There were other clues with that. And it was noticeable.

Well, if it stood out for you, then you can't be that familiar with its usage...

Otherwise you wouldn't have noticed it!

Answered in the same series. Not forgotten about for a year and a half - so far.

Yes. In fact the last thing I noticed was the jacket. The whole scene was peculiar and screamed out that it was out of sequence somehow. At first I thought it was some bad editing in episode, but soon concluded it was something to shrug about and file away for later. The jacket was just a minor detail. (smug mode - it's not often I spot something that I then find other people have misinterpreted.)

whereas "the X that time forgot" is such a commonly used expression and such a natural thing to be said during that episode that I genuinely am surprised to see people thinking there is anything more to it than the face value interpretation.

Something common can stand out quite easily in scripts. See Checkov's Gun. A gun is a common object, but if you see it in a movie or TV show you know it was put there for a reason.

The whole point about foreshadowing is that what you see or hear appears to be there for a reason, you think you know what it means, but only later do you realise it had another meaning.

To use the Doctors jacket in Flesh And Stone it was a jacket. That's all. He wasn't wearing a space suit or a cowboy hat, nothing that would make you think "WTF?"
You saw it, and 99% of people didn't notice it. It was a jacket. The Doctor often wears a jacket. No big deal.

But they went to a lot of trouble to put that in.

They made sure they had a jacket on set even though Matt was not wearing it. When preparing to shoot that scene they made him put the jacket on. They took continuity photographs. Then when shooting the finale they made sure they matched the whole episode to that continuity photo, had the same jacket, same make up, same hair length. When writing and planing that episode they would have said "We can't have The Doctor get any cuts or bruises, or get his clothes damaged or dirty. He has to look exactly like this"
They went to all that trouble. For a jacket that was seen for a second and noticed by a tiny fraction of the audience.

That jacket was certainly familiar, but it still stood out. To some. As did the Pond/River connection, and we had to wait eighteen months for that to payoff. Pond is a common surname, but it still stood out for some.

Again, we'll see.....

They may have taken photos, but his hair *does* grow a few centimetres longer now because of that scene. Travelling backwards with his "The Big Bang" neater trim, it suddenly sprouts into the first-filmed-longer-messier-hairdo he sported during the Angels two parter. Production error? Or another amazing clue left by the Moff, showing us that the Doctor can randomly grow his hair and shorten it again moments later? Clearly foreshadowing another Time Lord named the Barber has survived...And who plays Madame Kovarian??? O...M...G!!!

Funny you should mention his hair - I raised it a few weeks ago when someone asked what links there were between series 5 and 6...

IIRC photo's of the headlines (on a stand outside the newsagent) were from people who were on set before and during filming.

I don't believe the headlines were ever seen clearly (if at all) in the episode (11th Hour) itself.

While it's possible the Prop department did think the scene on the village green was meant to be be in the 1990's and thus produced 1990's headlines and Rory's 1990's dated badge you would have thought that someone would have questioned why they would need modern camera phones and laptops as well.

There were no ducks in the duck pond because they had fallen through a crack in time and the rest of the village wasn't far behind. It was in the process of being forgotten. No wonder the village seemed out of sych.

ah yes i remember those pictures. Still think the phone dailogue was at worst clunky. Why not also have someone say - how can you get the internet when your computer isn't plugged into a socket

How does this apply to speech/phrases?

It doesn't.

No, not really. The ducks are a metaphor.

No, they were just being used as a metaphor.

If they had been erased by the cracks, then as no one in the village was at that point a time traveller, then no one would have remembered anything about the ducks.

It was to show the effects that eing erased by the crack had - the physical being was erased, but the effects were still evident.

At no time in The Eleventh Hour were ducks suggested to have been erased (although they would have been erased in The Big Bang, as everything was getting erased around that museum).

EDIT: Sorry jonny, didn't read your response before I started mine...

The duck pond was mentioned so that there could be a joke about them later in the episode, i.e. when the Doctor sent the message DUCK to POND.

As well as being a metaphor etc.

I know that village well, its Llandaff green near cardiff and believe me, it is like stepping into the 50s when you go there.

Also did you know that Leadworth(correct spelling) is an anagram of (the) Late Dr Who

To a writer, a gun and some dialogue are just words on a page. A Chekhov's gun can be a gun, an object, a person, a line of dialogue, whatever.

In Hunt For Red October the cook is strangely hanging around when the Political Officer is killed. Why would a lowly cook dare to eavesdrop on officers? Later we find out he's a hidden political officer.
At the start of Jurassic park the hero gives a scary speech to a kid on how a Velociraptor kills. Hmmm... I wonder if that will be important later on....
Iron Man's suit freezing up is given a lot of time early on, and becomes very relevant at the end.

If the Chekhov's Gun is a character you can often spot them as a well known actor playing an apparently small role.
In Get Smart The Rock plays a seemingly minor role, almost a cameo. Why is a famous actor playing such a supporting role? Because he's actually the baddie....

It's an example of a philosphical debate that originates in Plato's Republic. He calls on the person to define a chair - which sounds very simple but is actually incredibly complicated and requires an extremly organised thought process.

In that, he defines a word that we translate as "chairness".

In short, every way you try to define a "chair" leaves an opening for another object that is not a chair to fit the description. "You can sit on it" - applies to almost any solid object, for example.

Basically, imagine a pile of books. You use the books to construct an object which you then call a chair. At some point, those books were given a new attribute - chairness.

Quite why 11 was considering that at that specific moment is arguable. He could have been questioning his own "right" to be "The Doctor" - leading up to him proving that he is by thinking like "The Doctor" (more Cartesian than Platonic) - or he could have been asking if this is still reality when parts of it (physical and historical) are missing.

Either way, I get hte impression that the question was actually meant for himself - he was just thinking out loud.

None of the examples you use resemble a well-known phrase being used entirely in context to describe something to which it intimately resembles.

To use trope parlance, they were lampshades for plot points. They were incongruous to the backgrounds - as in: 'they stood out'.

The phrase: 'The village that time forgot' being used to describe a village that appears to have stayed old-fashioned despite the progression of time and developments is entirely congruous - as in: 'doesn't stand out'.

presumably this link is the mentioned newspaper article.

http://www.doctorwholocations.net/al...-091002/sf-082

So Nintendo unveils exciting new line up for xmas..... hmmm nothing about launch of N64 there.

What about the "5-95" on the newspaper sign - any suggestions as to what that means?

Seems like it's mentioned here;

http://www.doctorwholocations.net/al...filming-091002

Could refer to many different things in the long history of Nintendo.....although I don't think any of the announcements in the history of the company were front page news

Unless the 5-95 is the date then I don't see how it proves its the 90's plus you'd have to repaint the sign every month.

If that "5-95" photo is from "Amy's choice", it may be worth noting that in 11th Hour, the notice board is different - http://www.flickr.com/photos/thalfoo...in/photostream