Doctor Who (A Christmas Carol) Christmas 2010 Special Review

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It is the 2010 Christmas special called a Christmas Carol Starring Matt Smith, Karen Gillian, Arthur Darvill, Michael Gambon and Katherine Jenkins. It is written by Stephen Moffat

Synopsis

Amy and Rory, celebrating their honeymoon, are aboard a space liner with 4000 other passengers, flying out of control into a colonized planet shrouded by a cloud system controlled by a spire on the planet. The Doctor, alerted by Amy's distress call, lands on the planet in the TARDIS and tries to convince the miser Kazran Sardick to turn off the cloud controls, which are biologically locked to Kazran, but is unable to do so. Kazran, like his father, considers the rest of the population of the planet as cattle and has little care for the lives aboard the liner. When the Doctor arrives, Kazran refuses to release a young girl, Abigail, from cryogenic storage to her sister's family. Recognizing that Kazran's father has had a significant effect on Kazran's life, the Doctor devises a scheme based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to improve Kazran in the past and present so that he will help turn off the spire and allow the liner to land safely.

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[keydon100]

great review as always.

happy new year!

[BarryAldridge]

@keydon100 Happy new year to you mate.

[islandcrim]

I agree that it was a very good meld of Dr. Who, Xmas, and Moffat. The set reminded me a lot of Dr. Suess's Grinch. It is my favorite xmas special.

[BarryAldridge]

@islandcrim Never really thought of the Grinch.

[tomthumbplum]

Either you had a cold or posted this after a mountain of Xmas dinner left overs?

XD

All the same, top dollar opinion as always mate...

[hoj883006]

The crew on the crashing ship had the omega sign on their shirt sleeves.

[hoj883006]

The crew on the crashing ship had the omega sign on their sleeve.

[benzion888]

I hated this one I am sick of Xmas been spoken of all the time in evey Christmas special how many of you believe in Jesus one or two many be I think that religon and religious holidays should not be in any sci-fi programmes unless its done like stargate sg1

[t7easy]

LOL U CRIED?

Wow.... WOW WHAT?

[theonescaredcat]

What a great show to review

[grantha]

Is that a door or a cupboard behind you!?

[Kanuskiz]

It is also my favorite DW X-Mas special so far.

[Samzsite]

Great review, I personally loved this Christmas episode. It makes me miss David though, hard to believe he's been gone for a year!

[Samzsite]

@BarryAldridge It's not a joke, it's a meme.