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- Subs created by: David Coleman.
- Christmas.
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- Christmas?
- Yeah... Christmas.
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(Laughs)
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Ah, the Christmas specials.
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A little nugget of Christmas
present for the Whovians.
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(Snap)
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Because the season
ends, and then it says,
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Doctor Who will be back at
christmastime, with some...
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Bizarre title.
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(Whoosh)
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I think Christmas is the Doctor's favourite
holiday, although he'll never say it.
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He'd enjoy the warmth
about it and how families,
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get together and the
sense of celebration.
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There's this sense that even
though he is not only not,
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church of England, but not from Earth,
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that there's still something
significant to him about a,
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a family holiday for a guy
who doesn't have a family.
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Christmas dinner.
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Oh, come on.
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There's a general holiday vibe,
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probably a threat of genocide, and
then everyone's happy at the end.
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Christmas.
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(Theme plays)
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There is this thing,
this grand tradition,
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of the introduction of the new
Doctor after a regeneration.
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The Christmas Invasion is the debut of
the tenth Doctor, who is David Tennant.
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Christmas invasion opens
with the TARDIS crashing.
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It is like a Sci-Fi NASCAR.
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(Jackie screams)
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(Door creaks)
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Here we are, then. London, Earth!
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The solar system! I
did it! (Dog barking)
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This dude pops out and they have no
idea who he is, and Rose is like...
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Yep, that's the Doctor.
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Eccleston, he still felt
like your dad, didn't he?
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Shut up, listen to me, run this way.
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Whereas Tennant was more like,
why don't we have a laugh?
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Love the sideburns. Um...
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Love the gravity-defying
kind of hair, pompadour.
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That jacket was just hanging off
him. Maybe it's the leather thing.
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It's not for everyone,
you know? Uh, maybe...
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He could pull off leather
pants but not the top.
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Why does Santa always have to be
evil in the Christmas specials?
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There's just something that's
especially creepy about,
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turning something that is so
precious into a killing machine.
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That's a very Doctor Who
thing taking childish themes,
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or things that children trust,
and then turning them on its head.
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(Brass band melody: God
Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)
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(Ominous incidental music)
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(Whoosh) (Gunfire)
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(Screaming)
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(Screaming) Run!
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I gotta say, those Santa's...
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Did not look not scary
to begin with, right?
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Like, I don't know why anybody was
getting within 100 yards of them.
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The Christmas Tree took me by surprise.
I did not expect that to happen.
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It's scary, but it's also
really funny, because it's a
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Christmas Tree that's killing
you, or trying to kill you.
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(Scraping)
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(Gasping)
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(Screaming)
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(Screaming)
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Get out, go, go, get out!
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(Gasping)
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No, leave him, just leave him!
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Get in here!
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(Shriek)
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(Crashing)
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Why can't Christmas just be the peaceful,
loving holiday that it normally is?
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The thing about all the
Christmas specials, I think,
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is that they subvert all of that
lovely, cozy Christmas imagery,
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and make it really, truly nasty.
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Ho ho ho, I don't think so.
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Those Sycorax were classic
Doctor Who monsters.
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In every sense of the word,
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with the mad eyes and the sort
of spiky teeth and that sort of...
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(Grunting alien language).
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The aliens are going to kill us and we
can't even understand what they're saying,
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because the Doctor's not around to,
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transmit the TARDIS translation
field into our brain.
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We need the Doctor.
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And then something wonderful happens.
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(Doors creak) (Echoing hum)
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Did you miss me?
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(Roaring) (Electrical crackle)
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Could put someone's eye out with that.
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How dare...
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(Roaring) I demand to know who you are!
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(Roaring) I don't know!
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With this scene, he's
saying, this is my stand.
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I am the Doctor, like it or not.
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Action-hero Doctor was great to
me. I thought that was a great move.
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Just as that Doctor is defining
himself to himself within the plot,
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within the structure of the story, you
have to define that to the viewers, too.
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Say, this is going to be new,
it's going to be different.
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(Snarling and blades clashing)
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(Triumphant roar)
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Sycorax!
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Witchcraft!
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Time Lord.
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That's when you're like, well,
that arm's not coming back,
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oh, wait, he's still
regenerating, very clever.
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There is some swashbuckling,
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a sword that is played with...
swordplay, if you will...
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All done in a bathrobe and pajamas.
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And you think, is
this his new character?
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Sleepy time Doctor?
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Is his weakness hot tea...
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Warm milk?
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When it seems like the special is over,
and Earth is safe, and we're all cool...
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Harriet Jones decides that
instead of letting the Sycorax go.
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She needs to destroy them so they
can't go out into the Universe,
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and tell other life forms
about the Planet Earth.
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Fire at will.
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(Zapping)
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(Screaming)
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(Explosion)
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- That was murder!
- That was defense.
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And that's, I think, good storytelling,
is when everybody's right in some way.
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The best thing about Doctor Who is that it
comments on human society and I think that,
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it's not out of the question that
human beings would screw it up somehow.
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So the episode ends with...
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This gorgeous snow falling
on the streets of London...
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It's the ashes of the fallen Sycorax.
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It just sort of underscores the idea
that there's this other stuff going on,
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that the people of Earth really just
don't care or want to know about.
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What are they, meteors?
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It's the spaceship breaking
up in the atmosphere.
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This isn't snow, it's ash.
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Okay, not so beautiful.
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It's reminiscent of the
core of what Doctor Who is,
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which is, nothing is as it seems,
and something always has an...
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An antithetical meaning.
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There's the thing about a
white Christmas I suppose
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you're supposed to want
it to snow on Christmas,
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as part of the, symbology of the
day, and it just never does for him.
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It's always something
horrifying buried underneath.
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What should be a beautiful moment.
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Would you rather find a sonic
screwdriver in your stocking,
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or a TARDIS under your Christmas Tree?
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I want the sonic screwdriver because...
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I can open doors and scan things,
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and figure out if they're human
or not and make cool noises.
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And I can't fly the
TARDIS. I'm not River Song.
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Fun as it might be to have,
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I'm not the Doctor, so I wouldn't have
the foggiest idea how to use this thing.
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So I'd probably just end
up fixing my grandma's TV.
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So I think I'd rather have the
TARDIS under my Christmas Tree,
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because then the
Doctor's not far behind.
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We meet Donna Noble.
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She is about to get married,
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when all of a sudden she
gets zapped into the TARDIS.
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What?
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That's what the Doctor says.
That's also what I say right now.
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Rewind it if you want proof.
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We get one of David Tennant's famous...
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What?
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What?! Which I love so much.
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(Wedding march played on organ)
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(Electric whispering)
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(Screams)
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(Whoosh)
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What?
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- Oh!
- What?!
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Who are you?
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- But...
- Where am I?
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What?!
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What the hell is this place?
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What?!
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Instead of being scared
and frightened and hiding,
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she looks at the Doctor and
she's like, what did you do to me?
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What's going on?
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Because usually everyone,
you know they kind of,
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struggle with him a little bit,
they're like, you can't do this,
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and he's like, of course I can,
and they're like, I love you.
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So to have somebody who
comes in and is like what the,
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bloody hell are you playing at?
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Get me back to my wedding!
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Never mind, spaceman,
chop chop! Time's wasting!
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Then she gets kidnapped by robot Santa.
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Why does robot Santa have
to do that every Christmas?
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This is the first high-speed car
chase the TARDIS has been involved in.
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(Engines wheezing/groaning)
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Santa's a robot!
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Donna, open the door!
