Quotes
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"These places you're taking me. Arcadia, the Trojan Gardens, now this. I think it's suspicious." ~ Amy Pond"Art can wait. This is life and death. We need to talk to Vincent Van Gogh." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Well, look around. Art. It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamed of." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
"Right. You in here somewhere? I can't apologise enough. I thought you were just a useless gadget. I thought you were just an embarrassing present from a dull godmother with two heads and bad breath. Twice. How wrong can a man be?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Oh, you poor thing. You brutal, murderous, abandoned thing. I hope we meet again soon so I can take you home." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"No, it's not that I don't like them. I find them complex. Always somewhere between living and dying. Half-human as they turn to the sun. A little disgusting. But, you know, they are a challenge." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
"This is a creature called the Krafayis. They travel in space. They travel as a pack, scavenging across the universe. And sometimes one of them gets left behind. And because they are a brutal race, the others never come back. So, dotted all around the universe are individual, utterly merciless, utterly abandoned Krafayis. And what they do is, well, kill, until they're killed. Which they usually aren't. Because other creatures can't see them." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Oh, Amy. I hear the song of your sadness. You've lost someone, I think." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
"Is this how time normally passes? Really slowly. In the right order." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"It's a thing. It's like a plan, but with more...grayness." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
Vincent: Will you follow him?
Amy: Of course.
Vincent: I love you.
"No, I am really stupid, and I'm growing old." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Sometimes winning, winning is no fun at all." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"I've seen many things, my friend. But you're right. Nothing quite as wonderful as the things you see." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. Hey. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
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Trivia
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The episode was incorrectly entitled Lend Me Your Ear. No mention or reference was made in the episode to van Gogh's ear at all, beside holding a self portrait in which the ear is covered by van Gogh's hand.
Numerous positive or affirmative references were made in the episode to van Gogh and Amy's hair colour, perhaps in a conscious effort to address the accusation by some viewers of the program being 'anti-ginger' (the so-called 'ginger' controversy).
Among the posters covering the TARDIS are those for the cafe Au Tambourin at 27 Rue Richelieu in Paris, which was the first place to exhibit van Gogh's artwork in Paris.
The episode makes numerous direct and indirect references to van Gogh's most famous works, though artistic liberty was taken in regard to their chronology and the locations in which they were painted. While the setting for the episode was ostensibly Auvers-Sur-Oise, the last place of residence and resting place of van Gogh, where he painted Church at Auvers, inspiration for the set decoration of his home and the cafe he frequented (or rather was frequently thrown out of), came from works he produced while living in Arles several years before (Bedroom in Arles, Cafe Terrance at Night). Also, while the episode suggests Amy Pond inspired van Gogh to paint sunflowers, particularly Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, which he 'dedicated' to her, they were, in fact, painted in 1887 and 1888.
Unlike most stories in this series, this story focuses much more on characters than plot, and has hints and references to van Gogh's struggle with bipolar disorder and suicide, something the series has not explored deeply before. A message and phone number for the 'BBC Action Line' was broadcast following the 'Next Time' trailer for those wanting more information on 'issues raised in this program.'
This is the only episode since 1963 to end on a cut to black.
The Doctor mentions that he had a godmother with two heads. Before his ninth regeneration, he declared that he might have ended up with two heads. (The Parting of the Ways) Although it seemed like a joke at the time, this statement suggests that a Time Lord might in some case actually have an extra head.
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