Thread:Thailog/@comment-188432-20120401000634/@comment-188432-20120401211016

Well, it can hardly be an Easter egg. By definition, an easter egg is hidden, and this was in plain sight for over 20 seconds — which is roughly 1% of the total length of the episode. This wasn't, in other words, a "blink-and-you-miss-it moment". It was, in terms of screen real estate prominent, involving five or six different angles. If done in a comic book, the police box would've probably been in about 3 panels, or half a page. It's hardly like something that was tucked away in the bottom right of a panel, sitting behind a bush.

Asking why something has the visual shape that it does is basic to understanding comic books, animation or anything in a visual medium. It's not "needless". It's intrinsic. It's what separates this medium from radio or prose. Just because you don't think it's important that Mona Lisa's eyebrows are missing doesn't mean that it's "needless speculation" to talk about them. It's a part of what da Vinci put in the frame, and therefore a point of valid concern.