New Who Review #117

Last Christmas ❄️

This story was pretty boring. It's doctor who's take on Alien and with that description you'd think it would be good. But it's a whole lot of nothing. The doctor and clara are trapped in a never ending dream and slowly dying to a creature called a Dream Crab. There are some funny scenes in this with Santa and the doctor having the best chemistry and it was entertaining to watch it's probably the highlight of the episode. The scene where the doctor is flying a sleigh was cool and led nicely into everyone waking up. The ending with clara was beautiful and was intended to be the way she left the show but obviously she didn't but it's still beautiful none the less. The music in that scene was great and worked so well. Ending on a tangerine was nice because as 10 once said "you go through all those gifts and right at the end is a satsuma" even though in this case it's a tangerine...anyway. overall an ok Christmas special that was intended to be a companion exit until it wasn't. 5/10