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Title: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Buddy on 25 December, 2010, 07:56:10 PM
Go on then.. it's been an hour since it finished and no comments!!??

Only half watched it through after dinner nap and setting up a computer, will watch in full later.

So... opinions please.....
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: pauljholden on 25 December, 2010, 08:22:05 PM
Thought it was great. Didn't really understand exactly what happened with regards to the crashing spaceship [spoiler](saved by the power of Katherine Jenkins lungs?)[/spoiler] but really loved it a lot. Clever way to doing a Christmas Carol without doing a Christmas Carol (while, at the same time, doing a Christmas Carol)

And next season looks ace.

(Also: it was amazing in HD)
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: nev on 25 December, 2010, 08:26:00 PM
Was this freezing people for loans etc not a twoothy tale? Definately rings a bell.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: M.I.K. on 25 December, 2010, 08:26:38 PM
There's very little to moan about for a change. That's why nobody's saying anything.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: DrRocka on 25 December, 2010, 08:33:10 PM
I wasn't keen. To be honest, I don't get the whole "abandoning the laws of causality" nonsense that seems to be paramount since Moffat took the reins (you can come back to life by being remembered?).
My son loves it though, and I do seem to be in a minority, so fair enough.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: noodles on 25 December, 2010, 09:38:15 PM
Flying sharks -tres twoothy.

Karen Gillan back in short-skirted copper uniform.

Jenkins, take or leave. Gambon was excellent.

What more could one want?

Almost as good as the Van Gogh episode.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Mike Carroll on 25 December, 2010, 10:21:10 PM
Mostly enjoyed it. The performances were great, but I just didn't get why [spoiler]Abigail had to die. Why couldn't the Doctor go back in time to prevent her illness or whatever it was that ailed her? I mean, he had no problems mucking about with Dumbledore's time-line. Also, he could have gone back to before the ship got into trouble and told the captain not to take that route... And how did they know how many days Abigail had left to live?[/spoiler]

-- Mike
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: mogzilla on 25 December, 2010, 11:42:41 PM
loved it... a nice take on the christmas carol un shamelessy doing so ,,loved the dr realising what he said and the penny dropping

the christmas future [spoiler]being little fellas rather than gambon's was inspired[/spoiler]

   
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Buttonman on 25 December, 2010, 11:51:58 PM

Dune Sharks married with 'The Forever Crimes' - enjoyable stuff!
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Christov on 25 December, 2010, 11:54:38 PM
Causality mess ups can be resolved through the sheer fact of wibbly wobbly timey wimey, and lets face it guys, this is family television not a scientific presentation. Not to mention it fucking well beats running up and down corridors as a way of progressing the plot.

Gambon was stellar, Smith was weird and energetic, and Katherine Jenkins was the best piece of eye candy this series has ever seen. The cinematography and art design was astounding, and the direction was some of the most competent work I've seen in Nu Who.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: M.I.K. on 26 December, 2010, 12:07:11 AM
Yup. Can't remember the programme looking nicer than that.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Gavin_Leahy_Block on 26 December, 2010, 12:09:18 AM
Absolutely brilliant, and the best Christmas special we have had with New Who. Katherine Jenkins managed to outshine Karen Gillan back in short skirt. Very sentimental, but in a good way and it is Christmas after all.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Robin Low on 26 December, 2010, 08:40:10 AM
It's either this or go into a room on your own and invent a new screwdriver. Don't make my mistake.

Regards

Robin
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Kerrin on 26 December, 2010, 09:06:56 AM
Best Christmas special yet and next season looks ace.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Richmond Clements on 26 December, 2010, 09:17:08 AM
What I love is that Smith's Doctor is is best, coolest big brother the children watching could ever hope for. And when he's talking to the children in the show, like the I know Santa speech 'Keep the faith', he is absolutely talking right to any children watching at home.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: worldshown on 26 December, 2010, 09:43:43 AM
I enjoyed it. The story was a lot tighter than other specials, some great lines, got the spirit of the source material without being a direct copy and some ideas "borrowed" from 2000ad. Loved the Christmas Future twist, [spoiler]I was convinced that the Doctor was going to open Abigail's fridge and let her see what Karazan had become[/spoiler].

