Talk:Tooth and Claw (Doctor Who)

Werewolf?
When Billie Piper and David Tennant were turning on Cardiff's Christmas lights, Billie said that one episode next season features a werewolf. A poster on Outpost Gallifrey's forums suggested that this episode featured werewolves. The same poster mentioned "Pauline whatshername" would be playing Queen Victoria before Pauline Collins' casting was announced. Is this solid enough to put a note on the page, or should we wait for more official confirmation? —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 07:01, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd wait, myself. Too much of a slippery slope these days when it comes to sources. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 07:51, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * (After edit conflict) Although I've got no real reason not to believe the poster (nor to believe him either, of course), but "some bloke on the internet" isn't exactly a reliable source. I won't freak out if it's added, but I won't add it myself either. What does everybody else think?--Sean|Bla ck 08:17, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. (The only reason I even considered it was that Billie's mention of a werewolf seemed like a confirmation of sorts — but I completely understand the rationale for waiting, as it still involves connecting the dots.) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 08:41, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * It was also mentioned during the turning on of Cardiff's christmas lights that David Tennent will be dressing up as a woman. I am purely speculating here that he is posing as "Queen Victoria" in order to trap the werewolf...but like everyone else I will have to wait and see until the story is aired - HeyWayne ( Talk • Contributions ) 12:37, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

There is one thing that has always confused me...... At the end of the episode there is a joke about the physical appearence of HRH The Princess Royal. Suggesting that the Royal Family are werewolves. But according to the physical age of the Great Victoria, Empress of the British Empire she would already of had children and it is a known fact the Queen Victoria was never alone. Can someone please Clarify this thankyou....... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.208.121.218 (talk) 02:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It's a joke about the royal family's haemophilia. DonQuixote (talk) 11:16, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Reason for page move
Since there's nothing at Tooth and Claw, why the move to Tooth and Claw (Doctor Who)? PaulHammond 19:08, 1 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Because Tooth and Claw is a very common title in a lot of fiction (including an earlier DWM comic strip story) and this would save us from disambiguating later; ditto with School reunion. At least, that's my idea. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 22:22, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Spoiler...
The Sunday Herald article I linked to gives away the identity of the werewolf. Dunno if it's meant to be a mystery in the episode or not, but I wasn't sure how best to handle the issue. Does the spoiler warning cover the external links? Do we assume a policy of "proceed at your own risk"? Should we go so far as to reveal the werewolf's identity on the page? I'd like to hear a range of opinions. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 04:49, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I'd say certainly don't reveal it on the page until initial broadcast. &mdash;Wh o  uk (talk) 08:01, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Torchwood
So, Torchwood was founded by Queen Victoria. It is interesting to note that Queen Victoria implicitly names The Doctor as Torchwood's enemy, with Captain Jack being a part of the institution. I wonder if he did anything against The Doctor during his memory loss, causing the Ninth Doctor's initial wariness of him? UK-Logician-2006


 * The bigger question is where Torchwood was during all those alien invasions UNIT was dealing with... ;-P &mdash;Wh o  uk (talk) 19:45, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Tennant's accent
I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but it's not quite his natural accent. If you compare it with the interviews, it's a bit broader. The impression I got was that he was aiming for "convincing, but not actually real", since the Cockney is supposed to be Tenth's "real" accent. Daibhid C 20:22, 22 April 2006 (UTC)


 * From the trailers, I thought he was deliberately going for an Edinburgh accent, but I changed my mind after seeing more. I think such specific accent identification is pretty subjective, so it's only worth noting if Tennant makes a comment on what he was doing - for example on the commentary. &mdash;Wh o  uk (talk) 20:29, 22 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Its plausibly a Bathgate accent, which is where he was born IIRC. The point seems to be that he can do one (when he remembers, as Victoria points out) while Rose justdoes a cod Scot "och ay the noo" accent). --Nantonos 10:22, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I suspect his natural accent is more Paisley than Bathgate but I'll have to check... &mdash;Wh o  uk (talk) 22:11, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

The guys from the BBC One links
Is it just me or were the guys in the red dressing gowns the guys out of the BBC One links between programmes? Looked like it to me. Damiancorrigan 22:23, 22 April 2006 (UTC)


 * According to the BBC they are a local kickboxing team --Nantonos 10:33, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I thought it was designed to be a definite allusion to the BBC 'Rhythm & Movement' idents. DavidFarmbrough 16:20, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

