I know I'm always saying Steven Moffat is the Robert Holmes of the current generation of Doctor Who writers. Aside from writing brilliant stories (though he was upstaged this year by Neil Gaiman's effort) he also has a habit of plundering literary sources for ideas as the last two Christmas specials attest (oh, and I loved the Androzani Major reference too).
Anyway, onto to this years festive effort. It was okay but not in the same league of some of this years episodes. Matt was as enjoyable as ever and Claire Skinner made a good stand in companion (and it was nice to see Amy and Rory at the end. But would the Doctor really wait two years before seeing them again since the events of The Wedding of River Song?). One thing I did miss was the "Coming Soon" trailer at the end so we could look forward to next years goodies. But that's a minor quibble about what was an enjoyable episode.
No comments:
Post a Comment