Trivia / Doctor Who S36 E8 "The Lie of the Land"

• Deleted Scene: Downplayed; much dialogue was cut from the shooting script version of the consultation with Missy, namely more details about her previous encounter with the Monks and how their conquest of planets works. Doctor Who Magazine subsequently published excerpts.
• Recycled Script: The setup — a companion enduring in a world gone mad thanks to the villain(s), without the Doctor to help her — is virtually the same as that of "Last of the Time Lords". The Doctor and his companions forming La Résistance against a group of aliens with religious connotations comes from "The Wedding of River Song", as does a pyramid as a major setting. Bill using the false image of her dead mother to stop the Monks is very similar to Clara using the potential memories of her deceased mother to defeat the villain of "The Rings of Akhaten" (that Clara ended up this Doctor's first companion doesn't help).
• Reality Subtext: The scene of Bill using memories of her mother to save the world. Executive producer Steven Moffat's own mother passed away while this three-part story was being produced, which — by Moffat's own admission — led to the plotting issues it has.
• Throw It In!: The space heaters in Missy's vault were real heaters used on set because the filming space was extremely cold during the winter, and the producers thought it would be cool to keep them in.

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