"Good evening. I am a lizard woman from the dawn of time, and this is my wife."
The Snowmen would have been a marvellous Doctor Who Christmas special if this line had been the highlight of it - but there was far more to enjoy than that!
Strax and the memory worm....
Darkover House, where the family lived, (surely a nod to the works of Marion Zimmer Bradley, who wrote a whole series of books set on the world of Darkover - which had a lot of snow)....
The Tardis parked in a cloud with a spiral staircase leading up to it....
The one word answer that made the Doctor sit up and take notice....
The nod back to Patrick Troughton and the Yetis in the Underground (and the Great Intelligence!)....
And Clara. Wonderful Clara, who wouldn't go away and leave the Doctor alone, and trusted him to help, and argued with him brilliantly. And liked to make souffles....
And finally, Evil defeated by Love - the tears of the people who loved Clara washing the snow away.
And that's got the Doctor curious again - Clara is a mystery waiting to be solved - and he's off! And the next season promises to be glorious!
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