Joy to the World or sentimental gibberish.

I Told Myself I'd Return to Dr-Who at Some Point After That Musical Thing They Did Earlier This Year (Thu 13 Jun 2024 15:26:28). The problems with the aforementioned where ignore-able, it was a fine production by any standards and as a campy sci-fi TV thing-y it gave Hollwood a run for it's money. But the Christmas special seems to think you can have your cake and eat it; What utter POPPYCOCK!

I don't always like it (no one does), but reality is very real and ignorance of that fact leads to ruin, it's just a axiom; You need to leave your ego out of this equation.

Dinosaurs, evolution are all bullshit...

There are only ever mixed (race) couples in the Who-universe, Gays, and Lesbians in the new/New-Who, the elderly are exempt! You can't ignore the forced underlying narrative pushing: and it's *ucking bollocks. It's ruining what could be a great production.

If your going to do a Christmas special why not focus on reality rather than inventing an underlying narrative that no one is experiencing (Unless you live in Briton or LA,Tel Aviv)? When your Chistmas special is tangentaly about God being born into the World as Jesus why not make it about that? It's hard to get anything more magical or weird than this, it's the fucking OG of weird shit happening!

Of course we are talking about a television program, not high Art, even though it has swank to that end. I do wish it would just make up it's mind.. Instead of running cool I wish it would run Hot or Cold and let the chips fall where they may. Rather, what we get is an overly produced sentimentally driven piece of gibberish with mixed messaging.

I always get the feeling that "I like what you tried to do but you fucked it up". I feel like I took Walter Sobchak along as the Bag Man.. Maybe just get rid of all the Queers from your production staff, at least then there wouldn't be what seems like an indigenous insistence on mentioning, winking or outrageously fisting Gayness into the script at every unbuttered opportunity. It's a bit like that Ghostbuster no one liked because it was done under the most WOKE circumstances imaginable.

Television wasn't this Gay when Larry Grayson trod the boards, we knew were we stood "Shut That Door" always go a laugh. Maybe innuendo is just played out? Irony sure as shit is. Owen "Straight to Video" Benjamin describes himself as a Comedian.. I don't get it. I don't see Pandas havin' em' rollin' in the isle's, but I can imagine people walking out.

"And so it goes"..

As an ending to *JOY TO THE WORLD we see a barely visible nativity scene, Three Wise Men and a cacophony of over sentimentalised chords. It will get you, if you let it. But it is nothing more than a well worn troup.

If All Else Fails, Swell Those Chords Until The Tear Gland's Are Stimulated.

It's just a matter of frequency.

So What's It Going To Be?

DINOSAURS or CHRIST. You can't have both. Standing in CHRIST means diligence and a love of reality (Jehovah/God) for better and for worse but nothing quite speaks of a none reality like T-Rex. Possibly the stupidest of all the dino-inventions.

I think that was the last Dr Who I'm ever going to watch. The musical was the apex of it's production cycle. And that was the first one I'd watched since Sylvester McCoy and that Ginger thing minced about in a quarry.

So long and thanks for your time.

Of course there is a massive back catalogue of sixties and seventies Who to dip into when the mood arises.

P.S. Did you know yt-dlp will download Iplayer stuff, it's really is quite the thing.