Best Of The Specials - 02x06 - Best Of The Christmas Specials

[bunniefuu]

- Christmas.

- Christmas?
- Yeah... Christmas.

(Laughs)

Ah, the Christmas specials.

A little nugget of Christmas
present for the Whovians.

(Snap)

Because the season
ends, and then it says,

Doctor Who will be back at
christmastime, with some...

Bizarre title.

(Whoosh)

I think Christmas is the Doctor's favourite
holiday, although he'll never say it.

He'd enjoy the warmth
about it and how families,

get together and the
sense of celebration.

There's this sense that even
though he is not only not,

church of England, but not from Earth,

that there's still something
significant to him about a,

a family holiday for a guy
who doesn't have a family.

Christmas dinner.

Oh, come on.

There's a general holiday vibe,

probably a thr*at of genocide, and
then everyone's happy at the end.

Christmas.

(Theme plays)

There is this thing,
this grand tradition,

of the introduction of the new
Doctor after a regeneration.

The Christmas Invasion is the debut of
the tenth Doctor, who is David Tennant.

Christmas invasion opens
with the TARDIS crashing.

It is like a Sci-Fi NASCAR.

(Jackie screams)

(Door creaks)

Here we are, then. London, Earth!

The solar system! I
did it! (Dog barking)

This dude pops out and they have no
idea who he is, and Rose is like...

Yep, that's the Doctor.

Eccleston, he still felt
like your dad, didn't he?

Shut up, listen to me, run this way.

Whereas Tennant was more like,
why don't we have a laugh?

Love the sideburns. Um...

Love the gravity-defying
kind of hair, pompadour.

That jacket was just hanging off
him. Maybe it's the leather thing.

It's not for everyone,
you know? Uh, maybe...

He could pull off leather
pants but not the top.

Why does Santa always have to be
evil in the Christmas specials?

There's just something that's
especially creepy about,

turning something that is so
precious into a k*lling machine.

That's a very Doctor Who
thing taking childish themes,

or things that children trust,
and then turning them on its head.

(Brass band melody: God
Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)

(Ominous incidental music)

(Whoosh) (g*nf*re)

(Screaming)

(Screaming) Run!

I gotta say, those Santa's...

Did not look not scary
to begin with, right?

Like, I don't know why anybody was
getting within yards of them.

The Christmas Tree took me by surprise.
I did not expect that to happen.

It's scary, but it's also
really funny, because it's a

Christmas Tree that's k*lling
you, or trying to k*ll you.

(Scraping)

(Gasping)

(Screaming)

(Screaming)

Get out, go, go, get out!

(Gasping)

No, leave him, just leave him!

Get in here!

(Shriek)

(Crashing)

Why can't Christmas just be the peaceful,
loving holiday that it normally is?

The thing about all the
Christmas specials, I think,

is that they subvert all of that
lovely, cozy Christmas imagery,

and make it really, truly nasty.

Ho ho ho, I don't think so.

Those Sycorax were classic
Doctor Who monsters.

In every sense of the word,

with the mad eyes and the sort
of spiky teeth and that sort of...

(Grunting alien language).

The aliens are going to k*ll us and we
can't even understand what they're saying,

because the Doctor's not around to,

transmit the TARDIS translation
field into our brain.

We need the Doctor.

And then something wonderful happens.

(Doors creak) (Echoing hum)

Did you miss me?

(Roaring) (Electrical crackle)

Could put someone's eye out with that.

How dare...

(Roaring) I demand to know who you are!

(Roaring) I don't know!

With this scene, he's
saying, this is my stand.

I am the Doctor, like it or not.

Action-hero Doctor was great to
me. I thought that was a great move.

Just as that Doctor is defining
himself to himself within the plot,

within the structure of the story, you
have to define that to the viewers, too.

Say, this is going to be new,
it's going to be different.

(Snarling and blades clashing)

(Triumphant roar)

Sycorax!

