This story wears its influences with pride. Characters so well-played and interesting that you'd quite happily have them join the TARDIS. Shona is another in the long line of 'almost companions'. All four of them are excellently played by poor Ashley has the least interesting character. Why they are all at the base is, of course, a long story but at the base, they are and threatened by things that go face-hugging in the night, which gives us the set-up for a rather nice 'Alien' joke. There's Shona (Faye Marsay), Ashley (Natalie Gumede), Fiona (Maureen Beattie) and Albert (Michael Troughton). There's also the four members of the base. He bounces off Peter Capaldi well and gets to be all cuddly and avuncular. If there was a role made for Nick Frost, it is Santa Claus. Played rather magnificently by Nick Frost at peak Nick Frost. Here to save everyone on this Christmas Day. There's an isolated base at the North Pole. And from here all sorts of shenanigans occur. She, clad only in a nightdress so appearing as a sort of female Arthur Dent, has come to find out what's going on. He's crash landed on Clara's roof with a couple of snarky Elves and woken poor Clara up. Let us wallow in our own Weltschmerz and crack on.
If we can't all go a little soft-hearted for one day of the year, then what I demand is the point of anything. Sod the prevaricating about dates they're amongst my favourite episodes of Doctor Who. I think that Steven Moffat's Christmas Specials are amongst my favourite episodes of post-2005 Doctor Who.
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Our presents have been opened, we're stuffed with Turkey and Christmas Pudding and wearing our wilting and slightly torn Christmas cracker hats. Let us travel back to Christmas Day 2014. Here is the Twelfth Doctor adventure Last Christmas. For December, and since this year's Special isn't until New Year's Day, a reminder of our Doctor Who expert Tony Cross' thoughts on New Who Christmas Special episodes from the past.