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- What for?
- You've got to jump!
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(Yelping)
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(Inaudible)
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I can't do it!
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Trust me.
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Is that what you said to her?
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Your friend, the one you lost?
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Did she trust you?
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Yes, she did.
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And she is not dead, she
is so alive. Now jump!
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(Screaming)
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(Muffled cheering)
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Wouldn't you just love
to see that on the M6?
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Wouldn't that just
brighten up a journey.
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To see the TARDIS
dealing with some people
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who weren't observing the Highway code?
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Fantastic.
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In the runaway bride, it
asks, you afraid of spiders?
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Well, take a look at this bad boy.
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The Racnoss Empress has...
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Her children, who are finally...
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Being born from the center of the Earth.
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All these crazy, hungry,
scary spider babies.
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Are going to emerge
and take over the Earth.
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It's like that old urban legend where
someone's got a mole or a pimple,
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or something and then it bursts and spiders
come out all over the person's face?
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That is the Earth, we thought
the Earth was a pimple.
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But it's really just a spider sack.
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We can't have anything
that's just ours, can we?
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(Whoosh)
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(Hissing)
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Racnoss.
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But that's impossible.
You're one of the Racnoss!
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Empress of the Racnoss!
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The Racnoss come from the dark times,
billions of years ago, billions!
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They were carnivores, omnivores.
They devoured whole planets.
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Racnoss are born starving.
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Is that our fault?
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I just want to know what
that audition is like,
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because she has to
do some awesome stuff.
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She's all, like... (Hissing)
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I don't eat shellfish, and it's
not for any religious reasons.
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It's because to me, all shellfish looks
as disgusting as the Racnoss Empress.
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Right? Is she that much
different than a lobster?
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Not really.
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He gives her the opportunity
to say, hey, you know what?
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I am going to take this other
option, not destroy this entire race.
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He always gives people another chance.
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And the crazy spider lady gets greedy.
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She doesn't take that chance.
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Empress of the Racnoss, I
give you one last chance.
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I can find you a planet.
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I can find you and your children a
place in the Universe to co-exist.
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I'm afraid I have to decline.
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(Cackling)
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Then what happens next is
your own doing. I warned you.
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You did this.
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(Explosions) (Screaming)
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My children!
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(Wailing cries)
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Doctor!
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You can stop now!
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Empress: (Screaming) My children!
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Like, come on, aliens,
what are you doing?
250
00:13:11,619 --> 00:13:14,399
How many people does he have to
kill by not wanting to kill them,
251
00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,011
before you guys just shut up and leave?
252
00:13:16,012 --> 00:13:18,274
He ends up having to murder them,
253
00:13:18,275 --> 00:13:22,118
which is a very weird thing for
Donna and for his character, too.
254
00:13:22,119 --> 00:13:26,473
By his tenth incarnation,
perhaps he's more used to that.
255
00:13:26,474 --> 00:13:30,711
Because he's seen how the
bigger picture is affected.
256
00:13:30,712 --> 00:13:32,574
He knows it's bad, he's doing it anyway.
257
00:13:32,575 --> 00:13:35,969
He knows it's a black mark on his soul.
258
00:13:35,970 --> 00:13:39,094
But he's doing it for some
greater good that only he can see.
259
00:13:39,095 --> 00:13:41,625
And you sort of see
all that in his face.
260
00:13:41,626 --> 00:13:44,727
Donna says to the Doctor,
I think you need someone.
261
00:13:44,728 --> 00:13:47,603
And he says, I don't need
someone, and she's like, you do.
262
00:13:47,604 --> 00:13:49,849
You need someone to stop you sometimes.
263
00:13:49,850 --> 00:13:52,216
He needs the counter-balance of those,
264
00:13:52,217 --> 00:13:56,940
other individuals to
kind of keep him in check.
265
00:13:56,941 --> 00:13:59,361
Well, you could always...
266
00:13:59,362 --> 00:14:00,669
What?
267
00:14:00,670 --> 00:14:03,190
Come with me.
268
00:14:04,110 --> 00:14:05,619
No.
269
00:14:05,620 --> 00:14:06,574
Okay.
270
00:14:06,575 --> 00:14:08,876
- I can't.
- No, that's fine.
271
00:14:08,877 --> 00:14:10,579
Tell you what I will do, though.
272
00:14:10,580 --> 00:14:11,930
Christmas dinner.
273
00:14:11,931 --> 00:14:15,509
He's like, let me just park the TARDIS.
274
00:14:15,510 --> 00:14:18,145
It's a classic French goodbye, right?
275
00:14:18,146 --> 00:14:20,318
He's gone. She calls him on it.
276
00:14:20,319 --> 00:14:22,303
She knows what it's all about.
277
00:14:22,304 --> 00:14:26,372
And he's like, yeah,
yeah. I'm still leaving.
278
00:14:26,373 --> 00:14:29,420
Promise me one thing.
279
00:14:29,421 --> 00:14:31,881
Find someone.
280
00:14:32,311 --> 00:14:34,138
I don't need anyone.
281
00:14:34,139 --> 00:14:36,281
Yes, you do.
282
00:14:36,282 --> 00:14:41,742
Because sometimes I think
you need someone to stop you.
283
00:14:41,819 --> 00:14:43,739
Yeah.
284
00:14:44,866 --> 00:14:47,038
I think, yeah, when you're a Time Lord.
285
00:14:47,039 --> 00:14:50,771
And you're by yourself, I can
imagine it being very, very lonely.
286
00:14:50,772 --> 00:14:52,544
The Doctor has to go it alone.
287
00:14:52,545 --> 00:14:56,981
No matter, you know, whom he
wants as his friend or partner,
288
00:14:56,982 --> 00:15:00,780
or girlfriend through time, he's
ultimately going to be alone.
289
00:15:00,781 --> 00:15:03,732
But he likes having people to talk to.
290
00:15:03,733 --> 00:15:07,176
He likes having somebody
there to show this stuff to.
291
00:15:07,177 --> 00:15:08,676
It's good for viewers, because
292
00:15:08,677 --> 00:15:11,390
those companions are our
proxies, those companions are us.
293
00:15:11,391 --> 00:15:17,291
We don't get to really be like the Doctor,
we get to be like the people he's with.
294
00:15:18,018 --> 00:15:22,832
Would you rather go sleigh-riding with
a Dalek or make Snow Angels with an Ood?
295
00:15:22,833 --> 00:15:24,403
Oh, hello.
296
00:15:24,404 --> 00:15:26,360
Okay, I would rather...
297
00:15:26,361 --> 00:15:29,700
Wait, what is... some kind of
feedback. Hold on, let me...
298
00:15:29,701 --> 00:15:31,921
(Whirring)
299
00:15:32,461 --> 00:15:34,298
Ah, there we go now...
300
00:15:34,299 --> 00:15:37,567
I would rather ride in a sleigh with
a Dalek as opposed to Santa Claus,
301
00:15:37,568 --> 00:15:42,973
because I would love to see the Grinch
try to steal Christmas from a Dalek.
302
00:15:42,974 --> 00:15:47,354
That wouldn't end well. Merry Christmas!
303
00:15:50,823 --> 00:15:55,447
Voyage of the damned is a
phenomenal stand-alone episode.
304
00:15:55,448 --> 00:15:57,855
We have the Doctor on his
own, and what do we get?
305
00:15:57,856 --> 00:16:02,004
We get a disaster movie played
out across space and time.
