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Refreshing Department's Suntan
The colony's grooming process applies this suntan treatment, giving the Doctor an unnatural glow alongside tamed hair and polished clothes. He emerges stiff and disdainful, inspecting his altered appearance before rejecting it entirely by tumbling in the rough machine, which restores his wild hair and rumpled outfit. Polly admires the groomed look briefly, while Ben accepts his own treatment more readily.
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Purpose
Provides artificial tan as part of mechanized styling in the Refreshing Department
Significance
Symbolizes the colony's forced assimilation and control over personal identity; the Doctor's reversal asserts his autonomy and resists the regime's oppressive hospitality
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