Witchcraft!

Time Lord.

That's when you're like, well,
that arm's not coming back,

oh, wait, he's still
regenerating, very clever.

There is some swashbuckling,

a sword that is played with...
swordplay, if you will...

All done in a bathrobe and pajamas.

And you think, is
this his new character?

Sleepy time Doctor?

Is his weakness hot tea...

Warm milk?

When it seems like the special is over,
and Earth is safe, and we're all cool...

Harriet Jones decides that
instead of letting the Sycorax go.

She needs to destroy them so they
can't go out into the Universe,

and tell other life forms
about the Planet Earth.

Fire at will.

(Zapping)

(Screaming)

(expl*si*n)

- That was m*rder!
- That was defense.

And that's, I think, good storytelling,
is when everybody's right in some way.

The best thing about Doctor Who is that it
comments on human society and I think that,

it's not out of the question that
human beings would screw it up somehow.

So the episode ends with...

This gorgeous snow falling
on the streets of London...

It's the ashes of the fallen Sycorax.

It just sort of underscores the idea
that there's this other stuff going on,

that the people of Earth really just
don't care or want to know about.

What are they, meteors?

It's the spaceship breaking
up in the atmosphere.

This isn't snow, it's ash.

Okay, not so beautiful.

It's reminiscent of the
core of what Doctor Who is,

which is, nothing is as it seems,
and something always has an...

An antithetical meaning.

There's the thing about a
white Christmas I suppose

you're supposed to want
it to snow on Christmas,

as part of the, symbology of the
day, and it just never does for him.

It's always something
horrifying buried underneath.

What should be a beautiful moment.

Would you rather find a sonic
screwdriver in your stocking,

or a TARDIS under your Christmas Tree?

I want the sonic screwdriver because...

I can open doors and scan things,

and figure out if they're human
or not and make cool noises.

And I can't fly the
TARDIS. I'm not River Song.

Fun as it might be to have,

I'm not the Doctor, so I wouldn't have
the foggiest idea how to use this thing.

So I'd probably just end
up fixing my grandma's TV.

So I think I'd rather have the
TARDIS under my Christmas Tree,

because then the
Doctor's not far behind.

We meet Donna Noble.

She is about to get married,

when all of a sudden she
gets zapped into the TARDIS.

What?

That's what the Doctor says.
That's also what I say right now.

Rewind it if you want proof.

We get one of David Tennant's famous...

What?

What?! Which I love so much.

(Wedding march played on organ)

(Electric whispering)

(Screams)

(Whoosh)

What?

- Oh!
- What?!

Who are you?

- But...
- Where am I?

What?!

What the hell is this place?

What?!

Instead of being scared
and frightened and hiding,

she looks at the Doctor and
she's like, what did you do to me?

What's going on?

Because usually everyone,
you know they kind of,

struggle with him a little bit,
they're like, you can't do this,

and he's like, of course I can,
and they're like, I love you.

So to have somebody who
comes in and is like what the,

bloody hell are you playing at?

Get me back to my wedding!

Never mind, spaceman,
chop chop! Time's wasting!

Then she gets kidnapped by robot Santa.

Why does robot Santa have
to do that every Christmas?

This is the first high-speed car
chase the TARDIS has been involved in.

(Engines wheezing/groaning)

Santa's a robot!

Donna, open the door!

- What for?
- You've got to jump!

(Yelping)

(Inaudible)

I can't do it!

Trust me.

Is that what you said to her?

Your friend, the one you lost?

Did she trust you?

Yes, she did.

And she is not dead, she
is so alive. Now jump!

(Screaming)

(Muffled cheering)

Wouldn't you just love
to see that on the M ?

Wouldn't that just
brighten up a journey.

To see the TARDIS
dealing with some people

who weren't observing the Highway code?

Fantastic.

In the runaway bride, it
asks, you afraid of spiders?