306
00:16:02,005 --> 00:16:03,271
(Engines wheezing/groaning)
307
00:16:03,272 --> 00:16:04,403
(Horn blaring)
308
00:16:04,404 --> 00:16:06,444
(Crash)
309
00:16:12,563 --> 00:16:14,483
What?
310
00:16:15,832 --> 00:16:17,425
- What?
- What?
311
00:16:17,426 --> 00:16:19,962
Like, I just picture David
Tennant sitting there and thinking,
312
00:16:19,963 --> 00:16:23,619
how many different ways
can I say the word what?
313
00:16:23,620 --> 00:16:25,015
What?!
314
00:16:25,016 --> 00:16:26,677
What, what, what?
315
00:16:26,678 --> 00:16:28,619
There's that what line again.
316
00:16:28,620 --> 00:16:31,019
Don't overuse it, fellas.
317
00:16:31,020 --> 00:16:36,120
Steward: Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to Christmas.
318
00:16:36,262 --> 00:16:40,042
It's a spaceship made up
to be like the Titanic.
319
00:16:40,043 --> 00:16:42,377
I don't know why anyone would
name something the Titanic.
320
00:16:42,378 --> 00:16:45,334
Future generations who are watching
this, never name anything the Titanic.
321
00:16:45,335 --> 00:16:47,306
It's not going to end well, but...
322
00:16:47,307 --> 00:16:50,571
We do get Kylie Minogue in
this episode, which is nice.
323
00:16:50,572 --> 00:16:55,933
We meet Astrid, who is played by
international pop star Kylie Minogue.
324
00:16:55,934 --> 00:16:59,851
She's a cocktail waitress
on the spaceship Titanic.
325
00:16:59,852 --> 00:17:02,954
The Doctor and Kylie
Minogue on a cruise ship?
326
00:17:02,955 --> 00:17:05,300
That is a cruise I would take.
327
00:17:05,301 --> 00:17:11,003
I used to watch the ships heading out
to the stars, and I always dreamt of...
328
00:17:11,004 --> 00:17:12,390
It sounds daft.
329
00:17:12,391 --> 00:17:15,110
You dreamt of another sky?
330
00:17:15,111 --> 00:17:17,050
New sun...
331
00:17:17,051 --> 00:17:19,720
New air, new life.
332
00:17:19,721 --> 00:17:23,625
Why stand still when there's
all that life out there?
333
00:17:23,626 --> 00:17:27,429
So they go down to Earth for Christmas Eve,
which the Doctor has done many times...
334
00:17:27,430 --> 00:17:30,713
And instead of all the
people bustling around,
335
00:17:30,714 --> 00:17:33,647
and buying presents,
there's just nobody there.
336
00:17:33,648 --> 00:17:37,606
She's just visiting a planet and she's
always wanted to travel, and she's...
337
00:17:37,607 --> 00:17:39,974
Excited to be there, but it's empty.
338
00:17:39,975 --> 00:17:41,775
Oh.
339
00:17:43,216 --> 00:17:45,327
It should be full.
340
00:17:45,328 --> 00:17:47,310
It should be busy. Something's wrong.
341
00:17:47,311 --> 00:17:50,192
But it's beautiful.
342
00:17:50,193 --> 00:17:51,957
Really?
343
00:17:51,958 --> 00:17:54,836
Hello, there! Sorry, obvious question...
344
00:17:54,837 --> 00:17:56,403
But, where's everybody gone?
345
00:17:56,404 --> 00:17:58,298
London, at Christmas?
346
00:17:58,299 --> 00:18:00,170
Not safe, is it?
347
00:18:00,171 --> 00:18:01,357
Why?
348
00:18:01,358 --> 00:18:04,093
Well, it's them up above.
349
00:18:04,094 --> 00:18:05,897
Look, Christmas before last,
350
00:18:05,898 --> 00:18:09,711
we had that big bloody spaceship,
everyone standing on the roof.
351
00:18:09,712 --> 00:18:12,400
And then last year, that Christmas star,
352
00:18:12,401 --> 00:18:16,624
electrocuting all over the
place, draining the Thames.
353
00:18:16,625 --> 00:18:19,226
This place is amazing!
354
00:18:19,227 --> 00:18:22,234
It's a great bit, like after all
of these disastrous Christmases,
355
00:18:22,235 --> 00:18:24,222
people are too scared to be in London.
356
00:18:24,223 --> 00:18:26,441
They're thinking about, maybe
we should move it to July,
357
00:18:26,442 --> 00:18:29,105
or just some other time of the
year when we're not going to get...
358
00:18:29,106 --> 00:18:31,371
Attacked and snowed on by alien debris.
359
00:18:31,372 --> 00:18:33,994
You don't think, though, that the
Doctor would feel guilty about,
360
00:18:33,995 --> 00:18:36,958
his involvement in those alien attacks.
361
00:18:36,959 --> 00:18:40,382
(Imitating 4th Doctor) He's involved,
doing what he can to make things better.
362
00:18:40,383 --> 00:18:42,693
Some things could be
better with the Daleks.
363
00:18:42,694 --> 00:18:43,729
Not many.
364
00:18:43,730 --> 00:18:46,856
There's a very sweet scene where,
365
00:18:46,857 --> 00:18:50,825
Astrid asks the Doctor if she
can be his companion, and it's...
366
00:18:50,826 --> 00:18:53,928
This is the one time I'm
not jealous of a woman,
367
00:18:53,929 --> 00:18:57,517
trying to go off with the Doctor,
because it's Kylie Minogue!
368
00:18:57,518 --> 00:19:01,302
I was a little shocked, because normally
when someone asks the Doctor that,
369
00:19:01,303 --> 00:19:04,020
the Doctor always says no.
370
00:19:04,021 --> 00:19:07,561
I'm sort of unemployed now.
371
00:19:08,570 --> 00:19:11,210
I was thinking that blue box is...
372
00:19:11,211 --> 00:19:15,701
Kind of small, but I could
squeeze into it, like a stowaway.
373
00:19:15,702 --> 00:19:17,441
It's not always safe.
374
00:19:17,442 --> 00:19:21,305
So you need someone to take care of you,
I've got no one back on Sto, no family.
375
00:19:21,306 --> 00:19:23,646
Just... me.
376
00:19:26,317 --> 00:19:28,939
So what do you think?
377
00:19:28,940 --> 00:19:32,000
Can I come with you?
378
00:19:34,263 --> 00:19:36,145
Yeah, I'd like that, yeah.
379
00:19:36,146 --> 00:19:38,126
(Bang)
380
00:19:38,552 --> 00:19:42,532
He agrees, and so, you know, you kind
of think, oh my God, she's going to be...
381
00:19:42,533 --> 00:19:44,254
Nope, she's not, she's out of there.
382
00:19:44,255 --> 00:19:46,988
This is Kylie Minogue. She's
not going to be on Doctor Who.
383
00:19:46,989 --> 00:19:50,291
She might as well be wearing a
red expendable-crew member shirt.
384
00:19:50,292 --> 00:19:53,683
Kylie Minogue / Astrid is so valiant.
385
00:19:53,684 --> 00:19:56,809
It's such a Doctor Who
heroic scene because,
386
00:19:56,810 --> 00:20:00,301
she essentially kills the
villain to save everybody.
387
00:20:00,302 --> 00:20:02,764
The reason you know that
the Doctor can love her,
388
00:20:02,765 --> 00:20:06,465
is that she understands that
notion of bravery and sacrifice.
389
00:20:06,466 --> 00:20:11,079
But it's the things he loves
about her that mean she has to die.
