The time travelling two-hearted alien is back! Doctor Who returned to our screens at Christmas and has been fantastic.
Christmas Special: The Church on Ruby Road
- The Doctor likes to dance.
- A ‘Foundling’ is an abandoned baby.
- Repeated accidents are a sign of Goblins.
- Golbins are real, sing and have a King.
Episode 1 – Space Babies
- The Doctor lives for days of adventure.
- The law doesn’t always make sense.
- Every person or creature is unique in the universe.
- Nobody grows up wrong.
- Sometimes technology takes things literally.
- Good people sometimes do bad things whilst trying to protect others.
Episode 2 – The Devil’s Chord
- Life without music would be awefully dull.
- The impact The Beatles had was global and transformative.
- Music can be wonderful or terrible.
- According to The Doctor: “Music is the highest form of thought.”
Episode 3 – Boom
- Dad’s should never let their children down.
- The Doctor is enough annumition to destroy only half a planet. To be honest, I expected him to take out at least half a solar sytem.
- War, business and an Artifical Intelligence make a bad combination.
- The Doctor has excellent control of his adrenealine and other human involuntary processes.
- Churches can become armies.
Episode 4 – 73 Yards
- Saving the world can be done through fear, fright and flight.
- The Doctor can disappear without a trace.
- Sometimes it takes a lifetime to work out what’s going on.
- Rejection is emotionally harmful and can be a devastating and heartbreaking experience.
Episode 5 – Dot and Bubble
- Spending too much time in social media can lead you to missing what’s happening in the real world – including human eating monsters.
- Sometimes The Doctor saves people who are not nice. Think when Lindy said to The Doctor: “You’re not like us, are you?”
- Some people will do anything to save their selves. Including sacrificing others.
- Some human eating monsters like to work through their list of prey alphabetically.
Episode 6 – Rogue
- The Doctor could fall in love with a man. This makes The Doctor not only wonderfully complex, but gay, lesbian and bisexual depending on his/her current gender.
- Some aliens come to Earth for entertainment.
- Some aliens have faces inspired by birds.
- Rogue gets lost in another dimension forever. This is emotionally painful for The Doctor, showing that he can experience love-like feelings.
Episode 7 – The Legend of Ruby Sunday
- Susan is the name of The Doctor’s granddaughter.
- Everyone loves Davina McCall.
- An old enemy returns with the power to kill.
- Kate Commander in Chief of UNIT cares about the lives of her staff.
Episode 8 – Empire of Death
- Kate puts her hope in The Doctor.
- The mysterious old white-haired woman (photo in episode 7) “had such plans.” But what where or are they? And who is she?
- The Doctor is the one that brings death.
- Sometimes a happy for now ending is more than satisfactory. In fact it’s wonderful and heart touching.
Blog soon,
Antony
