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Doctor Who : Joy to the World was Steven Moffat ’s speculation on loneliness , showing how the Doctor and every character are worse for it .
" Joy to the globe " is everything you could bear from aSteven MoffatDoctor WhoChristmas Special . It ’s clever , twisty , silly , fishy , and tragical in equal measure , but at pump , it ’s Moffat ’s poignant meditation on loneliness and discover a determination to get out of that . Loneliness is an issue for many people at Christmas . In US TV appearance , Christmas special and episode are all gleeful celebrations of gravel together with friends and family . British Christmas special often flat call for main characters who sense lonely , alone , and unloved at Christmas , which should tell you non - Brits what a big deal it is in the UK .
All The Lonely People, Where Do They All Come From?
All the key character in " Joy to the World " are lone people : The Doctor , Joy , and the – other supporting grapheme , and the story dramatize how that loneliness touch on them and the way they move through their lives and the decisions they make . This is what good telecasting writer do . Without ever enunciate out tacky , " This is all about loneliness ! " ( that ’s what a US TV show would say outright ) , they sprinkle type who embody the themes , and Moffat is a master of thematic layering on top of clever , tortuous plots and timey - wimey construction . Joy ( Nicola Coughlan ) is clearly solitary and grieving her female parent , feeling so guilty that she checks into a lonely hotel elbow room to pass Christmas because she cogitate she deserves no better . Trev the hotel certificate sentry duty ( Joel Fry ) is clearly lonely in his lowkey awkwardness , low ego - respect and require to be utile and not let The Doctor down .
The hotel manager ( Moffat regularJonathan Aris ) is one of the last surviving Silurians who found consolation and friends work out at the Time Hotel . Hotel guest Silvia Trench ( cheekily mention after the first Bond little girl ) character play byNiamh Marie Smith ) travel alone on the Orient Express , endeavor to spell a missive to the fair sex she loves , revere rejection . Sandringham Hotel concierge Anita ( Stephanie de Whalleyin a quiet funny and unflashy poignant functioning that slip the show ) works a lonely job in a lonely little hotel while weathering disappointed boyfriend and breakups , and her quietly funny ordinariness urinate her the most Moffat of fictional character in the floor . Then there ’s the loneliest of them all : the Doctor ( Ncuti Gatwa ) .
Doctor Who: The Lonely God
Throughout " Joy to the World , " The Doctor and lonely citizenry are perpetually drawn to each other . He ca-ca booster with lonely people and will help them out of that state in acts of kindness both insouciant and elaborate . Both Trev and the hotel manager would have died whether the Doctor showed up or not as they were pull back into Villengard ’s scheme to hatch their top secret power source , but the Doctor gave them solacement and purpose . Trev found a mission to help the Doctor save the public . The Doctor propose the pass hotel manager benignity in offering him remembrance in his last moments . Trev gets killed because The Doctor was n’t there to keep it . The Doctor promote Syliva Trench to follow up on her love . Anita unwittingly and casually becomes the Doctor ’s most strange companion by just hanging around with him for a twelvemonth , living a perfectly normal life where their friendly relationship eases their loneliness .
The Time Hotel staff seems to be full of lonely people who discover intent in being of serve to the guests and give the hotel manager a life and a found crime syndicate , and the Doctor recognizes this when he persuade them to hire Anita to make her life more colourful and fun and find her more champion . Joy discover purpose and salvation from her guilty conscience by sacrificing herself to meld with the infant star and not only becomes a ace forever and a day in the sky that convey joy to the humankind at Christmas but also the hotshot of Bethlehem that manoeuvre the Three Wise Men to Bethlehem in 0001 AD after her encounter with The Doctor . The Doctor inadvertently becomes the angel who oversee the birth of Christ and all of Christmas . Both Anita and Joy accredit The Doctor ’s solitariness and encourage him not to be alone – but in the end , the Doctor can never be free of loneliness because he is always give or losing people . This is why he ’ll always have to keep make young friends .
The Doctor ’s forlornness has always been constitutional in the serial , but this is the deepest the series has plunge into that facet of his character , and it ’s the saddestDoctor WhoChristmas peculiar of them all . And Steven Moffat acknowledge that .
Doctor Who : Joy to the Worldis well out onDisney+outside the UK .
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