The God Complex (TV story)
The God Complex (TV story) was the eleventh episode in the sixth series of Doctor Who.
Synopsis
The Doctor, Amy and Rory investigate a hotel of horror where repeat business is low but the body count is high... A mighty monster stalks the corridors and the rooms hold visions of Angels, apes and creepy clowns. Who - or what - has brought them to this place? And can the Doctor solve the mystery before the residents check out in grisly style?[1]
Plot
A woman called Lucy Hayward is writing about a mysterious monster and how it has made all of her companions 'praise him' after they find their rooms. Soon she starts to praise him and the Creature kills her.
Soon after, the Doctor Amy and Rory arrive in the hotel and the Doctor begins to investigate, certain that they are somewhere fascinating. Rory shows him a picture of a Sontaran on the wall. The Doctor then sees many more of these pictures with numerous different races on them, including a Judoon Captain and the girl from the beginning, Lucy Hayward. He walks down the staircase that the TARDIS appeared on and almost gets hit by a chair leg held by a girl called Rita. Rita is with Howie, a human nerd and Gibbis, a cowardly mole like alien. The Doctor asks them about the hotel and Rita says that each room contains a bad dream. She also reveals that their was another member of their group called Joe, but that he has changed and now praises the creature. The Doctor goes to see him and discovers that he's tied up in his room, which is full of ventriloquist dummies. He tells the Doctor that everyone here has a room, even him. The group take Joe with them, but that causes the Creature to sense Joe's presence and come to kill him. The group all search for rooms to hide in. Howie becomes attracted to a room and inside it is a group of attractive girls who mock him for being nerdy and for having a stutter. The Doctor pulls him out of the room and they look for somewhere else to hide. Amy, Howie and Gibbis enter a room full of Weeping Angels, where the octor arrives and informs Amy to face her fear, as they're not real.
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Cast
- The Doctor - Matt Smith
- Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
- Rory Williams - Arthur Darvill
- Amelia Pond - Caitlin Blackwood
- Lucy Hayward - Sarah Quintrell
- Rita - Amara Karan
- Howie Spragg - Dimitri Leonidas
- Joe Buchanan - Daniel Pirrie
- Gibbis - David Walliams
- PE Teacher - Dafydd Emyr
- The Creature - Spencer Wilding
- Rita's Father - Rashid Karapiet
- Gorilla - Roger Ennals
Crew
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References
- Joe sings "Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head". This is from the centuries-old nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons.
- Amy's room number was 7, a reference to her age when she first met the Doctor and Karen Gillan being the seventh multi-story companion since the start of the new series.
- The Doctor's room number was 11, which is the episode number, a reference to his eleven incarnations, and Matt Smith being the eleventh actor to play the Doctor in the main series.
Story notes
- At the time of the script read-through, Lucy Hayward's name was "Lucy Miller". (CON: Heartbreak Hotel) It was ostensibly changed so as to avoid conflict with Lucie Miller, the long-term audio companion of the Eighth Doctor.
- Rita becomes the latest in a line of characters who are invited to become companions by the Doctor, only to die soon after.
Ratings
- UK Overnight: 5.2 Million
Myths
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Filming locations
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Production errors
- As the group climbed the stairs (all 6 of them), the edge of the TARDIS was visible. (To see this, look to the mid-right of the screen in this shot, the bottom of it can just be seen)
Continuity
- The Minotaur is a relative of the Nimon. (DW: The Horns of Nimon, BFA: Seasons of Fear)
- A Sontaran, a Silurian, a Tritovore, a Hoix , a Catkind and a Judoon appear in photographs. (DW: The Time Warrior, Doctor Who and the Silurians, Planet of the Dead, Love and Monsters, New Earth, Smith and Jones)
- Ace previously "saved the day" by losing faith in the Seventh Doctor. (DW: The Curse of Fenric)
- The Daleks are mentioned. (DW: The Daleks)
- A Rubik's cube is seen again. (DW: Night Terrors)
- The Weeping Angels are Gibbis' biggest fear, and Amy mentions having encountered them. (DW: Blink; The Time of Angels)
- The Doctor now appears to enjoy apples. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
- The Minotaur's final words were a prophetic statement delivered both to and about a long-lived traveller, similar to the Face of Boe. (DW: Gridlock)
- The Sixth Doctor previously visited a world designed to imprison an individual, namely Eugene Tacitus. (BFA: The Holy Terror)
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