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| 3 | * DevelopmentGag: The Eleventh Doctor was originally going to wear a pirate-esque outfit. So naturally, he's in a pirate story. |
| 4 | * FollowTheLeader: This was clearly made because of ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'''s success, [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides the fourth film]] coming out the same year. |
| 5 | * NoStuntDouble: Creator/KarenGillan was allowed to perform several of her own stunts in the episode. She was excited to learn that her character would fight pirates with swords, and was taught how to handle one with basic moves. Gillan was also allowed to swing across the ship. However, a stunt double was required to film the sequence where Amy is thrown across the deck by the Siren. |
| 6 | * RecycledScript: The episode uses almost exactly the same TwistEnding as "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild The Empty Child]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances The Doctor Dances]]", revealing that the MonsterOfTheWeek was actually just medical software for an abandoned alien ship, and that its actions were the result of it blindly following its programming and trying to heal injured humans without understanding human physiology. The plot even involves a young boy's relationship with a distant parent that he barely knows. It takes place in UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy instead of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and the monster is a siren instead of a zombie, but the plots are otherwise exactly the same. |
| 7 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: One late deletion from the script was the idea that the Siren would appear to Toby Avery as a young girl. This would have given the Doctor a clue as to the entity's true nature. |
| 8 | * WorkingTitle: ''The Siren''. |
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