It's occured to me that none of the Christmas specials are any good, aside from maybe the first one. They've all been pretty formulaic except this one which was slow and meandring. I just hope it's not a case of 1. slow episode 2. CGI bollocks episode.
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Faced with the knowledge that the Doctor is going to destroy both the Daleks and the Timelords and end the Time War, the new, nastier, more villainous head of the Time Lords, James Bond, contrives some MacGuffin that will hide them rather than them face destruction. The hiding required some sort of key to release them, which was tied up in the Master, and is what unravelled at the end of the last episode.
This could lead to an interesting dynamic in the new series, with the Timelords hunting the Doctor. I think they make interesting antagonists, so that could be
I suspect that this could be pretty accurate, which would be interesting as they are basically super intelligent vogons. The doctor didn't fill in a blue form before he destroyed the daleks or something.
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It also seems a waste of John Simm's talents, any old hack could play bonkers, manic Master...something that the character has never been in all his history.
It'd be good if they did it like the 70s master, yeah. But surely not the pantomime 80s master? Muhahahahaah! he's behind you! oh no he isn't! etc. Be handy for the christmas specials, though. I reckon Simm is great/would be great if he wasn't
quite so over the top. Derek Jacobi would have been utterly awesome, though.
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I'm still gutted Patterson Joseph didn't get the job.
Hell yes.
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The Gruffalo has been the best thing on tv this Christmas.
It was pretty much the only thing on for my family, other than Who and the Snowman which my kids haven't seen.
We also managed to watch the third Pirates of the Carribean without watching the other two about a week before it was on the fecking telly.