Howling:Flickering light bulbs...

Den of Geek recently made an article about something they had noticed in each episode so far: flickering light bulbs. A light bulb was seen flickering in the room where Amy was captured in "Asylum of the Daleks", a light bulb was replaced in "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship", the street lights were flickering in "A Town Called Mercy" and the Doctor was seen replacing the light bulb on the top of the TARDIS at the end of the Pond Life mini series. I think they're onto something. Could it possibly be teasing an appearance of the Silence, the Weeping Angels, the Cybermen, the Dalek puppets or something else? 94.72.192.2talk to me 21:18, September 16, 2012 (UTC)

It could easily be teasing an appearance by something. However, as your own post shows, there's quite a range of possibilities for what that something might be. Even your "something else" can be split into two: 1. something else that we've encountered before that you left out of your list to avoid the list filling the screen or 2. something else that we have no chance of guessing because it hasn't been introduced yet.

If (big if) it really is a harbinger of something, my guess would be that its main narrative purpose will be to show that the something has been following the Doctor for a long time. It'll be worth watching for signs that the Doctor is getting suspicious about it. There may, in fact, have been such signs in A Town Called Mercy. He didn't seem entirely convinced by the "obvious" explanations offered by the other characters.

The danger, as always, is that we might be over-interpreting things. I don't think we can avoid that danger without also missing what Moffat's getting up to. --89.240.254.19talk to me 00:34, September 17, 2012 (UTC)