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* As a child, Brendan wears a v-neck jumper with green zig-zags and a red and yellow diamond pattern, which closely resembles the outfit that [[Sylvester McCoy]] wore as the [[Seventh Doctor]]. | * As a child, Brendan wears a v-neck jumper with green zig-zags and a red and yellow diamond pattern, which closely resembles the outfit that [[Sylvester McCoy]] wore as the [[Seventh Doctor]]. | ||
* Although Brendan's surname and hometown are never mentioned in dialogue, further details are suggested in the scene in which Meg reads a newspaper article reporting on his cliff fall. The article's opening sentence covers multiple lines and is only partially legible, but it identifies the officer as "'''Brendan Fla-'''", indicating a second name beginning with those letters (and which, if a surname, is presumably shared by Patrick and Meg). The newspaper's name begins with the word "Western", which corresponds with the script's statement that the town is in the west of Ireland. The article's opening line also mentions "Kilbriain"; multiple real Irish townlands bear slightly different anglicisations of the same name, including Kilbrien in County Waterford and Kilbryan in County Roscommon (though neither are near the west coast). | * Although Brendan's surname and hometown are never mentioned in dialogue, further details are suggested in the scene in which Meg reads a newspaper article reporting on his cliff fall. The article's opening sentence covers multiple lines and is only partially legible, but it identifies the officer as "'''Brendan Fla-'''", indicating a second name beginning with those letters (and which, if a surname, is presumably shared by Patrick and Meg). The newspaper's name begins with the word "Western", which corresponds with the script's statement that the town is in the west of Ireland. The article's opening line also mentions "Kilbriain"; multiple real Irish townlands bear slightly different anglicisations of the same name, including Kilbrien in County Waterford and Kilbryan in County Roscommon (though neither are near the west coast). | ||
* The dates given in [[Chris Chibnall]]'s script for the Brendan scenes are not literally possible. The script states that the scene where Patrick finds the "six-month-old" Brendan takes place in "Late 1940s West Coast Ireland", specifically 1947; but that Brendan's "first birthday", at which he is 18 months old, also takes place in 1947. Brendan is five years old on his first day of school in 1950, and "8 or 9" in 1951. He is in his "late teens" in 1953, when he joins the gardaí. He gets shot in 1955. Brendan is in his "late 60s" when he retires, but the retirement scene is repeatedly described as "1970s style" and specified to take place in 1973.<ref>https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/doctor-who-s12-ep9-ascension-of-the-cybermen.pdf</ref> | * The dates given in [[Chris Chibnall]]'s script for the Brendan scenes are not literally possible. The script states that the scene where Patrick finds the "six-month-old" Brendan takes place in "Late 1940s West Coast Ireland", specifically 1947; but that Brendan's "first birthday", at which he is 18 months old, also takes place in 1947. Brendan is five years old on his first day of school in 1950, and "8 or 9" in 1951. He is in his "late teens" in 1953, when he joins the gardaí. He gets shot in 1955. Brendan is in his "late 60s" when he retires, but the retirement scene is repeatedly described as "1970s style" and specified to take place in 1973.<ref>https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/doctor-who-s12-ep9-ascension-of-the-cybermen.pdf</ref> These dates, though not given in the episode itself, had a clear influence on the production design; the effect is that Brendan appears to live his entire life in an impossibly protracted mid-20th-century Ireland. | ||
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