Sunday night television

Doctor Who, "Flesh and Stone": In the end, I got the feeling that Moffat was trying to do too many things in this episode, and didn't end up doing any of them as well as he might have.

I particularly thought he overdid the monsters. The first time we saw them, thay had an elegantly simple concept that went straight to the primitive fear centres of the brain and lodged there. (Only episode of Doctor Who that's given adult!me insomnia.) All the extra things he's added to their story last episode and this, in my experience, make them less powerfully frightening, not more. (The primitive fear centres of the brain are not very good at lists. "Amongst our weaponry...") And that thing that happened just after Amy lost the communicator? I can see what they were trying for, but for me it was a definite case of 'The monster you never see is always scarier'.


Foyle's War. Last week, Sam got involved because the murder victim lived in the house where she was working. This week, she got involved because the murder victim was a guest in the house where she is now working. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence...