Originally Posted by Jamie Minty
I was thinking about The Next Doctor when I was watching Confidential and thinking about how it felt to watch it as it was being aired and I couldn't give a damn about cannon and a PROPER Doctor Who story. It's Christmas, I want a happy story and enjoyable adventure...I want something fun, and thats what I like about the Xmas Specials. RTD says that Xmas is very exciting for the kids, and it is. The fun of it and the excitement and its great for them to see it in the Xmas Specials and its a nice way to relax for older viewers and enjoy the story rather than care and get involved with its story. I even think Moffats Xmas Specials will be similarly themed, because of what Xmas is for!
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Oddly enough, I dug out my VHS copy of Moffat's 1999 Comic Relief special and rewatched it tonight. Rowan Atkinson as the Doctor, Jonathan Pryce (Miss Saigon) competing with Eric Roberts for the Hammiest Master Award, and Julia Sawalha (Absolutely Fabulous) as the love interest, with the Daleks and several popular British celebrities and comedians as subsequent regenerations of the Doctor (including AbFab's Joanna Lumley as the first ever BBC Female Doctor). Obviously, being a Comic Relief special, it's not to be taken seriously, let alone as canon, but it got me was thinking, as controversial as this may sound to some members, that we need to expect the occasional oddball story from Moffat as well as RTD.
(Of course, most recent RTD fare has been oddball at best, but that's a whole other topic, not just one about a single episode.) What do the rest of you think?