Little Doctor Who specials are commonplace since the show return in 2005, there was of course the mini episode which bridged the gap between The Parting of the Ways and The Christmas Invasion which gave us a proper introduction to David Tennant but the last time there was a proper Doctor Who Comic Relief story was ‘The Curse of Fatal Death’ in 1999 written by a certain Steven Moffat.
The TARDIS appears inside itself which echoes the scene in ‘Logopolis’ except in this case we get several Doctors, several Amy’s and several Rory’s. This story is just a bit of fun and I know that it’s not to be taken seriously but essentially all this happens because Rory looks up his wife’s skirt and drops something. Now I don’t wish to sound like an old fuddy duddy but I just think things need to be toned down a bit. Apart from that there is a lot to like about this story because its there’s a lot of wibbly wobbly stuff that is Moffat’s signature.
Matt Smith does his comedy bit well and my favourite line was something like “So this is how it ends, with Pond flirting with herself!”. It shows again how he can do serious acting as well as comedy. Arthur Darvil was just there to play the husband who liked the idea of having two versions of her wife and Karen Gillan quite literally loved herself but seriously this is starting to get a bit boring now. No more in series 6 please.
As a bit of fun its enjoyable and its always good to see Doctor Who be part of either Children in Need or Comic Relief in a better way that 90 seconds of the opening of an episode. It’s not quite on par with Time Crash but I think that if you have nothing to do for seven minutes then this would be a good way of using that time.
The TARDIS appears inside itself which echoes the scene in ‘Logopolis’ except in this case we get several Doctors, several Amy’s and several Rory’s. This story is just a bit of fun and I know that it’s not to be taken seriously but essentially all this happens because Rory looks up his wife’s skirt and drops something. Now I don’t wish to sound like an old fuddy duddy but I just think things need to be toned down a bit. Apart from that there is a lot to like about this story because its there’s a lot of wibbly wobbly stuff that is Moffat’s signature.
Matt Smith does his comedy bit well and my favourite line was something like “So this is how it ends, with Pond flirting with herself!”. It shows again how he can do serious acting as well as comedy. Arthur Darvil was just there to play the husband who liked the idea of having two versions of her wife and Karen Gillan quite literally loved herself but seriously this is starting to get a bit boring now. No more in series 6 please.
As a bit of fun its enjoyable and its always good to see Doctor Who be part of either Children in Need or Comic Relief in a better way that 90 seconds of the opening of an episode. It’s not quite on par with Time Crash but I think that if you have nothing to do for seven minutes then this would be a good way of using that time.
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