Dr. Who Series 7- Episode 5 Christmas Episode
Added 2023-07-22 14:00:06 +0000 UTCI wish you a merry Christmas :)
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You might want to watch The Dr Who Movie,though. Technically, it's not Classic, so....
Ian Smith
2023-07-24 13:16:32 +0000 UTCI meant to mention the eccentric blur too! But in all the excitement, I forgot. While I'm typing I'll add that I agree with all the comments about the fairy tale Tardis location. Makes me think not just of Edward Scissorhands but also Mary Poppins descending from the sky and Narnia with all the snow and a secret way into a different world.
Stephen Males
2023-07-24 09:19:13 +0000 UTCI like this episode as well. Fairytale like, but intriguing as well. great mixture :) Thank you for the info about the intros. It´s so typical me, now that I started watching them they stop changing :D :D Thank you so much for the info about the TARDIS shot, definately have to watch out for that one during the Youtube edit :) :) The doctor dressing up as Sherlock Holmes was hilarious. Loved those scenes :) By the way, thanks for all the infos about the different actors and voices :) I liked the jokes in the episode. I don´t think they were silly at all :) "Traumatized enough" :D :D I can´t give you an answer to your question about Clara though. I thought that it might get explained in later episode, because we get to know Clara better, and maybe find out, that she knows more about the doctor than we thought, including his connection to Amy. But other than that, I do not have an answer. :/ Oh damn, the blur wasn´t intended at all. Thanks for letting me know, I guess my editing software has it´s own brain and constantly tries to manipulate my videos :D :D "Run you clever boy" What a great line :) :)
Nicologik
2023-07-24 08:33:47 +0000 UTCI like this one as well, it´s very intriguing for a Christmas story, and also feels like a fairytale at the same time. :)
Nicologik
2023-07-24 08:21:39 +0000 UTCI can totally understand why you haven´t watched the episode yet. Rewatching it for the Youtube edit was bad enough. I wont rewatch it any time soon I guess :D :D You´re welcome :) I don´t really know what to think of the new TARDIS interior yet. I´m glad I did notice that it changed, this time though :D Haha that "Winter is coming" line was super funny :D So I guess, I´m not the only one thinking about Game of Thrones immediately :D Well I guess my reaction to Jenna Coleman was unique then, cause I guess noone thought she might be the woman from the fireplace episode :D :D I didn´t notice the glasses, so thanks for pointing it out. Awwww that´s sooo cute....
Nicologik
2023-07-24 08:20:39 +0000 UTCI personally loved the TARDIS in the clouds, it fit the Theme of a Christmas fairytale. :) I´m sorry, but I wont do another Classic Reaction any time soon. I wanted to talk about this matter already but I keep on procrastinating, because I don´t want to disappoint anyone. :/ So no gap for me, I guess.
Nicologik
2023-07-24 08:12:21 +0000 UTCI´m glad as well, that I liked the Christmas episode, because most of the times I felt they were rather mellow and slow, but this one was really intriguing. :) You poor people, having to wait for so long again. This show doesn´t make it easy for it´s fans :D Thanks for letting me know about the Claras "secret voice" part. I noticed I talked over something while talking, but it was already too late :D :D I´m gonna watch it again during the edit and listen closely to it :) I agree with you, this episode was really good :)
Nicologik
2023-07-24 08:06:59 +0000 UTCI agree with you. Clara is great, I already like her so much :) Matt is great as the doctor. An old soul in a young body. He fits this role perfectly. :) I know about River and her travelling, but I thought after what she said to him in the Angels episode, she would stick with him at least for a while, until he found a new companion. Oh damn, I always get sooo confused with the episode numbers, because of Amazon always putting the Christmas episode as number one in every series, and the actual episode 1 as episode 2 and so on..... :D :D
Nicologik
2023-07-24 07:56:51 +0000 UTC"Perhaps I can't, but I know a man who can.", Madame Vastra, "The Snowmen" This was a fun Christmas special - less overtly Christmassy than the previous 11th Doctor specials - I like it. They included the Doctor's face in the title sequence - as they had in various seasons of Classic Who. BTW: this was the last time they changed the "Doctor Who" logo in this season - this time it had a snow theme - so you don't need to watch out for that anymore. Did you notice the clever special effect? - the first time used in the show. A single camera shot follows the Doctor and Clara from the cloud outside the TARDIS Police Box, through the open doors, and into the huge TARDIS console room. The best special effects are those that you don't notice unless you think about it. The voice of the snow globe thing was Sir Ian McKellen, a renowned stage actor who, of course, played Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" and many roles in other films. Doctor Who manages to get lots of well known British actors. Dr Simeon was played by Richard E Grant. It wasn't his first appearance in something Doctor Who. He had actually voiced the Doctor himself in a one-off animated (for the web) story in the early 2000s and he had also appeared in ... something I'm not going to mention. Nice to see the "Paternoster Gang" - Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax. The name comes from the name of the street (Paternoster Row) of Madame Vastra's house. The name of the street is supposed to be because in the 12th century monks would walk in procession and would recite the Lord's Prayer ("pater noster" is the opening line in Latin) at this point along the route. But it's more likely to be named because prayer beads were manufactured at this location. Lots of Sherlock Holmes references again - Dr Simeon references the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and compares Madame Vastra to the character, and, of course, we see the over-the-top Doctor confronting Dr Simeon as dressed as Holmes himself - with his numerous failed (funny) deductions. Strax is there for laughs, I suppose, but his scenes are fun. Is the memory worm sequence too silly? - perhaps but it's still funny. He is played by Dan Starkey. Dan had been in the the original New Who story with the Sontarans as the second-in-command, but he also played the Sontaran (different character) that tried to shoot at Martha and Mickey and who we see in the BTS (one of your Advent episodes) of the Sontaran filmed by David attempting to walk up the stairs to the filming location. Again, is this funny or too silly? - that the Doctor tries to explain his presence in the house by saying that he is Clara's gentleman friend and they have been upstairs kissing - funny, I think. Criticism: I don't get the one-word test - this is just silly for me - Steven Moffat just writing clever dialog for the sake of writing clever dialog rather than something believable. Perhaps it's just me. So, we have a puzzle - Clara - that's a really good setup for a character. I really like her too - funny and smart. BTW your frame blur was covering you in the episode's pre-titles - was that deliberate? "Run you clever boy. And remember.", Clara Oswald, "The Snowmen"
Andrew Vignaux
2023-07-24 04:19:13 +0000 UTCI give this a 4/5 but it is my favourite Christmas story since the first one. I rank it 76/140. I love the characters of Vestra, Jenny and Strax and Clara is great in this story. I also love the new console room. It's my favourite one including the ones from the classic era.
