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* Several previous Doctors appeared in brief flashes when the Doctor knocked heads with Craig. | * Several previous Doctors appeared in brief flashes when the Doctor knocked heads with Craig. | ||
* This is an Amy-lite episode, similar to the [[Donna Noble|Donna]]-lite episode [[TV]]: ''[[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]'' and in the vein of the Doctor and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]]-lite episode [[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'' and the [[Martha Jones|Martha]] (and Doctor)-lite episode [[TV]]: ''[[Blink]]''. ''However, Amy features throughout this story, while in ''Midnight'', Donna was completely absent, apart from the beginning and the ending.'' | * This is an Amy-lite episode, similar to the [[Donna Noble|Donna]]-lite episode [[TV]]: ''[[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]'' and in the vein of the Doctor and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]]-lite episode [[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'' and the [[Martha Jones|Martha]] (and Doctor)-lite episode [[TV]]: ''[[Blink]]''. ''However, Amy features throughout this story, while in ''Midnight'', Donna was completely absent, apart from the beginning and the ending.'' | ||
* This is the first time in the new series that the Doctor has definitively stated how many incarnations he has had — he tells Craig he is the eleventh. | * This is the first time in the new series that the Doctor has definitively stated how many incarnations he has had — he tells Craig he is the eleventh. | ||
* * This later proven false in ''[[The Name of the Doctor]] ''through'' [[The Time of the Doctor]]''. They reveal he is actually in his final incarnation, having an aborted regeneration in [[Journey's End (TV story)|''Journey's End'']]'', ''while not acknowledging the [[War Doctor]]; he likely means that he is the eleventh incarnation to refer to himself as the Doctor. | |||
* The Doctor wears a football kit, playing for [[Craig Owens|Craig]]'s pub team, the King's Arms. He wears a jersey with 11 on it when playing a football match, both referencing him being the Eleventh Doctor and this being the eleventh episode of Series 5. | * The Doctor wears a football kit, playing for [[Craig Owens|Craig]]'s pub team, the King's Arms. He wears a jersey with 11 on it when playing a football match, both referencing him being the Eleventh Doctor and this being the eleventh episode of Series 5. | ||
* The Doctor playing football in the episode is a coincidental reference to the fact that Matt Smith originally wanted to become a professional footballer before a back injury, caused him to focus on acting instead. However writer Gareth Roberts has stated that the football scene was always going to be carried over from the comic story and he began writing it prior to the casting of Smith <ref>http://www.sfx.co.uk/2010/06/10/“the-lodger”-interview/</ref>. | * The Doctor playing football in the episode is a coincidental reference to the fact that Matt Smith originally wanted to become a professional footballer before a back injury, caused him to focus on acting instead. However writer Gareth Roberts has stated that the football scene was always going to be carried over from the comic story and he began writing it prior to the casting of Smith <ref>http://www.sfx.co.uk/2010/06/10/“the-lodger”-interview/</ref>. | ||
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* The centre of the faux-TARDIS resembles the actual TARDIS' control room used by the [[Seventh Doctor|Seventh]] and [[Eighth Doctor]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') as well as one later used by the Eleventh. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen]]'', etc.) However, the centre console has large orbs for control devices, a characteristic usually seen in [[Dalek]] designs. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'', ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', et al) | * The centre of the faux-TARDIS resembles the actual TARDIS' control room used by the [[Seventh Doctor|Seventh]] and [[Eighth Doctor]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') as well as one later used by the Eleventh. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen]]'', etc.) However, the centre console has large orbs for control devices, a characteristic usually seen in [[Dalek]] designs. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'', ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', et al) | ||
* When in the shower, the Doctor sings Verdi's "[[La donna è mobile]]," which he previously sang at the beginning of [[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]''. | * When in the shower, the Doctor sings Verdi's "[[La donna è mobile]]," which he previously sang at the beginning of [[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]''. | ||
* The Doctor used tea to aid his own revival after his | * The Doctor used tea to aid his own revival after his tenth regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'') | ||
* This episode may hold the first "appearances" of the [[Silent]]s. Amy twice calls out to something in the TARDIS, but the scene immediately cuts after both instances which are then never mentioned again. This may indicate a Silent has snuck aboard the machine to tamper with it. When the Doctor is in the time ship, he notices the corpse of the supposed original pilot, seems concerned, then looks away and seemingly forgets. In ''[[Day of the Moon]]'', the Doctor mentions the ship was "abandoned," despite the fact that he saw the pilot's body and even heard from the on-board emergency system that the ship had crashed and the pilot had died, possibly further evidence of the details being erased from his memory. Also, the corpse's hands possessed four fingers, just as the Silence do. | * This episode may hold the first "appearances" of the [[Silent]]s. Amy twice calls out to something in the TARDIS, but the scene immediately cuts after both instances which are then never mentioned again. This may indicate a Silent has snuck aboard the machine to tamper with it. When the Doctor is in the time ship, he notices the corpse of the supposed original pilot, seems concerned, then looks away and seemingly forgets. In ''[[Day of the Moon]]'', the Doctor mentions the ship was "abandoned," despite the fact that he saw the pilot's body and even heard from the on-board emergency system that the ship had crashed and the pilot had died, possibly further evidence of the details being erased from his memory. Also, the corpse's hands possessed four fingers, just as the Silence do. | ||
* In the Silence lair that [[River Song]] discovers underneath the warehouse to which she tracked her younger self, the centre console in the room resembles the interior of the ship featured here. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'') | * In the Silence lair that [[River Song]] discovers underneath the warehouse to which she tracked her younger self, the centre console in the room resembles the interior of the ship featured here. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'') | ||
