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Before you start watching this year's Doctor Who Christmas special, it is advisable to watch three previous stories in this order:
The Husbands of River Song
Silence in the Library
Forest of the Dead
The Return of Doctor Mysterio
Even though she is not in the special, Professor River Song is very much a part of things. Events happen in last year's Christmas special that have a major bearing with the new one. An evening at the restaurant at the Singing Towers lasts 24 years, which is the Doctor's last date with River Song before she ends up at the Library and dying. She makes remarks in the Libray two-parter about the Singing Towers and how the Doctor had a new suit. In the last Christmas special, the Doctor and River encountered aliens & followers of King Hydroflax who are able to split their heads open and conceal things inside like gems or weapons. There is more to these aliens that are explored in the new special. In the last special, River's assistant Nardole (Matt Lucas) was beheaded by Hydroflax and added to inside of the robot. That could have been the end of Nardole but something happened to the Doctor that very long night. He knew River was going next to the Library where she would die. Whatever his emotions, that hit him hard. He fished Nardole's head out of Hydroflax and glued it back on. What type of alien Nardole is that being beheaded is not a life-changer has not yet been dealt with. The Doctor is lonely and essentially made a companion for himself.
Just like events of the story "Partners in Crime" from a number of years ago, the Doctor, along with help from Nardole, is investigating a sinister company called Harmony Shoals. The aliens that can split their heads open are brains in glass jars waiting for a host body to be installed in. These brains have eyes and want to take over all the leader on the planet.
Back to the night of 24 years, before that night with River, the Doctor pays a visit to New York City to set up a trap on the roof of a bullding, He gets caught in the trap & ends up dangling from the roof where a young Grant Gordon rescues him believing him to be Santa Claus.
The Doctor gives Grant a gemstone to hold which the kid believes is cold medicine & swallows.it. With a firm belief in comic book superheroes, the gem gives Grant super powers. While the Doctor pops in again to check on Grant, it is 24 years later.
Adult Grant (Justin Chatwin) is niow a nanny by day and a superhero by night known as the Ghost. He is watching out over the baby of a woman & investgative reporter named Lucy Fletcher (Charity Wakefield). When he flies across the skies of New York City, he carries a baby monitor with him to get back to the baby if need be.
That essentially is the plot of the Christmas special. Nardole does take some getting used to but his closing words as he tells Grant & Lucy about River Song are very touching. The Harmony Shoals aliens will be back to be a neewer alien menace for the show.
Many people may recognize Chatwin from the first three seasons of Showtime's Shameless as Steve/Jimmie or a brief stint on Orphan Black as a drug dealer.
The special ends with a special trailer for the upcoming 2017 season of Doctor Who what will feature new companion Bill (Pearl Mackie) as she joins up with the Doctor & Nardole.
This is a very funny episode but the aliens aren't menacing enough.
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Light-Hearted and, Unfortunately, Not Very Fresh
It's 24 years after the 2015 adventure of Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song. The Doctor isn't alone in the TARDIS. He re-assembled Nardole, who admonishes him, "You cut me out of Hydroflax because you were worried you'd be lonely. And we both know why, don't we?"Nardole tells Lucy and Grant, "He's very brave and he's very silly. And I think for a time he's going to be very sad. But I promise, in the end he'll be all right."But that's getting ahead of this year's story. Lucy and Grant live in New York City, in the 2nd story above Joe's Pizza. The bespectacled Grant is Lucy Fletcher's nanny. He's met the Doctor before, 25 years before, when he accidentally swallowed the Doctor's prize gem, giving him super powers. It's going to take the combined efforts of his super hero alter ego, "The Ghost", and the Doctor to stave off the latest alien invasion.This story was meant to fit the American classic comic book story into the world of Dr Who. I think it does a good job of that. Unfortunately, the comic book part of it is not very fresh and even the jokes were not as funny as usual. 3.4 stars rounded down to 3, a first for me on the rebooted Dr Who franchise."The Return of Doctor Mysterio" originally aired in December, 2016, a Christmas Special. It is a little less than 60 minutes long. If you buy it on BluRay/DVD, English SDH subtitles are available on both the feature episode and the two Special Features.Special Features:...A..."A New Kind of Hero" (7 minutes) "Let's explore what kind of hero the Doctor really is." Commentators include Peter Capaldi (plays the Doctor), Steven Moffat (writer and producer), Charity Wakefield (plays Lucy), Justin Chatwin (plays Grant) and 'Tomiwa Edun (plays Mr Brock).This feature includes clips from prior Peter Capaldi episodes. Such as when the decrepit Davros tells the Doctor, "I approve of your new face, Doctor. So much more like mine."...B..."Doctor Who Extra" (25 minutes) Commentators include those in Feature A, plus Ed Bazalgette (director) and Hayley Nebauer (costume designer).I enjoyed the look at how they filmed the Doctor swinging upside-down outside Grant's window. The stunt man did the hard part. Peter's part was lying on his back with a wind machine and the camera swinging back & forth above him.Trivia, related by Chatwin, the Joe's Pizza here was also used in 'Spider Man'."Coming in Season 10!"Are you out of your mind?"The Doctor: "Yes, completely. But that's not a recent thing!"Happy Reader
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George Clark-Dunning
HO HO HO, another Doctor Who christmas
Reviewed in Canada on May 9, 2017
