The Day of the Doctor(s)

Saturday night was Geekfest – a celebration of all things geeky but more specifically a chance to gather with friends and watch the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special: The Day Of The Doctor. I think my second Doctor outfit worked quite well, all things considered. I couldn’t get the hair to work quite as well as I’d hoped. It fluffed out slightly and it turns out that I was somewhat greyer than Patrick Troughton was in the 1960s. Nina thought I ended up looking more like Timothy Dalton’s James Bond than the Doctor – still, that’s better than ending up looking like an Ood:

Some of the other outfits were quite impressive – particularly this Weeping Angel which was genuinely quite creepy:

There was also a third Doctor at the party - although we managed to get on better than in the series:

It wasn’t all Doctor Who references as you can see from this Vulcan:

As for the episode itself, I was really taken with it as it managed to somehow fill the long gap when it was off-air and nicely tie up both the original series with it’s modern incarnation and somehow turn the whole thing into a coherent whole. Like many of Stephen Moffat’s scripts it really does need to be seen twice to appreciate all the subtle touches of dialogue. For an episode that delved so deeply into the mythology of the series I think there was enough to keep the casual viewer entertained but for a fan of almost 50 years worth of episodes there were clever references in abundance.

I suppose the problem now is how to top it – and also how to answer the question of limiting the Doctor to 13 bodies. Personally, I would rather that bit of mythology was gently swept aside but it seems to have gained such hard-coded centrality amongst fandom that it really does need properly explaining (like how come the Master keeps regenerating when he was the reason the limit was introduced to begin with?) Anyway, that’s for another day. Christmas Day, in fact.