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== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
* | * In [[2020]], [[Steven Moffat]] admitted that he should not have played the scene where Amy tries to seduce the Doctor "for laughs". He admitted that this was the one thing about his era would change. | ||
* According to [[Steven Moffat]] on the [[30 March (production)|30 March]] 2010 edition of the [[BBC Radio 4]] programme, ''Front Row'', the title of this episode was supplied by his son, Joshua. | * According to [[Steven Moffat]] on the [[30 March (production)|30 March]] 2010 edition of the [[BBC Radio 4]] programme, ''Front Row'', the title of this episode was supplied by his son, Joshua. | ||
* The title is a play on "flesh and bone", a common idiom referring to a creature's anatomy, since most humans and animals are composed of flesh and a skeletal structure. The title also refers to the Weeping Angels' weakness of turning to stone whenever anyone looks at them, and possibly the fact that Amy thought her hand had turned to stone in the previous episode, ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]''. This was a rumoured title for the episode ''[[Gridlock (TV story)|Gridlock]]''. | * The title is a play on "flesh and bone", a common idiom referring to a creature's anatomy, since most humans and animals are composed of flesh and a skeletal structure. The title also refers to the Weeping Angels' weakness of turning to stone whenever anyone looks at them, and possibly the fact that Amy thought her hand had turned to stone in the previous episode, ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]''. This was a rumoured title for the episode ''[[Gridlock (TV story)|Gridlock]]''. | ||
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* This episode aired on the same day as the ''[[K9 (TV series)|K9]]'' episode ''[[Alien Avatar (TV story)|Alien Avatar]]'' was first broadcast on Disney XD in Britain. It also aired on the same day that ''[[Sirens of Ceres (TV story)|Sirens of Ceres]]'' was first broadcast on Network Ten in Australia. | * This episode aired on the same day as the ''[[K9 (TV series)|K9]]'' episode ''[[Alien Avatar (TV story)|Alien Avatar]]'' was first broadcast on Disney XD in Britain. It also aired on the same day that ''[[Sirens of Ceres (TV story)|Sirens of Ceres]]'' was first broadcast on Network Ten in Australia. | ||
* The episode's final scene leads into ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS 2 (TV story)|Meanwhile in the TARDIS 2]]''. | * The episode's final scene leads into ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS 2 (TV story)|Meanwhile in the TARDIS 2]]''. | ||
*The blue in Amy's bedroom was an idea of [[Adam Smith (director)|Adam Smith]] to show that it was inspired by the TARDIS from Amy's encounter with the Doctor when she was young. | |||
*The Doctor's gesture indicating Rory's long nose wasn't in the script. This two-parter was actually the first episodes filmed, before [[Arthur Darvill]] had acted on the show, but after he'd been cast. [[Matt Smith]] and Darvill were already old friends, so Smith already knew about Darvill's honker and improvised. | |||
*[[Steven Moffat]] came up with the concept for this two-parter when he was thinking of the worst possible situations to be in with the Weeping Angels and thought of the inability to see. His first idea was blindness, though this developed into the situation that Amy ends up in. | |||
*[[Matt Smith]] had difficulty saying: "the forest is full of angels", instead he said: "the angel is full of forests". There's even a t-shirt in existence showing the phrase. | |||
*In the climactic scene, [[Karen Gillan]] had to walk with her eyes closed, which she said was difficult and challenging as the ground was uneven and muddy. She stated that "it was the most scary thing" when she had to trip over a step and fall, even though she was aware of the crash mat. As she was not able to express herself through her eyes, Gillan had to make herself more animated to convey emotion. | |||
*The scene in which the Doctor, Amy and River are horizontal in mid-air when the gravity field fails on the Byzantium was achieved by using wires and powerful wind machines. | |||
=== Ratings === | === Ratings === | ||
