Doctor Who Christmas Special 2013 Easter Eggs - WHOLOCK WEEK

Hey youtubers it’s charlie, happy wholock
week. Hopefully you’ve all had a chance

to watch the doctor who christmas special
by now. Since there were a lot of references

to all era’s of doctor who going back to
William Hartnell I thought it would be fun

to try and find as many as possible.

If you saw my 50th anniversary easter eggs
video it’s a lot like that. I’ll also

be doing a peter capaldi specific video this
weekend as part of my ongoing wholock celebration.

I’ve got a lot more Sherlock content coming
before the series 3 premiere too. Be sure

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Let’s get started this one’s going to
be a whopper, Number 1 - quick and dirty.

At sixty minutes, The episode is the shortest
episode ever broadcast on BBC1 featuring a

regeneration. Technically the night of the
doctor mini episode only aired on the red

service and the web.

In contrast, David Tennant’s final regeneration
in the end of time was two hours and fifteen

minutes.

2 - The Narrator. Tasha Lem narrates the beginning
of the episode. This is the second episode

to feature a narrator at the beginning. The
other time was rassilon during the end of

time.

3 - All who came. All of the spaceships you
see in the wide shot above trenzalore include,

The Daleks, the Cybermen. the judoon, the
sontarans, the sigh-lurians, the terileptils,

the slitheen family and the church of the
papal mainframe. Although technically they’re

an organization, not a species.

The configuration of their ships is a visual
callback to the enemy alliance during pandorica.

4 - Not pictured. The weeping angels, the
monoid and the racnoss. The weeping angels

were also on trenzalore, but they often travel
on other people’s spaceships. It’s not

fully explained how the landed on the planet
as tasha lem said that they created a forcefield

to prevent anyone in orbit from entering the
atmosphere.

The monoid isn’t seen on screen, but it
is depicted as a puppet.

The racnoss were not seen on screen, but were
depicted in one of the children’s drawings

on the wall of the clocktower. It’s implied
that they arrived and were defeated sometime

during the long siege of trenzalore.

5 - The inverness cape. Matt Smith is wearing
an inverness cape similar to the one worn

by The Third Doctor. Originally Jon Pertwee
chose it as a joke and wore it to a production

meeting but it stuck. The third doctor character
stole the inverness cape during his debut

episode spearhead from space.

6 - Handles. The reprogrammed cybermen head
the doctor is calling handles is a visual

reference to K-9 from the fourth doctor’s
run and the sarah jane adventures. He even

utters K-9’s signature phrase, Affirmative
Master.

7 - The phone. This is the third time matt
smith has used the physical phone outside

the tardis. Despite the ninth doctor claiming
that it’s not a real phone during empty

child. It’s revealed that the doctor never
uses it because it’s typically patched through

the tardis console.

8 - Inventing a Boyfriend. The doctor tells
clara that he had an android boyfriend once.

He is referring to Kamelion who was a companion
of the fifth doctor. He was last seen in a

picture on the unit wall inside the black
archives during the 50th anniversary special.

8 - Upgrades. The cybermen in the episode
are the alternate universe cybus versions,

later confirmed in another drawing on the
wall of the clocktower which feature the phrase

“Delete”.

9 - Clara’s mother. The actress playing
her starred previously in the sontaran stratagem

and in the sarah jane adventures

10 - Clara’s grandmother previously starred
in vengance on varos during the sixth doctor’s

run.

11 - The apartment complex. The apartment
complex clara’s family lives in is extremely

similar to the one used in the ninth doctor’s
first episode rose.

Interestingly enough the doctor was carrying
around a hand for a large portion of that

episode. Just like Matt Smith carries around
handles.

12 - The doctor is naked. Matt Smith also
appeared stark naked in front of amy pond

during the eleventh hour while he chose his
new outfit. The first time his character wore

the bowtie.

13 - Holographic Clothes. He and clara go
to the papal mainframe naked, and are still

naked when they land on the planet. In a snowstorm.
Coldest game of twister ever.

14 - The Turkey. They cook the turkey by exposing
it to the time vortex over the course of the

episode. Baking the turkey is also a metaphor
for the arrival of Peter Capaldi. He’s baking

inside Matt Smith for the episode.

15 - The Papal Mainframe. The mainframe is
just the spaceship headquarters of the church.

Run by Tasha Lem. You can think of it as a
highly advanced version of the church of england.

16 - Tasha Lem. The actress playing her Orla
Brady mentioned during an interview that her

character and the doctor had a romantic relationship
at one point and that Tasha was a bit cruel,

but the doctor enjoyed her so much he always
forgave her.

