Echoes of the Past in The Eleventh Hour

[eve11]

Okay, so I've been commenting on others' journals about this and am compiling a list of things in The Eleventh Hour that you think might have been subtle references to earlier eras:



Six: The "Bacon! Are you trying to poison me?" and "Carrots? Are you insane?" lines, reminiscent of Mel and "Carrot Juice!" and in the Twin Dilemma when he thought Peri was going to kill him (luckily no trying to strangle anyone, though!) Also his flippant "they're terrified of wood!"

Four: The rest of the food scene really reminded me of Four, especially "Beans are evil"

Five: Amy smacks him with a Cricket bat! Cricket bat!

Two: "I'm the Doctor; I'm worse than everybody's aunt! ... And that is not how I'm introducing myself" really reminded me of Troughton's "great giddy aunt", and his general friendliness in the trailing line there really seemed very much like Two.

Three and Eight: stealing clothes from a hospital (and keeping them!). I think he made out better this time around though :D

Nine: "Oh that's fantastic, that is. I've got twenty minutes to save the world, and I've got a post office. And it's shut!"

Lots of Ten-isms but particularly: "Do I just have a face that nobody listens to? Again?"

Not too familiar with Seven, but it has been pointed out that Rory's a male nurse, which is very Hex-like :D

Any others anyone can think of?

Comments

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Can't think of anything specific, but there was something a bit Sevenish about the way he was clearly lying to Amy at the end there...

I think quite a bit of this episode could, if you were in a certain frame of mind, be viewed as an extended Moffat p---take of the episode RTD would have written to introduce Eleven. But that's probably just me being mean to Rusty... :D

[eve11]

Hm, he was lying about going to the moon and back? Do you think that he wasn't ever planning to come back to Amy pond's place except for the cracks on the TARDIS?

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know if he was lying about that (and I like to think he didn't intend to just abandon her again), but there was something a little bit...shifty about the way he responded to her question, I thought.

[nicocoer.livejournal.com]

I think there was some Aesthetic references too? I dunno, the new TARDIS struck me as a bit of a merger of several different interiors for the TARDIS merged together. And stuff.

[eve11]

It kind of has that cavernous Eight feeling to it, but I think the roundels are more noticeable this time too.

[eridun.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad that he used "wibbly wobbly timey wimey" - that's one of my favorite lines.

[eve11]

that's from Moffatt's episodes too, right? this whole episode really did have a lot of his prior hallmarks: I hope he did that on purpose and it's not just that he ran out of ideas! Though, watching the preview, it looks like there are lots of new and exciting things to come! :D

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

Cool...and you've made me have good thinky thoughts about just why he won me over in one episode...he was after all, The Doctor. :)

[eve11]

He was quite good, wasn't he? I was trying to sleep on an uncomfortable airplane scant hours ago and just kept smiling remembering the "box falls from the sky, man falls from the box, man eats fish custard and look at you! Just sitting there!" line. Heee!

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

A very fabulous line. And says so much about Amelia. :::bounces::

I hope you're asleep right now...to make up for the not sleeping on the plane. :)

[eve11]

heh, my instructions are to stay awake until the sun goes down. it's 1:15 here now. Bleargh.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Sleep well. :)

[fly-to-dawn.livejournal.com]

The swimming pool may have been the one in Invasion of Time? :D

[eve11]

Yes! and it was in the Big Finish audios too: in The Roof of the World, Peri and Erimem freeze it and go ice skating. Naughty girls.

I love your icon!

Bow ties are cool.

[thisbluespirit]

Good points.

And, yes, the swimming pool. In the library! :-D

Hmm, what next week we wonder...?