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The most interesting part of this episode was the basic admission that Matt Smith is indeed the Thirteenth Doctor and at the very end of his regeneration cycle. Story ended with the Time Lords granting him a new life cycle, so I guess this means he has a whole new thirteen set of lives. But what's also intriguing is what this might actually mean for the Doctor... the very end of this episode seems to suggest that this new regeneration is a lot "deeper" than previous ones - probably because it's a "reset" regeneration. The new Doctor mentions having new kidneys, so the change appears to be a lot more than just 'cosmetic.' He also seems to have lost his knowledge on piloting the Tardis, but I'm not sure if that's actual knowledge loss or post-regenerative trauma, which the Doctor has experienced before.
Ssooo... if this is a 'lifecycle restart,' does it mean that Capaldi is the New First Doctor or is he the Fourteenth Doctor?
I actually preferred this episode because of that. I've never been fond of stories that see extra-terrestrial aliens 'randomly' observing human rituals... and why just Christmas? If the Doctor has come to love Earth so much that he wants to adopt human customs, why don't we also see him observing Ramadan or Eid or Passover or Kwanzaa or Diwali or Sol Invictus or the Lunar New Year et al.?Originally Posted by CBratron
Having a town called Xmas that happened to be in a permanent state of Xmas on the planet Trenzalore was already asking the audience to massively suspend disbelief. Besides, we still had that thing in the background of the Oswald's Xmas dinner being in wait. Not to mention the whole Churchy reference with that Borg-Church.
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