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It's pure love <3
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Extremely awesome.
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mmmm Katherine Jenkins, beautiful and talented 
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Maybe I've finally outgrown Dr Who....there were some funny bits but overall I thought it was a bit meh
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proteinnerd wrote:
Maybe I've finally outgrown Dr Who....there were some funny bits but overall I thought it was a bit meh
Same here.
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i couldn't even pluck up teh moxy to watch it... and i question why i seem to be fine with this...
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It was so christmassy, so much more than most of the ones in the RTD era. Flying fish is a very neat idea and an awsome effect. Also, there was quite a bit of time travel mee likey. The story, however was in an Avatar level of obvious, but since I was not wearing unconfortable 3d glasses, paying a premium or expecting nothing much more than a good time, that did not bother me at all. It is, after all, a great TV movie to watch while finishing up a glass of champagne (or other similar sparkling wine) and relax, perhaps even alow oneself to get a bit emotional.
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Tiwaa wrote:
proteinnerd wrote:Maybe I've finally outgrown Dr Who....there were some funny bits but overall I thought it was a bit meh
Same here.
And here.
I can't help it, pick any Tennant/Eccleston episode(well, almost any), and I am glued to it, but with Smith...often I feel the story is great - if only ever Matt was out of it lol.
But it has definitely become more of children show, which is a real shame. Always loved Moffats writing.
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I really enjoyed it. More than any other Christmas Special since Tennant's first one.
I'm becoming a huge fan of Smith's doctor. I think he's done a wonderful job of making it his own. He has the zany side of Tennant, without so much of the darkness that was getting kinda old. But he also has that side of him where you can see glimpses of the really old man the doctor is.
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The glimpses of dark is what I like about Tennant lol(but thats more due to the writing anyway), and while Smith is good in his own way, he don't feel that old to me. Perhaps like a whimsical adult uncle - but def. not anything beyond that.
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I liked it, not my favorite Christmas special, but it was a good "DW Christmas Carol"
Though my favorite line had to be the one about the slightly Psychic Paper and "a lie to big" that had me on the floor laughing
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I liked the charles dickens plot twist. Admittedly it doesn't have the same dr who feel that you'd nomally get. But I think that's pretty much the same for all Xmas specials. None of the characters are particularly suited for the roles they have to play, but still the writers make a xmas special
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I enjoyed it, even though it felt kind of childish - but I guess that was the point. (Btw. if you think that Smith or season 5 have been more childish than the previous season you are clearly deranged and suffer from early-onset Alzheimers. Go watch farting Slitheen in season 1 and then come back and apologize.)
Anyway, I had one major, major issue with the story: Isn't it canon by now that once the Doctor enters your timeline he can't jump back and forth in it, that he is "timelocked?" I thought that was always where the urgency to act came from, i.e. the Doctor couldn't just jump back into the Tardis and arrive 5 mins or days earlier to prevent something. And I know this has been "broken" once already (season 1, "Father's Day"), but it could be argued that the first time Rose saw her father they were both just observers and didn't enter her father's timeline. What do you guys think? Do I remember the "timelock" incorrectly?
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