Doctor Who 5-01 The Eleventh Hour
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beccaelizabethI just rewatched this and noticed a couple of tiny tiny things.
Where the bowtie comes from: Left front pocket.
... I did say tiny...
His braces were hanging down and attached front and back but there was also a spare strip hanging down from his left front pocket, red, like the bow tie. Conclusion: bow tie in front pocket.
A few tiny glitches in continuity in that sequence though, clothes that arrive without being thrown, movements we see him start twice.
I don't think presence of TARDIS key is mysterious. He chooses clothes, he strips his old clothes, he had a TARDIS key in his old clothes. If he was in the habit of losing TARDIS keys his life would be much different, so he just switched it to new pockets.
Someone on another board was making much of Amelia Pond's house, says it has 3 floors inside and only 2 outside. Well there's a camera angle when the Doctor is handcuffed on the floor and he and we both look up at Amy Pond. We get a good view of the second set of stairs, the ones that go up from the first floor with all the rooms in. They lead up to a ceiling with a wooden trap door in, a flat white thing, not to a regular landing or upright door. Conclusion: It's the attic. Unusual in my limited experience to get proper permanent stairs leading up to an attic, but that's what it looks like. While it might be fun to be a super secret attic of shiny, it's not necessarily mysterious.
Rory's badge has been noted, but at first viewing I dismissed it, because on Torchwood so damn many written dates were completely borked. Everyone got multiple dates of birth and Jack got, er, more multiple dates of death, in weirder years. There's two parallel timelines that each make sense of about half the data. On Torchwood it's not, as far as we know, a clue, and neither is clothing, for the same reason, it's glitchy as hell. So on first viewing on Doctor Who I just figure, glitch.
I have seen the rest of the season now. I am not so very much sure no more. It's entirely possible it's a big shiny Clue.
We shall see.
I also watched the Coming Soon segment over again at the end. You know what I noticed? Clips from *all the way* up to The Pandorica Opens. Lots of the good bits even, all jumbled together so they manage not to spoiler because you don't know when they are or what the context is. It's clever and shiny and dynamic. But it is not, in any tiny bit of it, giving away *anything* for Saturday. There's not one scene unaccounted for. We have absolutely no clues.
I love it.
Knowing that he's actually lying to Amy is... a bit twistier though. It was somehow more fun when it was just a hint we could draw from the crack on the monitor. Now we know for sure then the Doctor just told a whopping big lie. But he does that. We and Amy knew that from the get go.
The pre title sequence with the crashing TARDIS was fun though - I can't remember who pointed it out but now we know what a Moffat season looks like then that little sequence looks like a refugee from the RTD years. Big, shiny, landmarks, whoosh, flying TARDIS! Even the music is a bit different. It was actually a smidge jarring going back to it now. Yet at the time it was just Doctor Who being back again. Like a bridge. Is fun.
I really want to stay awake now watchign more Doctor Who
but I have been up since 0130 and it is now 1843, so that's not a really good plan, really.
Where the bowtie comes from: Left front pocket.
... I did say tiny...
His braces were hanging down and attached front and back but there was also a spare strip hanging down from his left front pocket, red, like the bow tie. Conclusion: bow tie in front pocket.
A few tiny glitches in continuity in that sequence though, clothes that arrive without being thrown, movements we see him start twice.
I don't think presence of TARDIS key is mysterious. He chooses clothes, he strips his old clothes, he had a TARDIS key in his old clothes. If he was in the habit of losing TARDIS keys his life would be much different, so he just switched it to new pockets.
Someone on another board was making much of Amelia Pond's house, says it has 3 floors inside and only 2 outside. Well there's a camera angle when the Doctor is handcuffed on the floor and he and we both look up at Amy Pond. We get a good view of the second set of stairs, the ones that go up from the first floor with all the rooms in. They lead up to a ceiling with a wooden trap door in, a flat white thing, not to a regular landing or upright door. Conclusion: It's the attic. Unusual in my limited experience to get proper permanent stairs leading up to an attic, but that's what it looks like. While it might be fun to be a super secret attic of shiny, it's not necessarily mysterious.
Rory's badge has been noted, but at first viewing I dismissed it, because on Torchwood so damn many written dates were completely borked. Everyone got multiple dates of birth and Jack got, er, more multiple dates of death, in weirder years. There's two parallel timelines that each make sense of about half the data. On Torchwood it's not, as far as we know, a clue, and neither is clothing, for the same reason, it's glitchy as hell. So on first viewing on Doctor Who I just figure, glitch.
I have seen the rest of the season now. I am not so very much sure no more. It's entirely possible it's a big shiny Clue.
We shall see.
I also watched the Coming Soon segment over again at the end. You know what I noticed? Clips from *all the way* up to The Pandorica Opens. Lots of the good bits even, all jumbled together so they manage not to spoiler because you don't know when they are or what the context is. It's clever and shiny and dynamic. But it is not, in any tiny bit of it, giving away *anything* for Saturday. There's not one scene unaccounted for. We have absolutely no clues.
I love it.
Knowing that he's actually lying to Amy is... a bit twistier though. It was somehow more fun when it was just a hint we could draw from the crack on the monitor. Now we know for sure then the Doctor just told a whopping big lie. But he does that. We and Amy knew that from the get go.
The pre title sequence with the crashing TARDIS was fun though - I can't remember who pointed it out but now we know what a Moffat season looks like then that little sequence looks like a refugee from the RTD years. Big, shiny, landmarks, whoosh, flying TARDIS! Even the music is a bit different. It was actually a smidge jarring going back to it now. Yet at the time it was just Doctor Who being back again. Like a bridge. Is fun.
I really want to stay awake now watchign more Doctor Who
but I have been up since 0130 and it is now 1843, so that's not a really good plan, really.