There is a theory that she is actually a version
of River Song, the strongest piece of evidence

is that the doctor is only able to decode
the message from gallifrey with the seal of

rassilon. But Tasha Lem had already decoded
the message before he arrived. Which would

have required time lord technology.

And the daleks said that they killed her several
times, which would have only been possible

if she could regenerate.

17 - The silents. It’s revealed that the
silents are actually a genetically engineered

order of preists. They memory wiping abilities
are merely to prevent you from feeling guilty

after confessing your sins to them.

The silents trying to kill the doctor during
series 6 were a rogue sect called the kovarian

silents. Named for Madam Kovarian.

They were the ones the blew up the tardis,
creating a bootstrap paradox, which the doctor

calls the destiny trap. The silents went back
in time to prevent the doctor from answering

the question by blowing up the tardis, but
in doing so created the very cracks in the

universe that allowed the time lords to eventually
ask the question.

you can’t change history if you’re already
part of it.

18 - The wig. The Doctor got bored and shaved
his head, during these events he uses the

wig to carry a backup tardis key. In real
life Matt Smith had shaved his head before

production on the episode started for his
upcoming movie How To Catch a Monster. So

when they filmed the episode, he had to wear
a wig in real life.

Karen Gillan who appeared in the episode for
a brief cameo also had to wear an amy pond

wig because she had also shaved her head for
a movie, guardians of the galaxy.

In more distant doctor who history, the paul
mcgann had to wear a wig when he played the

8th doctor in the tv movie.

19 - Your ears are like rocket fins. Clara
makes fun of the doctor’s ears. A nice visual

call back to the 9th doctor. we’re he said
“could have been worse. Look at the ears.”

during rose.

20 - The Truth Field. We find out that the
Time Lords are projecting the truth field

through the crack in the clock tower along
with the message.

We also learn that Clara really does fancy
the doctor. We’ve always known the Doctor

was a thief.

Also note that the townspeople ask the doctor
his name. But he covers his mouth to keep

from saying it. This is just a joke as he
doesn’t know that speaking his name is what

the message is all about yet.

21 - The doctor’s outfit. The doctor changes
into his outfit from the 2012 christmas special,

the snowmen. and wears it for the remainder
of the episode until he regenerates, changes

back into his series 7 outfit and becomes
peter capaldi.

22 - The Crack. The doctor finds that the
message is coming from the same type of crack

seen all the way back in the eleventh hour.
Based on the events of series 5 and 6 he explains

the structural weakness in the universe that
is causing the cracks.

We also learn that this is what the doctor’s
biggest fear is, the thing he saw inside room

number 11 during the god complex. At that
time he didn’t know the time lords were

the ones poking holes in the universe. He
was merely afraid of the ‘weakness in the

fabric of the universe’ and all the awful
things that could happen as a result.

23 - The seal of the high council. The doctor
says that he knicked the seal of the high

council of gallifrey from the master in the
death zone. The seal is a key to decrypt the

message.

The doctor stole it during the events of the
five doctors when the master was sent to rescue

the doctors from the death zone.

24 - The first question. The reason it’s
called the first question is because it’s

being projected across all of time and space.
Meaning that it’s playing at the birth of

the universe. So it’s literally the first
question to ever be uttered.

25 - Doctor Who? The voice speaking the question
is the general of the council of time lords

seen during the 50th anniversary.

26 - What’s this planet called? Trenzalore
was the gravesite of the doctor in the series

7 finale. During that timeline the doctor
never uttered his name, but did not receive

the new cycle or regenerations. Which is why
we saw his corpse.

Because that’s point at which clara prime
jumped into his timestream and because the

doctor changed history during the 50th anniversary,
we can assume that the final resting place

might still end up being trenzalore.
But before the events of this christmas special,

he died during the siege of trenzalore.

27 - The Doctor Who Stayed For Christmas.

The doctor stays on trenzalore to keep the
alliance from destroying the planet and everyone

on it. He’s staying more to help the people
rather than the time lords.

28 - The seige of trenzalore. For the first
300 years of the seige the church and the

doctor uphold the truce by keeping out all
technology, not include the sonic.

Thus the wooden cyberman. Which is actually
played by a woman.

During the standoff he uses the classic 3rd
doctor phrase reverse the polarity.

29 - The Sonic Still Doesn’t work on wood.
Previously mentioned during the 2011 christmas

special the doctor the widow and the wardrobe
and during silence in the library.

30 - The Cane. Matt Smith’s aging doctor
is about 1500 years old halfway through the

episode. He is using a wooden cane similar
to william hartnell’s doctor. He pokes the

moniod puppet with it. A monster last seen
during hartnell’s run.