Well, take a look at this bad boy.

The Racnoss Empress has...

Her children, who are finally...

Being born from the center of the Earth.

All these crazy, hungry,
scary spider babies.

Are going to emerge
and take over the Earth.

It's like that old urban legend where
someone's got a mole or a pimple,

or something and then it bursts and spiders
come out all over the person's face?

That is the Earth, we thought
the Earth was a pimple.

But it's really just a spider sack.

We can't have anything
that's just ours, can we?

(Whoosh)

(Hissing)

Racnoss.

But that's impossible.
You're one of the Racnoss!

Empress of the Racnoss!

The Racnoss come from the dark times,
billions of years ago, billions!

They were carnivores, omnivores.
They devoured whole planets.

Racnoss are born starving.

Is that our fault?

I just want to know what
that audition is like,

because she has to
do some awesome stuff.

She's all, like... (Hissing)

I don't eat shellfish, and it's
not for any religious reasons.

It's because to me, all shellfish looks
as disgusting as the Racnoss Empress.

Right? Is she that much
different than a lobster?

Not really.

He gives her the opportunity
to say, hey, you know what?

I am going to take this other
option, not destroy this entire race.

He always gives people another chance.

And the crazy spider lady gets greedy.

She doesn't take that chance.

Empress of the Racnoss, I
give you one last chance.

I can find you a planet.

I can find you and your children a
place in the Universe to co-exist.

I'm afraid I have to decline.

(Cackling)

Then what happens next is
your own doing. I warned you.

You did this.

(Explosions) (Screaming)

My children!

(Wailing cries)

Doctor!

You can stop now!

Empress: (Screaming) My children!

Like, come on, aliens,
what are you doing?

How many people does he have to
k*ll by not wanting to k*ll them,

before you guys just shut up and leave?

He ends up having to m*rder them,

which is a very weird thing for
Donna and for his character, too.

By his tenth incarnation,
perhaps he's more used to that.

Because he's seen how the
bigger picture is affected.

He knows it's bad, he's doing it anyway.

He knows it's a black mark on his soul.

But he's doing it for some
greater good that only he can see.

And you sort of see
all that in his face.

Donna says to the Doctor,
I think you need someone.

And he says, I don't need
someone, and she's like, you do.

You need someone to stop you sometimes.

He needs the counter-balance of those,

other individuals to
kind of keep him in check.

Well, you could always...

What?

Come with me.

No.

Okay.

- I can't.
- No, that's fine.

Tell you what I will do, though.

Christmas dinner.

He's like, let me just park the TARDIS.

It's a classic French goodbye, right?

He's gone. She calls him on it.

She knows what it's all about.

And he's like, yeah,
yeah. I'm still leaving.

Promise me one thing.

Find someone.

I don't need anyone.

Yes, you do.

Because sometimes I think
you need someone to stop you.

Yeah.

I think, yeah, when you're a Time Lord.

And you're by yourself, I can
imagine it being very, very lonely.

The Doctor has to go it alone.

No matter, you know, whom he
wants as his friend or partner,

or girlfriend through time, he's
ultimately going to be alone.

But he likes having people to talk to.

He likes having somebody
there to show this stuff to.

It's good for viewers, because

those companions are our
proxies, those companions are us.

We don't get to really be like the Doctor,
we get to be like the people he's with.

Would you rather go sleigh-riding with
a Dalek or make Snow Angels with an Ood?

Oh, hello.

Okay, I would rather...

Wait, what is... some kind of
feedback. Hold on, let me...

(Whirring)

Ah, there we go now...

I would rather ride in a sleigh with
a Dalek as opposed to Santa Claus,

because I would love to see the Grinch
try to steal Christmas from a Dalek.

That wouldn't end well. Merry Christmas!

Voyage of the damned is a
phenomenal stand-alone episode.

We have the Doctor on his
own, and what do we get?

We get a disaster movie played
out across space and time.

