@rootfathomless replied to your post “i love when doctor who acknowledges it’s past instead of forgetting it...”
Actually Eleven refers to past adventures quite a bit, a number of them being classic who adventures. It just works with Eleven's persona that he's a man who's constantly trying to move on and run from his past rather than mulling in it like Nine and Ten did.
That could be why I missed most of them, since I’ve only seen a few Classic Who episodes. I could have just forgotten some in Eleven’s run, too, especially since it’s been literal years (at least three) since I watched a single episode of Doctor Who. Twelve seems to be really pushing the flashbacks/connections though. I feel like--aside from Eleven moaning about guilt over Martha’s hologram for a split second--that most of the Eleven callbacks were subtle. Literally none of the Twelve callbacks are subtle.
