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* Although ''The Name of the Doctor'' made no reference to it, earlier printed ''Doctor Who'' material had identified the Great Intelligence as an aspect of H. P. Lovecraft's [[eldritch being]] [[Yog-Sothoth]]. This is seemingly known to [[Jenny Nowhere (Set Up to Blow Up)|Jenny Nowhere]], who quips “Good old Yog” upon learning that she is in the presence of a splinter of this universe's version of the Intelligence. The idea that the original Yog-Sothoth had a variety of splinters, with one of them implicitly becoming the Intelligence, was later elaborated upon in [[Aristide Twain]]'s short story ''[https://tardis.wiki/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Snowstorm_(short_story) The Book of the Snowstorm]'', written as part of the licensed ''Doctor Who'' spin-off ''[https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Coloth_(series) Coloth]''. | * Although ''The Name of the Doctor'' made no reference to it, earlier printed ''Doctor Who'' material had identified the Great Intelligence as an aspect of H. P. Lovecraft's [[eldritch being]] [[Yog-Sothoth]]. This is seemingly known to [[Jenny Nowhere (Set Up to Blow Up)|Jenny Nowhere]], who quips “Good old Yog” upon learning that she is in the presence of a splinter of this universe's version of the Intelligence. The idea that the original Yog-Sothoth had a variety of splinters, with one of them implicitly becoming the Intelligence, was later elaborated upon in [[Aristide Twain]]'s short story ''[https://tardis.wiki/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Snowstorm_(short_story) The Book of the Snowstorm]'', written as part of the licensed ''Doctor Who'' spin-off ''[https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Coloth_(series) Coloth]''. | ||
* The First Doctor's line referring to Gallifrey derogatively as “a world of vampires and valeyards” alludes to a similar line in the novel [https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Cold_Fusion_(novel) ''Cold Fusion''], where the First Doctor, shortly before making his escape, pledges to take a newborn [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] “far from this world of vampires and valeyards”. | * The First Doctor's line referring to Gallifrey derogatively as “a world of vampires and valeyards” alludes to a similar line in the novel [https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Cold_Fusion_(novel) ''Cold Fusion''], where the First Doctor, shortly before making his escape, pledges to take a newborn [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] “far from this world of vampires and valeyards”. | ||
* After coming to the beginnings of an agreement with the Intelligence about travelling together in the TARDIS the Intelligence has possessed, Nowhere exclaims: “Fire up those crystals, Cardinal!”. This was an attempt at a catchphrase proposed for the Doctor himself in [https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Leekley_Bible an infamous unfilmed 1990s ''Doctor Who'' reboot], where the Doctor's TARDIS would have been possessed by and controlled by the disembodied spirit of the Doctor's own grandfather, [https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Barusa Cardinal Barusa]. | |||
* The final line of the story, where the Doctor mentally reflects that his newly-stolen TARDIS is “the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen”, alludes to the TV story [https://tardis.wiki/wiki/The_Doctor's_Wife_(TV_story ''The Doctor's Wife''], where the Doctor states that these were his first words upon entering the TARDIS for the first time. | * The final line of the story, where the Doctor mentally reflects that his newly-stolen TARDIS is “the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen”, alludes to the TV story [https://tardis.wiki/wiki/The_Doctor's_Wife_(TV_story ''The Doctor's Wife''], where the Doctor states that these were his first words upon entering the TARDIS for the first time. | ||
