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Originally Posted by Demdike  It clearly took place before The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear in the historical timeline, so maybe the Great Intelligence decided fake snowmen were shite and teddy bears were cooler the next time. |
So the Abominable Snowman/Yeti/Bigfoot/Sasquatch were only invented in the 20th century, and there is no historical record of them before that?
*Cough!
Come on, Great Intelligence - where is your intelligence?
*Serious - It seems that 'nu-Who' is happy to make 'current things' scary - teachers ('School Reunion'), mobile phones ('Rise of the Cybermen'/'The Age of Steel'), television ('The Idiots Lantern'), The Electric Light Orchestra (!) ('Love and Monsters'), traffic jams ('Gridlock'), Sat-navs ('The Sontaran Stratagem'/'The Poison Sky'), libraries/books ('Silence in the Library'/'Forest of the Dead') etc. As a television show, 'Doctor Who' should work on "universal fears", and not just those which are current
With regards to The Snowmen...there has not been enough snow in England to build one this year, therefore the designs are redundant because potentially a lot of viewers (children) would not know what one is.
By making reference to 'The Abominable Snowmen' and 'The Web of Fear', Moffatt should have kept to the classics. This Christmas special (although not as bad as some of the others) was a Dickensian thing - and how many times have we seen Dickens in a nu-Who (Christmas special, or 'normal' show)?