Doctor Who: Foreshadowing the Crazy Ideas
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butterflyOne of the things that I like about RTD is that even his crackiest ideas don't come out of nowhere -- he always has something smaller and similar to foreshadow the upcoming crazy idea.
1. Rose pulling out Bad Wolf -- we have knowledge that the TARDIS 'gets inside your head' from "The End of the World" and know that Rose is related to the Bad Wolf issues because Gwyneth tells us in "The Unquiet Dead". We learn exactly how powerful and responsive that the TARDIS can be in "Boomtown" when it turns Blon into an egg.
2. The Doctor pulling a Tinkerbell -- most importantly, we have the 'power of words' from "The Shakespeare Code", but we also have the set-up of the Archangel network and how it works in "The Sound of the Drums". We know that powers of Time and Space lead to glowiness and awesome powers from "The Parting of the Ways".
3. Ms. Hartigan taking over the Cybermen -- Yvonne Hartman (ooo! check out the 'hart') was able to similarly resist the Cyberman conditioning in order to actively attack other Cybermen. It's interesting that both of the people strong enough to shake it off were women (oh, one of the many reasons that I *heart* RTD).
1. Rose pulling out Bad Wolf -- we have knowledge that the TARDIS 'gets inside your head' from "The End of the World" and know that Rose is related to the Bad Wolf issues because Gwyneth tells us in "The Unquiet Dead". We learn exactly how powerful and responsive that the TARDIS can be in "Boomtown" when it turns Blon into an egg.
2. The Doctor pulling a Tinkerbell -- most importantly, we have the 'power of words' from "The Shakespeare Code", but we also have the set-up of the Archangel network and how it works in "The Sound of the Drums". We know that powers of Time and Space lead to glowiness and awesome powers from "The Parting of the Ways".
3. Ms. Hartigan taking over the Cybermen -- Yvonne Hartman (ooo! check out the 'hart') was able to similarly resist the Cyberman conditioning in order to actively attack other Cybermen. It's interesting that both of the people strong enough to shake it off were women (oh, one of the many reasons that I *heart* RTD).
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Date: 2008-12-29 06:26 pm (UTC)I wonder was there anymore?
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Date: 2008-12-29 09:45 pm (UTC)Well, when RTD "fixes" Donna in one of the upcoming specials (*koff*), we'll be able to point to Agatha Christie writing a book with elements of the wasp story ("I don't think she ever forgot. Great mind like that, some of the details kept bleeding through.") And the Doctor's line to Jackson in The Next Doctor ("Gotta be careful with memory loss. One wrong word..."). The Doctor, as John Smith in Human Nature, kept dreaming about his life as the Doctor.
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Date: 2008-12-29 10:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-30 08:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-30 07:47 am (UTC)Also, I think someone else has pointed this out already, but in 'Tooth and Claw', we have a nice shot of the Doctor and the Werewolf on opposite sides of a wall. By the end of the season, we have the Doctor and the Bad Wolf aka Rose on opposite sides of a wall as well.
I have absolutely no idea if these are just plain coincidences or Mad Plotting Skillz on the part of RTD :/
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Date: 2008-12-30 08:34 am (UTC)I adore that additional werewolf/Bad Wolf connection -- T&C is an episode RTD had to write as a pick-up, so I do suspect that he already knew what he was doing in DD while he was writing it, so it's entirely possible that it was intentional.
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Date: 2008-12-30 08:34 am (UTC)