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* 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 is later clarified 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]]. His reference here 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>. | ||
