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Those that know me know that I’m a huge Doctor Who fan and after watching the first episode of series 6 last night I’m excited about what’s in store this season.
The first episode was part one of a two-parter (i can’t remember the last time a series started with a two-parter) and left many unanswered questions, which will hopefully be unraveled over the coming weeks.
And, of course, there’s still mysteries yet to be revealed from the previous series such as who tried to destroy the TARDIS?
I think unsolved mysteries like these that keep me guessing is one of the reasons I love Doctor Who so much and after the premiere finished I went straight to cyberspace to get other folks reactions and theories as to what might happen in future episodes.
One such example is on the official BBC Doctor Who website. Click on the link, then click on The Fourth Dimension. Here you’ll find a number of interesting facts about the first episode, but if you look closely you’ll also see that certain words have been italicised. When you put them together, you get the phrase:
ALL THE SECRETS YOU SEEK CAN BE FOUND HERE ON THE WEB(B).
Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to find any of them lol. Please comment below if you find any 
However, I did come across the following quote by Karen Gillan (the actress who plays one of the Doctor’s companians, Amy Pond):
“Everything’s so important and precise in Steven Moffat’s scripts. There are a couple of throwaway lines in the opening two-parter, which I thought were just a couple of funny gags but turn out to be one of the most important things that Amy’s ever said. And I didn’t know that at the time!”
Which got me wondering exactly which throwaway lines might Karen be referring to?
So, I re-watched the episode and made a note of all Amy Pond’s lines that may (or may not) hold clues to future events:
At the personal intervention of the king, the unnamed doctor was incarcerated without trial in the Tower of London.
According to contemporary accounts, two nights later a magical sphere some twenty feet across was seen floating away from the tower bearing the mysterious doctor aloft.
- Mysterious sphere (balloon?)
It’s like he’s being deliberately ridiculous trying to attract our attention.
River, he can’t be dead. This is impossible!
Maybe he’s a clone or a duplicate or something.
(NOTE: I think this is just Moffat’s reassurance that it is the real the Doctor that is dead)
Wake up, go on wake up, you stupid bloody idiot.
You’re still talking but it doesn’t matter.
River, we can’t just let him die. We’ve got to stop it. How can you be okay with this?
Fishfingers and custard.
I have to tell the doctor….sorry,I don’t know why I said that.
Cuz you’re the newest.
If you can make it all the way to Earth, why steal technology that can barely get you to the Moon?
Time can be rewritten.
He’s my friend, if friend is the right word. I haven’t seen him in a while. I had something I wanted to tell him, but stuff always gets in the way.
I have to tell you something…no, it’s important, it has to be now. Doctor, I’m pregnant!
I know it’s an anti-climax but none of these lines struck me as holding any of the clues I was looking for 
Please leave me a comment below if you spot anything of interest.
In fact, lines from the other cast members were much more interesting such as the referral to Jim the Fish still rebuilding his dam (a future adventure of the Doctor and River Song) and the Doctor’s sidenote that the year 1482 is “full of glitches”.
So I’m looking forward to the next episode to (hopefully) answer a few of the many questions.
Oh, and in trailer to Episode 2: Day of the Moon, you might have noticed that Amy, River and Rory have tally marks scrawled in ink on their bodies. According to the preview clip below, these self-penned marks represent a count of how many times they’ve seen the ‘Silent’ aliens.
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17 comments
Comment by Ryan on April 25, 2011 at 9:07 am
What about when they were in the diner, Amy said: you’re talking but it doesn’t matter … He’s dead” when she said dead there was a creepy echoed whisper, or was that just me?
Comment by Paul Vincent on April 25, 2011 at 9:14 am
There is a book and a film by author Mary Webb, called “Gone To Earth”, wonder if that has anything to do with it?
Plot: Hazel Woodus (Jennifer Jones) is a child of nature in the Shropshire countryside in 1897. She loves and understands all the wild animals more than the people around her. Whenever she has problems, she turns to the book of spells and charms left to her by her gypsy mother.
Comment by Sion Smith on April 25, 2011 at 9:53 am
Hi Danny. I think I’m as bad as you with this stuff – this is a great post. Anyway, last season, I figured that Amelia Pond was an anagram of Am Alien Pod and made the rather rash prediction to my kids that she would get pregnant. Whether or not her baby turns out to be some kind of life saver for the doctor in the future, who knows. I’m also kind of curious as to why “there are no ducks in the pond” (early last season) is important… as far as mysterious sphere though – surely that has to be the sphere from the middle of the tardis that we’ve seen in the trailers.
I can’t find anything solid either though… I thought there might be a spider web on the last link in Fourth Dimension but I can’t find it, but Jeremy Webb is the final episodes director. Your turn with the hard questions again. I have some work to do before I hunt some more!
Comment by piotr_mil on April 25, 2011 at 10:05 am
There is a crater on the Moon called Webb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webb_%28crater%29
Comment by Danny on April 25, 2011 at 11:22 am
Thanks for your comments
Ryan, I didn’t notice the echoed whisper but I’ll check that out on the BBC iPlayer later.
