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Welcome to Doctor Who Extra.
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Christmas style.
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We have the surprise return
of River Song.
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She's just as badass as ever.
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Get the heads-up
with comic, Greg Davies.
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So, that was my first experience,
really, Doctor Who,
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was being frightened by my own head.
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Play with some new toys on set.
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I hate to say it,
but it could be the best.
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And say farewell
to filming Doctor Who in 2015.
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Welcome to Doctor Who Extra.
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Ripped By mstoll
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The holiday season
wouldn't be the same
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without another escapade in the TARDIS.
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And this year is extra special,
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because I'm in it!
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Playing the leading role, of course,
with my sidekick, the Doctor.
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Is there anything on my head?
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- Uh, well, yes.
- Describe it.
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Well, you've, sort of, got antlers.
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- Antlers?
- Yes, antlers.
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Being part Of this festive tale
was a thrilling experience
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and brought out
the seasonal spirit for all involved.
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I love Christmas as a day,
I love it as a festival,
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I love that's it's dark and twinkly,
and rich and red.
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All those things I adore.
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But I just like the fact
that it's Christmas.
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That's no hardship for me at all.
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Do quite enjoy filming
the Christmas episodes.
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Uh, clearly, you know you're
going to get snow and tinsel
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and a tang of the festive season.
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And it's always quite odd because
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it's usually in September or October.
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And your body seems to
respond to these triggers.
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I found myself worrying about whether
or not I had bought all my presents.
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Steven's written an awesome script.
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It's a wonderful
sort of slapstick caper.
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There's a lot of great laughs.
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There's a lot of
fabulous River one-liners.
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Oh, my God!
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Well, I wondered why
we didn't share a bathroom.
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This episode, it starts Christmassy.
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But after that, frankly,
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its Christmassy element
is that it's a comedy romp.
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And there's no better person
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to start this fam frolic than Nardole.
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Will there be singing?
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No.
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Played by none other than me.
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Hello.
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Being met by Matt Lucas
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in a wonderful wintry Dickensian street
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with the TARDIS covered in snow,
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was delightful because it was like
a Doctor Who Christmas ca rd.
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And Matt is such a fabulously
funny person to have around.
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So, that was delightful, I loved that.
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In this scene, we have a regeneration
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into me as the Doctor.
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Um, we've bowed to public demand,
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we've got rid of Peter, Peter Capaldi,
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and now I'm playing the Doctor.
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Yes, I, Sir Matt Lucas,
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will regenerate into
the Thirteenth Doctor.
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So, obviously, that's a spoiler.
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I wasn't supposed to
give it away, but I did.
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Yes, Matt is a very big Doctor Who fan.
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I'm always delighted
when we have Doctor Who fans
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who are also wonderful performers
showing up on the show.
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Yes, we did talk about bits and pieces
of Doctor Who that we enjoyed,
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but I think we enjoyed each other's
company more than anything else.
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I'm always a great admirer of comedians,
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and I think they have
such a difficult job to do.
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I thought that they should just play
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last year's Christmas special
again on Christmas Day
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and just say that everyone was stuck
in the time-space continuum.
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And that it all happened again.
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Well, it seems
Steven didn't take my advice.
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- Do I know you?
- You most certainly do not.
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Instead
after a serious hiatus, he decided
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to bring back the brazen River Song.
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I was quite surprised
when I was asked to come back.
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It's such a great character,
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and she's become so beloved
by lots of fans.
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And I've had a lot of fans saying,
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"Oh, my goodness,
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"and to see her interacting
with Peter Capaldi's Doctor."
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So, I actually was
really thrilled when, um,
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Steven decided that he wanted
to explore that as well.
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The starship Harmony and Redemption.
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Minimum ticket price,
one billion credits,
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plus, the provable murder
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of multiple innocent life forms.
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This is where genocide comes
to kick back and relax.
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Do try the fish.
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River is very much the same River
we've always known,
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except what we've never seen,
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and what I was very keen to write,
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was what's she like when he's not there.
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And that's what we see
for most of the episode.
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The slightly more ruthless,
slightly more cavalier,
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slightly less moral River
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that isn't, sort of,
on her best behaviour
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because the love of her life, the
endlessly pious Doctor, isn't around.
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The restraints are off,
she's misbehaving more.
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- Took me a week.
- To fall in love?
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It's the easiest lie
you can tell a man.
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They'll automatically believe
any story they're the hero of.
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She's got quite a few husbands
in this episode.
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And, um, a lot of running around,
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a lot of fabulous quick-fire dialogue
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between her and Peter.
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She gets to snog the most handsome man
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in the world, whose name is
Ramone.
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Yeah, so it's all going on.
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I've already picked out your swimwear.
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Okay, but be careful.
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Absolutely not!
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You, with me. Bring the head.
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She's just as badass as ever.
So...
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Uh, yeah, more of the same, I'd say.
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- Sexy.
- It's not sexy.
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It's a little bit sexy.
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Why is everything sexy now?
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Speaking of which, Ramone, prep for
emergency extraction. Two to go.
