Howling:5 things to look for: The countdown

Please see the original thread Forum:5 Things to look for in Series 5 and the summary thread Forum:5 things to look for: Overall.

This was originally proposed in another thread (actually, I think first on the talk page for an article), and added by me (anonymous) to the original thread.

This one is a bit more meta than the others. There's a countdown, starting from 11, going down 1/episode (not 1/story), which means it'll reach 0 in time for part 1 of the finale. The numbers might always be in characters' names, although this isn't yet clear. (Could the finale then involve the return of Prisoner 0?)

Also, each episode might have a countdown within it.

--Falcotron 02:05, April 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * The Eleventh Hour: The 11th Doctor. There are also other 11s, even in the name of the episode. There's 20 minutes to save the world.
 * The Beast Below: The main guest star is Liz 10. Any good countdowns within the episode?
 * Victory of the Daleks: Can't think of a 9 name. But an unsigned poster pointed out there were 9 barrage balloons in the first scene, and fewer in each one, although an anon-IP poster says there were only 7. That same anon-IP poster pointed out that there's a clock with both hands on the IX. There's also an obvious countdown in the episode, the colorwheel in Bracewell's chest (and on the Dalek saucer) counting down to him kerploding.
 * The Time of Angels: Father Octavian's name means "8th". No obvious countdowns that anyone's spotted yet, short of the "10 little Indians" way the Clerics are picked off 1 by 1.
 * Flesh and Stone: No 7 name yet, but the Digital Spy teasers have Amy counting down from 7, which is both a 7 and a countdown in one.

Adding others, some have been previously mentioned ...

The Eleventh Hour, countdown on clock as the TARDIS takes off from 12 ish, Rory's badge date is 20 years out (and yes despite Moffat I still think it wasn't a production mistake!)

The Beast Below, Liz 10's reign also lasts 10 years each time before repeating, Timmy says about walking down 20 decks to London, Amy's memory is wiped of 20 minutes, at the end as the TARDIS dematerialises there is a 20 mph road sign RHS of TARDIS (@ 40.30), there is a countdown of floors in Timmy's vator from floor 148 to 000

Victory of the Daleks How many squadron numbers were mentioned?, there are 12 planes when Bracewell looks through binoculars all destroyed by the daleks but 1 at a time

The Time of Angels, there is a countdown device which ends at 0 (on lower RHS of picture) and opens the door where River escapes, video timer is set at 12 minutes ish on the home box security playback video clip of River and at 11 minutes and 20ish seconds on the time loop video clip of the angel fron the Byzantium, River's coordinates are triple-7, 5, /, 3, 4, 9 by 10, 0, 12, /, acorn

Flesh and Stone, the teaser about a significant date could be 7 7 2010 from design art http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/episodes/b00s8dwd/galleries/design_art

Vampires of Venice trailers etc show 5 vampire ladies or is it really 6 ? Check about 36 seconds on the series trailer as the 5 are coming towards the Doctor he turns round and there is another woman behind him but it might be Amy but it's too quick

Amy's Choice is apparantly set 5 years after

The Lodger episode, the Doctor is stranded for 4 days but is to late in the series as ep 11 86.26.137.154 09:31, April 28, 2010 (UTC)

Lots of good info! I'll have to remember to come back here for the "20s" thread. (I forget whose theory that was, but someone thinks that the "20 minutes" and the number 20 in general might be one of the 5 things to watch for.) --Falcotron 09:59, April 28, 2010 (UTC)

Here's the clock with both hands on the IX from VotD. As the anon-IP poster says in the original thread, the lighting and position make it very noticeable.

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l129/MurasamEdge/vlcsnap-2010-04-28-22h39m46s113.png

--Falcotron 14:08, April 28, 2010 (UTC)