Really, only one thing needs to be said about this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special: The gifted Steven Moffat did more with the mere seven minutes of Time Crash (this year’s Children In Need special from last month) than the increasingly-hackish Russell T. Davies could do in the overly-long Voyage of the Damned. It is as if Davies woke up one morning and said to himself, “Ah, well, I guess I’d better make some sort of Christmas special this year.” As sad as that is, it would be better for it to be true than for Voyage of the Damned to be a harbinger of what Davies is bringing us in the next season.
