(Originally posted on Nik Nak and Grub’s Who Peculiar, 25 December 2011 20:32:00)
You know, I’ve got to confess, I’m a thinking I’ve had a rather good Christmas, on the whole.
Generally speaking, that is …
After all, I’ve ended up with loot: of gifts appropriate to the season, I should say.
And what’s more … ?
My nephew, Jude — who’s 1 year old, tomorrow — was decidedly impressed with the toy mobile phone I’d got him as a combined birthday and Christmas present.
Oh, and happy distracted by one of the labels from one of his other presents, I should add.
Always the way, isn’t it … ?
And what’s more … ?
I’m also thinking I’ve seen a very good Christmas special of Dr Who.
Hmmm …
And that’s an impressed, “Hmmm”, I think I should add.
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The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe sees Matt Smith’s 11th Doctor being rescued from the hole he’s in — or impact crater, I should say — by Marge Arwell: who, played by Claire Skinner, is the Widow of the title, after her husband is killed during WW2.
And fortunately or otherwise … ?
Marge decides to take herself and her children to relatives in Dorset: where she plans to spend the Christmas season trying to give her children some measure of happiness, before she breaks the terrible news to them of their father’s death.
A plan that only goes slightly astray, when the family meets the old manor-house’s new caretaker …
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Now, I told you I was impressed …
Oh, yes, that I am!
I know that series six had it’s spotty patches — being shown in two parts definitely being a contributing factor, there — but I also believe that an on-form Steven Moffat is certainly equal of the best the show has ever been.
Granted, I feel he’s not the outright genius Russell T. Davies was and is with co-ordinating a story-arc: I’m thinking he’s possibly finding it work.
But it seems to me that his major strength is in individual stories.
(Which is QUITE a list, however one looks at it.)
And — with it’s time travelling, inter-dimensional slant on both The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and The Railway Children — The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe … ?
Is one hell of a story.
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