As they’re flying over London(?), Santa gives the Doctor the reigns to the sleigh. This time Santa comes back to save the day, and they fly away on his sleigh. Once they depart that dream they realize they’re still in a dream and after a while they get out of that as well, only to be in a supposed final dream state (these Crabs are tricky to say the least). Surprisingly, this was one of Danny’s better appearances, as it was one of his more human moments rather than his typical Jiminy Cricket-esque inspirational line moments. But the Doctor goes under the influence of a Crab and enters Clara’s dream, whereupon he and Danny convince Clara to wake up. She dreams the perfect Christmas where he is still alive, which is what the Crabs do to make it so the person they take over doesn’t want to wake up. What’s more, Clara then goes into a further dream state as another Crab grabs on to her and the Doctor goes in to save her. The ambush actually resulted in them all being taken over by the Crabs and the hallucinated Santa. See, at this point they are in a dream state. The scientific team comes to see what the Doctor and Clara are doing there when they get ambushed by Crabs and Santa comes busting in to the rescue. They end up on a scientific base at the North Pole where they discover the previously mentioned Crabs. She can’t believe what she’s seeing and then the Doctor appears and comes to take Clara away. The story starts with Santa landing on Clara’s roof and she goes up to see what’s going on.
All the while you’re put into a dream state, and the only way to live is to become self aware and wake up from the dream, forcing the crabs off your face and killing them. See, the main enemy is a species called Dream Crabs, and they essentially grab on your face (think facehugger from Alien, which they also said in the episode), put you to sleep, dig under your skin, and start to eat your brain.
It sounds ridiculous and for the majority of the episode I cringed at it, but then it all made sense and was very cleverly done. All the while there is a real life Santa Clause.
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