Is there any link to Christmas beyond tradition? Does the show have a Christmas theme?
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Yes. It is Christmas-themed. It stars the cricket from Pinocchio (don’t know his English name) and he gets Holliday cards from different Disney characters. It is mostly clips from different movies and some shorts.
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Day 8
Peace is a really complicated question. I think it’s often confused, at times by the doctor, with nonviolence. I don’t think those are the same, for me there can’t be peace without having equal rights, for example. That means that with questions such as the one in Genesis of the daleks, there simply is no peaceful option, as horrible as that is
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Jiminy Cricket!
Isn’t the Santa Workshop scene in it, too, and the one with Chip and Dale and the peanuts?
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What a weird name for Jesper Fårekylling… 
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A very weird name for Samu Sirkka, yes!
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You call him what?!?!? For context “Fårekylling” loosely translates to “Sheep is Chicken”
Everybody know that his name is Benjamin Syrsa
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Again, it’s Danish! No one understands it 
The Finnish name “Sirkka” is literally “Cricket” (the bugger, not the game) in Finnish, while “Samu” is a common Finnish first name.
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Hmm never actually thought about that word before. How does that make any sense?
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Thank you! 
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For a UK tradition not already discussed (by someone from the UK) children’s show, Blue Peter (which Peter Purves used to present) used to encourage children to burn their homes down by creating their own highly flammable Christmas Crown. On the show each week they’d light theirs. Up and down the country parents would be hassled to give up their coat hangers and tinsel.
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In Malta they have a Christmas market every December in Rabat.
There are lots of stalls, some really nice stuff and some cheaper pieces.
Live music plays in the evening.
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Another Malta tradition is cribs 
They come in all sizes. Some people display them publicly, most are just home decorations.
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Excellent - this is the last Adventure Calendar I haven’t rated yet on TARDIS Guide.
I wonder if there’s a badge in this… @shauny
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Look at you, bullying shauny into making badges again… 
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Lies, lies and vicious lies!
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No badge (yet?), sorry.
That story was just alright… another story aimed a little too young I think, and a little too rushed.
As for peace:
I’ve said this before on here but a really great point about peace and non-violence etc was made by Missy in Death in Heaven, spoilers for that episode below:
Death in Heaven spoilers
She gives the Doctor an army of Cybermen as a present, and she explains it like this:
MISSY: Armies are for people who think they’re right. And nobody thinks they’re righter than you. Give a good man firepower, and he’ll never run out of people to kill.
DOCTOR: I don’t want an army!
MISSY: Well, that’s the trouble! Yes, you do! You’ve always wanted one! All those people suffering in the Dalek camps? Now you can save them. All those bad guys winning all the wars? Go and get the good guys back.
This point is also made in Journey’s End, that the Doctor turns his companions into weapons.
Although he says he wants peace and non-violence, the nature of the show always means there will be violence.
It’s a difficult issue!
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This Story was clearly aimed for a younger audience and while that’s fine, i have to say it really doesn’t wanna work. And dare I say this one just doesn’t work at all for me. It is written competently for the most part, but nothing unique is there about. The Characters fall for me flat and the Story feels very rushed to me. Overall, not a great Short Story.
I do agree with a lot of points made by @JayPea on that, highly recommend reading his review on this short story!
To answer the Question: I think this will be one of those time when I leave it out, there were some interesting answers here so far, so highly recommending them instead! (i am really unsure how to answer it, maybe I will come around after a few days)
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I think a good lens to view this problem through is the Paradox of Tolerance as proposed by Karl Popper
Summary
“Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols.
We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal. ”
Sometimes, in order to maintain peace, violence is necessary to stop those who wish to disrupt it. Obviously it’s an ethical quagmire deciding what is and isn’t disrupting peace/intolerant etc, but sometimes it is needed.
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Are you Maltese, @WeAreInACar ? Or just familiar with their holiday traditions?
Curious because I’m of Maltese descent. My father’s parents came over on the boat, and I never run into people of Maltese heritage.
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