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== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
* Whilst the episode was promoted by various news outlets as a one-hander, the presence of an imagined Clara and the Veil, and the appearance of the young boy at the end of the episode, technically go against this; however, the bulk of the storyline was carried by the Doctor alone with him having all but one line of dialogue. The 2013 mini-episode ''[[Clara and the TARDIS (home video)|Clara and the TARDIS]]'' remains the only true televised one-hander produced to date. The [[The Companion Chronicles|Companion Chronicle]] ''[[The Stealers from Saiph (audio story)|The Stealers from Saiph]]'' is the only other one-hander. | * [[File:End message 1.jpg|thumb|A quote from the [[episode]] appears in a ''[[Time Fracture (stage play)|Time Fracture]]'' tie-in [[webcast]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[This is Sergeant Robert Dudley. (webcast)|This is Sergeant Robert Dudley.]]'')]]Whilst the episode was promoted by various news outlets as a one-hander, the presence of an imagined Clara and the Veil, and the appearance of the young boy at the end of the episode, technically go against this; however, the bulk of the storyline was carried by the Doctor alone with him having all but one line of dialogue. The 2013 mini-episode ''[[Clara and the TARDIS (home video)|Clara and the TARDIS]]'' remains the only true televised one-hander produced to date. The [[The Companion Chronicles|Companion Chronicle]] ''[[The Stealers from Saiph (audio story)|The Stealers from Saiph]]'' is the only other one-hander. | ||
* The Doctor's story that he tells in the beginning, is written on a wall in the old castle. Only certain parts are missing. | * The Doctor's story that he tells in the beginning, is written on a wall in the old castle. Only certain parts are missing. | ||
* While imagining talking to Clara, the Doctor breaks the fourth wall, looks at the camera and says "I'm nothing without an audience". | * While imagining talking to Clara, the Doctor breaks the fourth wall, looks at the camera and says "I'm nothing without an audience". | ||
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* This story can be read as an elaborate metaphor for battling one’s own depression. In an interview, Moffat confirmed that this was not intentional, but stated he was ‘honoured’ that it had helped out people in dark places. | * This story can be read as an elaborate metaphor for battling one’s own depression. In an interview, Moffat confirmed that this was not intentional, but stated he was ‘honoured’ that it had helped out people in dark places. | ||
* There has been some debate in fan circles as to whether to consider this story the first part of two part story along with ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', a standalone story, or even the middle episode of a three-parter that began with ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]''. Even "official" sources disagree on this. The DWM numbering, which is the system most commonly employed by the BBC, seperates all three stories. This is reflected in some BBC-approved lists of episodes, such as Danilo's 2021 "The Story so Far" desk calendar.<ref>[[DWM 495]]</ref> However, when the BBC's own website posted the scripts for this and the following episode, they referred to them collectively as a "two-part adventure",<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/30f438bc-7a6b-40ed-9fbb-cca0a5f66476</ref> and initially promoted the episodes as a single entity in the publicity for Series 9.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/fd3d5d2b-bb11-4e24-862e-7ce282413e1c</ref> Futhermore, Steven Moffat himself has referred to all three episodes collectively as a "trilogy", about grief, although also claiming that "in the end, it doesn't really matter" whether they constitute one, two, or three stories.<ref>[[DWM 493]]</ref> Perhaps of note is that this story does not end with "to be continued..." or similar, but the following one ''does'' open with a "previously..." recap, and vice versa for the previous story into this one. | * There has been some debate in fan circles as to whether to consider this story the first part of two part story along with ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', a standalone story, or even the middle episode of a three-parter that began with ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]''. Even "official" sources disagree on this. The DWM numbering, which is the system most commonly employed by the BBC, seperates all three stories. This is reflected in some BBC-approved lists of episodes, such as Danilo's 2021 "The Story so Far" desk calendar.<ref>[[DWM 495]]</ref> However, when the BBC's own website posted the scripts for this and the following episode, they referred to them collectively as a "two-part adventure",<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/30f438bc-7a6b-40ed-9fbb-cca0a5f66476</ref> and initially promoted the episodes as a single entity in the publicity for Series 9.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/fd3d5d2b-bb11-4e24-862e-7ce282413e1c</ref> Futhermore, Steven Moffat himself has referred to all three episodes collectively as a "trilogy", about grief, although also claiming that "in the end, it doesn't really matter" whether they constitute one, two, or three stories.<ref>[[DWM 493]]</ref> Perhaps of note is that this story does not end with "to be continued..." or similar, but the following one ''does'' open with a "previously..." recap, and vice versa for the previous story into this one. | ||
*A quote from the episode, specifically "How many [[Second|seconds]] are there in [[eternity]]?", appears in the ''[[Time Fracture (stage play)|Time Fracture]]'' tie-in [[webcast]] ''[[This is Sergeant Robert Dudley. (webcast)|This is Sergeant Robert Dudley.]].'' | |||
=== Ratings === | === Ratings === |