Special guest announced for Christmas (spoilers)

[Lonemagpie]

So they've finally worked out that being a Christmas Special doesn't mean you have to be a CHRISTMAS Special. Only took them 10 years:

"… basically you become aware of how many times you have done Christmas specials. Eventually you run out of things to do - or you end up with 'deadly snake tinsel'”


http://www.blastr.com/2015-11-16/ri...eryone-peter-capaldi-doctor-whos-xmas-special

Let's face it, there's no way they even try to go more "Christmase" than last year.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

^ The Doctor could meet up with Frosty The Snowman and stop the Grinch from stealing Christmas. Throw in Cindy Lou Who as a tiny companion!

 

[Captaindemotion]

What about Home Alone in the TARDIS? Two thieves break in and the Doctor has to repel them with a series of sadistic booby traps?

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

What about Home Alone in the TARDIS? Two thieves break in and the Doctor has to repel them with a series of sadistic booby traps?

Wasn't that exactly what Journey to the Center of the TARDIS was?
Just replace the soundtrack with this music

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGRjChVepMQ[/yt]

 

[Captaindemotion]

Ha, good point!

 

[ATimson]

So they've finally worked out that being a Christmas Special doesn't mean you have to be a CHRISTMAS Special. Only took them 10 years:

Umm... RTD figured that out by "The Runaway Bride". His later ones may have been set at Christmas, but they weren't about Christmas. It's only Moffat who cranked the Christmas obsession up to 11.

 

[kirk55555]

Well, since A Christmas Carol is one of my favorite Doctor who stories (old or NuWho), I'm fine with the christmas special being christmas themed, although as long as they're good episodes it doesn't really matter.

 

[RoJoHen]

So they've finally worked out that being a Christmas Special doesn't mean you have to be a CHRISTMAS Special. Only took them 10 years:

Umm... RTD figured that out by "The Runaway Bride".

With the exception of them being attacked by robotic Santa Claus.

 

[ATimson]

So they've finally worked out that being a Christmas Special doesn't mean you have to be a CHRISTMAS Special. Only took them 10 years:

Umm... RTD figured that out by "The Runaway Bride".

With the exception of them being attacked by robotic Santa Claus.

Well, okay, there is that. But still, that's just trappings, that's not about Christmas like all of Moffat's have been.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Well, okay, there is that. But still, that's just trappings, that's not about Christmas like all of Moffat's have been.

I don't think "The Snowmen" particularly Christmassy. I don't even remember if it takes place at Christmas, or just in winter.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

^ It does.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'm happy about this.

River is cool, clever, and hell sexy

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

The second she appears onscreen I'll probably want to jump inside the tv and hug her!

 

[Lonemagpie]

The second she appears onscreen I'll probably want to jump inside the tv and hug her!

Hug is a much more PG-rated term than I'd use...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

^ Same.. .. A night with River would be amazing

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

The second she appears onscreen I'll probably want to jump inside the tv and hug her!

Hug is a much more PG-rated term than I'd use...

Truer words were never spoken.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

If I was a guy, I'd much prefer her mother, but to each their own.

 

[Starkers]

Well, okay, there is that. But still, that's just trappings, that's not about Christmas like all of Moffat's have been.

I don't think "The Snowmen" particularly Christmassy. I don't even remember if it takes place at Christmas, or just in winter.

It does take place around Christmas but like you say it isn't particularly Christmassy which does dent the "All Moffat's Christmas specials are eleventy stupid notion" Most of them, yes, but not all!

 

[The Wormhole]

Well, The Snowmen is based on an English Christmas story, so there's that.

 

[Reverend]

I think the difference is between making a story that takes place over Christmas and making a story specifically *about* Christmas. Personally, I prefer the former.