Doctor who last christmas ending full#
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While a good portion of the character development hit with me-including the Doctor being forced to stay put for hundreds and hundreds of years-there was so much attempt to answer each and every dangling plot thread of the Eleventh DoctorвЂ™s era that none of them were all that satisfying. How do you follow something as joyous and brilliant as вЂњThe Day of the Doctor?вЂќ Not only that, how do you use that episode to say farewell to a beloved Doctor who also happens to be that particular showrunnerвЂ™s first? Well, it turns out you canвЂ™t do it super well. ItвЂ™s very stupid, but it still kinda gives me the warm fuzzies.

Doctor who last christmas ending series#

This episode ends up being fairly high on my list, however, because of sheer nostalgia, being one of the handful of episodes (all from series 4) that I had on my iPod and would watch on repeat on my lunch breaks at work. A pretty great set-up in an interstellar disaster movie, evoking things like The Poseidon Adventure and of course Titanic quickly gives way to some pretty eye-rolling moments. Heart and cheesiness I can take in heaping spoonfuls, especially at Christmas, but my tolerance for hokum is aggressively low, and вЂњVoyage of the DamnedвЂќ is almost nothing but.

Doctor who last christmas ending full#

The following full season had to canonically retcon that garbage. And it never overcomes such a stupid plot device. But for GodвЂ™s sake, a giant Cyberman wreaking havoc across LondonвЂ¦so, so dumb. And David Morrissey as someone who seemed like an amnesiac future incarnation of the Doctor stuck in Victorian times was a brilliant idea, and then the reveal that heвЂ™s actually just a human with brainwaves from the real Doctor was another nice stroke from Russell T. The public knew the Tenth DoctorвЂ™s days were numbered, so a special called вЂњThe Next DoctorвЂќ seemed like a very exciting prospect. Unfortunately, 55% of it is incredibly stupid and for that reason, IвЂ™m out. вЂњTHE NEXT DOCTORвЂќДЄbout 45% of this is a very good episode. But, Peter Capaldi is so very good in it, and his monologue about things ending being sad is still one of my favorites. And while the romantic comedy angle was cute enough, and bringing on Matt LucasвЂ™ Nardole as an official companion with this episode was a great move, for me, after an entire calendar year with no Doctor Who, it just seemed so slight and inconsequential, especially coming off of some of the seriesвЂ™ best episodes. If thereвЂ™s one thing I will give any writer credit for, itвЂ™s doing something different, and introducing legitimate, costumed, comic book superheroes into the continuity of Doctor Who is certainly something different. It also didnвЂ™t help that the plot had one of those вЂњLove Conquers AllвЂќ denouements that are only really effective in rare instances, and a big waste of a reference to вЂњThe Caves of Androzani.вЂќ The carved Christmas tree people were in this one. A Christmas episode certainly ought to have whimsy, which вЂњDoctor/Widow/WardrobeвЂќ certainly had (the Doctor showing the Arwell family their Christmas digs was a delight), but whimsy soon gave way to rampant and unfettered sentimentality, which rang very false to me for some reason. I almost fell asleep typing the name of this episode. вЂњTHE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW, AND THE WARDROBEвЂќ

But one scene does not a good episode make. The only good scene (and it is very good) is a tearful moment about impending mortality between the Doctor and Wilfred Mott (Bernard Cribbins). (Not to mention writing that was an unholy blending of silly and super-serious.) вЂњThe End of Time part 1вЂќ gave us a frothing Master with super powers we didnвЂ™t know he had, a Doctor who spends most of his time looking like someone pooped in his shoes, and it all ended with everyone turning into the Master because of reasons. But during the year leading up to his regeneration (which saw only five episodes spread over 53 weeks), the Tenth Doctor became increasingly arrogant, po-faced, and just downright irritating. And before we get too far-I love David TennantвЂ™s portrayal of the Doctor. No matter how many years removed we are, IвЂ™ll still never get over how disappointing David TennantвЂs final two-part story was to me. WeвЂ™re gonna count вЂ™em down Casey Kasem style, from 12 all the way to 1. This yearвЂ™s вЂњTwice Upon a TimeвЂќ will be the 13th such special (bananas), and I thought itвЂ™d be fun (and argument causing) to rank the twelve weвЂ™ve had thus far. But whether itвЂ™s been a year since a full series or not, Doctor Who has been very consistent when it comes to Christmas specials-never missing one. It will never stop blowing my mind that weвЂ™ve had 10 seasons of Doctor Who since its revival in 2005.