390
00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:13,753
Merry Christmas, everyone.
391
00:20:13,754 --> 00:20:18,147
And I remember, as I was watching her
fall to her death, I was thinking...
392
00:20:18,148 --> 00:20:22,323
Oh, I wish the Doctor could bring her
back as a being of pure energy and then...
393
00:20:22,324 --> 00:20:24,257
Have a ghost kiss with her.
394
00:20:24,258 --> 00:20:26,826
And then that happened!
395
00:20:26,827 --> 00:20:30,187
She's just atoms, Doctor.
396
00:20:30,902 --> 00:20:35,282
An echo with the ghost of consciousness.
397
00:20:36,732 --> 00:20:39,138
She's stardust.
398
00:20:39,139 --> 00:20:41,219
Kylie Minogue is stardust.
399
00:20:41,220 --> 00:20:43,341
Truer words were never spoken.
400
00:20:43,342 --> 00:20:45,492
Astrid Peth...
401
00:20:45,493 --> 00:20:48,133
Citizen of Sto.
402
00:20:50,139 --> 00:20:54,208
The woman who looked at the
stars and dreamt of traveling.
403
00:20:54,209 --> 00:20:57,569
There's an old tradition.
404
00:20:58,023 --> 00:21:02,283
And David Tennant kisses Kylie Minogue.
405
00:21:09,335 --> 00:21:11,214
Now you can travel forever.
406
00:21:11,215 --> 00:21:12,337
(Screwdriver whirring)
407
00:21:12,338 --> 00:21:14,858
(Wind gusting)
408
00:21:17,948 --> 00:21:21,176
You're not falling, Astrid.
409
00:21:21,177 --> 00:21:23,357
You're flying.
410
00:21:23,358 --> 00:21:26,743
If your eyes are still dry when
that happens, you have no soul.
411
00:21:26,744 --> 00:21:29,081
I guess it would be pretty
fun to just be pure energy,
412
00:21:29,082 --> 00:21:30,787
cruising around and finding stuff.
413
00:21:30,788 --> 00:21:36,127
I guess turning into pure energy to roam
the Universe is supposed to be uplifting.
414
00:21:36,128 --> 00:21:39,194
But it was a bummer, because
he obviously liked her.
415
00:21:39,195 --> 00:21:40,678
You knew that...
416
00:21:40,679 --> 00:21:43,366
That this whole story really
meant something to him,
417
00:21:43,367 --> 00:21:44,772
and it was going to stick with him.
418
00:21:44,773 --> 00:21:48,141
This is the new Christmas
tradition, really, is...
419
00:21:48,142 --> 00:21:50,366
Something terrible is going
to happen on Christmas Eve,
420
00:21:50,367 --> 00:21:53,757
it's probably going to involve aliens
who want to blow you up or eat you.
421
00:21:53,758 --> 00:21:56,309
And somehow the Doctor's involved.
422
00:21:56,310 --> 00:21:58,950
(Whooshing roar)
423
00:21:59,513 --> 00:22:00,793
Open the door.
424
00:22:00,794 --> 00:22:03,254
(Dog whining)
425
00:22:05,652 --> 00:22:07,620
Computer voice: Engine active.
426
00:22:07,621 --> 00:22:10,681
(Yells) Energy active.
427
00:22:18,687 --> 00:22:20,847
(Gasping)
428
00:22:21,587 --> 00:22:23,335
Thank you, Doctor.
429
00:22:23,336 --> 00:22:26,325
Thank you. Happy Christmas.
430
00:22:26,326 --> 00:22:29,856
Well, it's about time, right? When...
431
00:22:29,857 --> 00:22:33,666
When are more of these heads of
state going to thank the Doctor,
432
00:22:33,667 --> 00:22:36,180
and would it kill you
to give him a medal?
433
00:22:36,181 --> 00:22:40,582
It's amazing that the British government
depends so much on this alien being,
434
00:22:40,583 --> 00:22:42,550
for them to just continue.
435
00:22:42,551 --> 00:22:46,775
It's like, oh, we didn't blow up again.
Thanks, Doctor. We appreciate that.
436
00:22:46,776 --> 00:22:49,961
For some reason, we just always
forget what happens in the past.
437
00:22:49,962 --> 00:22:53,071
Until it comes up again next Christmas.
438
00:22:53,072 --> 00:22:56,252
(Bright Christmas music)
439
00:22:56,381 --> 00:22:58,762
Would you rather spend Christmas
traveling with the Doctor,
440
00:22:58,763 --> 00:23:02,364
or relaxing at home with Amy and Rory?
441
00:23:02,365 --> 00:23:04,005
Probably the Doctor.
442
00:23:04,006 --> 00:23:07,260
You couldn't relax with 16 pairs of...
443
00:23:07,261 --> 00:23:10,801
Amy and Rory in the TARDIS.
444
00:23:10,908 --> 00:23:13,699
And you could go to Florida...
445
00:23:13,700 --> 00:23:15,860
London...
446
00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:18,555
Wherever.
447
00:23:22,884 --> 00:23:26,808
Well, instantly, the next Doctor
had this wonderful Victorian setting.
448
00:23:26,809 --> 00:23:30,289
And that great misdirection.
449
00:23:30,392 --> 00:23:33,544
When you call something the next Doctor.
450
00:23:33,545 --> 00:23:37,510
All people are expecting
is the end of David Tennant.
451
00:23:37,511 --> 00:23:39,633
So we have to watch this.
452
00:23:39,634 --> 00:23:42,154
Woman: Doctor!
453
00:23:42,279 --> 00:23:44,865
Who, me? (Laughs)
454
00:23:44,866 --> 00:23:46,923
Woman: Doctor!
455
00:23:46,924 --> 00:23:49,469
Don't worry. Don't worry. Stand
back, what have we got here?
456
00:23:49,470 --> 00:23:50,948
(Snarling and banging)
457
00:23:50,949 --> 00:23:53,054
Okay, I've got it, and
whatever is behind that door,
458
00:23:53,055 --> 00:23:54,980
- I think you should get out of here.
- Doctor!
459
00:23:54,981 --> 00:23:56,576
Standing right here. Hello.
460
00:23:56,577 --> 00:23:58,874
Don't be stupid! Who are you?
461
00:23:58,875 --> 00:24:00,608
- I'm the Doctor.
- Doctor Who?
462
00:24:00,609 --> 00:24:03,264
- Just the Doctor.
- Well, there can't be two of you!
463
00:24:03,265 --> 00:24:06,623
- Where the hell have you been?
- Don't worry, stand back!
464
00:24:06,624 --> 00:24:08,763
- What have we got here, then?
- Hold on, who are you?
465
00:24:08,764 --> 00:24:11,478
I'm the Doctor. Simply the Doctor.
466
00:24:11,479 --> 00:24:14,013
The one, the only, and the best!
467
00:24:14,014 --> 00:24:17,508
There's another guy that we haven't seen
before and you kind of go, what happened?
468
00:24:17,509 --> 00:24:22,232
Was there a regeneration at the
meeting that I was not invited to?
469
00:24:22,233 --> 00:24:27,138
What's fun about this episode, is you
are waiting the whole time to uncover why,
470
00:24:27,139 --> 00:24:29,202
he thinks he's the Doctor
because you know he's not.
471
00:24:29,203 --> 00:24:33,929
I think time lords are always going
to recognize regenerated friends.
472
00:24:33,930 --> 00:24:35,572
I'm not a Time Lord. I don't know.
473
00:24:35,573 --> 00:24:38,166
I really did not know what was going on.
