It’s Christmas Day.
You can TELL, can’t you … ?
Wrapping paper, everywhere, frustrations, toys getting thrown out of the pram …
And that’s the grown ups … !
Of course the upside … ?
Is the new monitor and Apple TV I’ve been given.
AND how well a Certain Nephew felt about some Thunderbirds toys Santa brought him … !
If only that Turtle play set was as easy to assemble …
~≈∑≈~
However, that’s possibly a whole other story.
The one I managed to catch, getting home, tonight?
Was this year’s Dr Who Christmas special: The Husbands of River Song
The Christmas episode opens slowly, with Nardole (Matt Lucas) on a snowing street apparently looking for … someone.
And asking the Doctor, when he finds him, if he ‘is a surgeon.’
It s only when the Doctor replies with a yes,he get’s taken to a small house: where the planet’s ruler, the brutal King Hydroflax, is ill.
Someone’s attempted to shoot him throw the head, with a very large diamond.
Leaving the diamond lodged in his still living brain, and his wife DESPERATE to get help.
His wife … ?
Is River Song, played by Alex Kingston.
Ever get the feeling someone’s got an ulterior motive … ?
~≈∑≈~
We quite possibly do, don’t we?
Now, I have to confess, I thoroughly enjoyed this Christmas episode. Frankly?
Frankly, the Matt Smith/Stephen Moffat episodes were good … but maybe a touch too Christmassy.
The Husbands of River Song, on the other hand?
Was a different kettle of fish: allowing Moffat to examine River with a new Doctor: and Kingston to explore darker depths of the character, against a Doctor who is older … and FAR deeper … than she expected.
There’s a scene, near the end of the episode, when River finally realises who she’s dealer with, that says it all. Kingston’s River, during the confrontation in the restaurant — on the spaceship —, just throws a glance at Capaldi’s Doctor … that says it all.
There’s a later scene: where she and the Doctor are discussing their meeting at the Singing Towers that’s possibly one of Moffat’s best scenes.
Personally … ?
I can’t help but think The Husbands of River Song — certainly in terms of emotional content — is one of Moffat’s best.
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