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* Whether the Great Intelligence should be referred to as "it" or "he" is perhaps best left to personal preference. Being emphatically inhuman and having not only no body, but no set physical avatar when it does incarnate itself, it is doubtful as to whether the Intelligence can be said to have a fixed gender; it is certainly sexless in a biological sense. The most that can be said is that, through borrowing the face of its progenitor [[Walter Simeon]] long after the man's death, the Intelligence as depicted in [[Series 7 (Doctor Who)|Series 7]] can be said to be male-presenting. | * Whether the Great Intelligence should be referred to as "it" or "he" is perhaps best left to personal preference. Being emphatically inhuman and having not only no body, but no set physical avatar when it does incarnate itself, it is doubtful as to whether the Intelligence can be said to have a fixed gender; it is certainly sexless in a biological sense. The most that can be said is that, through borrowing the face of its progenitor [[Walter Simeon]] long after the man's death, the Intelligence as depicted in [[Series 7 (Doctor Who)|Series 7]] can be said to be male-presenting. | ||
* Writer [[Neil Gaiman]] disclosed in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 448|#448]] that earlier drafts of his script for ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'' implied that [[House (The Doctor's Wife)|House]], the villain of that story, was actually the Great Intelligence. These hints did not make it into the episode as aired. The idea of the Great Intelligence as a villain for the revived series ''Doctor Who'' would later lead to ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]''. | * Writer [[Neil Gaiman]] disclosed in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 448|#448]] that earlier drafts of his script for ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'' implied that [[House (The Doctor's Wife)|House]], the villain of that story, was actually the Great Intelligence. These hints did not make it into the episode as aired. The idea of the Great Intelligence as a villain for the revived series ''Doctor Who'' would later lead to ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]''. | ||
* With a gap of 44 years, the Great Intelligence holds the record for longest period of time between televised ''Doctor Who'' appearances. However, the longest period of time between Doctor Who appearances of an individual ''played by the same performer'' goes to [[Alpha Centauri]], voiced by [[Ysanne Churchman]], with a 43 year gap. | * With a gap of 44 years, the Great Intelligence holds the record for longest period of time between televised ''Doctor Who'' appearances. However, the longest period of time between Doctor Who appearances of an individual ''played by the same performer'' goes to [[Alpha Centauri]], voiced by [[Ysanne Churchman]], with a 43 year gap. However, both of these characters continued to appear in expanded media in the intervening time, so perhaps the honour should instead go to [[Axos]], with thirty nine years between its first two appearances in the franchise. | ||
* Unusually, unlike other monsters that have appeared in both the classic and revived series, the original creators of the Great Intelligence ([[Mervyn Haisman]] and [[Henry Lincoln]]) have never been credited at the end of an episode of the revival. | * Unusually, unlike other monsters that have appeared in both the classic and revived series, the original creators of the Great Intelligence ([[Mervyn Haisman]] and [[Henry Lincoln]]) have never been credited at the end of an episode of the revival. | ||