474
00:24:38,167 --> 00:24:41,435
And I thought, this is... they're doing
a new thing where we actually are seeing,
475
00:24:41,436 --> 00:24:45,327
the newer guy with the
older guy at the same time.
476
00:24:45,328 --> 00:24:47,268
And what other rules are out the window?
477
00:24:47,269 --> 00:24:51,208
And is the Doctor just going to
start straight-up murdering people,
478
00:24:51,209 --> 00:24:53,099
and eating their flesh?
479
00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:54,588
He didn't go that far.
480
00:24:54,589 --> 00:24:55,431
(Whoosh)
481
00:24:55,432 --> 00:24:59,268
I love Miss Hartigan. Her
real name is Mercy Hartigan.
482
00:24:59,269 --> 00:25:02,374
But I think of her as evil Jane Austen.
483
00:25:02,375 --> 00:25:05,845
It's a really high-level thinking about
having Miss Hartigan be the villain,
484
00:25:05,846 --> 00:25:10,466
because she is the
sort of flip side of...
485
00:25:10,518 --> 00:25:14,795
The kind of dawning
awareness of women's equality.
486
00:25:14,796 --> 00:25:18,555
She's got this brilliant
forward-thinking mind.
487
00:25:18,556 --> 00:25:23,009
Especially for a woman growing
up in Victorian England.
488
00:25:23,010 --> 00:25:26,064
You've walked past me so many times...
489
00:25:26,065 --> 00:25:28,551
All you good men of charity.
490
00:25:28,552 --> 00:25:30,462
Never once asking my name.
491
00:25:30,463 --> 00:25:32,697
It's Miss Hartigan, isn't it?
492
00:25:32,698 --> 00:25:34,680
Oh, you noticed.
493
00:25:34,681 --> 00:25:37,669
I saw you looking. You cheeky boy.
494
00:25:37,670 --> 00:25:40,772
Hark, I can hear them now!
495
00:25:40,773 --> 00:25:43,174
(Hydraulic stomping)
496
00:25:43,175 --> 00:25:45,935
(Confused murmurs)
497
00:25:49,381 --> 00:25:54,128
1851 must have been incredibly frustrating
to not get taken seriously by men.
498
00:25:54,129 --> 00:25:58,015
It's quite frustrating in 2011 so, you
know, it must have been a lot worse.
499
00:25:58,016 --> 00:26:01,583
Commandeering an army of
Cybermen is not necessarily...
500
00:26:01,584 --> 00:26:02,810
The most sensible way forward.
501
00:26:02,811 --> 00:26:05,192
It's hard to tell if you don't
have any other recourse other
502
00:26:05,193 --> 00:26:07,513
than to have a giant steam-punked
robot crushing London.
503
00:26:07,514 --> 00:26:09,516
She saw an opportunity.
504
00:26:09,517 --> 00:26:13,800
Cybermen promised to, you know,
give her a better tomorrow.
505
00:26:13,801 --> 00:26:17,092
People of the world, now hear me.
506
00:26:17,093 --> 00:26:20,644
Your governments will surrender.
507
00:26:20,645 --> 00:26:22,620
And if not...
508
00:26:22,621 --> 00:26:24,781
Then behold my power.
509
00:26:24,782 --> 00:26:26,783
(Rattling)
510
00:26:26,784 --> 00:26:28,655
(Explosions)
511
00:26:28,656 --> 00:26:30,936
(Screaming)
512
00:26:32,801 --> 00:26:35,043
(Power humming up)
513
00:26:35,044 --> 00:26:37,204
(Zapping)
514
00:26:41,121 --> 00:26:46,871
The Cyber King is one of my favourite
things ever because it's a gigantic...
515
00:26:46,872 --> 00:26:50,077
Robot that looks like it runs on coal.
516
00:26:50,078 --> 00:26:52,245
Kudos to the Cybermen,
517
00:26:52,246 --> 00:26:58,146
using available materials, it's
like a challenge on a reality show.
518
00:26:58,385 --> 00:27:01,735
Cybermen, you have to build
a gigantic steam-punk robot.
519
00:27:01,736 --> 00:27:03,030
Go.
520
00:27:03,031 --> 00:27:08,275
And then the Doctor seems to manage
to defeat it with a hot air balloon.
521
00:27:08,276 --> 00:27:10,583
It's like the exact
opposite of machinery.
522
00:27:10,584 --> 00:27:15,007
He wants to give her a chance,
you know, as he always does.
523
00:27:15,008 --> 00:27:20,518
And he ends up saying something
he... that David Tennant says a lot.
524
00:27:20,519 --> 00:27:23,434
Which is, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
525
00:27:23,435 --> 00:27:24,901
I'm so sorry.
526
00:27:24,902 --> 00:27:28,347
(Crashing) (Miss Hartigan screams)
527
00:27:28,348 --> 00:27:30,508
(Zapping)
528
00:27:32,217 --> 00:27:35,037
(Electronic shriek)
529
00:27:35,257 --> 00:27:37,021
(Click)
530
00:27:37,022 --> 00:27:40,236
The Doctor is often put in
these positions of being,
531
00:27:40,237 --> 00:27:43,555
God with either humans or
the aliens he's dealing with.
532
00:27:43,556 --> 00:27:46,390
By giving them free will um..
533
00:27:46,391 --> 00:27:48,226
And then having them
suffer the consequences,
534
00:27:48,227 --> 00:27:50,260
of their sins or their choices.
535
00:27:50,261 --> 00:27:53,749
I think the Doctor deserves a
Christmas dinner quite frankly.
536
00:27:53,750 --> 00:27:55,564
Normally he'd just wander off.
537
00:27:55,565 --> 00:27:59,314
This other guy had his
consciousness implanted in him.
538
00:27:59,315 --> 00:28:01,300
I guess it's the least he can do, right?
539
00:28:01,301 --> 00:28:04,016
Like, if he tries to get out of it,
540
00:28:04,017 --> 00:28:07,528
this other guy's going to go, wait a
minute, I know exactly what you're doing,
541
00:28:07,529 --> 00:28:10,349
and it's hurtful.
542
00:28:10,493 --> 00:28:15,953
That offer of Christmas dinner, it's
no longer a request, it's a demand.
543
00:28:15,954 --> 00:28:19,734
In memory of those we've lost.
544
00:28:22,237 --> 00:28:24,531
Ah, go on then.
545
00:28:24,532 --> 00:28:25,942
- Really?
- Just this once.
546
00:28:25,943 --> 00:28:30,116
You've actually gone and changed my
mind. Not many people can do that.
547
00:28:30,117 --> 00:28:31,974
Jackson...
548
00:28:31,975 --> 00:28:35,262
If anyone had to be the
Doctor, I'm glad it was you.
549
00:28:35,263 --> 00:28:38,566
The feast awaits. Come, with me.
550
00:28:38,567 --> 00:28:41,697
- Walk this way.
- I certainly will.
551
00:28:41,698 --> 00:28:43,500
Merry Christmas to you, Jackson.
552
00:28:43,501 --> 00:28:46,232
It's kind of nice, he kind of maybe
felt like he belonged somewhere.
553
00:28:46,233 --> 00:28:49,596
Or at least had someone that
understood what he was going through.
554
00:28:49,597 --> 00:28:51,940
Even if it wasn't an
actual Doctor, you know?
555
00:28:51,941 --> 00:28:56,385
Good team. It's like
a Victorian bromance.
556
00:28:56,386 --> 00:28:59,535
Yeah, you could make the
case that because he had...
