Talk:The Lodger (TV story)

No Sources
The Page needs deleting and protecting, the page constantly gets made once a week because people think its going to be one of the titles for a series 5 story. Well if it is, give a source please people. -- Michael Downey 15:25, May 13, 2010 (UTC)

in doctor who series 5 the lodger at the top of the stairs is a cyber converter

Why has the deletion banner been thrown up so quickly? People seem convinced this is the name of the episode, so why don't we leave it and just change it if its wrong? Removing deletion banner until we have a rational agreement to this. Fan555 15:27, May 13, 2010 (UTC)

There is no definite source. Added the delete template again. Without a reliable source, it should be deleted. ☆ The  Solar  Dragon  ( Talk ) ☆ 15:45, May 13, 2010 (UTC)

There Is a reliable source now from the BBC Doctor who website itself. You can't get any more reliable or definite than this. -- Michael Downey 15:47, May 13, 2010 (UTC)

So suddenly the BBC doesn't know the name of the Dr Who episodes. It is the Official website, and therefore an official source. Fan555 15:48, May 13, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry. Just seen it and removed the template. Should have looked more thoroughly first. ☆ The  Solar  Dragon  ( Talk ) ☆ 15:49, May 13, 2010 (UTC)

"Craig will either die or join the Doctor by the end of this episode. Another possibility is the the Doctor will offer him a trip, but Craig will decline." - so we have three options: he'll die, live and not go with the Doctor, or live and go with the Doctor. There are no other options. So in other words this adds nothing at all. I move to delete this "rumour".


 * Good point, deleted it. Digifiend 17:19, May 25, 2010 (UTC)

Now titled Don't Go Up the Stairs by the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2010/wk24/sat.shtml#sat_doctorwho Mennenennen 13:26, May 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yep. You got there before me. Name change time. ☆ The Solar Dragon  ( Talk ) ☆ 13:31, May 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * And I just changed it back, due to DWM Editor Tom Spilsbury's post on Gallifrey Base: 'The title is 'The Lodger'. The press office is out of date.' http://gallifreybase.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2381523&postcount=43

Craig
Shouldn't craig be a companion? Alpha111 19:50, May 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * No. 20:01, May 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * Going by the standard implied by List of companions and other articles, Craig should be on the list of "disputed companions", marked as a companion here, etc.


 * But, if you look at Forum:Disputed Companions, there's currently a discussion going on about who we should count as companions, and nobody involved likes the current implied standard. So, I don't think anyone wants to add more companions that are just going to be removed later. If you think people like Craig (and Lynda Moss and the existing disputed companions) should be listed, you should go comment on that forum thread. --Falcotron 20:13, May 31, 2010 (UTC)

up the stairs
when it says the stairs people go up and never come down it will either be ailens are takeing them or there is a crack (wormhole type) up there just constantly takeing anyone who goes up into a diffrent part of the universe

Drwhoworld 09:38, June 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Not necessarily. It could be a murderer. On another note, the Doctor says "Is this how time passes? Really slowly and in the right order?" in Vincent and the Doctor. This week will kill him. The Thirteenth Doctor 09:08, June 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * If it's a crack, they'd forget people who went upstairs, but in the trailer, the other two seem to remember the last person to go upstairs (the woman asks "what is he doing up there?"). Someone I know reckons it might be Cybermen because they're in the finale?90.210.32.122 13:28, June 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * If it's a crack, they'd forget people who went upstairs, but in the trailer, the other two seem to remember the last person to go upstairs (the woman asks "what is he doing up there?"). Someone I know reckons it might be Cybermen because they're in the finale?90.210.32.122 13:28, June 8, 2010 (UTC)

Title
I've recently noticed the number of titles for this episode. Where did they all come from?

"This episode was mistakenly entitled Reality Check, A Clinical Finish, Don't Go Up the Stairs"

And now this new one thats appeared out of nowhere, 'Something At the Top of the Stairs'.

Please do explain!!

Who7 16:12, June 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Don't Go Up the Stairs was on the BBC website for a short period before it was changed to The Lodger again. 16:14, June 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * And I've never heard of a rumoured episode title 'Something at the Top of the Stairs'. What kind of a title is that ?
 * Who7 16:24, June 7, 2010 (UTC)

trail
watching the trailer on the website, i notice that the voice coming from the intercom on the door is different to the voice heard in the trailer shown after episode 10. should we make anything of this?90.210.32.122 13:23, June 8, 2010 (UTC)

Just watched this and noticed it too. Maybe its the voice of the previous person (that whatever the cause is) taking people away therefore it takesaway 2 people so far. -- Michael Downey 14:43, June 8, 2010 (UTC)

Trailer: "Hello, I need your help, there's been an accident!"

Preview: "Hello, Hello scuse me, can you help me please?"

Hmm which one sounds better?

Who7 18:20, June 8, 2010 (UTC)

Trailer Differences
Well good pointing out there, whoever 90.210.32.122 is! Following on from that there are actually a lot of differences!

1: The Voice

2: Zooming into the intercom and the shadow thing. (One zooms in closer than the other)

3: The beeping noice as the man walks up the stairs

4: The crash before the women says, "What is he doing up there?" (Not heard in the bbc website preview)

Anyone notice any more differences?