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I think he gets rather annoyed
that she keeps flirting with people.
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He probably hopes that all of that
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flirtatiousness is solely for him,
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but it's not.
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It's good fun, and no matter
how he tries to convince her
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that he is the Doctor,
she doesn't buy it.
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You know who I am, it's me!
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Great. Who are you?
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She was very charming,
very clever, very funny and witty...
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Great presence and, you know,
a wonderful actress.
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So, that was fantastic.
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It was fantastic to see
her bring River to life.
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And I felt she brought such depth
to the character.
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The Doctor is not stupid enough
or sentimental enough,
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and he is certainly not in love enough,
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to find himself standing in it with me!
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Hello, sweetie.
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As well as River Song,
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we also saw the introduction of
the unwittingly foolhardy Hydroflax,
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played by fellow comedian Greg Davies.
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Darling!
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You're up and about.
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False wife!
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What I love about my character is
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that he very grandly takes his head off
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as if that's empowering,
but it leaves me headless.
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You know, he's not very clever,
Hydroflax, I don't think.
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But I like that.
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He's very grand and pompous
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but also a bit stupid with it,
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in that he gives his head away,
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and he just gets stuck in a bag.
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It really made me laugh.
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You will be crushed!
You will be destroyed!
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You will beg for my...
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Oh. zip it!
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I'm sort of a bit worried that I was
the first person they thought of.
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I'm very tall.
That would've helped, I'm sure.
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And this. I've got...
This is just part of my face anyway.
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So, that saved them on makeup.
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I think that Hydroflax is great fun,
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and the fact that it looks like
an enormous Christmas toy,
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like a robot that
someone’s just unwrapped
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at the bottom of the Christmas tree,
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I think it's a plus.
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With interchangeable heads,
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which get lost during the plot.
It's very clever.
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You're gonna die!
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One of the first things I saw when
I walked into the makeup room was this.
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It's so realistic, I think,
that I asked Becca to cover it up
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because it was really frightening me.
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So, that was my first experience,
really, Doctor Who,
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was being frightened by my own head.
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Yeah, so horrible.
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This is the one with my eyes open.
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And what they told me to do,
expression-wise,
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when I had this face mould made,
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was I had to look sort of
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But it's just sort of
a surprised chump face.
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I knew every time
the Hydroflax showed up...
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I knew we would have
quite a lot of sitting around
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as we tried to get
it in the right place.
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But then, Doctor Who
is always like that.
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The monsters are actually
difficult to operate.
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But it was worth it because,
you know, it looked amazing.
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My costume is a nine-foot robot
as people will know by now,
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which I've come to hate, incidentally,
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'cause it's incredibly uncomfortable
to be inside it.
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But I love how it looks.
I think it's brilliant.
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The initial scene, and I'm sure
this will come across on screen,
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Hydroflax the robot is poorly
and on a medical bay table.
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And the initial design was
for me not to be in the suit,
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for the suit to be laid out,
just be filming it.
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The suit is laid out and I'm underneath
the table popping my head up.
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But the angle that we had to film at
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meant that my head was like this
for the whole scene.
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We filmed for more than the whole day
with me in this position here.
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So, if Hydroflax
seems like he's in pain,
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it's because he genuinely is.
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Can you save me, surgeon?
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Well, that depends on
what's wrong with you.
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There's something in his brain.
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You could have fooled me.
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Oh, oh, sorry.
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And the TARDIS, I mean...
Who gets to go in the TARDIS?
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It's so exciting to be in the TARDIS.
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Yeah, and to be literally inside
the TARDIS, as I am at one point,
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they have to cut a hole
in one of the consoles,
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so that it looks like the Doctor's just
placed my head on the TARDIS console.
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You could wipe out this solar system.
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It wouldn't be the first.
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It would be your last.
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A fitting end for
the glory of Hydroflax.
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No, I've never had
a job like this.
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And I can't tell you how excited I was.
It was brilliant.
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Time we were off, then.
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Greg wasn't the only one
who enjoyed hanging out in the TARDIS.
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You're doing it wrong.
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I am certainly not.
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I think, actually,
the favourite moment so far for me
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was stepping back onto the TARDIS.
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Because the interior of the TARDIS
has changed yet again,
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and I've been on
two different TARDIS incarnations.
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And to walk into this one
and know that it's familiar,
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because it is,
it's exactly the same space,
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so it's a familiar space,
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but at the same time, it's different...
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Uh, it's great, and I love this one.
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I love it.
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Everything works, which is really fun.
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So, I stand there
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just twiddling all the knobs and
pressing all the buttons. It's great.
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It wasn't only
the Doctor's new decor,
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Alex was also impressed
with the Doctor's recent sonic upgrade.
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Look at this for a screwdriver.
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I mean, that is something else,
isn't it?
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Look at that...
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I hate to say it,
but it could be the best.
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So, this is my new sonic.
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It is TARDIS blue,
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which is very sweet.
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And when you operate it
and its light comes on,
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you can see its resemblance
to the TARDIS.