557
00:28:59,536 --> 00:29:01,359
That info-stamp information
about the Doctor.
558
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,899
That he was the closest that the
Doctor would have to another Time Lord.
559
00:29:04,900 --> 00:29:06,712
The Doctor could feel
a little bit like maybe
560
00:29:06,713 --> 00:29:11,035
they could talk about some Time
Lord stuff, over Christmas goose.
561
00:29:11,036 --> 00:29:15,199
He actually sticks around
and has Christmas dinner.
562
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:19,074
And I also think that we, as the
audience, know that that means something,
563
00:29:19,075 --> 00:29:22,574
that maybe this is his
last Christmas dinner.
564
00:29:22,575 --> 00:29:26,413
(Theme plays: Dramatic orchestral music)
565
00:29:26,414 --> 00:29:30,599
Would you rather eat fish fingers and
custard or a traditional Christmas dinner?
566
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,293
Last year, my grandmother
left the Christmas Turkey
567
00:29:33,294 --> 00:29:36,939
in the backseat of the car for
three days before she found it.
568
00:29:36,940 --> 00:29:39,280
We all ended up with food poisoning.
569
00:29:39,281 --> 00:29:41,912
This year, I'll take the
fish fingers and custard.
570
00:29:41,913 --> 00:29:47,373
Just as long as you take it
straight from the freezer.
571
00:29:51,390 --> 00:29:54,256
At the beginning of the end
of time... was that confusing?
572
00:29:54,257 --> 00:29:55,227
Probably.
573
00:29:55,228 --> 00:29:58,420
You get the feeling from the beginning
that this isn't going to go well.
574
00:29:58,421 --> 00:30:01,160
He's been away for a
few years, is what I get.
575
00:30:01,161 --> 00:30:05,062
Avoiding this confrontation and
he just seems a little drunk.
576
00:30:05,063 --> 00:30:08,777
The Doctor seems like, hey
okay, everything's groovy.
577
00:30:08,778 --> 00:30:12,746
And then Sigma drops
some crap on the Doctor.
578
00:30:12,747 --> 00:30:14,967
(Dripping)
579
00:30:16,446 --> 00:30:18,237
So...
580
00:30:18,238 --> 00:30:20,218
Right.
581
00:30:21,178 --> 00:30:24,949
The darkness heralds only one thing...
582
00:30:24,950 --> 00:30:27,685
All: The end of time itself.
583
00:30:27,686 --> 00:30:30,266
(Evil laughter)
584
00:30:31,032 --> 00:30:36,932
They, basically, tell the Doctor
his life cycle is going to end.
585
00:30:37,318 --> 00:30:39,747
At which point, I
turned it off and sobbed.
586
00:30:39,748 --> 00:30:42,960
Whenever I tell anyone to watch
Doctor Who, they're like, oh, end of
587
00:30:42,961 --> 00:30:46,259
time's coming up, I'm like, okay, I
want you to brace yourself because,
588
00:30:46,260 --> 00:30:48,875
you're going to go
through a lot of things.
589
00:30:48,876 --> 00:30:51,860
His song is ending. No one
ever wants to hear that.
590
00:30:51,861 --> 00:30:54,610
Even worse if you're
told your jam is ending...
591
00:30:54,611 --> 00:30:56,364
Because you're like, that's my jam.
592
00:30:56,365 --> 00:30:58,599
And I suppose, in a way, at that point,
593
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,810
it's, again, playing with
audience expectations because...
594
00:31:01,811 --> 00:31:05,314
Maybe you know that this is it
for Tennant as an actor on this.
595
00:31:05,315 --> 00:31:09,632
You know, at this point, we always
saw regeneration as something...
596
00:31:09,633 --> 00:31:12,103
Awesome and cool and then,
597
00:31:12,104 --> 00:31:16,916
when we hear the 10th Doctor talk about
it, you realize it's not just that.
598
00:31:16,917 --> 00:31:21,760
If I'm killed before
regeneration then I'm dead.
599
00:31:21,761 --> 00:31:24,161
Even then...
600
00:31:24,817 --> 00:31:29,137
Even if I change, it feels like dying.
601
00:31:32,005 --> 00:31:34,848
Everything I am dies.
602
00:31:34,849 --> 00:31:38,809
Some new man goes sauntering away.
603
00:31:41,930 --> 00:31:44,178
And I'm dead.
604
00:31:44,179 --> 00:31:48,199
It's such a great scene because...
605
00:31:48,487 --> 00:31:52,256
You're reminded of a few things
and also told something new.
606
00:31:52,257 --> 00:31:55,141
Right? You're reminded that
the Doctor is an old man.
607
00:31:55,142 --> 00:31:59,571
And that he's tired, but also
that, for this Doctor, at least,
608
00:31:59,572 --> 00:32:03,429
in this sort of the new construction
of it, that a regeneration is a death.
609
00:32:03,430 --> 00:32:06,998
You think, oh, this is a new body but
that's when he starts to define it as...
610
00:32:06,999 --> 00:32:09,176
Well, yes and no.
611
00:32:09,177 --> 00:32:11,703
So, it was really, it was really hard...
612
00:32:11,704 --> 00:32:13,319
(Emotively) Really hard to watch.
613
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:14,944
(Whoosh)
614
00:32:14,945 --> 00:32:18,561
And The Master is back,
the Doctor's old foe.
615
00:32:18,562 --> 00:32:20,564
He is uh...
616
00:32:20,565 --> 00:32:23,186
Much like the Doctor in every way.
617
00:32:23,187 --> 00:32:26,559
Maybe in ways that are
too close for comfort?
618
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,673
For everything that the
Doctor can do and be,
619
00:32:29,674 --> 00:32:33,754
The Master can do and be
except he's evil. (Chuckles)
620
00:32:33,755 --> 00:32:36,011
He makes all these copies
through this alien technology,
621
00:32:36,012 --> 00:32:39,315
that you don't really need to know
how it works I mean, it's just creepy.
622
00:32:39,316 --> 00:32:41,896
(Evil laughter)
623
00:32:42,006 --> 00:32:44,226
(Flicking)
624
00:32:48,716 --> 00:32:50,936
(Laughter)
625
00:32:54,931 --> 00:32:57,223
(Snaps fingers)
626
00:32:57,224 --> 00:33:01,918
The hierarchy is very confusing because
everybody's the same person, right?
627
00:33:01,919 --> 00:33:05,030
Yet, one guy will say, hey, go
over there and do that thing.
628
00:33:05,031 --> 00:33:08,723
And I don't know why the other guy doesn't
say, who, what? We're the same person.
629
00:33:08,724 --> 00:33:11,163
Who are you to tell me what to do?
630
00:33:11,164 --> 00:33:14,678
I still don't understand
what good that would serve.
631
00:33:14,679 --> 00:33:17,282
All right, great, what do
we do now? I don't know.
632
00:33:17,283 --> 00:33:21,225
We're all Masters. You want
to go bowling or something?
633
00:33:21,226 --> 00:33:24,623
So the Doctor comes up with
a solution, and this is like...
634
00:33:24,624 --> 00:33:27,731
When you get stuck on a video game
level for a really, really long time.
635
00:33:27,732 --> 00:33:29,526
It doesn't really matter
how this is working.
636
00:33:29,527 --> 00:33:31,063
Don't pay too much attention to that.
637
00:33:31,064 --> 00:33:32,989
Like, what's happening
there is emotional arcs.
