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Expecting too much from a christmas special?
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The christmas specials have never been the best examples of Doctor Who by a long shot. In fact, I don't think I've ever been overly impressed by one.
I'm just wondering if perhaps people are expecting too much from a christmas episode, as many people seem to be talking about tonights as if it was a big let down.
I must admit I used to do this, and was pretty much very disappointed every year. This year I just took it for what it was and I think that's the best way to take the christmas specials.
It may not be the best example of Doctor Who, but it's still got to be better than hours and hours of soaps or the 1000 repeat of Home Alone? IMO, it's just nice to have something pretty good to watch over christmas.
Christmas Doctor Who has never been great Doctor Who IMO. But it's still good telly
I'm just wondering if perhaps people are expecting too much from a christmas episode, as many people seem to be talking about tonights as if it was a big let down.
I must admit I used to do this, and was pretty much very disappointed every year. This year I just took it for what it was and I think that's the best way to take the christmas specials.
It may not be the best example of Doctor Who, but it's still got to be better than hours and hours of soaps or the 1000 repeat of Home Alone? IMO, it's just nice to have something pretty good to watch over christmas.
Christmas Doctor Who has never been great Doctor Who IMO. But it's still good telly
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That's what I got, so I'm happy.
Exactly as it should have been, and exactly as delivered.
Still, you can't please everyone, and usually the gormless least of all.
I wanted a fun and festive adventure. I got it.
The latest series with Moffat, Smith and Gillan was absolutely fantastic - one of my absolute TV highlights of the year (along with the excellent but too short series of Sherlock) - and so I had really high hopes for the Xmas Doctor Who special.
I didn't think it was awful, and there were some real positives (Gambon was fantastic), but I liked it less than any of the Moffat written epsides from the last series (including The Beast Below).
Maybe I was never going to be happy with an Xmas special ... a sleigh ride behind a flying shark and Katherine Jenkins singing carrols was too sickly sweet for me.
This ^^^
this one in particular was better than last years appalling 2 parter though.
but i try and keep the 'specials' completely seperate from the actual series, because they always seem so very different.
yawn........
For me, this was the first proper Christmas Special.
In that, it was the first story based around family, redemption, love and loss.
It was way too complicated for children to understand and the story itself was disjointed.
Wasted episode.
Too complicated? My 4 year old niece had no problems with it... The story was magical enough for the children, with some plt added for the aduts.
ditto mine. apparently they are both headed for oxbridge in a year or two. :rolleyes:
personally i feel the story was actually simplicity itself, beyond what one might describe as an appearance of being complex.
Repeated Wednesday 1:35 pm on bbc1
Repeated Thursday 2:10 pm on bbc1
Repeated Friday 1:10 pm on bbc1
Repeated Saturday 12:40 pm on bbc1
I assume these are all the Christmas Carol repeats?
no they are repeating the past xmas specials. Not sure about saturday, but i assume it's the end of time part 2, as part 1 is friday
The Daily Fail would have a field day of the BBC showed the same episode that many times in a week! :eek:
The repeated A Christmas Carol on BBC3 last night.
I agree with you, HD.
I loved the fairytale style and Dickensian charm of the episode, and the idea that the biggest monsters we have to overcome are sometimes inside us.
I'm not a fan of Katherine Jenkins, but she was great in this role and sang "In the bleak midwinter" beautifully.
But the second half i thought was well written and well acted.....Gambon stole the show.
I agree with a previous post that you shouldn't expect much from the Xmas special as it really has nothing to do with the actual series in general....except last years offering.
Well exactly. It worked for a 4 year old because they wouldn't see all flaws in it.
Again with the aggression...please give it a rest.If we all did that then the standard posts would be something like:-
The facts are that, as the self appointed most intelligent person on this forum, I think it had flaws. And I think only the gormless can't see that.
i.e. you.
So lets not do that should we. Whether people liked it or not has largely come down to personal preference rather than, anyone, other than you, claiming they are too clever for the programme.
Quelle suprise! :yawn:
Loved it, didn't expect anything other than a DW Christmas Special and that's what I got, suspended disbelief as usual with DW and went with it, and thought is was the best christmas special so far apart from TCI!