Nov. 12th, 2014

purplecat: The Tardis against a sunset (or possibly sunrise) (Doctor Who)
David Tennant it transpires did not do a great deal in his first outing.

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I was expecting to like this story more than I remembered, but I think its the first one on this rewatch which I haven't really re-evaluated. It works fine as a Christmas special, but I continue to dislike episodes that focus on the after-effects of regeneration and find the approach towards paradoxes being taken by these stories confusing and ill-thought out. Where the stories in season 9 were working with a small set of themes and a clear sense of direction The Christmas Invasion seems to be making its points in a clumsy fashion and is unclear about how the themes the production team wants to explore with this new Doctor really fit into the narrative they wanted to tell.

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