Rewatched and can confirm Twelve was paying attention at that point.
Also, when Orson says to Clara “Runs in the family ... Nothing, it's just silly stories that one of my grandparents, well, great-grandparents“, and then gives Clara the soldier figure, it's because his grandparent [Clara] or great-grandparent [Twelve] told him later-for-them / earlier-for-him that Clara gave the Doctor the figure when the Doctor was a boy, it's deliberate and ... Orson is playing “spoilers” all through that whole sequence, because he knows more than either of them. (Or when Orson and Clara are touching hands around the figure it's like River and Eleven touching hands and communicating telepathically over the Doctor's cot in A Good Man, so after that both Orson and Clara know more than the Doctor does.)
Golly. This is the show that you and elisi are watching all the time, isn't it?
ETA: “Family heirloom. Supposed to bring good luck.” “Right. Yes. Well, it didn't do a very good job, did it?” “Did. You're here aren't you? What were the chances of you two finding me?” Which could be totally innocent and accidental, “you two” for “any two time travellers”, and could be “you two” for “my gran [whom I am clearly and fairly transparently pretending not to recognize, though if the stories are true that runs in the family too] and my great-gran”. Obviously I prefer the highly deliberate interpretation. (I think part of my trouble is that when I only see this level in elisian meta, I'm totally happy for it to be head!canon but I'm not sure that it's canon!canon. Which maybe, to paraphrase Lord Peter wildly out of context, and chiming off Eleven's “just make it a good one, eh” to young Amelia at the end of S5, doesn't matter either, so long as it makes a good book, but it still niggles occasionally. Does Moffat ever explicitly admit to any of this?)
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Also, when Orson says to Clara “Runs in the family ... Nothing, it's just silly stories that one of my grandparents, well, great-grandparents“, and then gives Clara the soldier figure, it's because his grandparent [Clara] or great-grandparent [Twelve] told him later-for-them / earlier-for-him that Clara gave the Doctor the figure when the Doctor was a boy, it's deliberate and ... Orson is playing “spoilers” all through that whole sequence, because he knows more than either of them. (Or when Orson and Clara are touching hands around the figure it's like River and Eleven touching hands and communicating telepathically over the Doctor's cot in A Good Man, so after that both Orson and Clara know more than the Doctor does.)
Golly. This is the show that you and elisi are watching all the time, isn't it?
ETA: “Family heirloom. Supposed to bring good luck.”
“Right. Yes. Well, it didn't do a very good job, did it?”
“Did. You're here aren't you? What were the chances of you two finding me?”
Which could be totally innocent and accidental, “you two” for “any two time travellers”, and could be “you two” for “my gran [whom I am clearly and fairly transparently pretending not to recognize, though if the stories are true that runs in the family too] and my great-gran”. Obviously I prefer the highly deliberate interpretation. (I think part of my trouble is that when I only see this level in elisian meta, I'm totally happy for it to be head!canon but I'm not sure that it's canon!canon. Which maybe, to paraphrase Lord Peter wildly out of context, and chiming off Eleven's “just make it a good one, eh” to young Amelia at the end of S5, doesn't matter either, so long as it makes a good book, but it still niggles occasionally. Does Moffat ever explicitly admit to any of this?)