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locker_monsterHmm, that was kind of, well, boring.
It started out well enough. The Doctor in the backwards spacesuit was funny (though I had issues with him climbing into it while he was plunging into Earth's atmosphere!). I was reminded of the one of the Futurama DVD movies, where a character had his head put on backwards. And you do get to meet Madge and you see what sort of woman she is. Doesn't blink twice when a man in a backwards spacesuit falls from the sky. And hey, a real police box, but obviously they just used the same police box prop. :-)
As for the rest of it, meh. The Doctor trying to do something nice for the Arwells was cute, but the stuff with the trees... Nothing really happened. The Doctor wandered the forests for a bit, met some tree people, and then Madge flew everyone home, saving her husband in the process. With a title like "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe", you'd expect it to be a bit more like the Naria books. Maybe it was because everything felt so small scale. This is the Christmas special! Everything should be on a larger scale. An hour episode; it should be something more than we usually get. I think this would have been a fine regular episode.
I miss having the Companion in the episode. I don't like that the Christmas special means that you need a fancy guest star as a guest Companion. But it was nice to see Amy and Rory at the very end. The Doctor had to spend Christmas with the in-laws. Another time gap, but that's Steven Moffat for you. Does this mean the show will be set in 2013 when it comes back? I like that Rory mentions they always set a place for the Doctor. The Doctor always comes back; you just have to wait for a bit.
Random: gosh, I don't have much to say about this episode. Goes to show are slow it was. It seemed like a waste of Bill Bailey. He was only there for like five minutes. But the tree harvesters were from Androzani Major! Whoo, continuity nod! But what is Moffat's obsession with setting stories in the 5000s era? Everything he writes seems to be set in the year five thousand something or other. Madge saving her husband was predictable, but a sweet ending. I didn't watch the prequel for this episode; maybe it'll make things more exciting. And I miss watching Confidential. :-(
I'm sad now. We won't have any new episodes until at least the fall. The wait so better be worth it.
Also, I hope Moffat's episode of Sherlock next week is a bit more entertaining...
It started out well enough. The Doctor in the backwards spacesuit was funny (though I had issues with him climbing into it while he was plunging into Earth's atmosphere!). I was reminded of the one of the Futurama DVD movies, where a character had his head put on backwards. And you do get to meet Madge and you see what sort of woman she is. Doesn't blink twice when a man in a backwards spacesuit falls from the sky. And hey, a real police box, but obviously they just used the same police box prop. :-)
As for the rest of it, meh. The Doctor trying to do something nice for the Arwells was cute, but the stuff with the trees... Nothing really happened. The Doctor wandered the forests for a bit, met some tree people, and then Madge flew everyone home, saving her husband in the process. With a title like "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe", you'd expect it to be a bit more like the Naria books. Maybe it was because everything felt so small scale. This is the Christmas special! Everything should be on a larger scale. An hour episode; it should be something more than we usually get. I think this would have been a fine regular episode.
I miss having the Companion in the episode. I don't like that the Christmas special means that you need a fancy guest star as a guest Companion. But it was nice to see Amy and Rory at the very end. The Doctor had to spend Christmas with the in-laws. Another time gap, but that's Steven Moffat for you. Does this mean the show will be set in 2013 when it comes back? I like that Rory mentions they always set a place for the Doctor. The Doctor always comes back; you just have to wait for a bit.
Random: gosh, I don't have much to say about this episode. Goes to show are slow it was. It seemed like a waste of Bill Bailey. He was only there for like five minutes. But the tree harvesters were from Androzani Major! Whoo, continuity nod! But what is Moffat's obsession with setting stories in the 5000s era? Everything he writes seems to be set in the year five thousand something or other. Madge saving her husband was predictable, but a sweet ending. I didn't watch the prequel for this episode; maybe it'll make things more exciting. And I miss watching Confidential. :-(
I'm sad now. We won't have any new episodes until at least the fall. The wait so better be worth it.
Also, I hope Moffat's episode of Sherlock next week is a bit more entertaining...
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Date: 2011-12-26 04:05 pm (UTC)However, I will agree that, with the rest of Who having to wait until September, we should get more, but for me that's more a complaint about the planned wait than the episode. This would have been fine if there were only 3 months until the season began,but with 9.... well, it's like being told to show up for Christmas dinner at 9am, and you're eating at 7pm and presents after dinner.
The prelude was the Doctor trying to contact Amy, sort of, while he's on the alien starship... mildly amusing but nothing really hinges on it.
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Date: 2011-12-27 01:14 am (UTC)I got the Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012 for Christmas and Moffat claims that the real reason season seven isn't back until the fall is because Doctor Who needs to be on when it's dark. During the summer, it's still light out and supposedly that's not creepy enough. Um, okay.
And completely off topic, the 50th anniversary will be "epic". I'd certainly hope so. :-)