Doctor Who - Christmas Carol

[dalekboy]

One of the real problems I've had with new Who has been the sheer amount of magic science

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magic screwdriver

[ariaflame]

I do remember in Classic Who that they had been worried about the Doctor's overreliance on the sonic screwdriver and destroyed it for a while during the 5th Doctor's incarnation.

[smofbabe]

I enjoyed it a lot but you have to will yourself not to think about all the time paradox problems, or how they break previous Who rules about how the same character from different time periods can interact

[jocko55]

I enjoyed it, it was a fun riff on A Christmas carol and yes, it flows as a whole story. Micahel Gambon is a legend and not just because of Gambon corner.

[gutter_monkey]

The Xmas specials seem to break all the rules re: series continuity, character, science and even just plain sense, but they're the equivalent of a Christmas panto so you'd have to be a Grinch to get upset about it. ;)

[stephen_dedman]

The magic science irritated me immensely in a lot of RTD-written episodes, particularly series finales: he seemed to rely on the Doctor speaking pseudoscientific gobbledegook extremely quickly as a deus ex machina far too often. At least Moffat seems to introduce scientifically dubious concepts (such as the isomorphic controls and the clouds responding to singing) early in the episode, so that when he needs them at the end of the episode, I don't feel cheated.