The Next Doctor Who

Finally, after all these... couple of months... new Doctor Who! And it was... meh!

With all the speculation that this was a rip off of The One Doctor, no-one suspected that we had picked the wrong audio, but it did quickly become obvious that this was instead Minuet in Hell. Still, nice to see the shots of yester-doc, and still the TV Movie is considered canon, no doubt to many people's annoyance.

Cybermen tried to take over the city and/or the world? Say it ain't so! Again! ... I can't think of anything interesting to say about that, so will just pick on certain points. It was nice to see Hartigan's red dress if only because of the rest of the show being bland grays and browns. Colour, people, colour! Merry Drab Christmas, Mr Lawrence! And look at all the widdums who are made to work... in the middle of the night... after presumably a long day of working... and are still quite energetic and not at all sleepy. Uh-huh. With some of them more successfully portraying their heavy burdens than others who apparently can easily toss about heavy sacks. (Should I also mention the overdone mascara?)

But this is a time of Christmas, and, more importantly, a time of David Morrissey, and while I have no idea who he was, I still don't have any interest in seeing him in anything else (although I did keep thinking of Neil Morrissey). Dervla Kirwan played an excellent typical RTD Villainess (Villainatrix?), although she obviously won't be returning (so was she "saved" in her final moments as all villainessatricies are?). Velile Tshabalala was not quite the Rose stand in (she actually did as she was told!)... and other people were also on-screen.

In all, another not-quite-thrillingly exciting Christmas special.


Next time: no idea, but there's a good chance it won't be on earth... okay, I didn't believe that before I even finished typing the sentence...

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