Anybody else get the other significance of Rory and Amy's costumes? [spoiler](Think Rodney and Cassandra in the "Only Fools and Horses" 2001 Christmas Special).[/spoiler]

Only criticism I have of it is that it lacked spectacle for younger viewers. Yes, the shark drawn sleigh was fun, but surely that was critic-bait.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Zarjazzer on 26 December, 2010, 11:33:19 AM
I must have fallen asleep during a bit of it as sneck lifter ale and variou s o ther bozze was cpoursing through my veins. I couldn't work out why Abigail had one day left to live. After seeing karen Gillan in her policewomans outfit though I couldn't have cared less! :)


Fun and a nice twsit on a Christmas Carol. Flying sharks controlled by hymns. Bonkers!
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: JamesC on 26 December, 2010, 12:35:00 PM
Really enjoyed it.
Matt Smith is easily the best of the new Doctors in my opinion and Gambon was absolutely fantastic.
Title: Re: Re:Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: dracula1 on 26 December, 2010, 04:03:46 PM
Jenkins was great in her acting debut,...would make an awesome judge in the new movie.
Title: Re: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Noisybast on 26 December, 2010, 05:43:11 PM
Noisybast not think Katherine Jenkins much of an actress, but she make Noisybast feel -hrrn- all warm and tingly in the thrill-receptors...
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Colin YNWA on 26 December, 2010, 08:50:48 PM
Well just didn't work for me. Watching it tonight after family stuff yesterday and for the first time in New Who cracked open the internet before the episode has finished.

Still looking forward to the new series trailer.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Greg M. on 26 December, 2010, 09:07:30 PM
I enjoyed it, although maybe not quite as much as I wanted to. (This may in part be 'cos I convinced myself the Yeti would be in it. They weren't.) Certainly a league away from the Russell T era Christmas specials, which were usually some of the weaker examples of his output (and unlike some, I am not remotely anti-Russell). No, this was a clever piece of work: I particularly liked the bit where Smith goes back into Gambon's childhood and appears in the recording Gambon is watching. Having said all that, it felt as if it was missing something... maybe some kind of more actively malevolent threat. (A big hairy threat controlled by the Great Intelligence, probably...)
Title: Re: Re:Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: dracula1 on 26 December, 2010, 10:34:33 PM
SFX  were excellent, especially the big ugly shark. Might be time to make a hook jaw movie perhaps.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Mardroid on 26 December, 2010, 10:42:14 PM
I only caught it today (spent much of Christmas day at relatives' house with people making a lot of noise and a kiddie driving his new remote control car against my foot repetitively. Dinner was nice though.) and I had my reservations in learning that it was based partly on A Christmas Carol. Don't get me wrong, I love A Christmas Carol, but it's been done so much it's drifting into the world of cliché.

Anyway, I decided to give it a chance today and....

It was wonderful. The Christmas Carol stuff blends with the story perfectly while making a lovely new story in it's own right. Sure there were heaps of sentimentality... but that proved not to be a bad thing. It was both sweet and heart wrenching in places (often at the same time) and Katherine Jenkins has a sweet sweet voice.

I never did quite see how she got out of the ice box in the first place though. The Doctor on a suspicion she would be of aid? I hope so as that would be a bit too convenient if it were accidental. I'd also have liked them to have used a bit more imagination with their design of the fish. The very fact these exist in an oxygenated atmosphere and can fly around is proof these are an alien life-form, so it would have been nice if they hadn't resembled our own fish species so closely. That's a small criticism in light of the whole episode though.

Probably my favourite Christmas episode.

