User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-20607870-20151225192756/@comment-1789834-20151225203223

I watched it only a couple of days ago. The scene with Wilf, now I think back, indeed mentions Christmas shopping. You're right there. But the day scene featuring the Queen and Buckingham Palace must surely take place on Christmas Day due to the news reporter stating that this year Christmas seems to have taken place without alien intervention. If that's not enough to bring to the debate then maybe the scene at the very end with Mr Copper and the Tenth Doctor. Mr Copper wonders whether the snow is the ballast of the ship burning up in the lower atmosphere. The Doctor hopes that one Christmas there'll be real snow. If we include this as one of RTD's annual "fake snow" in-jokes, then this just adds to the case.