So my general train of thought on pretty much everything Steven Moffat's done over the last two seasons went something like this:
1, approximately one month before the episode in question aired: this is a stupid idea and it will never work.
2, immediately after seeing the episode in question: well, that flew in the face of common sense a zillion times and I spotted the source material a mile away, but it wasn't as terrible an idea as I thought.
3, some time later: Steven Moffat is the best thing to happen to Doctor Who since Tom Baker!
So when I found out that the Christmas Special this year is called The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe, naturally my first thought was along the lines of #1. Now, full confession time. I haven't read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and probably never will. I know, I know, there's a massive hole in my childhood somewhere, terrible terrible me.
More to the point, Doctor Who is profoundly athiestic. (Maybe that's because my good friend Tom often derides a certain Series 2 two-parter as "the one with freaking Satan in it" and the people at the BBC agreed that said episodes were an awful joke.) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? Not so much. This seems only slightly less offensive than adapting the New Testament into a Doctor Who two-parter, or having the Doctor rejuvenated by faith...
Speaking of, the Series 3 reviews start next week.
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