[spoiler]As for the question as to why The Doctor didn't save her... I'll admit to wondering about that myself. Thinking about it though, it makes sense. If he'd gone back and retroactively cured her (assuming it would have to be retroactive, before her illness became terminal) then the Scrooge character would have gone back to being a miser, and the people on the ship would be doomed. Sure he could have done more time manipulation to get all around that, but I think there's only so far he will mess with causality before things really mess up....[/spoiler]

Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Mark Taylor on 28 December, 2010, 02:54:15 AM
Quote from: Inev on 25 December, 2010, 08:26:00 PM
Was this freezing people for loans etc not a twoothy tale? Definately rings a bell.

Indeed, you saw it on Judge Dredd first. In fact I think it is quite an early Dredd. IIRC loan sharks take a family member as security against a loan and if the borrower doesn't pay up they sell the body to organ leggers.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: nick101 on 28 December, 2010, 12:31:52 PM
Quote from: Mark Taylor on 28 December, 2010, 02:54:15 AM
Quote from: Inev on 25 December, 2010, 08:26:00 PM
Was this freezing people for loans etc not a twoothy tale? Definately rings a bell.

Indeed, you saw it on Judge Dredd first. In fact I think it is quite an early Dredd. IIRC loan sharks take a family member as security against a loan and if the borrower doesn't pay up they sell the body to organ leggers.

I agree, had a look this morning and it's in Case Files 05, Mega-Rackets The Body Sharks.

Seeing Amy Pond in the police uniform certainly brightened up my Christmas  :P
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: chilipenguin on 28 December, 2010, 07:59:08 PM
Weirdly enough, I received Case Files 05 for Christmas and had just read the bodysharks story shortly before watching DW. Very odd. It is a blatant lift but it was executed well so can't really gripe.

Probably the best of the specials so far. Can't wait till the next series.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: daviebond on 30 December, 2010, 06:52:40 AM
Ive got to be honest here...it was the worst Chrimbo episode to date in my book although Gambon was brilliant as usual. Maybe its because I dont like whats his name as the new Dr.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Mardroid on 30 December, 2010, 06:15:03 PM
I watched it for the second time last night (I missed the very start last time) and I still thought it was wonderful.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Leigh S on 30 December, 2010, 09:11:25 PM
I was vaguely disappointed in it, until I caught a bit of the Kylie one, which showed how much of an improvement the Moffatt version is, if only because its lost the Cbeebies lighting, plotting, moralising ("that would make you a monster!") and crucially, central performance. 

I find it hard to see what people object to about Matt Smiths Doctor.  He seems to be what tennants spectacularly failed to be, with a touch more added awareness of his central uncoolness (whereas Tennants doctor was just constantly begging to be hip, Smiths seems to make a point out of his inability to come close).  He's not that far removed from Tennant, just with lowered bluster, better lines and a more endearing humility underpinning the (for my money misjudged) omnipotence.

Or to put it another way, hes not too different from Tennants Doctor, just without the weird Timmy Mallett impression.  do people really miss the Malletty stuff from 10?

The main problem i have with this and the preceding series is using time travel to "solve" things - its kind of appropriate here, being a retelling of Christmas Caraol and all, but once you open that can of worms, where do you go from here?  Someone break the TARDIS again, and fast!
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Daveycandlish on 30 December, 2010, 09:42:47 PM
Yeah I enjoyed it, and although the time travelling bit was necessary for this story I do think the wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey episodes get real tired real quick. It's too easy a solution to go back and change things and it can all get a bit messy, like Back to the Future 2.

And yay! More [spoiler]River Song[/spoiler] in the new series! In the nip!
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 31 December, 2010, 12:28:47 AM
Quote from: Daveycandlish on 30 December, 2010, 09:42:47 PM
Yeah I enjoyed it, and although the time travelling bit was necessary for this story I do think the wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey episodes get real tired real quick. It's too easy a solution to go back and change things and it can all get a bit messy, like Back to the Future 2.

