Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
That was beautiful! Best Christmas episode since The Christmas Invasion, I reckon.
Although why, why, why didn’t they title it ‘Halfway Out Of The Dark’? It fit perfectly.
The actual episode-
Who’s impressed by Katherine Jenkins? Granted, she didn’t have a lot to do other than sing beautifully and look pretty, but she was pretty good considering it was the first time she ever acted. Can we count her and Kazran as companions? I think we can. The Doctor seems to like travelling with couples, doesn’t he?
All that fuss about ‘the Doctor gets engaged’ and ‘some lies are too big for the psychic paper’ and they turn out to be throwaway jokes!
ARTHUR MADE IT TO THE OPENING CREDITS! Which they’ve tweaked somehow, have they slowed it down?
I want to see Foggy Fish Planet again. Can the Doctor stop by there next series please?
Um, yes, to sum up, that was brilliant and lovely and sad. My Amy/Rory shipper heart squees over the hugging and kissing and the costumes, and the Eleventh Doctor is now hands down my favourite ever.
But! Surely the Doctor can’t let Abigail just die! What’s to stop him picking her and Kazran up and taking them to the future where they have a cure for whatever she has? I like to think that happened after the credits. Or maybe it didn’t. Who knows.
The trailer!-
Things I spotted: the Doctor with a beard, River in a cowgirl outfit, an Ood, both Amy and River with those tally marks on their skin, Rory looking scared, the whole crew in Utah with backpacks, River naked (!), the control room we saw in The Lodger and, of course, the Doctor telling Amy his life is in her hands. EEEEE!
Merry Christmas, y’all!
December 25, 2010 @ 8:07 pm
I was so pleased to see Arthur in the credits and yay for the Amy/Rory moments Loved the whole ep – like you I was impressed with Katherine too. Foggy Fish planet was fun :-)
December 29, 2010 @ 7:34 pm
It gets bonus points if it’s actually called that! :D
December 25, 2010 @ 9:25 pm
YAY for the fishies :D
December 29, 2010 @ 7:34 pm
Oh, that icon is awesome.
December 29, 2010 @ 8:17 pm
Thank you, I madeitmyself! XD Your icon is also rediculously awesome!
December 30, 2010 @ 10:59 pm
Hee, thank you!
December 26, 2010 @ 7:29 am
Although why, why, why didn’t they title it ‘Halfway Out Of The Dark’? It fit perfectly. I think it would have been a touch too on the nose. And that we’d have worn it out, you know, with all our speculations prior to the episode? Repeating it over and over and over again. Better to use something known yet opaque like “A Christmas Carol” — so when we hear the very lovely use of “halfway out of the dark,” it’s the first time? It has that thrill of discovery. Some snap left in it. :) The Doctor seems to like travelling with couples, doesn’t he? Eleven seems to be something of a shipper! Not into romance for himself, but he seems to like putting couples together in happiness and then observing/playing facilitator to their joy.
December 26, 2010 @ 11:07 pm
I was a bit dubious about ‘A Christmas Carol’, but then they actually lampshaded it during the episode, and plus there was a literal christmas carol at the end… Oh Eleven, you so rock.