Howling:Your favorite "Hidden Clues" in S5-6

Last season, The Moff proved that we're not wasting our time looking for hidden clues in the production. Doctor's not wearing his jacket, but then he is? Super subtle, and turned out a huge part of the finale. Etc. Now, of course, he's stoked the fire again with these Fourth Dimension messages.

Here are my favorite unresolved clues from the past season-and-a-half:


 * Amy messing with switches, and suddenly turning around and acting scared, as soon as she enters the TARDIS.
 * The TARDIS door was open, and is seen being closed, when nobody should be in there, as pointed out early in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6wczbYfip4
 * The gibberish line Idris spouts amid other lines that would be spoken later in the episode. http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Howling:Idris_in_the_cage (Yes, they say the script demands gibberish... they also film false endings.)
 * DIHS logos on the hospital ship in Curse of the Black Spot. (IMO, if this wasn't going to be significant later, it would be a symbol without lettering.)
 * The fact that Rory remembers 2,000 years as an Auton, an experience he never actually endured in this incarnation.

What are yours? Agonaga 19:49, June 1, 2011 (UTC)

I just watched that youtube video you metnioned. I think the door closing is just the wind or itself closing. as for the figure thats in the video it is really creepy but could it just be a statue? and the person moving in the same clip I think is just a production error. The only hidden clue that has freaked me out is the blacked out figure that can be seen hiding behind the wooden hut when the doctor is shot dead by the astronaut, if that turns out to be a production error I will be really pi**ed :/ -- Michael Downey 19:59, June 1, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hadn't noticed the hut thing, will look for it in my next re-watch, unless you'd be kind enough to provide a link to a clip. I feel the same way about the TARDIS door though, actually - wind notwithstanding, why would the door have been open in the first place? Agonaga 20:03, June 1, 2011 (UTC)


 * Here's the link, it's quite good - http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/impossible-astronaut-hidden-clue-20370.htm#more-20370 -- Michael Downey 20:08, June 1, 2011 (UTC)
 * OMG I've just realised in this first clip of amy turning around if you listen carefully you can hear the Silence making that growling noise they do. Does this mean they where in s5 ep2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6wczbYfip4) -- Michael Downey 20:14, June 1, 2011 (UTC)


 * MD: re: the figure in TIA, oh my!! And another one behind River's head! Gotta be intentional, IMO. Thanks! re: the Silence growl in TBB, I'd want to check the original for sound cues, too easy to edit in, but good find if it's in the original. Agonaga 20:18, June 1, 2011 (UTC) PS: Sorry, but I'm actually not hearing it. Sounds more like ominous music to me, it lacks the distinct clicking noise from the Silence's growl. Agonaga 20:20, June 1, 2011 (UTC)


 * The second figure behind river is just canton when he first ever appears but I know how deliberate is the 2nd figure. About the clip I've listened to it lots of times now in complete silence and I can personally hear the clicking noise -- Michael Downey 20:23, June 1, 2011 (UTC)


 * re: clicking, fair enough, my speakers were garbage when I bought them 10 years ago. Btw, I'm surprised nobody's busted my chops yet, re: the Rory Remembers Never Being an Auton for 2,000 Non-Occurring Years thing, when all the characters seem to remember everything that never happened... I admit that last point of mine was weak. Agonaga 20:28, June 1, 2011 (UTC)

Well, this isn't quite what you're looking for, but my favorite hidden clue so far is the future Doctor in The Impossible Astronaut wearing the wrong shoes. When we saw the Doctor lose his shoes and then get the new wrong shoes in The Rebel Flesh, the camera lingered on it. Then we saw Amy noticing something about his feet. Then the Doctor explicitly called out the shoes. And all of this set up for... the Doctor revealing in The Almost People that he'd swapped shoes with his ganger. Not quite a red herring; it was an important plot point, just not the one everyone was looking for. Brilliant. And you know the Moff was thinking of last season's jacket when he cooked it up. --99.8.228.227 02:48, June 5, 2011 (UTC)

The 'clue', or 'hidden element' that still bugs me to this day is the reference by many characters throughout both series 5 & 6 to "The Doctor in The Tardis" instead of just saying "The Doctor". This leads me to think that there must be another Doctor somewhere that these characters are aware of thus necessitating a clarification of which particular Doctor they are referring to. I'd assumed that when the Doctor's ganger appeared in The Rebel Flesh & The Almost People that the mystery had finally been resolved and the Doppelganger would escape and become an alternate Doctor, only this time without a Tardis. This didn't happen (or at least I presume it didn't), and so I am still left puzzled by the phrase "the Doctor in the Tardis doesn't know" which has been repeated on so many occasions. ChrisL 13:03, June 11, 2011 (UTC)

"The Doctor in The Tardis" might be a clue that there's another Doctor somewhere. That would explain how the Doctor could be killed in The Impossible Astronaut without bringing the show to an end. On the other hand, it could just be an unnecessarily wordy phrase. Steven Moffatt is a twisted individual who's capable of almost anything, which is what makes him a good writer. --89.240.249.49 14:01, June 11, 2011 (UTC)

Well, I might be mistaken, but I could have sworn that at the end of almost people the ganger doctor said something about being able to live through it before pulling out his screwdriver and dissolving them all. (Speaking of which, if he still has THAT screwdriver how does the doctor have one too?)
 * I caught that too. I think the screwdriver was also cloned somehow. It clones the clothes so why not items? I think the Ganger Doctor gave the other Doctor his screwdriver as part of making them think that he was the real Doctor. I was wondering about the Ganger Doctor somehow coming back because of what he said there at the end. It is very possible. V00D00M0NKY 05:00, June 12, 2011 (UTC)
 * In "The 11th Hour," the new (er... fixed... regenerated?) TARDIS produces a new screwdriver for the Doctor (at least I think it's that one... could be another episode, possibly one with River in it as he has to give her one at some point). The Sonic can be replaced, and has been a few times. So there could just be copies. Or it's another clue, like the jacket last year (and the shoes this year?) 50.95.107.92 04:23, June 13, 2011 (UTC)
 * In "The 11th Hour," the new (er... fixed... regenerated?) TARDIS produces a new screwdriver for the Doctor (at least I think it's that one... could be another episode, possibly one with River in it as he has to give her one at some point). The Sonic can be replaced, and has been a few times. So there could just be copies. Or it's another clue, like the jacket last year (and the shoes this year?) 50.95.107.92 04:23, June 13, 2011 (UTC)

I think I love in "The Lodger" when it looks like Amy has seen a Silent or two while in the TARDIS (see this). I doubt they'll mention this again, though, because she won't remember, of course. Glimmer721 01:29, July 30, 2011 (UTC)