The monks
Were the monks dressed in red or orange? I thought they were wearing oranga (like buddhist monks) &mdash;Liyster 00:43, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * It looked red to me - hence the comment above about the BBC One idents. &mdash;Wh o  uk (talk) 11:42, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * ...which, I should add, since your user page suggests you might not have seen them, involve people dressed in red doing various manoeuvres. &mdash;Wh o  uk (talk) 11:44, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * We actually have an extensive article, full of screenshots, at BBC 'Rhythm & Movement' idents. The monks, incidently, look most similar to the "Tai-Chi" idents. smurray  inch   e  ster  ( User ), ( Talk ) 13:28, 24 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Ooh, hurrah. I saw a video online somewhere which had the Tai-Chi (presumably) music over the monky monk monks' action sequence, with the BBC One logo on top. &mdash;Wh o  uk (talk) 13:37, 24 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Glad you didn't all think I was insane thinking it looked like the BBC 'idents' (as they appear to be called). Damiancorrigan 20:22, 24 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Neither did Mark Michalowski... &mdash;Wh  o  uk (talk) 13:22, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * That link is broken. What was it? Damiancorrigan 21:39, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Aw, that's a shame. It was a monky monk monk BBC ident. &mdash;Wh o  uk (talk) 21:43, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * And here it is with a new link. &mdash;Wh o uk (talk) 10:11, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Werewolf & Misteltoe
Was it established in the episode how the wolf was able to leave the library, even though the doors were impregnated with mistletoe? I can't recall whether the door was left open or not. --DudeGalea 06:33, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


 * This is one of those things you Don't Examine Too Closely&trade;. On the other hand, the doors may be impregnated with mistletoe so that the werewolf can't break through it, but hey... there's a door handle... and he's got a hand... --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 07:11, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Yup, I'm fine with Not Examining Too Closely. :-) I just wasn't sure whether there was an explicit explanation or not. Oh, these werewolves and their new fangled 'hand' technology... --DudeGalea 08:29, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps there are different species of werewolves (and one science fiction werewolf story I read - had one of the werewolves explain that it was not necessarily that the bullets were of silver that made them fatal, but that an expert marksman would be employed: one of the werewolves was called George IIRC and was projected into the future).

I find it interesting that no where on the page is it mentioned that though the storyline hinges on mistletoe, it is actually not indigenous to Scotland. This is stated by Simon during the internet commentary and supported online   (though the second article does cite the first, it doesn't for this particular fact). --68.93.98.15 08:50, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Bad Wolves
Can Rose transform into Bad Wolf again - or was she only so because she was coexisting with/infused with the spirit of the Tardis - and once the Doctor took the energy force she cannot repeat the experience?

Jackiespeel 22:18, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Unless I'm very much mistaken, Rose never actually 'was' Bad Wolf, she was Rose with lots of Tardisity in her.(do you like the word i just made up?) She merely sent the words Bad Wolf through time as a (in my opinion, tenuous) signal to herself. Damiancorrigan 13:52, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Or in other words she was a host to the tardis, just as 'the host' is a host to the alien lupine whatchamacallit. The host recognises this in her; another staement of 'the enemy and I are the same', similar to the first series 'you would make a good dalek'. However, its not neccesary to look too closely at this from a plot point of view - a second series episode about werewolves simply has to make passing reference to the first series 'bad wolf' running theme, because of literary and genre conventions. Its not quite 'fourth wall' direct address to the audience, but close. --Nantonos 14:21, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Psychic paper confusion
I've added a bit to the note on the psychic paper. I don't know why people are confused, it was explained adequately in the first series. I wrote my entry quicky (I'm in a hurry) so please copy edit it down a bit. Thanks.Damiancorrigan 10:57, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Actualy, I think you've got it the wrong around. The psychic paper isn't supposed to show what the person holding it wants to see, it transmits the thoughts of the user: that's why Rose says you mustn't let your mind wander. The reason Jack revealed that he worked out and Rose revealed she was "very" available was because Jack's mind wandered when he passed it to Rose, and Rose's minds wandered when she passed it to Jack, not the other way around. If it was Jack's desire that Rose was available that he read off the paper and only Jack's thoughts, Jack would never have picked up on the fact that Rose's boyfriend's name was "Mickey Smith" since that was not within his knowledge. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 15:02, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I'll have to watch The End Of The World again, but that is how I remember it. Damiancorrigan 15:52, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