Who7 18:34, June 8, 2010 (UTC)

Materialisation Loop
It has been confirmed by Digital Spy that the TARDIS and Amy are stuck in a materialisation Loop. Fan555 17:03, June 9, 2010 (UTC)

SFX Preview 20 teasers
See http://www.sfx.co.uk/2010/06/09/the-lodger-preview/


 * 1) The first line is very funny
 * 2) A guest character from last week’s episode shows up a few times
 * 3) There’s the first gay allusion this series (sort of)
 * 4) The Doctor has more interesting adventures with food and drink
 * 5) Matt Smith fans will be freeze-framing one particular revealing moment
 * 6) A can of beer is opened at an important moment
 * 7) The Doctor commits an act of physical violence, sort of…
 * 8) A certain face shows up for the fourth time this series; another for a third; and others for a second time
 * 9) There’s lots of witty dialogue
 * 10) A regal couple put in an appearance
 * 11) Amy discovers something
 * 12) One of the most uttered phrases of series five comes up again
 * 13) It’s the most unusual ever episode of Doctor Who Confidential!
 * 14) It’s back
 * 15) Someone says the G-word
 * 16) There’s a monster’s hand in a drawer
 * 17) The psychic paper serves several purposes
 * 18) It’s rather a sweet love story and James Corden is actually quite likeable
 * 19) Someone says, “I love you”
 * 20) The Doctor is helped by some feline intuition

Some of these are revelead in the preview, next time and other 4 BBC clips ...

2 Van Gogh piccy on the fridge (but Craig hasn't been to the exhibition in Paris)

3 Craig telling about his and Mark's arrangement bringing back a girl / boyfriend

4 Salad cream in an omelette

5 bath towel

8 More previous Dr's

11 The engagement ring ?

12 Bow ties are cool ?

14 the crack ?

15 Ginger? Gravity ?

Any further thoughts? 86.26.137.154 08:13, June 10, 2010 (UTC)

7. A tackle during football? 8. The first for the fourth, third for the second and second for some others. 15. Gallifrey? Although I suppose it will be ginger, y'know, to do with the controversy. 19. James Cordon, as seen in the trailer. 20. A cat? --The Thirteenth Doctor 12:55, June 10, 2010 (UTC)

15. Geronimo? Alpha111 18:58, June 10, 2010 (UTC)

15 - o come on guys excuse my language but its GIT Who7 19:17, June 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * I doubt it's git. I think it is ginger. It's referring to the whole ginger controversy which is a touchy subject right now. The Thirteenth Doctor 19:27, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * I think number 7 was the headbutt. And the mind-sharing was why Craig said Geronimo. 95.148.54.155 22:10, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

New picture
See http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/more-on-the-lodger-6181.htm for a new picture of a coffin type box and Sophie seems to have a hand missing, (does this link to the teaser about a monster's hand in a drawer?), and a quote both from latest DWM issue 86.26.137.154 06:32, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

Enemy
What should we class as the enemy of this episode then? The hologram or the Makeshift TARDIS? 18:44, June 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * The hologram was just a function of the makeshift TARDIS, so we should list the TARDIS. 76.210.69.11 19:15, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

Tardis?
The doctors line of "Someone has tried to build a tardis" Makes me think this isn't a crashed time lord vehicle, but a time machine some other alien race has attempted to build. Any one else agree?A Pickering 19:15, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

I'd prefer it to be an alien race than the Time Lords ( - unless it's Omega). One thing I will point out though - a home made Tardis and still not that Blue Peter competition winners console. When's it gonna go in?Baziel 21:29, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

Are there pictures from the Blue Peter console design? It wasn't necessarily going to make it into the show; the design would "feature in some way" towards the end of the season.

And not to mention; the TARDIS is old tech by Gallifrey's standard. It's highly probably that another advanced race came across a decommissioned TARDIS somewhere along the line, or the plans for one, and attempted to build their own. You would wonder why we haven't seen one before, especially since the Time Lords went *kablooey*. -Jedman67 04:51, June 13, 2010 (UTC)

The control pannels of the "TARDIS" had dome-like controls. Possibly Dalek Technology?

Production error.
after craig touches the 'rot' in the ceiling he falls ill the next morning. when the doctor discovers him in bed he rushes to the kitchen and stuffs about ten teabags into the pot which he then makes craig drink. however, when the doctor is sat on his bed with the full teacup in his hand, the camera that is focusing on craig from over his shoulder clearly shows a teapot only half full of clear water.


 * Its not clear, you can clearly see tea dribbling down his face after the drinking from the spout. 83.104.138.141 22:57, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

Star Trek in-joke
Definitely a reference to Star Trek :Voyager towards the end when the Doctor says 'State the nature of the emergency' and then refers to the 'Emergency Crash Hologram'. In Voyager, the Doctor was an Emergency Medical Hologram who, when activated, usually said, 'Please state the nature of the medical emergency.' Neil DG 22:13, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

I saw that too, and there was also the rather violent version of the Vulcan Mindmeld, y'know the headbutt. Maybe the writer was a fan or something ~Coolio~

It struck me more as a reference to Thunderbirds... "Captain ... of International Rescue. Please state the nature of your emergency." 121.208.92.214 05:02, June 13, 2010 (UTC)

Gareth Roberts Signature?
When Amy uses the magnifying glass, is this a reference to the the Graeme Harper signature, last seen in DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp?


 * Please sign your posts with four tildes (~). Anyway, unless Gareth Roberts thought Harper was going to be directing this episode, I doubt he'd write something specifically to be used that way. Not to mention that Harper never has any problem including his signature scene no matter what the writers give him. Also, The Unicorn and the Wasp definitely wasn't the last time we've seen that. I don't remember anything in The Waters of Mars, but there's the mirrors scene in Turn Left and the fish-eye window scene in Journey's End. --Falcotron 03:21, June 13, 2010 (UTC)