Today, it is one week until Christmas.
Today, a Doctor Who Christmas special trailer was released.
What better way to celebrate the holiday season than with a bit of analysis, joy, and slight bitter grieving?
*Christmas music begins*
“Hello, the TARDIS!”
Is that snow? Is it finally safe to infer that that is actual confirmed snow and not an evil monster or ash from a burning spaceship?
I’m going to say yes.
While I’m making safe assumptions, I’m also going to go ahead and assume that this is from another planet, because, what?
“Hello the Oswalds!
Merry Christmas!”
Looking for reasons to add this episode to your Christmas-TV watch list? How about that is is starring this golden face by Possibly-Clara’s-Dad (or Possibly-Someone-Else)?
If this is after the scene shown in the BBC Christmas teaser where Clara introduces the lovely Eleven as her boyfriend, then I think I can understand the expression. 
I had one quite like it on myself.
“I hope you made a wish.”
Thank you adorable grandmother, for saying the presumably important, foreshadowy thing that would have sounded even weirder if it came from anyone else.
Is it just me, or do their expressions sum up their relationship?
“Is that a new body?”
Only on Doctor Who.
^The above comment applies to both the question and the eyeliner choice^
“This old thing, please, I’ve been rocking it for centuries.”
Hahaha, oh Doctor, how cute. What could ruin this happy moment?
Oh.
OH.
OH SWEET MOTHER OF PEARL
WAIT IS THIS REALLY NECESSARY NO NO IT IS NOT
In this shot we hear Clara, showing off her Amy Pond:
“What are you? Why do I keep forgetting you?”
Oh, honey.
By the way, that shot shows an awful lot of swagger for a man with some of his greatest enemies strolling behind him. I shan’t get my hopes up, but if that’s the Cyber-Planner back from the dead, I will forgive the BBC for everything they’ve ever done to me.
“The Time Lord has entered the trap.”
“If you’re smart, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there’s one thing you never, ever put in a trap.”“You will die in silence, Doctor!”
What, again? wait
Are you telling me that this episode is still running on fuel it got from season five?
*slow clap*
“Clara, step away from it!”
Really, really good advice, usually. Shall we see if Clara takes it?
Surprise, surprise.
“YOLO”
Oh please, now I have to be scared of Weeping-Angels-hidden-in-the-snow? Am I not already afraid of weeping angels, snow-that’s-probably-ash, and snowmen separately? This is starting to seem a little extreme.
::Gratuitous TARDIS action shot:: 
“Everything ends, Clara. Sooner than you think.”
Or else nothing would ever get started? Still, it’s Christmastime. What happened to that “happy crying” we had a couple years back?
Aaaand there’s your answer. Curse you Silence[exceptnotreallybecauseImissedyou].
New screwdriver? Timey-wimey thing? A machine that goes ‘ding’?
How about a totally out-of-context toy dog? Yeah, BBC knows what you want.
Clara: “Change the future.”
Doctor: “I can’t.”
Clara, you’re not going not let him off that easy, are you?
*Audible gasps heard around the world*
YES. Yes, please. You have no idea how long I’ve waited for a proper explanation and backstory for this scene from season six. Unless your idea is “since season six,” in which case, yeah, you got it. That wasn’t a very hard guessing game.
Yeah, Oncoming Storm, you go. You assemble a cabinet at them. 
“The Time War will begin anew.
What, um NO that is SO not Emma Approved.
Run, you clever girl. And isn’t it time the Doctor said that? If he says it in this episode, I will be requiring a high-five. And probably tissues, but let’s not get into that quite yet.
The siege of Trenzalore is now begun.
*Manages to growl and cry simultaneously*
Oh, Daleks exploding, good. That’s something I can get behind.
This world will burn.”
#Judging You
“GURL. You need to burn that makeup.”
I can’t get over how well-done this episode looks. By the by, have you ever felt a sort of overwhelming dread and denial accompanied by unbounded enthusiasm and excitement?
… I’m, um, asking for a friend.
Just {Blank} To Be Here 