doctor who last christmas give me a good number

Moffat also deserves praise for incorporating the “real” Santa Claus (i.e. Looking like overgrown face-huggers from Alien, the “dream crabs” are another ingenious monster concept from Moffat, though the fact that if their feeding is interrupted they die instantly and their victim suffers no ill effects is a little too convenient, meaning that no time needs to be spent on dealing with the traumatic after-effects that such an experience would logically produce. He grasps that they’re all lost in a labyrinth of dreams within dreams, the work of creatures that trap their victims in a fantasy world while killing them. But things are not what they seem, and a sense of uneasiness builds as gaps and inconsistencies mount up in a particularly spooky touch, the crew slowly realizes they can only respond with “It’s a long story” when the Doctor presses them about what they’re doing there and what the base’s mission is.

They find themselves in a scientific base at the North Pole that is apparently the subject of one of the show’s most typical plot tropes: the “base under siege,” wherein a small group of people are trapped in an isolated location and is subjected to a monstrous attack. But when the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) arrives and urges her to rejoin him aboard the TARDIS, things rapidly turn serious, leading to a constantly twisting story where the question of what is real and what is a dream becomes of crucial importance. Clara (Jenna Coleman), who parted from the Doctor at the end of the previous episode, encounters none other than Santa Claus himself (Nick Frost), and a couple of snarky elves (one of whom is played by Dan Starkey, normally buried under heavy prosthetics as the Sontaran Strax), when he crashes on her roof-in a sleigh drawn by flying reindeer. Almost as if cheekily daring the audience to revolt and switch off, the five-minute pre-titles sequence plays with a straight face what seems like an utterly ludicrous situation.

For Doctor Who’s 10th consecutive Christmas special, showrunner Steven Moffat presents the intersection between Doctor Who and Christmas in the most direct possible way.

Doctor who last christmas give me a good number