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Or the one where the Doctor visits the Victorian Steampunk planet and rides a sleigh with Dumbledore that's pulled by a flying space shark while ripping off a Christmas Carol. And there was pretty signing and Amy's legs made a all too brief but scene stealing appearance.

Like I said earlier, Moffatt's into his bag of usual tricks here, playing about with time travel and paradoxes, having the kids play an important part, fairy tale atmosphere and cracked out ideas (flying space fish!). And the bow tie agenda (and a cameo from the Fez!). All it needed was the Scottish agenda and River Song (but then the latter was taken care of with the series six preview).

Playing fast and loose with the laws of time could become a problem, here we did have blatant ignoring of the Blinovitch Limitation Effect (the no touchy ones own timeline rule) with kid-Kazran and ScroogeGambon-Kazran.

And the previous series plot-arc smart-arseness means expectations are now higher than RTD's "mention a phrase that's a reference to the finale" approach. Why was the Doctor complaining the fish were biting when there were no fish? And why were Amy and Rory in their costumes? (Though perhaps that last one can be answered with MA fanfic...)

Kathrine Jenkins, beautiful singer, not quite so good at acting, but the role of Abigail didn't ask for much more than looking angelically tragic and perfectly sweet. Literal fridging or brilliant invoking of the Victorian trope?

Looked gorgeous, the sets were lovely and the computer space fish looked very good. Spaaaaaaace Fish! Everything is better with space fish. And the Victorian Steampunk thing gave that Christmas feel as if they had draped tinsel over everything. Tinsel space fish.

I liked the space fish, can you tell?

And about that preview...

Stetsons! Nazis! Beardy Doctor! Nekkid River! Eeeeeee!