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Likes:

• The Doctor, driven bonkers with obsession.
• Clara’s timey-whimey dating disasters.
• *That* duvet scene.

Beefs:

• Hey! Gallifrey is time-locked! Stop breaking your own rules.
• An unsatisfactory resolution? Did Clara grabbing mini Doctor’s ankle create big Doctor’s obsession in the first place? Perhaps Clara is responsible for grabbing everybody’s ankles, as some kind of weird hobby.
• Do we think there were ever any creatures under the bed / outside the spaceship? Is it meant to be scarier if there aren’t, and the future is pure nothingness? The Seventh Doctor would have gotten to the bottom of this mystery. He would have confronted the duvet creature, manipulated its race into revealing themselves to all humanity, and humanity would have clobbered them with baseball bats. Or, if it turned out to be a little kid pissing around, he would have given them a very stern telling off.

Trivia: the creature makes a guest appearance in CBeebies Bing episode ‘Birthday’.

Summary: (It’s good to) Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

3.7/5 spare underwear you’ll need if watching this episode under the following circumstances – alone, under a bed in a deserted mansion during a thunderstorm, and then someone sits on the bed.