History Trivia / DoctorWhoS40E2TheDevilsChord

* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Downplayed; while the Maestro is [[NonHumanNonBinary a godlike entity from beyond time and space and thus probably don't have a traditional gender]], they do explicitly use they/them personal pronouns, and they're played by iconic drag queen Creator/JinkxMonsoon. Of course, it is worth noting that the Toymaker ''does'' use he/him pronouns and Maestro is implied to have had a bad relationship with their "Daddy", so perhaps even extradimensional cosmic entities can be transphobic (though, given that it's [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain the Toymaker]] we're talking about, that's not ''too'' surprising).

* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS40E2TheDevilsChord "The Devil's Chord"]]: The final scene with The Doctor and Ruby walking back to the TARDIS, with the reference to Big was recorded on a day with torrential rain, which caused problems for continuity, as Ncuti and Millie had to bring umbrellas which had been in the musical sequence before. The crew decided that The Doctor and Ruby would keep the umbrellas from the previous sequence as a holdover that would fit as a reference to the musical sequence before.

* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Downplayed; while the Maestro is [[NonHumanNonBinary a godlike entity from beyond time and space and thus probably don't have a traditional gender]], they do explicitly use they/them personal pronouns, and they're played by iconic drag queen Creator/JinkxMonsoon. Of course, it is worth noting that the Toymaker ''does'' use he/him pronouns and Maestro is implied to have had a bad relationship with their "Daddy", so perhaps even extradimensional cosmic entities can be transphobic (though, given that it's the Toymaker we're talking about, that's not ''too'' surprising).

* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Downplayed; while the Maestro is [[NonHumanNonBinary a godlike entity from beyond time and space and thus probably don't have a traditional gender]], they do explicitly use they/them personal pronouns, and they're played by iconic drag queen Creator/JinkxMonsoon. Of course, it is worth noting that the Toymaker ''does'' use he/him pronouns and Maestro is implied to have had a bad relationship with their "Daddy", so perhaps even extradimensional cosmic entities can be transphobic.

* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Downplayed; while the Maestro is [[NonHumanNonBinary a godlike entity from beyond time and space and thus probably don't have a traditional gender]], they do explicitly use they/them personal pronouns, and they're played by iconic drag queen Creator/JinkxMonsoon.

* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Downplayed; while the Maestro is a godlike entity from beyond time and space and thus probably don't have a traditional gender, they do explicitly use they/them personal pronouns, and they're played by iconic drag queen Creator/JinkxMonsoon.
* WriterConflictsWithCanon: An odd example, given that [[FlipFlopOfGod the same creator was responsible for both]]: Russell T Davies has previously suggested that the Doctor's bi-generation back in "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]" could have affected his whole timeline and retroactively turned every regeneration into a bi-generation. However, in this episode, the Doctor describes bi-generation as a horrific experience that he doubts he could survive more than once, firmly establishing bi-generation as a one-time event.

* WriterConflictsWithCanon: An odd example, given that [[FlipFlopOfGod the same creator was responsible for both]]: Russell T Davies has previously suggested that the Doctor's bi-generation back in "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]" could have affected his whole timeline and retroactively turned every regeneration into a bi-generation. However, in this episode, the Doctor describes bi-generation as a horrific experience that he doubts he could survive more than once, firmly establishing bi-generation as a one time event.

* WriterConflictsWithCanon: Russell T Davies has previously suggested that the Doctor's bi-generation back in "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]" could have affected his whole timeline and retroactively turned every regeneration into a bi-generation, however in this episode the Doctor describes bi-generation as a horrific experience that he couldn't survive more than once, firmly establishing bi-generation as a one time event.

** Music/PaulMcCartney is played by George Caple who previously played Alfie in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E5FluxChapterFiveSurvivorsOfTheFlux Survivors of the Flux]]".

* WriterConflictsWithCanon: Russell T Davies has previously suggested that the Doctor's bi-generation back in "[[DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]" could have affected his whole timeline and retroactively turned every regeneration into a bi-generation, however in this episode the Doctor describes bi-generation as a horrific experience that he couldn't survive more than once, firmly establishing bi-generation as a one time event.

** Music/PaulMcCartney is played by George Caple who previously played Alfie in "Survivors of the Flux".
** The elderly woman that Maestro kills is played by June Hudson. She played Mrs. Linderhof in the ''Series/{{Class}}'' episode "For Tonight We Might Die" and also designed costumes during the Tom Baker era.