Doctor Who S3E0: The Runaway Bride ★★☆☆☆

Fun but in a popcorny way for the most part, which I guess is appropriate for a Christmas episode. I had forgotten how messy this was. Feels very all over the place, bouncing from setpiece to setpiece with the Doctor saying “but that’s impossible!” half a dozen times to segue into the next story beat. Also, the Segways. The awkward staging of the Racnoss queen feels very, well, stagy and the hamminess of her acting with the bit with Lance and the axe feels like it tips over into pantomime. Which, again, appropriate I suppose.