The Sound of Silence
Sep. 28th, 2011 12:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firefly124Or is anyone else wondering just how many references from The Graduate are in Doctor Who this season?
So, after Let's Kill Hitler, I noticed the odd squee about "yet another Graduate reference." One of the many gaps in my pop-cultural education is that I'd never seen the movie. I've heard enough Simon & Garfunkel and enough references to the movie to get the joke when the Doctor code-named River "Mrs. Robinson" in The Impossible Astronaut, but not enough to have a clue what she meant in Let's Kill Hitler when she said, "Well, hello, Benjamin!"
(Which was fun and timey-wimey, but begs the question why the Doctor was also asking, "Who's Benjamin?" if he had made the Mrs. Robinson reference earlier in his own personal timeline but later in hers. She certainly got it.)
So I finally got the movie through Netflix and watched it last Saturday. And discovered yet another "echo" in that final scene of the most recent DW episode of River under the lake in the astronaut suit, similarly to Ben faced with a choice of which set of others' machinations she's going to embrace.
Rewatched the movie tonight with Patsfan, and he noticed a bit of a recurring theme in odd clown/mime pictures hanging in the background. If this is a movie Moffat has watched over and over, that really might explain so much about his particular brand of creepy villains (The Silence, the Smilers, the dollhouse people, the Weeping Angels, the clockwork robots in The Girl in the Fireplace, hell even the gas mask kid).
This time I noticed that the water theme was even more visually pervasive than I'd realized, between the pool, which I had picked up first time through, the aquarium, and the rain. (And there's a scuba diver in the fish tank too.)
There's also the scene in the church with Ben banging on the window that Amy sort of echoes at Demon's Run, but that's a stretch. I'll be very interested, though, to see if this week's episode has any visual echoes from that wedding scene.
So, anybody picked up any others?
So, after Let's Kill Hitler, I noticed the odd squee about "yet another Graduate reference." One of the many gaps in my pop-cultural education is that I'd never seen the movie. I've heard enough Simon & Garfunkel and enough references to the movie to get the joke when the Doctor code-named River "Mrs. Robinson" in The Impossible Astronaut, but not enough to have a clue what she meant in Let's Kill Hitler when she said, "Well, hello, Benjamin!"
(Which was fun and timey-wimey, but begs the question why the Doctor was also asking, "Who's Benjamin?" if he had made the Mrs. Robinson reference earlier in his own personal timeline but later in hers. She certainly got it.)
So I finally got the movie through Netflix and watched it last Saturday. And discovered yet another "echo" in that final scene of the most recent DW episode of River under the lake in the astronaut suit, similarly to Ben faced with a choice of which set of others' machinations she's going to embrace.
Rewatched the movie tonight with Patsfan, and he noticed a bit of a recurring theme in odd clown/mime pictures hanging in the background. If this is a movie Moffat has watched over and over, that really might explain so much about his particular brand of creepy villains (The Silence, the Smilers, the dollhouse people, the Weeping Angels, the clockwork robots in The Girl in the Fireplace, hell even the gas mask kid).
This time I noticed that the water theme was even more visually pervasive than I'd realized, between the pool, which I had picked up first time through, the aquarium, and the rain. (And there's a scuba diver in the fish tank too.)
There's also the scene in the church with Ben banging on the window that Amy sort of echoes at Demon's Run, but that's a stretch. I'll be very interested, though, to see if this week's episode has any visual echoes from that wedding scene.
So, anybody picked up any others?
