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Doctor Who Christmas-Special Recap: A Star Is Born
Did Steven Moffat recruit Nicola Coughlan to the Christmas episode just to make a “joy to the world” pun?
Trev promises that this will be the least he’s ever let anybody down, and the Doctor goes off to scare people throughout history by popping through portals and pretending to be delivering a room-service snack prepared by the Time Hotel kitchen (which operates 30 minutes in the future). He does open up a tiny bit, briefly mentioning Ruby after he explains the meaning of “Auld Lang Syne.” But the real turning point in this friendship is when he asks Anita to sit in the other chair in his room. Speaking through the Silurian’s uploaded consciousness, an interface acknowledges that the star could potentially burn everything on Earth by saying that Villengard “respects the collateral sacrifice of all participating innocent life forms” in its quest to create an infinite energy source.
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