Dr. Who Christmas Episode Series 5
Added 2023-02-11 15:00:05 +0000 UTCWhat a beautiful fairytale this episode was. It made my day :) Feel so christmasy now :D :D
Comments
Thank you :)
Nicologik
2023-02-14 11:04:49 +0000 UTCOh definitely, I don't do spoilers. I never comment about any episode pass the one the reactor is watching.
Jade Ellis
2023-02-14 11:03:51 +0000 UTCI´m sorry to hear, that you do not really enjoy the episode. :/ I understand why you wouldn´t because of your explanation. To be honest, I just enjoyed the episode for what it was and didn´t really think about certain flaws in it. I just enjoyed the Christmasy vibe in it, and had a fun time. I´m sorry you couldn´t enjoy it as much. I already thought that Abigail was a real life singer. Her voice was just too good. And by the way. I missed Amy and Rory as well. Would have loved to see more of them, too :) Oh I didn´t really pick up on the psychic paper scene. Thanks for pointing it out. I will pay more attention to it, while editing :) Well, I can´t really answer your question about the time box. I thought it showed the days she still had to live, but at the same time found it to be very strange, how Kazran would have known the exact number. Also your point makes sense as well. Why would the others have the same counter? Hmm..... Well, about those tissues. Usually I do always have them on my desk. But since we were moving rooms and things just went to chaos everywhere in the apartement, I just forgot to by a new package. I really, really hope this will never happen again, as it was very distracting like that, and I didn´t really allow myself to cry and be emotionally invested, because I knew I didn´t have tissues. :/
Nicologik
2023-02-14 10:53:42 +0000 UTCI´m happy that you do have favorite episodes in the next series. Could you do me a favor though, please? Could you not tell me, which ones they are before I watch them? I don´t want to go into them knowing that I´m supposed to really like them, or having the expectations raised so much, so that I do not enjoy them as much as I could have. I hope you get what I mean, even if I´m explaining it very badly, sorry :) Thank you for understanding that I do need a break sometimes, that´s so kind of you :) I´m surprised you didn´t really like the story, because I liked it a lot. But opinions differ and that´s totaly fine :) :)
Nicologik
2023-02-14 10:43:44 +0000 UTCYeah, I guess that´s what I´m going to do :D
Nicologik
2023-02-14 10:38:00 +0000 UTCHaha OMG, Why? Why does my brain work like that, or rather NOT work :D :D Thanks for letting me know :)
Nicologik
2023-02-14 10:37:43 +0000 UTCThank you :)
Nicologik
2023-02-14 10:35:24 +0000 UTCI´m glad that you like this episode so much :) I did as well :) And the CGI didn´t annoy me, I just thought I´d mention it. But as you said, the story was just too good to let the CGI ruin it :) I already notice that there are fans out there who take the show pretty serious, and don´t allow any mistakes. I myself do want good entertainment from a show. If there are flaws here and there I do not really care. As long as it diesn´t destroy whole plots. I just want to have fun :) Thank you for the IMBD rating. That´s where I would have put it myself. :) Ooooooh I KNEW IT :) He gave me those Harry Potter vibes troghout the whole episode. Thank you for letting me know :) :)
Nicologik
2023-02-14 10:35:04 +0000 UTC"Do you know, in nine hundred years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important before?", The Doctor, "A Christmas Carol" This is a sweet episode. But I am a bit confused about how I feel about this one. I adore the music and the singing - the actress who played Abigail is a classically trained singer (first major acting role) which is why the singing is glorious. But there are things in the plot which grate with me - mainly the overuse of time travel (like the discovery of the key code number). If you're allowed to leap around in time to fix things like this, then how can there be any tension in a normal episode? I just can't love the episode because of that. I was disappointed that there wasn't much of Amy and Rory in the story (almost reduced to just the repeated joke about the costumes) - but, really, they couldn't be there. If you're trying to re-tell the classic Dickens' tale, there's nowhere in the original for them to be. Again, the episode doesn't quite resonate with me. However, in my mind the story knocks it out of the park with the "Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come" being older Kazran being observed by the younger Kazran himself. That's very nice. The failed magic trick was funny. I'm disappointed that the card in the cracker wasn't the correct