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== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
* Unlike the previous episodes of Series 7, this episode does not introduce a new variation of the Doctor Who logo. | * Unlike the previous episodes of Series 7, this episode does not introduce a new variation of the Doctor Who logo. | ||
* This is the first story featuring no significant [[Human]] characters or link to [[Earth]] other than the companion(s) since either [[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Waited (TV story)|The Girl Who Waited]]'' or [[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'', depending on whether converted [[Dalek Puppet]]s are considered "human", and the first of such with an actually significantly-sized guest cast since either [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'' or [[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire|Dragonfire]]'', the latter featuring a supporting cast largely of [[Humanoid]]s of unidentified species. | |||
* This is the first episode since her [[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|departure]] that does not have [[Amy Pond]] referenced and inadvertently affecting the plot or story. The word "Pond" was what got the Doctor to come out of [[retirement]] in the television story ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'' and an image on the cover of the book she wrote, [[Summer Falls]], became a manifestation for a [[Spoonhead]] in the television story ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'' | * This is the first episode since her [[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|departure]] that does not have [[Amy Pond]] referenced and inadvertently affecting the plot or story. The word "Pond" was what got the Doctor to come out of [[retirement]] in the television story ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'' and an image on the cover of the book she wrote, [[Summer Falls]], became a manifestation for a [[Spoonhead]] in the television story ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'' | ||
* The basic plot has commonality with the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic story, ''[[Thinktwice (comic story)|Thinktwice]]''. As in this story, the [[Tenth Doctor]] in ''Thinktwice'' fights an enemy that takes memories, and he proposes to defeat that enemy, the [[Memeovax]], by "overloading it" with his own memories. | * The basic plot has commonality with the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic story, ''[[Thinktwice (comic story)|Thinktwice]]''. As in this story, the [[Tenth Doctor]] in ''Thinktwice'' fights an enemy that takes memories, and he proposes to defeat that enemy, the [[Memeovax]], by "overloading it" with his own memories. | ||
