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The best humour is always unintentional, imo, and that is what we have now  |
Not with an episode about Santa though- in fact pretty much all the humour in the Christmas specials have felt very forced and deliberate imo. With Christmas episodes, they normally just try and 'play it for laughs' which I find irksome as I would actually just like a really good, gritty, dark story instead. The best two Christmas stories were the two where they didn't play it for laughs quite as much, i.e The Snowman and The Christmas Invasion. The others- in particular Runaway Bride, Voyage of the Damned, The Doctor, The Window and the Wardrobe and Time of the Doctor- they decided to try (and imo fail) to be funny and fit in as many Christmas puns as possible.