638
00:33:32,990 --> 00:33:36,050
What's happening there are people,
characters who have been built over years,
639
00:33:36,051 --> 00:33:38,502
now are coming to a conclusion.
640
00:33:38,503 --> 00:33:40,372
And it's just...
641
00:33:40,373 --> 00:33:44,356
It's, uh, it'll wreck
you if you're a fan.
642
00:33:44,357 --> 00:33:46,517
(Sobbing)
643
00:33:50,876 --> 00:33:52,521
Then there's the four knocks.
644
00:33:52,522 --> 00:33:54,150
Oh, Wilfred.
645
00:33:54,151 --> 00:33:58,411
The four knocks. The damn four knocks.
646
00:33:58,733 --> 00:34:02,355
Wilfred,
knock-knock-knock knocks...
647
00:34:02,356 --> 00:34:05,242
On that glass door.
648
00:34:05,243 --> 00:34:07,823
Still problems.
649
00:34:13,368 --> 00:34:15,828
(Four knocks)
650
00:34:20,422 --> 00:34:23,382
The Doctor is still that
character that will...
651
00:34:23,383 --> 00:34:26,483
Sacrifice his life for an old man.
652
00:34:26,484 --> 00:34:30,568
To be as big as a
Universe and as small as...
653
00:34:30,569 --> 00:34:33,373
Human love is, uh...
654
00:34:33,374 --> 00:34:35,362
Yeah, I cried like a baby.
655
00:34:35,363 --> 00:34:38,928
They drag out his death so painfully.
656
00:34:38,929 --> 00:34:42,459
Usually when a Doctor regenerates, it's
just like, oh, I've been shot by a thing,
657
00:34:42,460 --> 00:34:47,259
or something happened and now here I
go, and then, you know, hand sparklers.
658
00:34:47,260 --> 00:34:52,082
He knows he's dying but he also
doesn't have to regenerate immediately.
659
00:34:52,083 --> 00:34:55,955
So it gives him the time to say goodbye.
660
00:34:55,956 --> 00:34:59,316
(Majestic orchestral music)
661
00:35:03,578 --> 00:35:05,798
(Creaking)
662
00:35:17,726 --> 00:35:19,586
Dad.
663
00:35:37,572 --> 00:35:41,048
I bet you're going to
have a really great year.
664
00:35:41,049 --> 00:35:42,969
Yeah?
665
00:35:46,948 --> 00:35:49,048
See ya.
666
00:35:51,956 --> 00:35:55,410
Man, I... the farewell tour wrecks me.
667
00:35:55,411 --> 00:35:57,051
It wrecked me the first time I saw it.
668
00:35:57,052 --> 00:35:59,496
It makes me feel like a...
669
00:35:59,497 --> 00:36:01,271
Twelve year old.
670
00:36:01,272 --> 00:36:06,099
Good final words for David's
era, I don't want to go.
671
00:36:06,100 --> 00:36:10,642
Yes, the audience didn't
want him to either.
672
00:36:10,643 --> 00:36:13,079
I don't want to go.
673
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,900
(Quivering breaths)
674
00:36:20,794 --> 00:36:23,914
(High-pitched whirring)
675
00:36:38,437 --> 00:36:40,597
(Gasping)
676
00:36:43,405 --> 00:36:45,685
(Explosion)
677
00:36:54,461 --> 00:36:56,741
(Whooshing)
678
00:37:00,172 --> 00:37:02,332
(Screams)
679
00:37:04,984 --> 00:37:06,752
(Explosion)
680
00:37:06,753 --> 00:37:09,033
(Crackling)
681
00:37:10,037 --> 00:37:11,395
Legs?
682
00:37:11,396 --> 00:37:13,175
I've still got legs. (Smooch)
683
00:37:13,176 --> 00:37:14,435
Good!
684
00:37:14,436 --> 00:37:15,373
(Patting)
685
00:37:15,374 --> 00:37:17,147
Arms, hands.
686
00:37:17,148 --> 00:37:20,084
Ooh, fingers, lots of fingers.
687
00:37:20,085 --> 00:37:22,974
Ears, yes. Eyes, too. Nose...
688
00:37:22,975 --> 00:37:25,770
I've had worse. Chin... blimey.
689
00:37:25,771 --> 00:37:27,811
Hair...
690
00:37:28,099 --> 00:37:29,569
I'm a girl!
691
00:37:29,570 --> 00:37:33,230
No! No, I'm not a girl. No.
692
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,633
Ah, I'm still not Ginger!
693
00:37:35,634 --> 00:37:40,069
There's something else, there's
something important, I'm, I'm, I'm...
694
00:37:40,070 --> 00:37:41,514
(Explosion)
695
00:37:41,515 --> 00:37:43,178
(Laughs)
696
00:37:43,179 --> 00:37:44,842
Crashing!
697
00:37:44,843 --> 00:37:47,093
Matt came in and did his own.
698
00:37:47,094 --> 00:37:50,199
The 11th Doctor is his own Doctor.
699
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,766
And, uh, it's...
700
00:37:52,767 --> 00:37:55,516
It just reaffirms why...
701
00:37:55,517 --> 00:37:56,440
(Chuckles)
702
00:37:56,441 --> 00:38:00,641
It's my favourite show in the world.
703
00:38:04,948 --> 00:38:07,049
Space fish!
704
00:38:07,050 --> 00:38:10,720
If Charles Dickens ever sees the
Doctor Who version of a Christmas Carol.
705
00:38:10,721 --> 00:38:14,041
I think he'll realize where he went
wrong with his original draft...
706
00:38:14,042 --> 00:38:15,556
No flying sharks.
707
00:38:15,557 --> 00:38:20,525
That's the best Christmas special by
far. It's got time travel as a plot point.
708
00:38:20,526 --> 00:38:25,186
It's about exuberance and
joy, the true Christmas spirit.
709
00:38:25,187 --> 00:38:27,366
Can't go wrong with opening
with a spaceship crashing.
710
00:38:27,367 --> 00:38:29,319
That's a big, that's a
good way to open a show.
711
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,812
There's always a spaceship
crashing towards Earth, isn't there?
712
00:38:31,813 --> 00:38:34,412
Please return to their seats
and fasten their safety belts.
713
00:38:34,413 --> 00:38:37,560
- He'll come! He always comes!
- Well, he is cutting it kind of fine!
714
00:38:37,561 --> 00:38:40,801
The ship is going down.
715
00:38:41,741 --> 00:38:46,023
The planet that the spaceship is about
to crash into in a Christmas Carol.
716
00:38:46,024 --> 00:38:48,859
Is basically Victorian
London but with a twist.
717
00:38:48,860 --> 00:38:53,010
There are sharks that swim through the
sky unless this force field is activated.
718
00:38:53,011 --> 00:38:56,655
And only one man is in
charge of that force field...
719
00:38:56,656 --> 00:38:59,776
Gambon. Gambon. Gambon.
720
00:39:00,596 --> 00:39:04,366
Viewers will be familiar
with Gambon from Top Gear.
721
00:39:04,367 --> 00:39:07,008
The man even has a corner
named after him on that.
722
00:39:07,009 --> 00:39:10,435
So we meet Mr. Sardick, this
guy, look, I don't like to talk
723
00:39:10,436 --> 00:39:13,041
about people behind their back,
but he is an unpleasant person.
724
00:39:13,042 --> 00:39:15,593
There is not a caring bone in his body.
725
00:39:15,594 --> 00:39:19,059
So the Doctor makes it his mission...
726
00:39:19,060 --> 00:39:22,645
To get this guy to
care and he does it...
