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== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
* [[Yog-Sothoth]] is a cosmic entity created by [[H. P. Lovecraft]], part of a pantheon of alien "gods" that appear in his fiction. First mentioned in ''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'', Yog-Sothoth is described in ''The Dunwich Horror'' as "the gate" and "the key" through which the [[Old One]]s entered the universe. He is described in ''The Horror in the Museum'' as resembling "a congeries of iridescent globes". In [[Andy Lane]]'s novel ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'', the Doctor mentions having met Yog-Sothoth "[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|in Tibet]] and [[The Web of Fear (TV story)|again in London]]", implying that Yog-Sothoth is the Intelligence. [[Craig Hinton]]'s ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'', which featured the Intelligence, later made this explicit. | * [[Yog-Sothoth]] is a cosmic entity created by [[H. P. Lovecraft]], part of a pantheon of alien "gods" that appear in his fiction. First mentioned in ''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'', Yog-Sothoth is described in ''The Dunwich Horror'' as "the gate" and "the key" through which the [[Old One]]s entered the universe. He is described in ''The Horror in the Museum'' as resembling "a congeries of iridescent globes". In [[Andy Lane]]'s novel ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'', the Doctor mentions having met Yog-Sothoth "[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|in Tibet]] and [[The Web of Fear (TV story)|again in London]]", implying that Yog-Sothoth is the Intelligence. [[Craig Hinton]]'s ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'', which featured the Intelligence, later made this explicit. | ||
* 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 genderless 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 genderless 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 2005)|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 forty-four years, the Great Intelligence held the record for longest period of time between televised ''Doctor Who'' appearances, until the return of [[the Toymaker]] in ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]'', which aired fifty-seven years after his [[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|one and only previous television appearance]]. | * With a gap of forty-four years, the Great Intelligence held the record for longest period of time between televised ''Doctor Who'' appearances, until the return of [[the Toymaker]] in ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]'', which aired fifty-seven years after his [[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|one and only previous television appearance]]. | ||