Quote from: Leigh Shepherd on 30 December, 2010, 09:11:25 PM
The main problem i have with this and the preceding series is using time travel to "solve" things - its kind of appropriate here, being a retelling of Christmas Caraol and all, but once you open that can of worms, where do you go from here?

You know, considering that he's pretty hip with quantum mechanics (what with the Weeping Angels & Amy Pond being the ultimate extrapolation of the[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend] Pardox of Wigner's Friend[/url]), Stevie strongly suspects that the Moff is deeply aware of this. He'll even go so far to suggest that The Moff is playing it in the long & that [spoiler]It Is Leading To Something[/spoiler].

Doctor Who is, after all, a show about [spoiler]time travel[/spoiler].

This is vertiginously high SF concept packaged in a populist form, ala PKD. Wondrous stuff indeed.

Next season: Stevie sees [spoiler]Nazis! Proper Nazis! [/spoiler] YAY!!!
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Cthulouis on 31 December, 2010, 12:56:09 AM
I enjoyed it. A good episode, not the best episode ever, but far and away the best Christmas episode ever.

Was it just me, or did the preview for the next season hint at there being men in black shenanigans. Caus that would be awesome.   
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 31 December, 2010, 02:17:54 AM
Quote from: Cthulouis on 31 December, 2010, 12:56:09 AM
Was it just me, or did the preview for the next season hint at there being men in black shenanigans. Caus that would be awesome.  

Which in turn would elevate the Proper Nazis to a whole new level of post-arsomness.

& that does sound suspiciously like [spoiler]Davros who's been whispering, "Silence shall fall."[/spoiler]

That's all about [spoiler]returning the Universe[/spoiler][spoiler] to the state it existed in [/spoiler] [spoiler]before [/spoiler][spoiler]the Big Bang ie the most perfect ordered state,[/spoiler] right?


If you'd told Stevie that he'd be anticipating the next season of Who with the same febrile fervour as the next Robert Reed novel this time last year he wouldn't have even summed the energy for a dismissive sigh.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Mardroid on 31 December, 2010, 02:28:07 AM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 31 December, 2010, 12:28:47 AM
Doctor Who is, after all, a show about [spoiler]time travel[/spoiler].

For a show involving time travel, I think it's interesting how little time travel actually factors into the plots! Usually it's just a way of getting the Doctor and companions to a particular time and place for an adventure, and that's it.  

I'm glad that Moffat utilises time travel more in his episodes. I wouldn't want to see that all the time (nowt wrong with an old fashioned adventure in one specific time and place) but it seemed to be missing an interesting trick not to use time as a major element in the show more often! As long as they keep to certain rules of course* or things could get silly.

*Mainly, few do-overs**. By that I'm referring to the main characters going back on themselves changing what they've done before.

**Originally I wrote "no do-overs", but I think an exception once in a while can be  very interesting.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 31 December, 2010, 02:36:24 AM
Quote from: Mardroid on 31 December, 2010, 02:28:07 AM

*Mainly, few do-overs**. By that I'm referring to the main characters going back on themselves changing what they've done before.

**Originally I wrote "no do-overs", but I think an exception once in a while can be  very interesting.

cf Pyramids of Mars & Genesis of the Daleks
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: House of Usher on 31 December, 2010, 09:09:20 PM
I only caught up with the show tonight. First around I was totally confused after 5 minutes and opted to give in to flu, switch off and go to sleep instead.

That was a nice little sci-fi story, even if bits of it were typically 'New Who' daftness, like the sky full of earth-species fish.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Cthulouis on 01 January, 2011, 12:50:48 PM
Quote from: House of Usher on 31 December, 2010, 09:09:20 PM
the sky full of earth-species fish.

This bugged my girlfriend as well, she wanted to see something more alien. I can understand, though, why they wanted to go for the whole Loan Shark/Real Shark thing. Some puns are so terrible, they simply must be made.

