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My Christmas Day lineup this year was the series 8 marathon. I got an immense laugh at 'Dreamy-weamy', that was wonderful.ДVD (Alien), DVD (The Thing from Another World), DVD (Miracle on 34th Street) is a pretty bold lineup for Christmas morning, though I notice the first two are before Dad shows up, who I'm guessing has less interest in that sort of stuff than she does.

'How many times are you people going to kill me in these movies?!' Let's just hope he never watches the whole series. I love the Doctor's reaction to learning about Alien. I love a lot about this special, and I suspect I'm too high off a mixture of that new episode smell and cheap chocolates to be impartial, critical, or even particularly coherent. I feel it could be done a bit like 'how did Sherlock fake his death' вЂ“ that by that stage the point is something else. I love that she's staying and given these 'rough drafts' of different significant varied and interesting endings for her I'd like to see her actual final appearance (a long time from now perhaps), be really a really low key affair, just somewhere in the middle of an episode two thirds of the way through a series.Д®ssentially, I suppose I mean that by now it doesn't very much matter how she leaves- she'd had plenty of great send offs already вЂ“ take your pick. After this many rough drafts of Clara's departure, one really starts to hope that Moffat has a spectacular idea he's been keeping in reserve for the actual one, when he does get to it.' 'Perhaps more significantly, we've now had, what, three separate stories where Clara has gotten a seeming ending? Four if you count Mummy on the Orient Express separately from Kill the Moon.

The Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe.

IвЂ™m going to do a final ranking for 2014 in the end of season post, so instead, a ranking of Christmas specials, from best to worst.

#DOCTOR WHO LAST CHRISTMAS ENDING MOVIE#

Other highlights: the series of spurious вЂњthatвЂ™s racistвЂќ gags that lead up to the actually quite reasonable point that naming a horror movie AlienВ says little good about us, ShonaвЂ™s to-do list for Christmas (including a clear sign that my intent to do Game of Thrones reviews is sound), вЂњmagic carrots,вЂќ the reappearance of the вЂњhelping the old person open the Christmas cracker,вЂќ вЂњyouвЂ™re a dream thatвЂ™s trying to save us,вЂќ and basically everything else to do with Shona.

The dance sequence to Slade stole the episode.

Instead weвЂ™ve just declared Moffat an authorized punching bag against whom one should always raise a feminist critique with no regard for whether or not itвЂ™s a particularly good one. Have we really not progressed past the third year undergraduate realization that you can make a feminist critique of any text and to the useful and mature realization that this means that picking sensible and useful targets is important? Clearly not. And never mind the fact that the episode includes the absolutely lovely scene of the Doctor being completely unable to tell sheвЂ™s aged. This is a perfectly reasonable expectation and thus something that makes a sensible objection when it doesnвЂ™t happen. And take a companion too infirm to open a Christmas cracker.

Yes, letвЂ™s give our lead actress a several hour makeup job in the future. Only young hot chicks allowed.вЂќ I really wish feminist critics of MoffatвЂ™s writing would stop being so completely idiotic. As this episode wrapped on Twitter, I saw the usually intelligent Laurie Penny with an immediate reaction complaining that it was sexist that the Doctor didnвЂ™t consider taking the elderly Clara on the TARDIS, saying вЂњSame reason he couldnвЂ™t take Old Amy.ItвЂ™s a masterpiece of doing exactly what you said you were going to do and still making it surprising. The repeated waking out of dream states only serves to reiterate that this is the story it initially promised to be. The cold open ends with what really is the key question of the story. Notably, instead of a narrative substitution we have a sort of repeated and emphatic reiteration of the narrative.I really hope they donвЂ™t immediately lose him to better paying work. All three of his stories require quite a bit of setup time to explain their rules, and he makes those sequences lively while still quickly communicating everything that needs communicated. What really stands out about Wilmshurst вЂ“ and it was probably most highlighted in Mummy on the Orient ExpressВ where he had a writer with a similar skill вЂ“ is his ability to introduce a concept. ThatвЂ™s a hell of a case for director of the year there, even with Ben WheatleyвЂ™s impressive effort on the first two stories. So, Paul Wilmshurst directed this, Kill the Moon, and Mummy on the Orient Express.

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