I may be completely wrong ...

[preserved_ginger]

... especially since it’s impossible to make any kind of informed guess with only that first(?) two minutes of The Next Doctor to go on.

But am I the only one that thinks the setting, etc., of it is somewhat reminiscent of A Christmas Carol?

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[lostwolfchats.livejournal.com]

I know - I'm thinking the other doctor is, in fact, a character - maybe in a tv special or something - he was just hamming it up so massively, and it was all very like a set...

could be completely wide of the mark, though...

[principia-coh.livejournal.com]

If these were actors, that kid who didn't even blink at some random guy wandering onto the set in modern dress must be the coolest cucumber ever.

I think he's a huckster, undoubtedly, but I don't think dude has wandered onto the set of Scrooged.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

If these were actors, that kid who didn't even blink at some random guy wandering onto the set in modern dress must be the coolest cucumber ever.

That, or the Doctor’s wearing some sort of perception filter; I’ve often wondered recently whether the latter theory (perception filter) is true.

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Hadn’t even considered that idea; I like it, though.

[azriona.livejournal.com]

It did feel very Christmas Carol-y - but I'm attributing that to two things:

1. I'm betting the BBC is recycling the set they used for that last Charles Dickens drama they did (I can't remember the name of it, but I know I saw stuff about it in the Telegraph in the last few months). I mean, the BBC has done that before; the set from Fires of Pompeii was left over from Rome.

2. They're trying to set a particular mood which matches old-fashioned-Victorian-Christmas, and it's coming off as a bit like Christmas Carol, which is also old-fashioned-Victorian-Christmas.



That said, it would be seriously funny if Ebeneezer Scrooge shows up. (And even funnier if it was Scrooge McDuck....)

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

1. Little Dorritt, I’d bet. That, or Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

2. There is that, I’d forgotten.

[azriona.livejournal.com]

Little Dorrit! That was it.

I still think it'd be funny if Scrooge McDuck showed up. But that's probably just me.

[glory_jean]

I have to agree that we are so overloaded with the 10,152 versions of A Christmas Carol out there, we can't help associating anything Victorian and Christmas-y with that.

Gah, now I have that "Thank you very much," song in my head. Always happens. Of all those versions, why does the musical one have to be the one to haunt me? Darn you, Albert Finney.