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Larry's thoughts on this mesh very much with yours. And he's right, you know, 100% right - I was never scared of anything I saw on Evil Renegade while I was little, and I was totally perplexed when I grew up and heard all these "behind the sofa" clichés. (Although my mother assures me she was actually scared of the Daleks.)

Seriously - I don't like the way Moffat is repeating himself, with the "yay, everyone lives" motif - excuse me, five people did *not* live, except as digital simalcrums of themselves, and while that's a pretty good afterlife (esp. with every book ever written to read), I don't think it counts as not dying. Also - what, did CAL magically figure out where she went wrong with transcribing Miss Evangelista, and if so, how? That was a big plot hole which we weren't supposed to think about in the wave of Warm Fuzzy at the end there. I would have loved to see Squashed Plastacine Faced Goth happily running out to meet her teammates at the end.

Still, there were a couple of plot twists that I didn't see coming, and it does seem like the River Song thing shows that Moffat is at least thinking long-term. Larry doesn't see that as one of his strong points, so maybe it's a promising sign. Of course, only Larry has ever sensibly scripted out a Death of the Doctor story, so he has higher standards on this issue than others.

In this issue of The Most Hated Blog West of the Houseworld, Larry hits back at Fandom Wank et al:

Tips for Doctor Who fans, number eighteen: why not try completely ignoring the point of everything I've written in this column, but quoting the most offensive-sounding parts on newsgroups for the next two years anyway, even though they've been taken out of any kind of meaningful context?

And this just in to warm the cockles of War Arrow's heart!

When I wrote last week's column, I honestly had no idea that Neil Gaiman had (ostensibly) been approached to write for the series. If I'd known, then I wouldn't have been so polite.

Oh yes. Even with the primitive special effects, Sapphire and Steel is still freakin' creepy even to modern viewers. Pity that PJ Hammond seems to have lost his touch, on the evidence of the Evil Carnies ep of Torchwood.

I don't see why someone who'd been in an idyllic fantasy world for 100 years would want to or need to grow up. Although that's another point - how come CAL's virtual world looks like 21st century North America or Europe, when she actually came from the 50th century and grew up on who knows what insane planet? Is this another manifestation of the Ghost Point, that the early 21st century is universally recognized as "as good as it ever was"?