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[frelling_tralk]

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates!!! :D I got some awesome presents, including the complete series of Nikita, The Vampire Diaries season 5, season 2 of Hannibal, and the new biography on Joss Whedon. And lots and lots of chocolate, feeling a bit sick at the moment after munching on too much of my toblerone :P


I absolutely enjoyed the multiple layers in "Last Christmas", especially the dawning realisation that the entire research station was a collective dream, I thought that was very well done. It was really unnerving how they kept realising that the dream was ongoing and their brains were still being eaten, especially when they were reading out passages from the instruction manual to say that "we are all dying", those crab monsters were some of the nastiest the show has had for a while now. I actually jumped at it dissolving on the bed near the end!

It was also fun how Chrismassy it all was with "Merry Christmas Everyone" playing during the "dance", as well as Santa and the elves of course! I loved all of the banter between Santa and the Doctor, especially the Doctor's face at Santa saying that the sleigh is bigger on the inside to fit in all the presents *g* And it was adorable to see the Twelfth Doctor having fun with the sleigh at the end, oh and Clara hugging him of course! :) I still love their whole dynamic in general, from the Doctor listening when Clara tells him to behave, to saying that Clara is the only one that he wants to hold hands with <3 And all of the jokes about the Doctor not being great at reading faces had a very sweet pay-off with the Doctor not being able to tell the difference between young and old Clara, aww.

And I'm so thrilled that Jenna is back for series 8! Heh for a minute there I did wonder if they were going to continue the series with Clara as an old lady, saving on the make-up costs by keeping her appearance the same in the Doctor's eyes, and just have everyone else reacting to her differently. But the ending that they went with made way more sense obviously *g* Apparently there's been some spec that Jenna was originally planning to leave, and the reversal at the end was a last-minute rewrite, although I'm not sure how much truth there is to that?

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[sabotabby]

Happy Christmas! Doctor Who is my main Christmas activity, so I am so glad it was everything I wanted. :) Totally thrilled with Nick Frost—talk about being born to play a role—and his banter with Capaldi, and happy they were able to keep Coleman in a way that didn't cheapen the ending of the last series. Though if they'd written her out as it was rumoured they intended to, that also would have been amazing. But I love their chemistry so much that it'll be cool to see what she does with another series.

And so creepy. I know it's not an original idea, but the "what if this isn't reality" mindfuck, when done well, is definitely one of my squicks with horror, and this was done really well.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Yeah I think that Clara works really well with the Twelfth Doctor, and besides I've always preferred getting to stay with the same companion for more than just one series, so I'm happy! Although either 812, or the possible Xmas day ending, could also have been very moving endings if Jenna did wish to leave. (I am wondering what's going to happen with Danny and Clara's future generations from Listen now though, after 812 I was assuming that Clara was meant to be pregnant to end her time on the show, but I suppose that's unlikely now if she's going to be travelling with the Doctor again for another year?)

And definitely, I found it super-creepy when they were noticing the ache they were all experiencing, and it was slowly dawning on them that the research station wasn't real either