Doctor Who Christmas Special 2010

[yakalskovich]

• I totally love the Steampunk look-and-feel of this!
• They are doing the Dickens thingger. Pity I never read or saw the Dickens 'Christmas Carol', so the references are largely lost on me. I know there is this hard-hearted rich old man, and he gets softened up by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, but that's all I heard about it. Oh, and that Patrick Stewart did it on stage.
  
• 'How did boredom even get invented?' -- Love that quote. We must quote it often, don't you think, Nazgul?
• Awwww the big shark thing! And as a little boy, the (future) nasty old man still had sympathy left over for it.
• The fish like singing -- how oddly, whimsically poetic. I'm glad this Christmas special doesn't have Earth being attacked by spacemonsters again.
• Now, there is Abigail's ominous count-down. Very worrying!
• There is something very heart-warming, and at the same time very worrying, about the entire set-up. There is a nasty secret there. What does the cloud-controlling rich man need all those frozen people for?
• Flimsy nightie-like dress over soft knitted sleeves -- interesting look. I wonder how soon I'll see that worn in the real world...
• Marilyn Monroe? What? Why is that a bad thing, Doctor? She was only the most interesting woman of her time!
  
• Common sense in all time travel SF always says to never let anybody meet themselves from the past. The Doctor is totally shredding up this bloke's life!
• And then it comes all together, and the old man gives up the last day of Abigail's life to save all these people -- awwww! Is that what the old story is all about? Giving up the one most precious thing he's been keeping all his life? It's quite moving, though, in any case.
• Wow the previews look fascinating. Amy, Rory and River will be along for the next season! Whee!