Doctor Who Christmas Special (2010)

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Doctor Who Christmas Special (2010); Don't know if it's been show anywhere other than Great Britain yet, so spolier alert!
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Kerr Avon	Dec 29 2010, 05:07 PM Post #1
Senior Member Posts: 560 Group: Senior Members Member #52 Joined: December 13, 2006	Did everyone watch this year's Doctor Who Christmas special? Even if you're not in the UK, you can torrent it, if you want to watch it. Anyway, I thought that it was very, very good. Granted it didn't look promising; a Doctor Who version of Dicken's Scrooge fable, and if it had been Russell T. Davis writing it then it would have been awful, but instead it was very good indeed. Alright, so the "science" in it was nonsensical (like most TV science fiction), the ending was predictable (to anyone who's read the book or seen any of the 18,002,712 versions of "A Christmas Carol"), and we didn't get to see much of Amy (though Rory did, the jammy git, as it was their honeymoon ), but it was very enjoyable indeed. Some of the dialogue was superb, like the scene with the Doctor and the young boy Kazran in the closet, or the Doctor panicking as he'd become engaged to Marylin Monroe ("That was never a real chapel!"), and lines like "Better a broken heart than no heart at all". And Matt Smith stole every scene he was in, he's really nailed the Doctor's complex character to perfection. And I have to admit, when the elder Kazran (Scrooge) said to the Doctor [words to the effect of] "Show me the future then, but it won't change me in any way", I didn't see the brilliant little plot twist that we then saw. Alright, so the episode was flawed, such as why the Doctor didn't try to cure Abigail, or even to free the frozen people, and why mess about getting Scrooge to save the people on the doomed spacecraft, when the Doctor could no doubt have done it himself and not risked them on the whim of old Scrooge, but the good points of the episode totally buried the bad, making it (to me) a superb episode, and just more proof of how fantastic Moffat's writing and Smith's performance are together. Even to me, a loyal lover of the classic Doctor Who's (mainly the two Bakers), this year has been the best time of TV Doctor Who ever. Long may it continue!



Vyothric	Dec 30 2010, 09:48 AM Post #2
Most Frantic Posts: 194 Group: Closed Member #374 Joined: October 24, 2010	Kerr Avon Dec 29 2010, 05:07 PM the classic Doctor Who's (mainly the two Bakers) I think the only Doctor Who episodes I've seen are repeats of the ones with Tom Baker in.



Ganondorf	Feb 18 2011, 09:33 PM Post #3
Senior Member Posts: 604 Group: Senior Members Member #226 Joined: August 21, 2009	sorry but i despise doctor who, i remember when it was the only thing on sometimes in the afternoon, these were dark times
	Plato "wise men talk because they have something to say, fools talk because they have to say something"

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