(Engines wheezing/groaning)

(Horn blaring)

(Crash)

What?

- What?
- What?

Like, I just picture David
Tennant sitting there and thinking,

how many different ways
can I say the word what?

What?!

What, what, what?

There's that what line again.

Don't overuse it, fellas.

Steward: Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to Christmas.

It's a spaceship made up
to be like the Titanic.

I don't know why anyone would
name something the Titanic.

Future generations who are watching
this, never name anything the Titanic.

It's not going to end well, but...

We do get Kylie Minogue in
this episode, which is nice.

We meet Astrid, who is played by
international pop star Kylie Minogue.

She's a cocktail waitress
on the spaceship Titanic.

The Doctor and Kylie
Minogue on a cruise ship?

That is a cruise I would take.

I used to watch the ships heading out
to the stars, and I always dreamt of...

It sounds daft.

You dreamt of another sky?

New sun...

New air, new life.

Why stand still when there's
all that life out there?

So they go down to Earth for Christmas Eve,
which the Doctor has done many times...

And instead of all the
people bustling around,

and buying presents,
there's just nobody there.

She's just visiting a planet and she's
always wanted to travel, and she's...

Excited to be there, but it's empty.

Oh.

It should be full.

It should be busy. Something's wrong.

But it's beautiful.

Really?

Hello, there! Sorry, obvious question...

But, where's everybody gone?

London, at Christmas?

Not safe, is it?

Why?

Well, it's them up above.

Look, Christmas before last,

we had that big bloody spaceship,
everyone standing on the roof.

And then last year, that Christmas star,

electrocuting all over the
place, draining the Thames.

This place is amazing!

It's a great bit, like after all
of these disastrous Christmases,

people are too scared to be in London.

They're thinking about, maybe
we should move it to July,

or just some other time of the
year when we're not going to get...

att*cked and snowed on by alien debris.

You don't think, though, that the
Doctor would feel guilty about,

his involvement in those alien att*cks.

(Imitating th Doctor) He's involved,
doing what he can to make things better.

Some things could be
better with the Daleks.

Not many.

There's a very sweet scene where,

Astrid asks the Doctor if she
can be his companion, and it's...

This is the one time I'm
not jealous of a woman,

trying to go off with the Doctor,
because it's Kylie Minogue!

I was a little shocked, because normally
when someone asks the Doctor that,

the Doctor always says no.

I'm sort of unemployed now.

I was thinking that blue box is...

Kind of small, but I could
squeeze into it, like a stowaway.

It's not always safe.

So you need someone to take care of you,
I've got no one back on Sto, no family.

Just... me.

So what do you think?

Can I come with you?

Yeah, I'd like that, yeah.

(Bang)

He agrees, and so, you know, you kind
of think, oh my God, she's going to be...

Nope, she's not, she's out of there.

This is Kylie Minogue. She's
not going to be on Doctor Who.

She might as well be wearing a
red expendable-crew member shirt.

Kylie Minogue / Astrid is so valiant.

It's such a Doctor Who
heroic scene because,

she essentially kills the
villain to save everybody.

The reason you know that
the Doctor can love her,

is that she understands that
notion of bravery and sacrifice.

But it's the things he loves
about her that mean she has to die.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

And I remember, as I was watching her
fall to her death, I was thinking...

Oh, I wish the Doctor could bring her
back as a being of pure energy and then...

Have a ghost kiss with her.

And then that happened!

She's just atoms, Doctor.

An echo with the ghost of consciousness.

She's stardust.

Kylie Minogue is stardust.

Truer words were never spoken.

Astrid Peth...

Citizen of Sto.

The woman who looked at the
stars and dreamt of traveling.

There's an old tradition.

And David Tennant kisses Kylie Minogue.

Now you can travel forever.

(Screwdriver whirring)

(Wind gusting)

You're not falling, Astrid.

You're flying.