31. The Dance. The Doctor Teaches the children
the drunk giraffe. As seen during the wedding

of amy pond in big bang.

32. Clara rides outside the tardis. Just like
Captain Jack Harkness in utopia in series

3 and the doctor himself during hide in series
7.

33. Reconnect the phone. Before Handles runs
out of power he reminds the doctor to fix

the phone. Picking up the phone is a metaphor
throughout the episode. From the time lords

wanting the doctor to pick up the phone and
help them bring gallifrey back, to tasha lem

trying to call the doctor when the daleks
invaded the papal mainframe.

34. Everything ends. Everyone’s question
about which number doctor smith is and how

many regens he’s used is answered. He tells
clara he’s the 13th version of himself in

the 11th doctor’s body all thanks to captain
grumpy and the vain number 10 doubling down.

so he’s got no more regenerations.

35 - The boy who waited. Barnable asks the
doctor if he’s coming back and says he’ll

wait. the doctor smiles. remembering little
amelia pond during the eleventh hour.

36. Where are the pink ones? It’s unclear
whether or not the doctor is eating jelly

babies. As the only other food smith’s doctor
would crave would be fish fingers and custard.

Which he eats before regenerating.

37. Human Form Daleks. A new creation of Series
7. In the 300 years since the truce began

the daleks invaded and assimilated the papal
mainframe. Including tasha lem.

38. The first doctor. When clara returns for
the final time the doctor appears extremely

old. I’ve seen estimates anywhere from 600
to 900 years older than he was at the start

of the episode.

His hair resembles that of the first doctor
william hartnell.

39. Extract from thoughts on a clock. The
poem that clara reads is by Eric Richie Junior.

a character made up as part of the story.
It’s unkown whether steven moffat or mark

gatiss wrote the poem.

40. The Name of The Doctor. Clara tells the
time lords the same speech the doctor gave

her during the series 7 finale, convincing
them to help the doctor.

The do so by granting the doctor a new regeneration
cycle of 12.

41. Up in the sky. A lot of people were confused
about moving the crack. Because the universe

is so weak the time lords are able to punch
holes in it at will. Even though they could

have sent the regeneration energy through
the crack inside the clocktower. The sky crack

is really just for dramatic effect.

42. Never tell me the rules. This is just
moffat poking fun at the fandom for obsessing

over the rule of 12 for the past six months.
He’s just winking at us from behind the

camera.

Notice the glowy hands. Smith’s regeneration
actually started the minute his body took

in the new cycle of 12. Meaning he’s using
his first of that new 12 to become capaldi.

Start the counter, we have 11 regens left.

43. It’s gonna be a whopper. The doctor
is regenerating for the 13th time which is

extremely unusual. As a consequence he’s
giving off more energy during the process,

enabling him to destroy the inorganic daleks
and their spaceship.

Regeneration energy doesn’t kill living
things, otherwise clara and everyone else

still alive in christmas town would have died
during the final blast of regeneration energy.

It’s likely that when capaldi eventually
regenerates, he’ll give off even more energy.

44. Taking a bit longer. The doctor we see
is already completed the majority of the regeneration

process. At the moment he’s just the echo
of 11 and the first whisper of 12. Just enough

time to think about an old friend over some
fish fingers and custard.

45. Goodbye raggedy man. The doctor remembers
amelia pond as she was a child and then as

amy pond. It’s not a bad wolf situation.
He’s just seeing her in his memory. It’s

been six years. so the actress playing young
amelia is different. But Karen gillan returned

to film the scene.
As mentioned earlier she and smith are both

wearing wigs as they were bald when this was
shot.

46. Bowties will always be cool. Smith dropping
the bowtie is the last moment of his run.

The bowtie belonged to his character just
like the scarf belonged to tom baker. So don’t

be surprised if capaldi doesn’t wear any
kind of neckwear.

47. I’ve got new kidneys. Peter capaldi’s
doctor upholds the tradition that new doctors

always fixate on their new physical features
first.

48. Do you happen to know how to fly this
thing? New doctor’s are typically disoriented

after regenerating, the 8th doctor didn’t
even know who he was. And the tardis is crashing,

pretty much the same thing that happened when
tennant regenerated into smith.

49. The final frame. Clara’s reaction shot
ending is the first regeneration to end on

a character that is not the doctor.

There were so many interesting aspects and
facts to look at let me know if you saw anything

during the special that I didn’t mention
in the video.

This was super long, so if you made it to
the end. You are a champ.

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Right now click here for my christmas special
q and a video and click here for my review

of the special.

Thanks so much for watching, high fives. See
you guys tomorrow!