Doctor Who: 17 Cool Details Steven Moffat Just Revealed About The Eleventh Hour

Once the Doctor has dealt with the Atraxi for a second time, he runs back to his TARDIS, giddy with excitement about taking his big blue box for a ride.

He flies off, leaving adult Amy with tears in her eyes - he's left her again, just like he did when she was a child. Who knows if he'll ever come back?

The episode then cuts to young Amelia, sat on her suitcase in her garden. She's been sat there for hours waiting for the Doctor to return, and has just about lost hope when she hears the TARDIS whirring sound. She then looks up at the sky, and smiles.

Interestingly though, we don't actually see the TARDIS land (the episode cuts back to adult Amy instead), and it was never made clear if that whirring sound was just in Amelia's head, or if the Doctor did in fact come back to get her when she was a child.

Well, Moffat himself has now shed a bit more light on this whole situation.

At the very end of The Angels Take Manhattan - Amy Pond's final episode - the Doctor reads a message that Amy left behind for him, after she was zapped back in time by the Weeping Angels. In this message, Amy tells the Doctor to go and visit her younger self, to cheer her up and give her some hope. Then, that exact same shot of young Amelia sat in her garden - complete with TARDIS whirring - plays out. Again, it's implied that the Doctor has returned to take her on an adventure.

Well, not only has Moffat confirmed that the use of the TARDIS noise does indeed mean that the Doctor is "arriving" and it's not just in Amelia's head, but his tweet also reveals that both uses of this young Amelia scene look and sound exactly the same, because they are exactly the same.

So yeah, technically, Amy Pond's final scene in her final episode also appeared in her first episode, The Eleventh Hour. Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey?

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