If your eyes are still dry when
that happens, you have no soul.

I guess it would be pretty
fun to just be pure energy,

cruising around and finding stuff.

I guess turning into pure energy to roam
the Universe is supposed to be uplifting.

But it was a bummer, because
he obviously liked her.

You knew that...

That this whole story really
meant something to him,

and it was going to stick with him.

This is the new Christmas
tradition, really, is...

Something terrible is going
to happen on Christmas Eve,

it's probably going to involve aliens
who want to blow you up or eat you.

And somehow the Doctor's involved.

(Whooshing roar)

Open the door.

(Dog whining)

Computer voice: Engine active.

(Yells) Energy active.

(Gasping)

Thank you, Doctor.

Thank you. Happy Christmas.

Well, it's about time, right? When...

When are more of these heads of
state going to thank the Doctor,

and would it k*ll you
to give him a medal?

It's amazing that the British government
depends so much on this alien being,

for them to just continue.

It's like, oh, we didn't blow up again.
Thanks, Doctor. We appreciate that.

For some reason, we just always
forget what happens in the past.

Until it comes up again next Christmas.

(Bright Christmas music)

Would you rather spend Christmas
traveling with the Doctor,

or relaxing at home with Amy and Rory?

Probably the Doctor.

You couldn't relax with pairs of...

Amy and Rory in the TARDIS.

And you could go to Florida...

London...

Wherever.

Well, instantly, the next Doctor
had this wonderful Victorian setting.

And that great misdirection.

When you call something the next Doctor.

All people are expecting
is the end of David Tennant.

So we have to watch this.

Woman: Doctor!

Who, me? (Laughs)

Woman: Doctor!

Don't worry. Don't worry. Stand
back, what have we got here?

(Snarling and banging)

Okay, I've got it, and
whatever is behind that door,

- I think you should get out of here.
- Doctor!

Standing right here. Hello.

Don't be stupid! Who are you?

- I'm the Doctor.
- Doctor Who?

- Just the Doctor.
- Well, there can't be two of you!

- Where the hell have you been?
- Don't worry, stand back!

- What have we got here, then?
- Hold on, who are you?

I'm the Doctor. Simply the Doctor.

The one, the only, and the best!

There's another guy that we haven't seen
before and you kind of go, what happened?

Was there a regeneration at the
meeting that I was not invited to?

What's fun about this episode, is you
are waiting the whole time to uncover why,

he thinks he's the Doctor
because you know he's not.

I think time lords are always going
to recognize regenerated friends.

I'm not a Time Lord. I don't know.

I really did not know what was going on.

And I thought, this is... they're doing
a new thing where we actually are seeing,

the newer guy with the
older guy at the same time.

And what other rules are out the window?

And is the Doctor just going to
start straight-up murdering people,

and eating their flesh?

He didn't go that far.

(Whoosh)

I love Miss Hartigan. Her
real name is Mercy Hartigan.

But I think of her as evil Jane Austen.

It's a really high-level thinking about
having Miss Hartigan be the villain,

because she is the
sort of flip side of...

The kind of dawning
awareness of women's equality.

She's got this brilliant
forward-thinking mind.

Especially for a woman growing
up in Victorian England.

You've walked past me so many times...

All you good men of charity.

Never once asking my name.

It's Miss Hartigan, isn't it?

Oh, you noticed.

I saw you looking. You cheeky boy.

Hark, I can hear them now!

(Hydraulic stomping)

(Confused murmurs)

must have been incredibly frustrating
to not get taken seriously by men.

It's quite frustrating in so, you
know, it must have been a lot worse.

Commandeering an army of
Cybermen is not necessarily...

The most sensible way forward.

It's hard to tell if you don't
have any other recourse other

than to have a giant steam-punked
robot crushing London.

She saw an opportunity.

Cybermen promised to, you know,
give her a better tomorrow.

People of the world, now hear me.

Your governments will surrender.

