It's time once again for the Doctor Who Christmas Special, in this one The Doctor, recently companion-less, finds himself inboards the Titanic, an interstellar cruiser orbiting Earth to observe how they celebrate Christmas (which in London isn't festively on account of the previous years' fiascoes) The Doctor also must deal with the Titanic 'crashing' into asteroids.Pretty much "the Posieden Andventure" set in space with killer robots. This was a little bit of fun fluff, nothing that substantial to think about. The one strike this special has going against it is Kylie Minogue, who can't act her way out of a plastic bag. The other thing going against it is seldom lapses into cheap sappy sentimentality. Neither of those totally ruins the episode, but they do keep it from being on the same caliber as "The Christmas Invasion" My Grade: C+

You know, when Hollywood does a steaming pile of explosions and cgi like this, it's called out for the useless drivel it is. Why is everyone loving this episode? It's so poor, so sub-class, so riddled with stereotypes and amazingly cruelty for a Doctor Who episode. And this was a holiday show? Life is cheap now too it seems. Russell Davis seems to want to up the body count to match Torchwood. Frankly, I'd not mind if they were as half suspenseful or clever as the two-parter "Impossible Planet" and "Satan's Pit", but if this is a sign of things to come, it's sooo not. Leave the needless Hollywood violence for Torchwood, hm'kay?

I was fairly disappointed with the last Christmas special (co-starring the comedian) and I wasn't expecting too much from this either. Well it wasn't too bad at all, this is a great and fresh instalment into the Xmas specials. The story is strong as usual and the idea of the space titanic wasn't too silly as I had first thought, it felt a little like the Poseidon adventure in parts of the episode but this isn't a bad thing. The acting is another plus here, some new interesting characters that the doctor meets and quite a few deaths also which I was surprised by. Overall the latest entry into doctor who is certainly worth a viewing and I just hope that series 4 won't be ruined by the comedian... 8/10

This is the second Christmas Special for New Who to really disappoint, without actually being dull, particularly bad, or really horribly offensive. This was prettier, wittier, and just plain bigger than the story we got last year for Christmas, but it still paled in comparison to the hit of 2005's special which introduced the ever more popular David Tennant as the dashing geek, the Tenth Doctor. The primary complaint to be leveled here is that this was a rather tired and very familiar sort of story for Who, all flashy and fun but still overwrought with so many strange notes of high passion when the passion just seems to be all wrong for the moment. It was not bad, just tired. Nothing really new and worthy went on here after the first five minutes passed. For fear of spoiling your enjoyment, I'll keep quiet about most of the details.Great success was to be found here by the production team for Who in making a truly beautiful show, all shiny and gorgeous, but the many witty homages, jokes both inside and out, and great casting aside, this was still just another overwrought melodramatic Russell T. Davies story with some really bizarre scenes involving the deaths of short-term characters and some inexplicably emotional responses to said deaths. If you watch this for the cheap thrills of the Who-ness of some really pretty big-budget Doctor Who on Christmas, then by all means, enjoy. But the thematic, imaginative, and storytelling great heights and depths that have been reached occasionally in the best of the new series are not touched here, merely aimed for - and missed.This was a very pretty disappointment. Frankly, I'm tired of that. The majority of the big themes are undeveloped enough make the justification for epic qualities, unfortunately. Even if it surely justified 12.2 million live British viewers upon first viewing.