Subject: We Do Not Talk About That.
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Posted on: 2019-10-08 19:49:00 UTC

That... travesty of an episode was called Kill the Moon, and offended me on SO many levels. I'm torn over whether the worst part was 'the thing inside the egg is growing and so gravity is increasing at the surface', 'all of humanity voted to kill it but Clara said no so we still have faith in humanity', or 'it laid another egg identical down to the least crater'.

Series Eight was a very frustrating series for me; it contained utter rubbish like that and 'Robots of Sherwood', but also fantastic episodes like 'Time Heist' and 'Listen'.

~

Doing a bit of hunting around, it looks like the story S.M.F. is thinking of might have been Born of the Sun, by Jack Williamson. This discussion says there's a similar story called And Lo! The Bird! by Nelson S. Bond. I don't think either of them are mine, though.

There are only a few books that I remember being properly scared of as a kid. This was one. Another was a ghost story set during the Blitz. And the third was Robert Swindells' Inside the Worm.

I probably still have all three of them...

hS

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