I can't really argue against the earth fish thing, as I tend to use convergent evolution as a way of justifying why so many aliens in so many shows look just like humans in costumes.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: strontium71 on 01 January, 2011, 12:55:18 PM
Can someone please explain to me something? I seem to remember that the TARDIS couldn't go to any particular place on command because it was broken and just went wherever the hell it wanted. When was this fixed so the Doctor could go whenever and wherever he pleased?
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 01 January, 2011, 03:17:27 PM
As far back as colin baker, he could fly it successfully. Didnt davison remove the randomiser during the 20th season, once he'd beaten the black guardian, as it was no longer necessary? Or am i misremembering. I think it's only hartnell and patrick trumpton who could reliably fly it. Pertwee was mostly grounded, then could basically work it. Tom could do it mostly until he randomised it to escape the guardian.
Didnt see the xmas one, but everyone i know seems to be calling for moffat's blood over it. Was it THAT bad?
SBT
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 01 January, 2011, 03:23:30 PM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 01 January, 2011, 03:17:27 PM
Didnt see the xmas one, but everyone i know seems to be calling for moffat's blood over it. Was it THAT bad?

Better than anything Davies wrote. A quick google of mainstream critical reaction seems to range from the mildly positive side of lukewarm to quite good. Perhaps your statistical sampling contains some inbuilt bias, there, SBT?

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 01 January, 2011, 03:41:27 PM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 01 January, 2011, 03:17:27 PM
Didnt davison remove the randomiser during the 20th season, once he'd beaten the black guardian, as it was no longer necessary? Or am i misremembering. I think it's only hartnell and patrick trumpton who could reliably fly it.

[geek]Er, if anything, it was Hartnell and Troughton who couldn't pilot the Tardis.

Despite his angry blustering to the contrary, Hartnell's Doctor seemed almost totally incapable of predicting where or when they would go next - the entirety of the first Doctor Who story 'arc', from An Unearthly Child through to The Chase, is underpinned by the continual failure of the Doctor to return Ian and Barbara to their own time (despite his best efforts) forcing them to jump ship to another time machine first chance they get - they even shrug off the fact of their being out by two years, presumably because by this time they were simply glad to be back on present day Earth at all! Dodo, having joined him in the 60s, likewise leaves him the first time he makes it back there, again presumably because she doesn't know when she might next have the chance. Susan makes lots of references to his 'forgetfulness' as a cause, and it all fits quite nicely with the image of him as a senile old buffer. Most of his companions end up in the Tardis through circumstance rather than choice, and end up hanging around for the simple reason that the Doctor's incapable of returning them to where/when they came from.

Troughton doesn't seem to be much better in this respect, but it isn't as obvious as he seems to quite enjoy the random element of their travels, although Jamie wearily snipes on occassion that he clearly has no real idea how to pilot the Tardis. Ben and Polly pull the same trick as Ian, Barbara and Dodo as soon as he happens to land them back in their own time.

It's not until Pertwee that the Doctor really seems in command of things.[/geek]
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Greg M. on 01 January, 2011, 03:53:52 PM
If I recall, Davison is a fairly acceptable pilot and manages to get the TARDIS to go where he wants at least as often as he gets it wrong. He successfully reaches the Eye of Orion in 'Five Doctors', gets people back to their correct time at the end of 'The Awakening', is pretty much in control of it in 'Time Flight'. Colin Baker seems an even better pilot (fittingly, given his character's arrogance) and from 'The Twin Dilemma' onwards seems to go pretty much exactly where he intends. McCoy seems pretty capable too.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Richmond Clements on 01 January, 2011, 04:20:08 PM
He can pilot the TARDIS when plot demands it.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 01 January, 2011, 04:41:43 PM
My statistical sampling, jim, is the mates of mine who have been fans for years and who thought it ranged from 'shit' to 'okay'. And my kids, who have tried to watch it twice and given up both times, because it was 'very boring'.
Im not a nuwho person, and moffat's an arse, so it's not for me im afraid!
SBT
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: M.I.K. on 01 January, 2011, 05:51:41 PM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 01 January, 2011, 04:41:43 PM
moffat's an arse

