Given the amount of ingredients that Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat had decided to pack into the show’s Christmas offering, it was perhaps inevitable that many viewers would end up with stomachache.
In the space of an hour, Moffat had to end the run of the eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, and introduce the twelfth, Peter Capaldi. He had to write a Christmas-themed episode that would be accessible to the widest possible audience of Brits tucking in to their turkeys
On top of that, he had decided to (spoilers ahead!) tie up multiple loose threads from every story in the Smith era, squeeze four major villains in the same show, use a Cyberman’s head as a sidekick, spend time with the family of the Doctor’s companion, Clara, introduce a psychotic space nun as a love interest for the Doctor, age him by 300 years, and address a long-standing fan debate about whether the Doctor can regenerate more than thirteen times. Read more…
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