727
00:39:22,646 --> 00:39:26,551
By going back to his childhood
and changing his life.
728
00:39:26,552 --> 00:39:28,973
And changing his memories.
729
00:39:28,974 --> 00:39:30,329
Get out. Get out of my house.
730
00:39:30,330 --> 00:39:33,897
Okay. Okay, but I'll be back.
731
00:39:33,898 --> 00:39:35,359
Way back. (Sobbing)
732
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:39,200
(TARDIS engines wheezing/groaning)
733
00:39:44,654 --> 00:39:47,774
See? Back. (Clattering)
734
00:39:48,396 --> 00:39:51,067
- Kazran: Who are you?
- Hi. I'm the Doctor.
735
00:39:51,068 --> 00:39:53,820
- Kazran: Who are you talking to?
- You.
736
00:39:53,821 --> 00:39:55,356
Now, your past is going to change.
737
00:39:55,357 --> 00:39:58,720
That means your memories will change too.
A bit scary but you'll get the hang of it.
738
00:39:58,721 --> 00:40:01,117
- I don't understand.
- I bet you don't.
739
00:40:01,118 --> 00:40:04,422
I wish I could see your face.
740
00:40:04,423 --> 00:40:06,617
Well, that never happened.
741
00:40:06,618 --> 00:40:09,555
(Doctor thuds on bed)
742
00:40:09,556 --> 00:40:11,374
But it did.
743
00:40:11,375 --> 00:40:14,041
I don't know why that little boy
was making home movies of himself.
744
00:40:14,042 --> 00:40:16,804
I don't know. I guess every
planet has their own YouTube.
745
00:40:16,805 --> 00:40:20,378
He doesn't mess with
people's time lines usually.
746
00:40:20,379 --> 00:40:22,476
That's supposed to be against the rules.
747
00:40:22,477 --> 00:40:27,450
The Doctor, I feel like he says
he has rules but he really doesn't.
748
00:40:27,451 --> 00:40:30,479
He breaks all the rules all the time.
749
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,103
I think this is the
new Doctor, you know?
750
00:40:33,104 --> 00:40:35,504
I think he realizes time can be altered.
751
00:40:35,505 --> 00:40:37,674
And he's going to take advantage of it.
752
00:40:37,675 --> 00:40:40,511
Then show me the future. Prove me wrong.
753
00:40:40,512 --> 00:40:46,074
I am showing it to you. I'm
showing it to you right now.
754
00:40:46,075 --> 00:40:49,255
So, what do you think?
755
00:40:52,989 --> 00:40:57,369
Is this who you want to become, Kazran?
756
00:41:06,669 --> 00:41:08,119
Dad?
757
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,460
(Clattering)
758
00:41:12,114 --> 00:41:14,208
(Sobbing)
759
00:41:14,209 --> 00:41:15,422
That's just heavy for me.
760
00:41:15,423 --> 00:41:17,496
So that episode in
particular just really
761
00:41:17,497 --> 00:41:20,298
grabbed me in a very
profound way because...
762
00:41:20,299 --> 00:41:23,265
It's all about behaviour and
who we are through experience.
763
00:41:23,266 --> 00:41:25,741
And yet how much does
that define who we are?
764
00:41:25,742 --> 00:41:27,647
And that's an interesting question.
765
00:41:27,648 --> 00:41:30,366
That's a heart wrenching scene.
766
00:41:30,367 --> 00:41:35,952
Also no little boy wants to know
he's going to look like that guy.
767
00:41:35,953 --> 00:41:39,778
They end up saving the spaceship in
a sleigh with space fish then it's a...
768
00:41:39,779 --> 00:41:43,212
Merry, a Merry Christmas
or whatever they...
769
00:41:43,213 --> 00:41:45,294
Celebrate up on that planet.
770
00:41:45,295 --> 00:41:49,256
The day space Jesus was
born in a space manger.
771
00:41:49,257 --> 00:41:51,529
Where are they, Kazran and Abigail?
772
00:41:51,530 --> 00:41:53,263
Off on a little trip I should think.
773
00:41:53,264 --> 00:41:54,933
- Where?
- Christmas.
774
00:41:54,934 --> 00:41:57,313
- Christmas.
- Yeah...
775
00:41:57,314 --> 00:41:59,534
Christmas.
776
00:42:00,464 --> 00:42:02,098
(Bells jangling)
777
00:42:02,099 --> 00:42:04,319
(Laughter)
778
00:42:06,478 --> 00:42:09,562
When the snow is not alien ash from a...
779
00:42:09,563 --> 00:42:13,032
From some genocidal holocaust that
the Doctor perpetrated this time,
780
00:42:13,033 --> 00:42:14,195
that's a nice relief.
781
00:42:14,196 --> 00:42:17,771
You can't really imagine Christmas
without a Doctor Who Christmas special.
782
00:42:17,772 --> 00:42:20,833
You can have your How the
Grinch Stole Christmas.
783
00:42:20,834 --> 00:42:23,771
Because, really, the only kind
of Whoville I want to visit,
784
00:42:23,772 --> 00:42:26,917
is in a Doctor Who Christmas special.
785
00:42:26,918 --> 00:42:30,934
With the Christmas specials,
they're... in some ways, more interior.
786
00:42:30,935 --> 00:42:33,465
It's more that the kind
of science fiction where,
787
00:42:33,466 --> 00:42:37,064
it almost doesn't matter who the
evil robot space aliens are...
788
00:42:37,065 --> 00:42:41,226
As much as it is working through
the emotional issues of...
789
00:42:41,227 --> 00:42:44,192
Who your loved ones are, and where
they are, and how can you be with them.
790
00:42:44,193 --> 00:42:46,492
So it's kind of like Christmas.
791
00:42:46,493 --> 00:42:51,018
Sometimes it's really fun and sometimes
it's just uncomfortable and sad.
792
00:42:51,019 --> 00:42:54,282
The message always seems to
be Christmas is a tough time.
793
00:42:54,283 --> 00:42:56,697
You've got your relatives.
794
00:42:56,698 --> 00:42:58,015
You have space monsters.
795
00:42:58,016 --> 00:43:00,365
There's always somebody who's
gonna bring it all together.
796
00:43:00,366 --> 00:43:03,080
If the specials are trying
to send a Christmas message,
797
00:43:03,081 --> 00:43:07,018
it might be don't go
to London on Christmas.
798
00:43:07,019 --> 00:43:09,763
I know, seriously, everyone
should just leave London.
799
00:43:09,764 --> 00:43:12,473
Really, Britain's calendar is Christmas,
800
00:43:12,474 --> 00:43:17,270
and then January through the 1st
of December is rebuild England.
801
00:43:17,271 --> 00:43:19,475
Christmas! Crap!
802
00:43:19,476 --> 00:43:20,989
Rebuild England.
803
00:43:20,990 --> 00:43:23,113
We just fixed that.
804
00:43:23,114 --> 00:43:26,406
Big Ben, Parliament, we
just fixed that. Come on.
805
00:43:26,407 --> 00:43:30,067
What are you doing? Why do we live here?
806
00:43:30,068 --> 00:43:31,872
You know what? Just leave it. Leave it.
807
00:43:31,873 --> 00:43:33,516
Here, I'll kick it down, aliens.
808
00:43:33,517 --> 00:43:35,467
There, I'll knock down Parliament, okay?
809
00:43:35,468 --> 00:43:37,991
Fine. Whatever. I'm leaving.
810
00:43:37,992 --> 00:43:43,892
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