctor arrive at Abzorbaloff as a name for Victor after shooting off several variants.
* [[Take That]]: The episode is essentially an [[Affectionate Parody]] of [[Doctor Who (TV)|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.
* [[Tastes Like Chicken]]: Victor says this when he absorbs Ursula.
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/577507"