Doctor Who: The Star Beast Breakdown - 40 Easter Eggs & References!
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- čas přidán 27. 11. 2023
- More easter eggs and references than you can shake a spork at. Here’s our breakdown of the first Doctor Who 60th anniversary special - The Star Beast!
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Let us know any good ones we didn't mention, or if you have any theories about the trigger words!
Something I noticed that I thought was funny is that Donna tells the Doctor that he can wear a suit that tight up to the age of 35 and no further. The first episodes of David Tennant as the Doctor he was 35!
The first fourth wall break in dr who was when hartnell says "happy christmas to all of you at home" in the feast of stephen
Someone may have mentioned this already, but I thought that the Doctor and Donna being trapped on opposite sides of the control room in Meep's ship was a call back to when Wilf and Doctor where on opposite sides of the control room in the Vinvocci device in the End of Time. Only this time, Donna "dies" when the crisis is resolved.
I still think the Meep’s boss is Abzorbaloff disguised as Nerys
The first Doctor broke the fourth wall when wishing everyone a Happy Christmas.
When Sylvia and Donna are talking about Donna's memory loss, Sylvia says that Donna had a breakdown "and then you got better" - just like Doctor Moon in Silence in the Library.
One thing I'm surprised no one else noticed was the scene where The Doctor thinks Wilf is dead, and he gets overly emotional before someone calls him an idiot, I think that's a deliberate callback to The Sontaran Stratagem when Donna says she's going home and it takes a full minute before he realizes she doesn't mean permanently, and it's only a visit.
-Donna started her relationship with her first fiance (the one working for the Racnoss thus the one that led to her meeting The Doctor) over a cup of coffee stating "so thats how it all started, one cup of coffee" in the Run Away Bride
Something I noticed is that the boxes Donna is holding are labeled “fragile”…somewhat of a reminder to The Doctor that Donnas mind is very fragile and she could be easily broken if she remembers him
The way the Doctor held Donna in his arms was very reminiscent of the way he held the Master in ‘Last of the Time Lords’.
Has anyone stopped to wonder who Rose's client in Dubai might actually BE? Feels like more than a casual reference to me!
One easter egg regarding music i noticed in the episode, in the part where the doctor and donna are pushing all the buttons you can here a bit of the 11th doctors theme
Okay but the Pixar Easter Eggs all being Toy Story references is REALLY interesting to me considering the return of the Celestial Toymaker, making this serial a “Toy Story” in itself!
When the Doctor is talking to Sherley about Donna he says something like "I loved her. Wow, I said that now", referring to the fact that 10 never said it to Rose or any of his companions. And actually, I don't remember any Doctor saying it, so it implies character growth. Now, he knows that it's okay to said that you love your friends.
There is a Rory reference, when the space ship is crossing the sky, there was one person filming into the crowd not the ship. In the episode "11th Hour", in the park, Rory films the Man and Dog incarnation of Prisoner Zero while everyone else is filming the obscured Sun.
I noticed several references to other sci-fi and fantasy. 1. At one point the Meep sat on an Iron Throne look-alike. 2. Meep blending in with the toys references a scene in E.T. (Maybe this was also in the original comic?) 3. The idea of going through the attics of a connected row house comes from one of the books in The Chronicles of Narnia.
The trigger words are the “adventures” they went on for instance the doctor said ‘volcano’ wich is of course from The Fires Of Pompeii
I noted elsewhere that the doctor said: "It killed me, Donna. It killed me, killed me, killed me." and was immediately reminded that the Tennant, Smith, Capaldi, and Wittaker doctors have all regenerated between him leaving Donna and now.
I hope we get a scene with all three of the scientific advisors. Malcolm was good, Osgood was really good, Shirley was good too. Putting all 3 together could be quite the funny 'do you even need me' moment.