This may well be true, but he's also a far better writer than RTD ever was.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 01 January, 2011, 05:54:18 PM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 01 January, 2011, 04:41:43 PM
My statistical sampling, jim, is the mates of mine who have been fans for years and who thought it ranged from 'shit' to 'okay'. And my kids, who have tried to watch it twice and given up both times, because it was 'very boring'.
Im not a nuwho person, and moffat's an arse, so it's not for me im afraid!

I know all that. I may have been slightly guilty of trying to wind you up. Pay me no mind. :-)

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Mardroid on 01 January, 2011, 06:27:44 PM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 01 January, 2011, 04:41:43 PM
My statistical sampling, jim, is the mates of mine who have been fans for years and who thought it ranged from 'shit' to 'okay'. And my kids, who have tried to watch it twice and given up both times, because it was 'very boring'.

I loved it, but I do get the impression it wasn't one for the kiddies due to the slower pace. It does make me wonder how Old Who was so successful with the kids for all those years though! I'll admit, I haven't seen a whole lot of it, but nearly all the episodes I have seen* work on a much slower pace than much of new Who, including A Christmas Carol.

The plotting was generally good but the pacing would sometimes have me yelling "Move it along!" at the screen.

Have kids attitudes changed that much? Or is it just that new child fans are so used to the faster pace that this type of episode throws them?

Or maybe it's just the prevalence of monsters in Old Who. But then we had a fantastic shark in this! (I'd have preferred a more alien fish species too though, but I understand why they took that route.) (Incidentally, did anyone notice that the shark seemed to change in size depending on situation? It was hulking enought to menace and drag a hansom carriage, but small enough to squeeze into a smaller ice-box. Hee, hee.)

*Mainly borrowed from the library. I'm slightly embarrassed to say, I wasn't into Doctor Who as a kid as it scared me. Considering the horror stuff I really like now, that's laughable. Later on I just never took to it. After becoming an avid watcher of New Who, I took the dip into older episodes. I've still a lot to see, but most I found rather boring, though the plotting was probably better than much of New Who. City of Death was cracking though.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: M.I.K. on 01 January, 2011, 06:47:49 PM
When I was a kid I much preferred Sapphire and Steel to Rentaghost.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Richmond Clements on 01 January, 2011, 07:40:42 PM
Quote from: M.I.K. on 01 January, 2011, 06:47:49 PM
When I was a kid I much preferred Sapphire and Steel to Rentaghost.

And that is why you fail...
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 01 January, 2011, 07:46:34 PM
I enjoyed the way the Shark seemed to change size to fit each location that it visited. I would also really have enjoyed it if it managed to eat his companion, as she is a terrible actor (I would have said actress but I think the ladies like to be called actors these days).
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Tiplodocus on 23 December, 2018, 09:54:21 PM
Just watched this again tonight (To save you rereading whole thread: 2010 Doctor Who Christmas Special; Matt Smith, Michael Gambon, Kathryn Jenkins... basically A Christmas Carol with flying sharks).

It was great.

Favourite bit: "I am well recognised as being a mature adult". Brandishes Psychic Paper at child. "Oh, it's fused... finally, a lie too big!".

Matt Smith was fantastic. And Moffat seemed on fire with the gags and sincerity in this one.

But boy, we were a bit more, let's be polite and say,  "laddish" back in 2010. Glad we moved on a bit.
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Bad City Blue on 26 December, 2018, 03:17:05 PM
And the Lara Croft award for digging up an ancient thread goes to...
Title: Re: Dr Who Christmas 2010.....
Post by: Mardroid on 26 December, 2018, 06:14:38 PM
I'm shocked Matt Smith was doctor 8 years ago! Time really seems to be speeding up as I get older...