History Fridge / DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath

* Vastra's comment about "here we go again" seems a bit odd, given that she's never seen a regeneration before. However, it can be interpreted in a more general sense: She's taken care of the Doctor before, in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]," and can tell that she'll have to do so again.

* The Doctor characterizes whoever placed the "Impossible Girl" ad as "an egomaniac, needy game-player". We later learn the ad was placed by Missy, more usually known as the Master -- someone of whom "egomaniac, needy game-player" is an ''absolutely dead-on accurate description''.
* The Doctor redecorates the TARDIS with bookshelves full of books and some blackboards, probably hoping to make an English teacher feel more at home.
* A passing reference in this episode reveals that the spaceship ''Marie Antoinette'', and its sister ship ''Madame de Pompadour'', date from the 51st century. That seemingly-trivial detail actually makes both sets of Clockwork Droids - the ones from "Deep Breath" ''and'' the ones from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace The Girl in the Fireplace]]" - products of the same era that produced Mr. Sin, the Peking Homunculous from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]"! So it's not actually that weird that the Clockworks would take to using organic body parts as substitute components: Mr. Sin had a pig's brain for an operating system, proving such machine/organ interconnections aren't a novel idea in the century they're from.
* In the previous Clockwork Droids episode, it was the clicking of their gears that gave them away. This time, it's the sound of breathing that gives ''Clara'' away. Either way, it's the basic mechanics of the hidden party's internal parts that betrays their nature.
* "''I'm Scottish! I can ''really ''complain now!"'' : Well, yes. Consider how effective Amy was at tearing into someone if they managed to tick her off. Also consider the ''last'' time he spoke with a Scottish accent. Seven could get a lot done by knowing how to "[[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath complain]]" properly.
* The fact that Missy welcomed the Faceless Man to the Promised Land makes perfect sense: he's essentially a ''prototype'' for the type of upgrading she has planned for humanity's dead. Not only that, but it also makes sense that she'd direct Twelve and Clara to Mancini's, of all possible places for a rendezvous: she knows the Doctor will shut the Clockwork Droids down, thus ''eliminating the competition'' for human remains.
* When Clara's legs aren't long enough to reach the sonic screwdriver, Twelve makes a comment in passing that he misses Amy, which looks like just a funny little ContinuityNod. It's actually a clever bit of FridgeBrilliance for two reasons: first, because as he was regenerating ''into'' Twelve in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]", Eleven had had a vision of Amy bidding him goodbye and therefore she would not have been too far from Twelve's mind - in fact, Eleven's attachment to Amy may actually be why Twelve ended up regenerating with a Scottish accent in the first place; and second, it works on a meta level referencing the mystery of why Twelve has the same face as [[Creator/PeterCapaldi the man]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii he saved in Pompeii]], since Amy's actress Creator/KarenGillan also appeared in that episode.
* Vastra's comment about "here we go again" seems a bit odd, given that she's never seen a regeneration before. However, it can be interpreted in a more general sense: She's taken care of him before, in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]," and can tell that she'll have to do so again.

* A passing reference in this episode reveals that the spaceship ''Marie Antoinette'', and its sister ship ''Madame de Pompadour'', date from the 51st century. That seemingly-trivial detail actually makes both sets of Clockwork Droids - the ones from "Deep Breath" ''and'' the ones from "The Girl In The Fireplace" - products of the same era that produced Mr. Sin, the Peking Homunculous from "The Talons Of Weng-Chiang"! So it's not actually that weird that the Clockworks would take to using organic body parts as substitute components: Mr. Sin had a pig's brain for an operating system, proving such machine/organ interconnections aren't a novel idea in the century they're from.

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* Vastra's comment about "here we go again" seems a bit odd, given that she's never seen a regeneration before. However, it can be interpreted in a more general sense: She's taken care of him before, in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]," and can tell that she'll have to do so again.
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* The Doctor characterizes whoever placed the "Impossible Girl" ad as "an egomaniac, needy game-player". We later learn the ad was placed by [[spoiler:Missy, more usually known as the Master -- someone of whom "egomaniac, needy game-player" is an ''absolutely dead-on accurate description''.]]

* The fact that Missy welcomed the Faceless Man to the Promised Land makes perfect sense: [[spoiler: he's essentially a ''prototype'' for the type of upgrading she has planned for humanity's dead]]. Not only that, but [[spoiler: it also makes sense that she'd direct Twelve and Clara to Mancini's, of all possible places for a rendezvous: she knows the Doctor will shut the Clockwork Droids down, thus ''eliminating the competition'' for human remains.]]

* "''I'm Scottish! I can ''really ''complain now!"'' : Well, yes. considering how good Amy was at ripping a new one at anyone who managed to tick her off. Also consider the ''last'' time he spoke with a Scottish accent. Seven could get a lot done by knowing how to "complain" properly.

* In the previous Clockwork Robots episode, it was the clicking of their gears that gave them away. This time, it's the sound of breathing that gives ''Clara'' away. Either way, it's the basic mechanics of the hidden party's internal parts that betrays their nature.

* A passing reference in this episode reveals that the spaceship ''Marie Antoinette'', and its sister ship ''Madame de Pompadour'', date from the 51st century. That seemingly-trivial detail actually makes both sets of Clockwork Droids - the ones from "Deep Breath" ''and'' the ones from "The Girl In The Fireplace" - products of the same era that produced Mr. Sin, the Peking Homunculous from "The Talons Of Weng-Chiang"! So it's not actually that weird that the Clockworks would take to using organic body parts as substitute components: Mr. Sin had a pig's brain for an operating system, proving such machine/organ interconnections aren't a novel idea in the era they're from.

* A passing reference in this episode reveals that the spaceship ''Marie Antoinette'', and its sister ship ''Madame de Pompadour'', date from the 51st century. That seemingly-trivial detail actually makes both sets of Clockwork Droids - the ones from "Deep Breath" ''and'' the ones from "The Girl In The Fireplace" - products of the same technology that produced Mr. Sin, the Peking Homunculous from "The Talons Of Weng-Chiang"! So it's not actually that weird that the Clockworks would take to using organic body parts as substitute components: Mr. Sin had a pig's brain for an operating system, proving such machine/organ interconnections aren't a novel idea in the era they're from.

* A passing reference in this episode reveals that the spaceship ''Marie Antoinette'', and its sister ship ''Madame de Pompadour'', date from the 51st century. That seemingly-trivial detail actually makes both sets of Clockwork Droids - the ones from "Deep Breath" ''and'' the ones from "The Girl In The Fireplace" - products of the same technology that produced Mr. Sin, the Peking Homunculous from "The Talons Of Weng-Chiang"! So it's not actually that weird that the Clockworks would take to using organic body parts as replacement parts: Mr. Sin had a pig's brain for an operating system, proving such machine/organ interconnections aren't a novel idea in the era they're from.

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* The Doctor redecorates the TARDIS with bookshelves full of books and some blackboards, probably hoping to make an English teacher feel more at home.

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