Trope suggestions

[deltaandthebannermen]

Having been through and added a bunch of tropes to The Curse of Peladon, I’ve thought of a couple more linked to the story:

• Dodgy parking - stories where the TARDIS lands in a precarious position like the cliff in this story, the edge of a ravine in The Romans or with the door against a wall in Fear Her.
• Posing as an official (can’t think of a better title at the moment) - stories where the Doctor poses as someone in a position of authority - ooh, maybe Authority Figure for the title - stories like this one where he pretends to be the Earth delegate or Power of the Daleks where he takes on the role of Examiner.
• By Royal Command - stories where the Doctor interacts with the reigning monarch - Peladon, Queen Thalira, The Day of the Doctor (Elizabeth I), The Marian Conspiracy (Mary I), The Witchfinders (James I), The Crusade (Richard I).
• Alien Delegates - Curse and Monster, The Daleks Master Plan, The End of the World, quite a few of the early Gallifrey stories.

(I did look through the master list and don’t think these ones are covered, but happy to be corrected.)

[shauny]

Cool thanks, I’ll look at adding these!

[deltaandthebannermen]

If you want, I can add them (if that’s within my access rights ).

[shauny]

Sure go ahead!

I also want to rename “No TARDIS” because my intention with that is for stories where the Doctor lands somewhere in the TARDIS but then gets separated from it and can’t get back.

But “No TARDIS” suggests the TARDIS is absent from the story.

Suggestions welcome!

[deltaandthebannermen]

Are you thinking like in Marco Polo where he has to get it back if they are to escape?

What about something as simple as ‘Lost the TARDIS’?

[shauny]

Yeah that could work!

[SophieScarlet]

Mystery/Detective (a Murder Mystery tag already exists)

• The Robots of Death
• The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• Nightmare in Eden
• A Girl’s Best Friend
• Black Orchid
• Terror of the Vervoids
• Partners in Crime
• The Unicorn and the Wasp
• Vastra Investigates
• Deep Breath
• Mummy on the Orient Express
• They Keep Killing Suzie
• All-Consuming Fire
• Silhouette
• Death in the Stars
• Doctor vs. Doctor
• The Sleuth Slayers
• Mean Streets
• Ship of Fools
• Judgement of the Judoon
• Mortal Thoughts
• The Chimes of Midnight
• Serpent in the Silver Mask
• Inside Every Warrior
• The Maltese Penguin
• Dead and Breakfast
• The Paternoster Gang
• Redacted
• The Lucy Wilson Mysteries

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Gothic

• The Rescue
• The Daemons
• The Curse of Peladon
• Pyramids of Mars
• The Brain of Morbius
• The Seeds of Doom
• The Masque of Mandragora
• The Deadly Assassin
• The Robots of Death
• The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• Image of the Fendahl
• State of Decay
• A Girl’s Best Friend
• Ghost Light
• The Unquiet Dead
• The Stones of Venice
• Goth Opera
• The Shadow of Weng-Chiang
• The Doctor Trap

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Post-apocalyptic:
Paradise Towers
The Mysterious Planet
Boom

Devolved language:
State of Decay
The Face of Evil
Paradise Towers

[JayPea]

There’s not a gothic tag already??

That 100% needs to exist, if for nothing else than for me to find stories to reccomend to @gravesgate /hj

[MrColdStream]

How about a Staff Picks trope?

That would consist of every River Song story and Delta and the Bannermen /j

[SweetAIBelle]

Well, there’s more staff then just delta and shauny…

I feel like it’d be better as a set then a trope, though. And it might be more fun if each staff member had their own picks, then a staff picks that was the best of those.

[Tian]

I have been thinking that it would be nice with something like “The Tardis Guides Clubs Seal of Approval” that could be given to every story that get more than 8.5 in the club rating.

[shauny]

Some great ideas here.

I’ll add those tropes @SophieScarlet thanks!

Staff Picks is a good idea but might be more suited to “Playslists” than sets. That’s a feature on the horizon.

Also the Seal of Approval is a good idea too, I’ll think about how that would work.

[deltaandthebannermen]

I’ve also added Under the Sea - stories like Warriors of the Deep, the BF Phantoms of the Deep and the classic TV Comic Shark Bait.

[SophieScarlet]

The Ghosts of N-Space can also go in Gothic, and The Underwater Menace in Under the Sea.

(Belated post as I’ve just found it in my drafts. I’d have sworn it posted.)

[deltaandthebannermen]

If you visit the story page you can directly suggest these edits to the team where we can approve them and they’ll get added to the site.

[shauny]

Not everyone has access to that yet, I can enable it on a per-person basis. If you’d like access please let me know!

(After the new site launches it will quickly be improved and available to everyone who is “verified”)

[Tian]

I don’t know if it should be a trope, story arc, or something else, but I feel like stories mentioning Mavity should be something we could track.