I found her magical reappearance in line with kids' show logic. Everything must be happy right at the end, she reappeared in a cloud of glowy things, everything wrapped up, yay.

I think the magical glowing things were supposed to be saying thanks to Maebh, by magically transporting the sister from whatever sewer she'd been hiding away in the whole time. Presumably the sister was happy about being returned.

I find a lot US television very "message" ridden - in that you're supposed to take away a clear moral from an episode. I don't really expect that in a lot of British television, there are of course many things the episode has to say, but they may not be clear or unambiguous.

Yeah, I have a friend who happily believes she has a perfect husband and two children. She doesn't need meds to stop it, she just is given anti-depressants and anti-psychotics for the PTSD that triggered this, and regularly sees a counsellor. We don't challenge her on it (it would do no good anyway, just alienate her…

It fit squarely into the "disability is a gift" trope, which not-disabled people love so much.

You mean sometimes it's aimed more at adults with some cool explosions and monsters and wacky Doctor expressions to keep the kids engaged, and other times it's… this episode. Some nice idealism, children, and a cool forest in the city. Sometimes it's even a mix of the two!

Yeah, but kids do like shows with kids in them you know, and identify with them - it's just not always mandatory. Go watch a mix of kids' telly.

*laughs* It's not script writing 101, it's your idea of what an episode you like is.

That would have been a completely different episode, aimed more at adults than kids, you should go submit it to the BBC.

And yet here you are vomiting up your "I haven't watched, not invested at all, nope" all over the review comments at watchers.

Sorry, it's just that a country I'm actually a citizen of, you know, is Pope obsessed, and abortion obsessed, and taking away women's rights obsessed, and sadly, it's not in a minority. Papalist just about covers those countries where the Pope's opinions have a lot of legal clout. SO SORRY I offended you, not.

In other science fiction news, THE MOON IS A GIANT FRICKIN EGG.

Unghh, it's just not really an issue in Britain that much, like in Australia and much of the West that's not the USA (or papalist countries).

You can assume what you like, you do that a lot anyway.

Oh I just love your long pretentious words and condescension, not that I bothered to do more than skim. It's pretty juvenile for people to insist they somehow possess ~objectivity~.

"soap opera" is a highly loaded word in genre fandom, and you used it in a tiresomely typical fashion. But I love that I put you on the defensive!

That's a weak reply, mate. But regardless, I'm over here laughing at you.

oh go away, you're just boring.

Hahaha, objectivity certainly does not exist. You're up against a philosophy of science and history major here. But I do understand that the dominant male culture demands there be the notion of an "objective correct" way to look at things, despite the fact that only people like them think like them, and you're…

Nope, just your dismissal of soap opera, I've spent too much time around moaning old Doctor Who fanboys I guess. SO sorry if you're one of the exceptions but I reckon you aren't. tl;dr to the rest, sorry.