Series 12 in the Rear View
  • The (W)hole Ruth

    The (W)hole Ruth

    … and nothing but.  As Mr. Chiball et. al. put forward in Fugitive of the Judoon we have a new Doctor in the House … potentially.  Whatever form the ‘Ruth…
  • The N-teenth Doctor

    The N-teenth Doctor

    With Series 12 safely ensconced in the rear view and the revelations from The Timeless Children being assimilated into the overall canon, what should we think about how Jodie Whittaker…
  • The Dangling Principality

    The Dangling Principality

    … or The Chibnall Masterplan (because after all, everyone needs a Master Plan). If there was ever a story in the whole of nu-Who which embodied the term ‘incomplete’ it…

Ghosts of Christmas Past…

Now that we have a few of these Christmas Specials under out belt, it seems like a good time to rank the X-mas stories in our eyes…

  1. The Christmas Invasion
  2. The Next Doctor
  3. The Runaway Bride
  4. Voyage of the Damned

The Christmas Invasion scores with us because it has the most heart of the four, a sense of scale to it all and the tease about when the Doctor would finally emerge works.

The Next Doctor also scores well, The Runaway Bride is like Christmas in July. Oh wait… it was. And Voyage of the Damned went the other way from The Next Doctor, going for spectacle over style. Never the best strategy.

Short Hops:

On the Eleventh Special of Christmas, Doctor Who Gave to me … The Seven Specials of Christmas — #5 On the Sixth Special of Christmas, Doctor Who Gave to me …

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