 * To ease your mind, from the script book: "The paper is slightly psychic, it shows them whatever I want them to see." (The End of the World). From The Empty Child: Rose: "This is psychic paper, isn't it? Tells me whatever you want it to tell me." And a couple of lines later — Jack: "Ah! Tricky thing, psychic paper." Rose: "Yeah. Got to not let your mind wander when you're handing it over." --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 16:16, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Ever so slightly interesting coincidence
Michael Jackson was mentioned in Series One, Episode Two, whereas Werewolves are mentioned in Series Two, Episode Two. Michael Jackson became a werewolf in Thriller, and the song was used in Tooth and Claw's Doctor Who Confidential. OK, I need to get out more. Damiancorrigan 14:40, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Twist ending
Khaosworks, I don't understand your point. Tooth and Claw has a twist ending, yes. But to say it doesn't defy standard DW story conventions, that I don't understand. DW has never had an ending like this before. I dare say what we were all expecting was for Queen Victoria to knight the Doctor and Rose and say, "Thank you!", a pattern that has recurred many, many times in the show's history. For the episode to end with the Doctor being told "Now get out!" is entirely new. There have been characters who have been happy to see the Doctor go (The Faceless Ones, etc.), but he's never been forced out after in this way. Why is this not worth mentioning? proteus71 16:26, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I just don't see it as a "Doctor Who story convention". A Doctor Who story convention is like, say, "base under siege", or "Earth based alien invasion", or any of the standard cliches. I don't see this as happening often enough to be a cliche or convention of that sort specific to Doctor Who. Surely in any kind of story you would expect the hero to be praised at the end, not just in Doctor Who. So sure, it's a twist ending, but it's not something that is unusual to Doctor Who in specific. It's unusual for any story, and thus not particularly notable in a Doctor Who context, unless we're supposed to treat an ending that confounds standard narrative expectations as notable. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 15:32, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, now I see your point. I still see the twist as significant for DW storytelling as well as TV storytelling in general, and that in some form the article ought to address it.  What I'd like to see is a sub-section about the ending itself, pointing out how 'our heros saved the day' in such a manner that they are banished at sword-point and an entire Institute was created to thwart our heros' return, which seeds Torchwood more thoroughly than The Christmas Invasion.  I have less time with the computer than I used to, so if it sounds like a good idea, someone else is free to use it.  How does that sound?  proteus71 21:38, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, an argument certainly could be made for a note like that, but it's kind of backwards in a non-fictional sense, since the circumstances were made up to explain the Institute, not the other way around. Since it may be that the Torchwood Institute will be causing some trouble for the Doctor by series end, it may be more pertinent to note the irony when those episodes air, or even in the Torchwood article itself. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 23:28, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Horror of Fang Rock
"Both stories are also set in remote, enclosed locations, in or around the Victorian era, involve shapechanging aliens and a feral girl." Who was the "Feral Girl" in this episode? smurrayinch e  ster( User ), ( Talk ) 09:40, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I believe that refers to the Doctor referring to Rose as a wild child and "tim'rous beastie". --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 11:31, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

comic strip
I hope you don't mind my extending the comment about the comic strip slightly. I just wanted to make it clear that the strip was not the same plot as the episode at all. As it was, people might have been left with the wrong impression that the episode was an adaptation of the story from the strip. P Ingerson (talk) 20:02, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * That wasn't the problem with the edit though — it's that it gives the wrong impression that the Doctor was up against the descendant of the actual Varney the Vampire, which is wrong. The similarity is in the vampiric nature of Varney (and his great-grandfather) and the name, and that's the extent of it. The backstory is completely different. The penny dreadful Barney was a Londoner who was cursed to be a vampire when he killed his own son. The comic strip Varney Senior was a vampiric pirate. I see what you're trying to do, though, and will try to phrase it another way. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 20:12, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Wilhelm scream
Under Production, it says At the end of the TARDISODE for this episode, a Wilhelm scream can be heard. However, that is NOT the Wilhelm scream. I don't know what it is, but I have heard it on many occasions... It's just not the Wilhelm scream. --Edokter (Talk) 02:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I know how you feel! I've just made an edit! I changed "Wilhelm scream" to "Howie Scream" (That's its official name, apparently) and some arrogant person has just undone my work! It's NOT the Wilhelm scream at all! To be honest, it sounds nothing like it at all! I prefer the Wilhelm scream to that overly-exaggerated, out-of-character/place yell anyway! -211.26.38.72 (talk) 05:56, 15 March 2009 (UTC)


 * As the Howie Scream wikilink didn't link to anything (red link), the editor probably didn't know what a Howie Scream was and therefore didn't know that it was a real thing. DonQuixote (talk) 13:31, 15 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I'ts an unofficial name that cannot be sourced. I've removed the Wilhelm scream reference (again); it somehow slipped passed my radar. — Edokter  •  Talk  • 19:32, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

A small thing I noticed
I've recently rewatched this episode, and I noticed that when Queen Victoria talked to the Doctor about trying to contact lost loved ones from the great beyond, he kind of stares sadly into space, like he's remembering something (I was thinking it was the Time War). I was considering sticking this under the Continuity section without a thought, but I wasn't quite sure if this would be considered original research or something. Should it be in there? Letsy2 (talk) 15:29, 12 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Anybody? Letsy2 (talk) 05:52, 19 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Since it's interpretation ("like he's", "thinking it was", etc.), it's original research. DonQuixote (talk) 18:09, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Flagged as list format?
I see that the article is tagged as being in list format but it appears to be prose when I viewed it (June 16, 2013) so I ask that the flag please be removed by someone more closely involved with the article. SoLowRockerMan (talk) 04:04, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

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