And if not...

Then behold my power.

(Rattling)

(Explosions)

(Screaming)

(Power humming up)

(Zapping)

The Cyber King is one of my favourite
things ever because it's a gigantic...

Robot that looks like it runs on coal.

Kudos to the Cybermen,

using available materials, it's
like a challenge on a reality show.

Cybermen, you have to build
a gigantic steam-punk robot.

Go.

And then the Doctor seems to manage
to defeat it with a hot air balloon.

It's like the exact
opposite of machinery.

He wants to give her a chance,
you know, as he always does.

And he ends up saying something
he... that David Tennant says a lot.

Which is, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

(Crashing) (Miss Hartigan screams)

(Zapping)

(Electronic shriek)

(Click)

The Doctor is often put in
these positions of being,

God with either humans or
the aliens he's dealing with.

By giving them free will um..

And then having them
suffer the consequences,

of their sins or their choices.

I think the Doctor deserves a
Christmas dinner quite frankly.

Normally he'd just wander off.

This other guy had his
consciousness implanted in him.

I guess it's the least he can do, right?

Like, if he tries to get out of it,

this other guy's going to go, wait a
minute, I know exactly what you're doing,

and it's hurtful.

That offer of Christmas dinner, it's
no longer a request, it's a demand.

In memory of those we've lost.

Ah, go on then.

- Really?
- Just this once.

You've actually gone and changed my
mind. Not many people can do that.

Jackson...

If anyone had to be the
Doctor, I'm glad it was you.

The feast awaits. Come, with me.

- Walk this way.
- I certainly will.

Merry Christmas to you, Jackson.

It's kind of nice, he kind of maybe
felt like he belonged somewhere.

Or at least had someone that
understood what he was going through.

Even if it wasn't an
actual Doctor, you know?

Good team. It's like
a Victorian bromance.

Yeah, you could make the
case that because he had...

That info-stamp information
about the Doctor.

That he was the closest that the
Doctor would have to another Time Lord.

The Doctor could feel
a little bit like maybe

they could talk about some Time
Lord stuff, over Christmas goose.

He actually sticks around
and has Christmas dinner.

And I also think that we, as the
audience, know that that means something,

that maybe this is his
last Christmas dinner.

(Theme plays: Dramatic orchestral music)

Would you rather eat fish fingers and
custard or a traditional Christmas dinner?

Last year, my grandmother
left the Christmas Turkey

in the backseat of the car for
three days before she found it.

We all ended up with food poisoning.

This year, I'll take the
fish fingers and custard.

Just as long as you take it
straight from the freezer.

At the beginning of the end
of time... was that confusing?

Probably.

You get the feeling from the beginning
that this isn't going to go well.

He's been away for a
few years, is what I get.

Avoiding this confrontation and
he just seems a little drunk.

The Doctor seems like, hey
okay, everything's groovy.

And then Sigma drops
some crap on the Doctor.

(Dripping)

So...

Right.

The darkness heralds only one thing...

All: The end of time itself.

(Evil laughter)

They, basically, tell the Doctor
his life cycle is going to end.

At which point, I
turned it off and sobbed.

Whenever I tell anyone to watch
Doctor Who, they're like, oh, end of

time's coming up, I'm like, okay, I
want you to brace yourself because,

you're going to go
through a lot of things.

His song is ending. No one
ever wants to hear that.

Even worse if you're
told your jam is ending...

Because you're like, that's my jam.

And I suppose, in a way, at that point,

it's, again, playing with
audience expectations because...

Maybe you know that this is it
for Tennant as an actor on this.

You know, at this point, we always
saw regeneration as something...

Awesome and cool and then,

when we hear the th Doctor talk about
it, you realize it's not just that.

If I'm k*lled before
regeneration then I'm dead.

Even then...

Even if I change, it feels like dying.

Everything I am dies.

Some new man goes sauntering away.

And I'm dead.

