Doctor Who:
The Doctor, The Widow and The
Wardrobe
By Steven Moffat
"Usually called the The
Doctor or The Caretaker or Get Off This Planet."
It's Christmas Time 2011 and you
know what that means. It means presents, Santa Clause leaving something good,
having Christmas Dinner with family and friends, and of course a brand new
Doctor Who Christmas Special. The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe is Matt
Smith’s second Doctor Who Christmas Special and it is not as good as his first.
Well this is also Steven Moffat's
second Christmas Special and like last year he has borrowed from popular
literature. Last year was obviously a
take on Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" and this time it is a
take on C. S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. I know what you’re
saying well no duh just look at the title of this special and you should have guessed
that. Well any way, I liked the idea of incorporating that story into Doctor
Who and was pretty curious to see how they would pull it off.
As you can imagine 2011’s Christmas
special was filled with lots of moments that make you scratch your head and
there are quite a few in this one. First
off I did not particularly liked how the Doctor saved himself from the
exploding spaceship. It was a bit farfetched
even for Doctor Who. I mean come on the Doctor puts on a space suit in space
and it happens to be a special space suit that survives reentry and a crash
into Earth plus mends his body. Not that
well-constructed if you ask me and since this is coming from the Moff I would
have liked something cleverer. Plus I
didn't care for how Madge was able to drive the alien vehicle over to the
tower. You knew that was going to happen
but for a woman who had trouble driving a car well I know it's Doctor Who and
that has happened before.
While those things didn't detract
from my enjoyment of the Christmas Special what did kind of detract from it was
that I knew how the main story was going to end. (I'm not talking about Amy and
Rory). Well if you didn't figure it out in the first ten minutes that the
Doctor was going to somehow find a way to save Madge's husband even if it was
inadvertently then you must have had too much egg nog. Sometimes Doctor Who could be a tad bit
predictable. This was one of those times
but since it is Christmas and it gave us a happy ending it didn't bother me
that much.
The Doctor, The Widow and The
Wardrobe was not a bad story at all. In fact it was a nice Christmassy treat
that had a decent story. The Story
wasn't mind blowing but for a tale at Christmas it was a perfect non thinking
to hard story that you could enjoy at any point in the day. Nothing to
complicated here. Even though it was not too complicated it wasn't anything to
write home about as it was your typical Doctor Who story.
I enjoyed the mad dash of showing
off the house and all the cool things the Doctor had put into it to give
Madge's kids a pretty cool bedroom. I
also liked the interaction between The Doctor and Lily. That seemed to work and it gave the Doctor
someone to bounce off of and to explain what was going on. I liked how the tree people looked. That was a pretty neat looking creature. It kind of reminded me of the Ents from Lord
of the Rings a little bit but a bit more like wooden chess pieces from a Nordic
area. Here is a plus to classic Who
fans. How many of you know what significance Androzani has in who history? I did and it made me smile.
As Christmas Specials go this one
was alright. But it did have some pretty
good moments in it though with none better than the Doctor reuniting with Amy
and Rory in the last 5 minutes. If
anything Steven Moffat gave us a nice sentimental moment. What a nice scene to wrap up the Christmas
Special with. It was truly a heartwarming
scene. In all a nice story but a tad
predictable but none of the less enjoyable to watch.
Grade B
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