![]() Why does the Doctor decide that his best plan of action is to literally change a man’s personality? Isn’t it bad to manipulate someone’s life? Didn’t we already learn how crossing one’s own timeline can be disastrous? For a show about a time-traveling alien and his human companions skipping through the universe and saving the day, we also get little of our protagonists, and the characters who are pushed into the spotlight - Kazran Sardick and his icebox sweetheart Abigail - aren’t nearly interesting enough to act as worthy substitutes. ![]() It’s a transparent attempt to adopt the plot of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol - indeed, even Matt Smith’s Doctor says it - but the episode’s logic and execution are both off-target. Following the trash fire that was the Pandorica arc, “A Christmas Carol” tells the story of a doomed spaceship and the rich miser who could save the day but refuses to do any such thing.
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