Quotes
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"A vortex manipulator, fresh off the wrist of a handsome Time Agent." (He opens the box and sighs.) "I said OFF the wrist." ~ Dorium"Vavoom! I can't believe I've never thought of this before. It's genius. Right. Landed. Come on. Planet One. The oldest planet in the universe. And there's a cliff of pure diamond, and according to legend, on the cliff there's writing. Letters fifty feet high. A message from the dawn of time And no one knows what it says, because no one's ever translated it. Till today. The Tardis can translate anything. All we have to do is open the doors and read the very first words in recorded history." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Oh, I know. My favorite topic at school. "Invasion of the Hot Italians". Yeah, I did get marked down for the title." ~ Amy Pond
The 11th Doctor: You graffitied the oldest cliff face in the universe.
River: You wouldn't answer your phone.
"A box. A cage. A prison. It was built to contain the most feared thing in all the whole Universe." ~ River Song
River: If it is real, it's here and it's opening, and it's got something to do with your Tardis exploding. Hidden, obviously. Buried for centuries. You won't find it on a map.
The 11th Doctor: No, but if you buried the most dangerous thing in the universe, you'd want to remember where you put it.
"Maybe I did, but I haven't yet. But I will have." ~ River Song
"There was a goblin, or a trickster. Or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it or... reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"I hate good wizards in fairy tales. They always turn out to be him." ~ River Song
"Never ignore a coincidence, unless you're busy. In which case, always ignore a coincidence." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Think of the fear that went into making this box. What could inspire that level of fear? Hello, you. Have we met?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"These stones are great big transmitters, broadcasting a warning to everyone, everywhere, to every time zone. The Pandorica is opening. Even poor Vincent heard it, in his dreams. But what's in there? What could justify all this? Anything that powerful, I'd know about it. Why don't I know?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Doctor, listen to me. Everything that ever hated you is coming here tonight. You can't win this. You can't even fight it. Doctor, this once—just this one time—please, you have to run." ~ River Song
Commander: A place more deadly and more powerful and more impatient than their tiny minds can imagine.
(River uses her gun to disintegrate a wooden stand filled with ornaments.)
River: Where do I come from? Your world has visitors. You're all Barbarians now.
"People fall out of the world sometimes, but they always leave traces. Little things we can't quite account for. Faces in photographs, luggage, half eaten meals, rings. Nothing is ever forgotten, not completely. And if something can be remembered, it can come back." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Cyberarm. Arm of Cyberman. Oh, sort of part man, part robot. The organic part must have died out years ago. Now the robot part is looking for, well, fresh meat. It's just like being an organ donor, except you're alive and sort of screaming." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Okay, Cyberweapons. This is basically a sentry box, so headless wonder here was a sentry. Probably got himself duffed up by the locals. Never underestimate a Celt." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
The 11th Doctor: No, I'm missing something obvious, Rory. Something big. Something right slap in front of me. I can feel it.
Rory: Yeah, I think you probably are.
The 11th Doctor: I'll get it in a minute.
"Rory, I'm not trying to be rude, but you died. You died and then you were erased from time. You didn't just die, you were never born at all. You never existed. How can you be here?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Hello Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica takes the Universe. But bad news everyone. 'Cause guess who! Hah! Listen, you lot, you're all whizzing about. It's really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute because I. AM. TALKING! Now, the question of the hour is, who's got the Pandorica? Answer: I do. Next question: Who's coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me! No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn, oh, and something else. I don't have anything to lose. So if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your silly little guns and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember! Every black day I ever stopped you! And then! And then! Do the smart thing! Let somebody else try first." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
The 11th Doctor: There are cracks. Cracks in time. There's going to be a huge explosion in the future, on one particular day. And every other moment in history is cracking around it.
Rory: So how does that work? What kind of explosion? What exploded?
"I was in the cave, with you and Amy. I was dying, and then I was just here, a Roman soldier. A proper Roman. Head full of Roman stuff. A whole other life, just here like I'd woken up from a dream. I started to think it was a dream, you and Amy and Leadworth. And then today, in the camp, the men were talking about the visitors. The girl with the red hair. I thought you'd come back for me. But she can't even remember me." ~ Rory
"The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous, and sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles, and that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me. Now get upstairs. She's Amy and she's surrounded by Romans. I'm not sure history can take it." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Structures can hold memories, that's why houses have ghosts." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Listen to me, just land her anywhere. Emergency landing, now. There are cracks in time. I've seen them everywhere, and they're getting wider. The Tardis exploding is what causes them, but we can stop the cracks ever happening if you just land her." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"All projections correlate. All evidence concurs. The Doctor will destroy the universe." ~ Cyberleader
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Trivia
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This episode deliberately evoked the feel of the Indiana Jones franchise. River's scene at the Maldovarium is a gag drawn directly from the teaser sequence of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The use of flambeaux in the cavernous "under Henge" was directly inspired by the teaser to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Finally director Toby Haynes played back a cue from Raiders while filming the sequence of the Doctor, River and Amy entering the "under Henge" to give the sequence appropriate tempo.
River's main costume in this story was deliberately designed to evoke both Princess Leia and Han Solo, so that she looked like, according to Toby Haynes, a "female Han Solo".
Amy Pond appeared to die in this episode but will be resurrected by the Pandorica in the following episode, The Big Bang.
Almost every major enemy since the beginning of the new Doctor Who series (as well as a few from the classic series) are mentioned though not all appeared. The list of enemies include the Daleks, the Cybus Cybermen, the Slitheen, the Sontarans, the Judoon, the Hoix, the Weevils, the Uvodni, the Sycorax, the Silurians, the Autons, the Roboform, the Nestene, the Chelonians, the Drahvins, the Atraxi, the Zygons, the Terileptils and the Draconians. They formed an alliance, but some of them were unseen. The Slitheen were also mentioned but not seen. River also mentions the Haemogoths, who briefly appeared in The Forgotten Army.
The Weevils, Blowfish and Uvodni are the first aliens originally from a spin-off series to appear in the main show.
The message on the cliff of Planet One was not unlike a scene in in Douglas Adams' book, So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, which featured the last message of God to his creation lit in flames on a cliff face.
The disembodied Cyberman head tells Amy, "You will be assimilated." Though modern viewers might think this a line borrowed from the Borg, a Star Trek cybernetic species similar to Cybermen, in fact the line is in The Tenth Planet.
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