The Coleman Question, Frost on Santa and Last Christmas’ Arctic Monsters

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December is here and we’ve seasonal news for you! The Coleman Question, Frost on Santa and the Arctic monsters in Last Christmas have been named. Turn your Christmas levels up to maximum because our psychic News-mistletoe is set to stun! Lean in and pucker-up for some yuletide information exchange…

Companion Queries

International Business news reports that we’ve been told Clara’s “fate will be determined for sure” in this years Seasonal special, Last Christmas. It’s not entirely clear what that means – will we know whether she’ll crop up in Doctor Who Series 9 or will we simply know, in a timey-wimey sense, where the character will one day wind up? The site has previously speculated that there might be a clue in the title *Last* Christmas…

They also flag up a rumour that Missy’s Nethersphere-concierge, Seb, as portrayed by Chris Addison may replace Clara as the Twelfth Doctor’s next companion. We know that it was possible for at least on body to be re-constituted (or perhaps just constituted…) from inside the Gallifreyan hard drive. Could programs similarly take on corporeal form?

Personally I think re-pairing Capaldi and Addison in some kind of homage to their Thick of It characters comes under the same category as a Who-Holmes Crossover. Like Gatiss says, it’d never be as good as you think it’s going to be…

Gangsta Santa and Christmas Villainy

has reported on an interview with Father Christmas himself, Nick Frost, talking about his role in the special. The Shaun of the Dead star said he wanted to make the character, “slightly edgy and cross at times and a bit like a gangster… I want viewers to be kept in the dark as to his intentions, so you don’t know if he’s good or if he’s evil.”

Or whether he’s nice or naughty?

The names of the monsters in Last Christmas have also be revealed. We are told that the Doctor and Clara are called to assist, “…the crew of a polar base come under attack from a mysterious band of new villains known as the Sleepers and the Dream Crabs.”

Well well! The big-mouthed slime-covered things sitting up in bed are presumably one (or both?) of those two new monsters. Jenna Coleman has already said that the episode deals with interface between dreams and reality. DenofGeek are rightly worried that Moffat might be about to turn his fear-inducing skills to our dreams.

What are your thoughts Kasterborites? Addison for the next companion? Will Clara meet yet *another* tragic yuletide end after a splinter version of the Impossible Girl fell from a cloud in The Snowmen? Looking forward to this Christmas?…

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