This past week, I've been reviewing some of my favorite Christmas specials and today, on Christmas, we come to the most recent Christmas special, Twice Upon a Time, featuring the First and Twelfth Doctors.
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Well, that was a redundant title for a review, wasn't it? Makes me wonder if this formatting of listing the range, set, and episode is always the best choice. Oh well. Today I'm reviewing the first story from the audio anthology by Big Finish: Blood on Santa's Claw, entitled, you guessed it, Blood on Santa's Claw.
I love this episode. It's probably one of the ones I've watched the most times. It also serves as the end of Series Seven and Matt Smith's final regular episode. As a warning, this review will contain spoilers for this story.
Season 16 starts off wonderfully with The Ribos Operation, the brilliant opening story to The Key to Time series.
This is my absolute favorite Christmas special Doctor Who has ever done. It's a truly wonderful story, and has so much heart to it. This truly is a phenomenal episode. I didn't think much of it the first time I watched it but since then, I've grown to love the story and count it as one of my favorite episodes. The ending is the closest that Doctor Who has ever brought me to crying with the crushing fate of Abigail and how Kazran has aged so much because he can't bring himself to release her.
I really liked how Kazran's character develops throughout the story. It's really nice to see how the Doctor's interference in his life changes him for the better and the effects that has on him. In addition, all of the actor who played him did a wonderful job and captured the different stages of the character really well. The flying fish were a really unique idea and I liked the way the story used the two halves of the sonic screwdriver throughout the story. Overall, this is a truly enjoyable episode that I plan to watch every year around Christmas. Today, for the first and hopefully not the last time, I'm reviewing a Doctor Who picture book. I present to you, The Runaway TARDIS!
It's pretty clear from my reviews of BBC Audio's stories that I'm not the biggest fan of them. It's not that I dislike them, it's just that they are not the best Doctor Who I've ever seen (or rather listened to). This episode isn't like the others. I really enjoyed this episode.
As with most episodes I'm not overly fond of, this will be a rather short review. It's been a few weeks since I've listened to this story, so this review won't be as in-depth as most of my others.
This story has a very unique concept. It's about giant pylons coming to life and attacking people. That's pretty much all I remember about the story, other than that I didn't enjoy it too much. It almost felt like the author was trying to do what Steven Moffatt did with Blink: turn something totally ordinary into something terrifying. Unfortunately, I felt this story didn't live up to these ambitions. I enjoyed Arthur Darvill's narration and it was nice to hear another story with the Doctor and Amy, but that's pretty much everything this story has to offer. I think this is my favorite story by BBC Audio so far. It has some really nice character moments and a decent plot.
In most rankings of Doctor Who episodes, The Talons of Weng-Chiang often ranks among the greatest episodes. Sadly, I found the abundant racism to truly be a hinderance to my enjoyment of this serial.
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