Dreams within dreams, within dreams, within dreams is like I’m watching Inception (yes those are his real kids at the end) but slightly less confusing. Where this story really shines is within its dreamy nature. A very dark theme for a Christmas Special – Happy Christmas, kids!
The entire dream sequence is effective with the spooky blackboards reading YOU ARE DYING being the highlight. This isn’t the real Danny, this is the Danny of her dreams and when the Doctor comes to join them it’s this Danny, not the Doctor, who she listens to to wake up. Reunited with Danny Pink we get a look at the life she wanted to have with him but after the events of Dark Water/Death in Heaven she can now never have. Should it work? Probably not, but it does. The trip into Clara’s dream world is also an effective setup, one which could’ve been overdone but isn’t. It all sounds awfully silly but it works within the story because the ridiculousness of the whole thing is, as I’ve said already, a key plot point. Sure, why not? Also the red nose of Rudolph can be activated like a car alarm and at one point the Doctor flies the sleigh over London. That’s inspired casting and he brings just the right amount of humour and sarcasm to the part whilst avoiding the obvious trap of ruining children's visions of Santa Claus – in fact he adds to it, throwing in some explanations about how he does what he does: his sleigh is bigger on the inside and his reindeer can fly because he feeds them magic carrots.
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Plus Nick Frost plays him (and even gets his name into the titles) so I’d be prepared to let anything go to have him in Doctor Who. It would seem Moffat knows this however because he decides that the ridiculousness of Santa’s presence in the story is actually a key plot point. I mean seriously, it’s only been a few months since the Doctor met Robin Hood for crying out loud! On paper this concept reeks of childishness and though it’s a Christmas Special and the expected standards are lowered there’s a line, and including Santa Claus is pushing it. I can’t say I was looking forward to the presence of Santa and his elves in this episode. It doesn’t take long for those lies to be addressed and apologies given and that’s a good thing let’s get on with the story.
That’s where we join the story in Last Christmas, with the Doctor arriving on Clara’s rooftop as the pair of them come face-to-face with Santa Claus. Danny Pink is dead, Gallifrey is still missing and the Doctor & Clara both lie to the other about it before parting ways. Perhaps it was something else entirely, but let's delve deeper into the six ways Last Christmas revealed that Clara Oswald is the perfect match for the Twelfth Doctor, and vice versa.Death in Heaven was a good story, in this reviewer's opinion, but it was also rather depressing. Perhaps it was his absence from her life that showed it, perhaps it was the loneliness and emptinesst that she was feeling as she didn't have Danny Pink nor the distraction of the TARDIS in her life anymore.
Something else that became clear during the latest Christmas Special is the amount of love and respect she does indeed have for the Doctor.
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After the episode premiered it was confirmed she would indeed be back for Series 9, though, and it even said it in the end sprawl just to make sure fans knew they definitely weren't telling porkies. Up until the airing of Last Christmas it was unknown whether Jenna Coleman would return to Doctor Who for adventures anew in 2015. Although she warmed up to him as Series 8 progressed, fans could see that she didn't seem to care for this man as much as she did Matt Smith's Doctor. One thing she did not expect to see, though, was a different man come along in place of the person she called Doctor.
Clara Oswald has seen many things in her relatively short life - or long life, depending on how you look at things.
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