It's such a great scene because...

You're reminded of a few things
and also told something new.

Right? You're reminded that
the Doctor is an old man.

And that he's tired, but also
that, for this Doctor, at least,

in this sort of the new construction
of it, that a regeneration is a death.

You think, oh, this is a new body but
that's when he starts to define it as...

Well, yes and no.

So, it was really, it was really hard...

(Emotively) Really hard to watch.

(Whoosh)

And The Master is back,
the Doctor's old foe.

He is uh...

Much like the Doctor in every way.

Maybe in ways that are
too close for comfort?

For everything that the
Doctor can do and be,

The Master can do and be
except he's evil. (Chuckles)

He makes all these copies
through this alien technology,

that you don't really need to know
how it works I mean, it's just creepy.

(Evil laughter)

(Flicking)

(Laughter)

(Snaps fingers)

The hierarchy is very confusing because
everybody's the same person, right?

Yet, one guy will say, hey, go
over there and do that thing.

And I don't know why the other guy doesn't
say, who, what? We're the same person.

Who are you to tell me what to do?

I still don't understand
what good that would serve.

All right, great, what do
we do now? I don't know.

We're all Masters. You want
to go bowling or something?

So the Doctor comes up with
a solution, and this is like...

When you get stuck on a video game
level for a really, really long time.

It doesn't really matter
how this is working.

Don't pay too much attention to that.

Like, what's happening
there is emotional arcs.

What's happening there are people,
characters who have been built over years,

now are coming to a conclusion.

And it's just...

It's, uh, it'll wreck
you if you're a fan.

(Sobbing)

Then there's the four knocks.

Oh, Wilfred.

The four knocks. The damn four knocks.

Wilfred,
knock-knock-knock knocks...

On that glass door.

Still problems.

(Four knocks)

The Doctor is still that
character that will...

Sacrifice his life for an old man.

To be as big as a
Universe and as small as...

Human love is, uh...

Yeah, I cried like a baby.

They drag out his death so painfully.

Usually when a Doctor regenerates, it's
just like, oh, I've been sh*t by a thing,

or something happened and now here I
go, and then, you know, hand sparklers.

He knows he's dying but he also
doesn't have to regenerate immediately.

So it gives him the time to say goodbye.

(Majestic orchestral music)

(Creaking)

Dad.

I bet you're going to
have a really great year.

Yeah?

See ya.

Man, I... the farewell tour wrecks me.

It wrecked me the first time I saw it.

It makes me feel like a...

Twelve year old.

Good final words for David's
era, I don't want to go.

Yes, the audience didn't
want him to either.

I don't want to go.

(Quivering breaths)

(High-pitched whirring)

(Gasping)

(expl*si*n)

(Whooshing)

(Screams)

(expl*si*n)

(Crackling)

Legs?

I've still got legs. (Smooch)

Good!

(Patting)

Arms, hands.

Ooh, fingers, lots of fingers.

Ears, yes. Eyes, too. Nose...

I've had worse. Chin... blimey.

Hair...

I'm a girl!

No! No, I'm not a girl. No.

Ah, I'm still not Ginger!

There's something else, there's
something important, I'm, I'm, I'm...

(expl*si*n)

(Laughs)

Crashing!

Matt came in and did his own.

The th Doctor is his own Doctor.

And, uh, it's...

It just reaffirms why...

(Chuckles)

It's my favourite show in the world.

Space fish!

If Charles Dickens ever sees the
Doctor Who version of a Christmas Carol.

I think he'll realize where he went
wrong with his original draft...

No flying sharks.

That's the best Christmas special by
far. It's got time travel as a plot point.

It's about exuberance and
joy, the true Christmas spirit.

Can't go wrong with opening
with a spaceship crashing.

That's a big, that's a
good way to open a show.

There's always a spaceship
crashing towards Earth, isn't there?

Please return to their seats
and fasten their safety belts.

