With Series 7 only a week away, my countdown posts of my favourite and least favourite episodes for each series of New Who is coming to an end. Today I will conclude with my least favourite Christmas Special. But... as I revealed on Thursday, with six other days before next Saturday, I will be continuing my countdown posts with a different subject! You want to know? Wait until tomorrow...
Before I reveal what my least favourite Christmas Special is, lets look back at the episodes I have written about in my Series 7 Countdown posts.
Best Series 1 - Bad Wolf
Worst Series 1 - The Unquiet Dead
Best Series 2 - Doomsday
Worst Series 2 - Love and Monsters
Best Series 3 - Last of the Time Lords
Worst Series 3 - The Lazarus Experiment
Best Series 4 - The Unicorn and the Wasp
Worst Series 4 - The Poison Sky
Best 2009 Special - The End of Time: Part 2
Worst 2009 Special - Planet of the Dead
Best Series 5 - The Eleventh Hour
Worst Series 5 - The Beast Below
Best Series 6 - The Wedding of River Song
Worst Series 6 - The Rebel Flesh
Best Christmas Special - Voyage of the Damned
So that's it! Almost...
So my least favourite Christmas Special is...
A Christmas Carol
Yes, Moffat's first Christmas Special isn't the best and I hope to detail why I don't think it was that good in this article.
A little bit too Christmassy...
Although it was Christmas and everybody was in the festive spirit, I feel personally, that Moffat took the Christmas theme a little too far with this one. Although their wasn't actually ghosts, I like Christmas episodes that have a Christmassy theme but is not about an actual Christmas story (All of the RTD era Xmas Specials).
Wouldn't that be a paradox?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but young Kazran seeing his future self and then changing his mind about how to live his life, would create a paradox wouldn't it?
No alien
The thing that really bugged me about this episode is the fact that it was missing the thing that makes Doctor Who what it is: an alien! Yes we had the shark, but there was no real villain in this episode and I felt it was really missing an alien being the main villain.
No more Christmas Stories
(WARNING: this section may contain spoilers!) According to filming reports, this years Christmas Special will be about the story, The Snowman. I'm not too fussed about this because it looks like Moffat has gone for a happy medium: a Christmas story mixed with aliens!
In Conclusion...
Had some big names (Michael Gambon and Katherine Jenkins), but I feel the story didn't live up to my expectations. The story wasn't bad and their have definitely been much worse Doctor Who stories, but for a Christmas Special I feel Moffat could have done a better job.
Tomorrow: Surprise...
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