Foreshadowing: Part...Whatever (Four...I think)

Ok so things in my Real Life have been busy. HORRORS! LOL This is probably the first time I've had to sit and properly watch a full episode in a while. In fact, its been a few weeks since I watched the first episode mentioned here, Vincent and the Doctor, and the second, The Lodger. 

There are a few things of note for foreshadowing here between these eps but most of this entry is just things I've noticed or that seem like they might be of some note later on in my rewatch, or just thoughts I've had while watching the eps. 


Vincent And The Doctor

21.) We start with Amy not knowing why the Doc is being "so nice" to her. The viewer knows, however that she still doesn't remember anything about Rory or what happened to him, thanks to the crack in the wall. The Doc IS being nice to her.

But anyone else catch that she's not flirting with the Doc (or Vincent) anymore?

And we do have a moment where the Doc forgets himself and says Amy, Rory...and she's all Who?

Another little bit, more of a theme beginning this season, is the Doc mentioning getting old. We have multiple shots of the 1st Doc, Hartnell, in little places like the library card in Vampires in Venice. Here when the Doc digs out his gadget to identify the monster, it sees his face and prints out Hartnell's image, then shows Troughton's. When he realizes that he made a mistake in not recognizing that the creature is blind, which is why it got left behind, he calls himself stupid...and says he's growing old.

Obviously with the 50th coming up later this year, we can see mentions of it going all the way back to Moffatt's and Smith's first season.

Once again an ep that isn't overall plot advancement, but this time more about feelings...or the ones Amy lacks at the moment.

Btw, I absolutely hate their pronunciation of Van Gogh. Look I know its supposedly "correct" but its still annoying when no one else in the world really says it that way...

The Lodger

(Starting with an interesting note here - there is a shot of Amy in the TARDIS alone at 0:40 (or so) that is an upshot of the console room. Not seen this angle before and those rings at the top of the center console...we'll see them later in the S7.2 redesign...just a detail I noticed. Not important LOL)

22) Throughout the episode, we see/get all sorts of references to Smith being the 11th Doctor - from the fact that this is the 11th episode of the season to the number on the jersey he wears to the very literal of the Doctor telling Craig that he is the "Eleventh" (So for future reference, whatever a certain new character may turn out to be, he is NOT going to be among those numbered regenerations. Eleven is CLEARLY established as ELEVEN.)

(MATT IN A TOWEL ALERT!! I REPEAT MATT SMITH IN NOTHING BUT A TOWEL ALERT!!)

(Oh and the Doctor speaks Cat btw...)

(And oh Sweetie...you do know you don't need to headbutt to transfer info between minds? Poor Craig! But then again the Madame was able to see into places you didn't intend when you were more gentle with her...)

Okay finally something else. 

23.) The 2nd floor. That shouldn't be there. Looks like someone has built themselves a Time Engine and is trying to go...somewhere. But who? And why? Will we ever get that answer?

Yet ANOTHER note - a bit has been made about how the Doctor gave Amy a key but then took it away...though seemingly she and Rory can come and go from the TARDIS at will, so there must be a key involved, or the TARDIS just lets them in. Or whatever. So its cute to note that at the end of the episode, as the Doc is trying to quietly leave the flat, Craig stops him and gives HIM back the keys to the place he was trying to leave. Gives him the knowledge that he's got more friends here on Earth than he realizes :)

24.) AGAIN! A CRACK! This time behind the refrigerator in Craig's flat. 

25.) And...BAM! Amy finds the engagement ring in the Doctor's coat pocket. This after making a crack about him being a matchmaker. This very obviously stirs something in her head, though what, we don't know. But she finally realizes SOMETHING is...off. 

Gonna stop here because...well...BIG things are about to happen!