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It has a slightly old-fashioned feel,
which I quite like.
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Which is very good, very evocative.
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I'm an archaeologist.
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Look, I've got a trowel.
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Yes, Peter wasn't
the only one with a new sonic device.
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We also saw River whip out
her sonic trowel.
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This is a thing of beauty.
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Look, the craftsmanship, the weight...
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Mahogany. It's fantastic. This is mine.
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My personal sonic trowel.
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Great for serving slices of cake...
Marvellous.
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And now I think it's time for me
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to take you for some
sightseeing backstage
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in my rather fetching mask.
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Let's have a look
and see what's going on.
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I never knew. I thought that was a wig.
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Is that yours?
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This is Alex's 348th appearance
as River Song.
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Yes, and I'm 106.
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That's why I have to wear a cloak,
so you don't see my face.
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I think Alex's cloak
looks a bit like,
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um, Freddie Mercury's
in the Queen encore.
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I love River's costumes because they're
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a little bit more out of the ordinary.
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They're eccentric,
but they're practical.
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And also, I think they
encapsulate her very well,
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her character, her faithfulness,
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but also her sort of tough-chickness,
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as you can see from my
leather jacket.
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She's a returning character,
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so she liked the fact that they're new,
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but they also tap
into her history on Doctor Who.
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What all the costumes
have to do is work practically.
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She needed to fall through ceilings,
she was in explosions,
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she had to wear harnesses,
and work artistically.
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So, she was thrilled with them.
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So, I'm always very happy
when we have to create a new look.
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And certainly, in this episode,
she has quite a few costumes.
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There is a bit of bling.
More bling than this.
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And she gets to sort of,
you know, strut her stuff a bit.
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Particularly towards the end.
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It was very funny to
be suddenly shopping
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for sequin-beaded dresses,
lovely dresses,
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after doing 12 adventurous episodes.
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So, it was really nice,
and it was lovely for Alex, as well.
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So, you go into a different world
with that one.
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- Here.
- Ow!
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I don't suppose you mind
if I freshen up?
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Not bad for 200, eh?
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How fabulous is that?
It's just like a little spritz
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of what looks like perfume.
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It looks like a little perfume bottle.
It's just a little spritz,
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and she's in a total new do.
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New do, new outfit. Marvellous.
Every woman should have one.
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Of course, no Christmas episode
would be complete
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without the seasonal trimmings.
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Working with snow is amazing
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because as soon as
it all starts to fall,
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your body believes it.
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Even though it's really made up of
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tiny compressed little pieces of paper,
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it comes in big sacks
from a factory somewhere.
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Your body starts to think it really is
snowing, and you start to get cold.
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And you start to worry about
if you've got your Christmas tree
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and when you're gonna put
your decorations up.
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The snow here is
pulverised paper, I think,
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the snow that's laying on the ground.
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And it looks great because it's got that
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fabulous crunchy feel to it
and look to it.
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The problem with it is
that the snow machines
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that throw the snow
into the air are noisy.
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So, people will say,
"You'll have a silent night,
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"a lovely silent setup."
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Then someone will say,
"Put on the snow machine."
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And you get...
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Snow on.
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And you know that all
the dialogue that you're doing
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is not going to be usable.
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And you're going to be in a recording
studio in a few months' time,
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rerecording all of that dialogue.
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The snow that falls...
That's bubbles.
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It's like being in a giant bubble bath.
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This way.
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The very last night we spend together is
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at the Singing Towers of Darillium.
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That wouldn't be true, would it?
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Spoilers.
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On one level, the story
wraps everything up, in a way.
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But then again,
the last episode I was in,
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I thought completed River's story.
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Times end, River, because they have to.
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Because there's no such thing
as happy ever after.
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It's just a lie we tell ourselves
because the truth is so hard.
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But who knows what happens
with the story of River Song.
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It's a mysterious, ranging, roving story
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that she can appear anywhere.
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So, who knows? Who know what goes on
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in the mind of the great Steven Moffat?
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It wouldn't be right
to wrap this series up
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without a final surprise present.
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We know you'll like the present.
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We actually had to
steal it from your flat.
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Thank you very much.
A guitar case!
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This is a wonderful gift.
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But the best gift
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would be us all being back together.
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Well, that's it.
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I guess there's nothing left
to say, except...
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Happy Christmas, everybody.
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Right. Are we done?
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Whose idea was that?
Absolutely ridiculous.
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So, Matt, I have
a bag of goodies for you.
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Here we go.
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Lovely. Ooh!
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Exciting.
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Tinsel. Cheap. That's very cheap.
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A Christmas boot.
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"Describe your perfect Christmas."
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Well, I should say that
chocolate money would feature.
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And chocolate everything else.
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My perfect Christmas would be
with all the people that I love,
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and they know who they are.
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And there would be a lot of
roast potatoes and gravy involved.
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Snow. If we were somewhere snowy,
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in the Alps or somewhere like that,
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uh, around a fantastic log fire.
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Receiving lots of presents,
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preferably. um, chocolate money again.
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And real money.
I always like real money.
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