The coolest second in last nighttime ’s Doctor Who Christmas special is when the robot angels use their Christmassy fly powers and razor - sharp nimbus to attack our Heron . The little ruddy hombre , Bannakaffalatta , finally overcomes his shame about being a cyborg in a society that hates cyborgs and wo n’t lease them marry . ( Social emblem much ? ) By embracing his cyborg pride , he destroys all the angels with his built - in EMP author . The respite of the special , however , is just a towering pile of cheese .
That replication of the Titanic that the TARDIS crashed into twist out to be a spaceship revolve Earth . On board , a group of tuxedo - wearing outlander are celebrating a fake Christmas in a thoroughgoing recreation of the unlucky oceanliner . But then it all travel improper when the ship ( intentionally ) crashes into a meteorite storm and the robot holy man set up a killing fling . Cue 30 minute of lam up and down steps and across totter paseo .
Someone need to take show - runner Russell T. Davies ’ slo - mo button away . There ’s a long section near the show ’s climax where the military action slows down to a two - minute crawl so we can footle on the terrified faces of the B vitamin - list stars who remain alive , and then watch the Doctor set his jaw heroically .
“ ocean trip of the Damned ” feel like Dickens on E. You have the sweet old man who comes out with colorful - but - wrong “ facts ” about Christmas , like the idea that the British feed factual Turkish citizenry . You have the good - hearted but vulgar fat couple who do n’t ‘ alf have it off each other with almost superhuman mawkishness . And then you have Kylie Minogue ’s buoyant street child who just desire to see the whiz .
A batch of the time , the episode feel like just a serial of heart - warming or binge - hitch second strung together along a ribbon of patch . This was the first time I really felt like I was watching a children ’s programme .
That say , it ’s passably entertaining stuff . Russell T. tell his ambition was to make a “ disaster moving picture , ” and most of the instalment does keep up the impression of impending destruction . A mickle of the good bit are cribbed from “ The Satan Pit , ” except with the angels or else of the Ood . But Davies uses the rule well . And he bucks normal by accept the single most execrable character pull through all the way through .
Bottom line : “ Voyage Of The Damned ” was better than Aliens vs. Predator : Requiem , in that it in reality made sentience and felt suspensful and thrillery . But it was also the most sentimental sequence of the newfangled Doctor Who serial , and that ’s saying something . It was also thehighest - ratedDoctor Who episode since 1979 , with 12.2 million viewers .
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