Jade Ellis
2023-07-23 14:56:57 +0000 UTCI've still not watched your "The Angels Take Manhattan" video, but I agree with you completely in your introduction here about Amy and Rory. They were great, and with the Eleventh Doctor we had a phenomenal team even in the less satisfactory episodes. Also, I'd never noticed the connection between River's remarks to Amy about the Doctor, and how she was at the end of that episode! So thank you for highlighting it. This is my favourite Christmas special. The new Tardis interior seems to be much more popular with fans than the one introduced in "The Eleventh Hour". But I loved that previous version, even if it didn't entirely make sense; this new look seems fairly generic to me, like something fans used to come up with after the classic series was cancelled and it seemed like we'd never see new "Doctor Who" stories on our screens again. Perhaps fans like it because it feels more like something from the classic era. I love how every single reactor has the same response to the "winter is coming" line! (My guess is that it was a deliberate reference/joke to "Game of Thrones" and not just a coincidence.) It's also fun seeing how different reactors respond to seeing Jenna Coleman in this: some immediately recognise her, but some don't realise it's the same actor until Clara says about soufflé; some assume that it's the same deal as with Freema Agyeman, who played a minor character (who died) in Series 2 and the production team liked her so much they re-cast her as Martha for Series 3; and I think some think it's literally the same person (character), assuming that her death in the first episode will be retconned later in this episode or that she's somehow earlier in her timeline when we see her here (until of course they realise they are definitely two different women when Clara also dies). The BBC announced six months before Series 7 started that Jenna-Louise Coleman would be in the 2012 Christmas special, so you can imagine everyone's surprise when she had a main role in that first episode and then died! You might not have realised, but when Vastra telephones the Doctor while he's reading a book, he's wearing Amy's glasses.
Andrew Gwilliam
2023-07-23 12:26:32 +0000 UTCThis was a story I thought little of the first time I saw it,but it's grown on me. Some of the fantasy elements are too over the top (the TARDIS on top of a cloud??); but Jenna Coleman (Clara) is extremely feisty; there's some nice comedy; and the introduction of the mystery behind Clara is nicely handled. There was a gap of several months between this story and Series 7b. It's been a while since you did a Classic reaction,so this might be a good opportunity to do another in order to give yourself a similar gap.
Ian Smith
2023-07-22 20:40:01 +0000 UTCI'm glad you enjoyed this episode as it is one of my favourite Christmas "specials" and one of my favourite episodes of any kind. Plus I'm even happier that you liked Clara as Victorian Clara and Dalek Asylum Oswin are two of my favourite characters. Like I said, last week, we had to wait three months after this to find out whether modern Clara was going to be in the rest of the series and whether we were going to get an explanation about who she was or how she can seem to have more than one life. I was absolutely obsessed with that last point. And there were a lot of fan theories about what could be going on. I think that it that you might have missed the point about the children's reference to Clara's "secret voice". She is a working class Londoner with a "cockney" accent which we hear when she is working as a barmaid in a London pub. But when she is working as a children's governess she adopts an upper class tone. Or "talks posh" as some of us would put it. There were some references in this story to a very old "Classic Who" story from the 1960s but I won't say what they are in case you get to see the episodes some time. I won't go on any more about the episode because I'd be in danger of babbling incoherently. For me it's close to being a ten. I can't think of anything at all about it that I don't love.
Stephen Males
2023-07-22 16:37:46 +0000 UTCI actually love this episode, I love Clara SO much and in my opinion she's a very good character. I love how she's really not afraid of anything and she's quite smart. Something I do really love about Matts Doctor as well, is the fact that he manages to look extremely young but acts really old. Like he acts like some sort of professor with the hands flapping about and how he speaks, yet he looks so young ahaha. About your question as to why River isn't there. The reason River can't always be with the Doctor is because their both from different Time Streams, they only collide sometimes and that's usually up to coincidence. But because its sort've random, River won't know which Doctor she'll end up with and if that Doctor knows her or not yet. It's all Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey-hard to explain stuff. Me personally, this is one of my favourite Tardis interiors, I LOVE the lights and the spinny things at the top of the console with Gallifreyan writing on them. I'd also rate this episode maybe a 8.5/10, I'd absolutely rewatch this one on a whim. Edit: I also noticed on the thumbnail and title, you named this episode "Episode 5" when its actually Episode 6 ahaha.
KrispyKrushems
2023-07-22 16:22:24 +0000 UTC
