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No way is she forty...
 

I'm afraid she seemed like a cut-price Julia Sawalha to me :(
 

Yeah, much my thought. I'd have guessed mid-thirties at a push.

Gotta love the utter utter shiteness of the sledgehammer exposition.

"Oh, no... now that I've been absorbed I can read his thoughts... he's going to absorb you, too!"

Yeah, no fucking shit. "Run! You're next!" would have done the trick.

And why bother with the whole "blatantly made up by a child" monster? Surely it would have made more sense for Kay to have just been a Slitheen and have done with it?

I get the whole repressed memory thing... but surely the fact that this weird guy was standing about in his house the day he found his mother dead would sort of be remembered? Maybe if Elton blamed the Doctor for his mum's death, it would have made it borderline interesting...

Overall, it was like watching Storyteller, but without all the things that made the Buffy episode such utter, utter genius... or, well... any of the even vaguely good things about it.

Crap!

And Ursula shouldn't be able to talk as a paving slab. For a start, she doesn't have a larynx. [/wonderfalls]
 

I was surprised by the whole total-lack-of-point to the repressed memory thing as well... Having an embittered man talked around by the real article helping him would have worked better.

It also may have worked better with a character we've seen before... maybe last series, with Mickey for example.

It also may have worked better if any aspect of it had been any good, actually. Even with the poorer episodes of the revival there have been a few good scenes or even concepts and ideas in there somewhere, but not this one.