- He'll come! He always comes!
- Well, he is cutting it kind of fine!

The ship is going down.

The planet that the spaceship is about
to crash into in a Christmas Carol.

Is basically Victorian
London but with a twist.

There are sharks that swim through the
sky unless this force field is activated.

And only one man is in
charge of that force field...

Gambon. Gambon. Gambon.

Viewers will be familiar
with Gambon from Top Gear.

The man even has a corner
named after him on that.

So we meet Mr. Sardick, this
guy, look, I don't like to talk

about people behind their back,
but he is an unpleasant person.

There is not a caring bone in his body.

So the Doctor makes it his mission...

To get this guy to
care and he does it...

By going back to his childhood
and changing his life.

And changing his memories.

Get out. Get out of my house.

Okay. Okay, but I'll be back.

Way back. (Sobbing)

(TARDIS engines wheezing/groaning)

See? Back. (Clattering)

- Kazran: Who are you?
- Hi. I'm the Doctor.

- Kazran: Who are you talking to?
- You.

Now, your past is going to change.

That means your memories will change too.
A bit scary but you'll get the hang of it.

- I don't understand.
- I bet you don't.

I wish I could see your face.

Well, that never happened.

(Doctor thuds on bed)

But it did.

I don't know why that little boy
was making home movies of himself.

I don't know. I guess every
planet has their own YouTube.

He doesn't mess with
people's time lines usually.

That's supposed to be against the rules.

The Doctor, I feel like he says
he has rules but he really doesn't.

He breaks all the rules all the time.

I think this is the
new Doctor, you know?

I think he realizes time can be altered.

And he's going to take advantage of it.

Then show me the future. Prove me wrong.

I am showing it to you. I'm
showing it to you right now.

So, what do you think?

Is this who you want to become, Kazran?

Dad?

(Clattering)

(Sobbing)

That's just heavy for me.

So that episode in
particular just really

grabbed me in a very
profound way because...

It's all about behaviour and
who we are through experience.

And yet how much does
that define who we are?

And that's an interesting question.

That's a heart wrenching scene.

Also no little boy wants to know
he's going to look like that guy.

They end up saving the spaceship in
a sleigh with space fish then it's a...

Merry, a Merry Christmas
or whatever they...

Celebrate up on that planet.

The day space Jesus was
born in a space manger.

Where are they, Kazran and Abigail?

Off on a little trip I should think.

- Where?
- Christmas.

- Christmas.
- Yeah...

Christmas.

(Bells jangling)

(Laughter)

When the snow is not alien ash from a...

From some genocidal holocaust that
the Doctor perpetrated this time,

that's a nice relief.

You can't really imagine Christmas
without a Doctor Who Christmas special.

You can have your How the
Grinch Stole Christmas.

Because, really, the only kind
of Whoville I want to visit,

is in a Doctor Who Christmas special.

With the Christmas specials,
they're... in some ways, more interior.

It's more that the kind
of science fiction where,

it almost doesn't matter who the
evil robot space aliens are...

As much as it is working through
the emotional issues of...

Who your loved ones are, and where
they are, and how can you be with them.

So it's kind of like Christmas.

Sometimes it's really fun and sometimes
it's just uncomfortable and sad.

The message always seems to
be Christmas is a tough time.

You've got your relatives.

You have space monsters.

There's always somebody who's
gonna bring it all together.

If the specials are trying
to send a Christmas message,

it might be don't go
to London on Christmas.

I know, seriously, everyone
should just leave London.

Really, Britain's calendar is Christmas,

and then January through the st
of December is rebuild England.

Christmas! Crap!

Rebuild England.

We just fixed that.

Big Ben, Parliament, we
just fixed that. Come on.

What are you doing? Why do we live here?

You know what? Just leave it. Leave it.

Here, I'll kick it down, aliens.

There, I'll knock down Parliament, okay?

Fine. Whatever. I'm leaving.