card - that would have been much cooler (I guess I'm contradicting myself by saying you "can" skip about in time to pay off a joke). It is reminiscent of a scene in a Douglas Adams book I'm fond of. BTW this was set on a distant planet in our future - they go back in time to Earth in the past. Old Kazran, in his introduction, talks about the Christmas/Winter Solstice/halfway-out-of-the-dark back on Earth. "Finally a lie too big.", The Doctor, "A Christmas Carol" I liked it when the Doctor said that he was a mature and responsible adult and showed young Kazran the psychic paper - only for the psychic paper to break because the Doctor had overloaded it. And we see the Doctor wearing a fez again - hooray! Kazran's cloud console has "isomorphic controls" - we've heard that phrase before - with the Master's laser screwdriver. Perhaps someone can tell me what the ice box counter was counting - I've never been too sure. I mean I understand for our story that Abigail will not live after it hits zero because she only had a few days to live when she was originally frozen - but what is it actually counting? Not everyone in the freezer section had a terminal illness - they are there as a surety/bond. Is it only used for counting time on her box? Why would the original Kazran care enough to have a counter on the ice boxes? Nice that you pointed out it was snow rather than ash or something that David's Doctor usually had to deal with. This is not a spoiler - I'm really not thinking of anything in particular - but a general idea. Could I suggest that when you do your "is everything recording check" that you locate your packet of tissues - just in case. Better to be safe - when haven't we had an emotional scene pop up in some story or another?
Andrew Vignaux
2023-02-13 09:40:32 +0000 UTCPerhaps you, Nicole, could put up one of your text labels with a smiley when you create the YouTube edit.
Andrew Vignaux
2023-02-13 09:37:20 +0000 UTCI'm keen to get onto the next series because two of my top ten stories are In it and i can't wait to see you react to them but yeah it's important to take breaks. Many other reactors I watch have regular breaks. It's important to look after your health and of course sometimes life gets in the way. To clear up a little confusion, it's not that the Doctor started doing every Christmas from 1952. It's just 1952 is one of the times the Doctor takes Abigail and Kazran to. Mainly I think to party with the likes of Marilyn Monroe. It's not the first time Moffett has wrote a story like this. His first published Who story was during the 90's when he wrote a short story for a Doctor Who anthology called Continuity Errors. It involves the 7th Doctor continually going back and changing a woman's past in order to get something he needs. (it also features a planet sized library) Ok, about this episode. I didn't really like it at first, which is a bit odd as A Christmas Carol is my favourite Christmas film. It's grown on me on repeated viewings though. It's still only 3/5 form me and I rank it 107/140.
Jade Ellis
2023-02-11 21:48:31 +0000 UTCYou meant "Orient Express" not "Starlight Express". Only mentioning it as you'll get a million "Actually..." comments on YouTube!
Andrew Gwilliam
2023-02-11 21:12:38 +0000 UTCI really liked your reaction! IMDB: 8.5 (7,650)
monguru (Rose Tyler fan)
2023-02-11 17:13:58 +0000 UTCI mentioned the Christmas episode last week because it is one of my favourites and one of the most "Christmassy" stories they have made. I never even notice any defects in the special effects/CGI because I am so caught up in the plot. Or maybe I'm easily pleased. I know a lot of people objected to the Doctor interfering with the past to make his present easier to deal with. Saying it was against his code or the laws of time or whatever. But I thought it worked perfectly in the context of the story. And I'm more than willing to give a Christmas episode a bit of licence to break some rules here and there. It worked emotionally and that's what I want from the show, especially a Christmas special. I'm old enough to remember the first Doctor and in those days this kind of plot would have been impossible. Not just because he didn't interfere so much but because he didn't have that kind of control over the Tardis. Anyway, I have just had a look at IMDB and the rating seems to be 8.5 The Scrooge character, Kazran, was played by Michael Gambon who was in most of the Harry Potter films. He played Dumbledore from The Prisoner of Azkaban onwards after the original actor, Richard Harris, had died. Great actor who first became famous in Britain when he starred in the series The Singing Detective.
Stephen Males
2023-02-11 16:54:15 +0000 UTC
