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The overall message of the message and themes was nice for a Christmas Special. However with a plot that moved so quickly you could never get invested in anything even when you're supposed to and characterization that pop up to prove a point but are absent for the rest of the episode has quite an effect on the overall episode.

One example of what I mean would be the year at the hotel scene. Though it's definitely nice scene to have everything goes by so quickly that when it ends it's clearly supposed to be an emotional goodbye but I ended up thinking "just get on with it" because the goodbye felt longer than the entire year itself. Joy felt more like a message than a actual character though her arc does have a sweet ending to it. Moffat once said in an interview that doctor who has to have a concept big enough to be a movie and fit it in an hour of television. And this is an episode where it's obvious that it needed a longer time to cook because so much happens that it's hard to feel invested in any one character or plot point. The ending did hit me in the feels however it was less because it was an emotional ending and more because I can relate to it. A friend of mine passed away a few months before hand so that ending did hurt a bit. But that's like drinking milk after eating a ghost chilly pepper. It's going to feel so much better because you need the coldness from the milk than just drinking it regularly. Either way, final score for me is 6/10. It's definitely sweet and a good episode for Christmas. But everything else is underdeveloped and went by too quickly to get invested.

I saw someone say that doctor who is ruined now because of fart jokes and tried to compare space babies with father day forgetting that the Sletheen were from the same series. People are complaining about things that made doctor who such a unique show in the first place. Did everyone just forget about the happiness patrol? The enemy of the world? Everyone hating on the new doctor who episodes like it totally didn't take 6 episodes before we actually got a good doctor who episode with Dalek. Doctor who too childish now? Have any of you actually watched the show because a lot of people are complaining about things that have always been in doctor who like they've only just started to do. Not every episode is like midnight or turn left. For every wimping angel we've got fat that kills. For every Dalek we have the doctors twin. I've always found that the worst part of doctor who is the fandom and it's so ironic to me how the show all about Change is being shown to people who hate change of any kind and honestly the hypocrisy is unreal. People can not like individual episodes but hating on an entire new era just because of a couple of medocure episodes is insane to me. We don't hate the entirety of David Tennant run because it has fear her in it. So why do it here?!