{"id":160316,"date":"2023-12-31T12:26:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T19:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160316"},"modified":"2023-12-31T12:26:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T19:26:57","slug":"111676583844949091","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2023\/12\/31\/111676583844949091.html","title":{"rendered":"TV Review: Doctor Who Holiday Special 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Finally watched the Doctor Who Christmas Special, Holiday Special, or Special No. 4 (depending on which advert you see for it).<\/p>\n

I think the Fifteenth Doctor is going to be a lot of fun, full of compassion and whimsy. Not gotten a solid coherent read off of Ruby yet, but we’ll see.<\/p>\n

The plot it self was moderately intricate, left some bits dangling for RTD to come back to, and, if a bit fantasy-heavy … well, Doctor Who has always been fantasy with most the numbers filed off.<\/p>\n

Good stuff.<\/p>\n

\"Ruby<\/a>
Ruby Sunday and the Fifteenth Doctor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A nice, neat, fun, high-budget intro to the new Doctor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2313,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toot","category-media-tv-doctor-who"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Doctor-Who-15-and-Ruby-Sunday.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137581,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/02\/the-doctor-who-new-years-special.html","url_meta":{"origin":160316,"position":0},"title":"The Doctor Who New Year's Special","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-Jan-19 11:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I will try to avoid spoilers.This end of the year episode (and the only DW fix we're going to get in 2019, alas) is emblematic of everything that worked and didn't work in the current series of the Doctor.I love Thirteen. 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