Paul, I’ve never heard of that book but nevertheless, it’s still an interesting point.
Sion, I like your thinking with the anagram and it seems as though one of your predictions has already come true. nice one
And yep, it could be the TARDIS in the trailers but it was interesting that the picture in the book Amy is holding shows a picture of what looks like a hot air balloon.
piotr_mil, I think your web crater theory is a fantastic discovery
Comment by tichy on April 25, 2011 at 11:57 am
Hmm, interesting …
Wiki Says:
“The interior of Webb is relatively -dark compared with the inner walls of the rim, and it has a low hill at the mid-point of the interior. On the lunar mare to the north is a faint marking of a ray system that appears to radiate from this crater.”
Comment by Okean on April 25, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Could the sphere, that Amy refers to, be the DIY Tardis, which River and Rory found at the end of Ep1 (the spherical one in last seasons ‘The Lodger).
Maybe the Doc that dies is a clone, who is traveling in the DIY Tardis, trying to keep one step ahead of the real doctor. He has after all — “been running all my life, and and now it’s time to stop” — Strange thing for the doctor to say, don’t you think?? Running from who???
The 2 throw away lines that amy says will probably be the one about the sphere rescuing the doctor, and the comment about the dead doctor being a clone or duplicate.
Discuss
Comment by Jan on April 25, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Last year he was recycling the best part of his previous stories so, tinking of Blink, and because he likes forgetting, i think it’s “It’s like he’s being deliberately ridiculous trying to attract our attention.”
Comment by Elizabeth on April 25, 2011 at 7:39 pm
Amy doesn’t remember the Daleks. Could this have something to do with the Silence making people forget things?
Comment by Becky on April 26, 2011 at 4:58 am
Just an idea, but if you notice in this episode… The underground lair of the Silence is the same as the spaceship in the lodger (who’s alien pilots were never revealed, I believe?) Could the little girl in the space suit also be just the autopilot/hologram featured in the lodger as well? (Always saying “Help me!” to attract a potential pilot)..
I believe that Steven Moffat is too clever to just ‘happen to use the same set twice’…
Here’s a link to the pictures of the underground lair and the lodger ship:
http://doctorwho.tumblr.com/post/4888288895/oh-by-the-way
Comment by Margaret Babatunde on April 26, 2011 at 3:10 pm
The mysterious sphere could be a TARDIS, if you remember in the christmas special the next doctor i believe the hot air balloon was a ‘TARDIS’.
Also the line ‘If you can make it all the way to Earth, why steal technology that can barely get you to the Moon?’ Could be refering that whatever they are after has always been around.
Comment by Paul Vincent on April 26, 2011 at 6:13 pm
Lots of references to the name Webb, another I came across was this:
The Man Who Ran The Moon: James Webb, JFK and the Secret History of Project Apollo
in 1967 a spacecraft fire killed three astronauts. The press exposed numerous failures and delays, as well as Webb’s business partners’ profiteering. Webb shouldered the blame and his sacrifice enabled the Moon landing in 1969, but his name was wiped from history.
Comment by Anna19 on April 27, 2011 at 3:07 am
The silent came from the Webb, they still technology that can take you to the moon because they came from the moon or they need to be on the moon…
‘I’ts up to you Mrs. Robinson’
and 1482 is full of glitches because there is when it happened
Comment by Keiran on April 27, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Amy says in the dinner “he’s dead” evily and then again when we walks in the room and checks him over before say “how can that be” again evily. Also the doctor keeps cahnging from flirtaious and made and then dark too.
Comment by Flamilocks on April 28, 2011 at 4:20 pm
The magic sphere comment – I have a feeling that’s important. A little part of me almost thinks that maybe the Doctor eventually fixes the Chameleon Circuit, because we don’t see Future!Doctor’s TARDIS at all – at least not in a form we’re used to. What if his TARDIS has a working circuit and disguises itself as the “magic sphere” (balloon?) and, when in America, as that lovely 1950s Edsel? I don’t know how this could be important, but it’s still something to consider.
Comment by Tom on May 1, 2011 at 10:26 am
I think the important bit is when River explains how valuable the a Time Lord’s body would be. There are empires which would tear the Earth apart for even a single cell
Amy’s is pregnant, then she isn’t, then we have a little girl who at the end of episode 2 We find out the little girl is a Time Lord or at least part Time Lord.
I’m starting to think the Little girl is a young River Song.
If she is also the Astronaut then she is guilty of killing The Doctor.
Comment by Ben on May 5, 2011 at 12:41 pm
The astronaut could be River Song who killed ‘a good man’ (the doctor), from the first time I heard she killed a good man I thought it may be the doctor.
I don’t think Song is even part timelord making that work would be impossible especially as we see her die and not regenerate in the library (with David Tennant & Donna Noble).
The timelord child could be Amy and the doctor’s child but the doctor does seem keen to keep Amy & Rory together so I don’t see how that would work, although the ‘timehead’ could be one of Amy’s throwaway remarks that are actually crucial to the series.