Aliens/Enemies: The Clockwork Droids
New Characters: Reinette
Gadgets Used: The TARDIS, fire extinguisher
Episode Objective: To find out why there are portals to 18th century France on a spaceship, and to try and save Reinette from the Clockwork Droids.
Bullet-point Plot
- A woman looks into a fireplace
- And calls for The Doctor
- The TARDIS materializes
- In a spaceship in the 51st century
- The Doctor, Rose and Mickey exit
- And find a fireplace
- The Doctor looks into the fire
- And sees a young girl
- The girl tells him she is Reinette
- And she lives in Paris 1727
- The Doctor deduces a 'time window'
- Pokes around the fireplace
- Causes it to rotate
- And end up in France
- He gets worried by a broken clock
- As he can hear ticking
- He looks under Reinette's bed
- And is swiped at by a Clockwork Droid
- The Droid has been scanning Reinette's brain
- But claims she is 'not complete'
- The Doctor draws it to the fireplace
- And takes it back to the spaceship
- But it teleports away
- The Doctor goes back through the fire
- And Rose and Mickey wander off
- In France, everything has changed
- Reinette enters but she is now a young woman
- The Doctor is surprised
- Even more so when she kisses him
- He returns to the spaceship
- To find Rose and Mickey gone
- He ventures off to look for them
- And runs into a horse
- Rose and Mickey explore
- They find a camera with a human eye
- A heart wired into the ship
- And another time window
- After briefly stopping off in France 1744
- The Doctor finds Rose and Mickey
- Looking through the time window
- They see Reinette and a Droid
- They rush through
- And begin to question the Droid
- They learn that:
- The ship was damaged
- The Droids didn't have the parts
- So used the crew
- They need one more part
- And can only use Reinette
- As they 'are the same'
- The Droid then teleports away
- Rose and Mickey follow
- But are caught
- The Doctor reads Reinette's mind
- And discovers the Droids want her a certain age
- Reinette reads his mind
- And disovers how lonely he is
- She takes him away to dance
- Rose and Mickey are tied to tables
- And about to be dissected
- When The Doctor appears
- Dissables the Droids
- And frees the others
- But the Droids power up
- Discover that Reinette is 'complete'
- And teleport away
- Rose warns Reinette in 1753
- About what will happen in 5 years time
- In 1758 the Droids have Reinette
- They are about to execute her
- When The Doctor appears on the horse
- And smashes the last time window
- As the Droids can't return
- They have no purpose
- And cease to work
- The Doctor believes he is trapped
- But Reinette shows him the fireplace
- Which was off line
- So still has the link
- The Doctor goes through
- And tells Reinette he will be back
- He meets up with Rose and Mickey
- Before returning to France
- But he is to late
- As Reinette has died
- He returns to the TARDIS
- Reads a letter Reinette wrote him
- Severs the final time link
- And travels on
- Never realizing the ship was named after Reinette
Best Bits
- The first meeting of the Clockwork Droid
- Arthur the horse
- The Doctor acting drunk
- Jumping through the mirror
- The letter
Favorite Quotes
The Doctor: Nah, nothing here. Well, nothing dangerous. Well, not that dangerous. Know what, I'll just have a quick scan... case there's anything dangerous.
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The Doctor: Must be a spatio-temporal hyperlink.
Mickey: What's that?
The Doctor: No idea. Just made it up. Didn't want to say 'magic door'.
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The Doctor: Don't worry Reinette, just a nightmare. Everyone had nightmares... even monsters.
Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about?
The Doctor: Me!
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Rose: Oh, here's trouble. What you been up to?
The Doctor: Oh, this and that. Became the imaginary friend of a future French aristocrat, picked a fight with a clockwork man...
[A whinny is heard from off screen]
The Doctor: Oh, and I met a horse.
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Mickey: What's a horse doing on a spaceship?
The Doctor: Mickey, what's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective.
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The Doctor: Oh, brilliant! It's you! You're my favorite, you are! You are the best! Know why? 'Cause you're so...thick! You're Mr Thick-Thick-Thickety-Thickface from Thicktown, Thickania! [pause] And so's your dad!
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Reinette: One may tolerate a world of deamons for the sake of an angel
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Reinette: Oh, this is my lover, the King of France.
The Doctor: [dismissive] Yeah? Well I'm the Lord of Time.
6 comments:
For Favourite quotes you could also have put in the part where Rose tells the Doctor he can't keep the horse or the part where the Doctor talks about Bananas!
My favourite part was where the Doctor became drunk and thought that he had "invented bananas a few centuries early". My favourite quote was "Doctor, you cann't keep the horse," "I let you keep Mickey!"
The most poignantly pitiful moment occurs in this episode where the dashing Doctor was halted by the realization that Reinette had passed away before fulfilling his promise.
One wonders, whether it would have been better if her brain, alive and functioning in a living ship would have been the better course of action. For she did indicated her desire to visit the stars in her discourse with the Doctor. What a truely wonderful companion Reinette could have made for this sad and lonely Lord of Time.
Don t make me laugh because the doctor has drank some alcohols like beer wine spirts vineveary and changpang Ha Ha heee ahh
My favorite quotes:
“The Doctor is worth the monsters.”
-Madame de Pompadore
and...
“You’re my favorite. You are the best. You know why? Because you’re so thick. You’re Mr. Thick Thick Thickity Thickface from Thicktown. Thickcaynia. And so’s your dad.”
-The Doctor
HAHAHA Brilliant. I've seen some really good ones on Fires | Fireplaces | Stoves.
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