![]() The other ending they teased us with – one last visit from the Doctor to lovely, old, frail Clara on her deathbed – would have worked perfectly fine, too, but would also have been quite sad.Īctually, Last Christmas was one big ingenious reunion story – one orchestrated by Santa Claus, no less! Good old Geoff. But if the arc of this season had essentially been Clara’s exit story, that ending was just too horribly mundane. The worry had been that the testy sparring between them would have been difficult to sustain. Ultimately, though, it proved how magical it is not to know what’s going to happen in advance.Ĭlara now becomes new-Who’s longest-serving companion (let’s not even get into how we measure longevity in the classic show) and it comes with a renewal of her relationship with the Doctor. ![]() And right up to the very final twist, everyone involved teased us to the point where it was getting annoying. ‘I stopped believing in fairytales a long time ago’īut even Santa Claus found himself upstaged by what became this year’s big mystery: was Clara going to stay or was she going to go? The question over Jenna Coleman’s future on the show had echoes of the Sun’s front pages about Billie Piper leaving, back in the day. I don’t think a Christmas Doctor Who is ever going to top that wonderful sleigh ride across the London skies. As Shona so eloquently put it: “You’re a dream that’s trying to save us?” And save them he did – literally. “I can commit 16m housebreaks in one night dressed in a red suit with jingle bells,” he grunted, “so, of course I can get back in the infirmary.” But Geoff carries out his scientifically impossible annual goodwill mission out of solid moral imperative. But while Nick Frost’s Santa might dress like the kindly grandpa of Coca-Cola legend, he acts like a swashbuckling polar pirate, announces his arrival with an entourage of slinkies and goes on with the superiority of a man so judgmental as to divide all the world’s children into a binary list of naughty and nice. Continuity bores like me will wonder whether this Santa Claus was in fact that same Geoff. Ever since Matt Smith made that throwaway line in 2010 special, A Christmas Carol – “Of course Father Christmas is real, I’ve met him, his real name’s Geoff” – I’ve been lobbying to have Geoff appear in a special. For all the psychological chills, this was also the most Christmassy Christmas special they’ve ever done.īecause, oh yes, Santa Claus. But the dream crabs were marvellously effective. Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who has already told us not to blink, breathe or turn around – and with “think” now added to the list, we’re fast running out of things we actually can do without facing certain death. This one played to the show’s claustrophobic strengths – a remote base-under-siege adventure turned out to be something even smaller than that, a story that took place only in the imaginations of its protagonists. Shona was intended to be the next companion, had actor Jenna Coleman decided to quit her role as Clara Oswald after Last Christmas.Last year’s special, The Time of the Doctor, was overblown, but it was Matt Smith’s finale, so it needed to be. Santa used My Little Pony to instigate a reaction from her.Īfter waking up and being disgusted by the dying dream crab, Shona checked off “forgive Dave” on her itinerary. She was able to wake up from the crab-induced dream, killing the alien creature in the process, with the help of the Twelfth Doctor and Santa Claus. She took point and used a song and dance to Merry Xmas Everybody to avoid thinking of the crabs. ![]() She was attacked by a dream crab and in her dream state, she thought she was a scientist at the North Pole on Christmas Eve. She had an itinerary for Christmas Day which included forgiving someone called Dave and watching DVDs of Alien, The Thing from Another World and Miracle on 34th Street, along with watching a Thrones marathon. Shona McCullough was a woman who worked in a shop.
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