'Love and Monsters' wasn't that bad. It was a great premise. Peter Kay was fantastically theatrical in human form, dryly witty and weirdly unnerving. Marc Warren was brilliant, as he normally is. The idea of replicating Whovians in a Doctor Who episode is not only novel, it's a wonderful payback to the fans. It's just a shame that all anyone remembers, are the last ten minutes. First, there's Peter Kay dressed as the Absorbaloff chasing Elton, Benny Hill-style. Then there's Rose being a bit of a cow to Elton; come on love, he's lost everything, lay off him? And then there's the freaky conclusion that Elton's lover will last forever as a paving slab. Yes, lover. Elton confirms it. No, they didn't mention their lovely Sunday afternoons watching the Coronation Street omnibus, discussing the fall of the Euro or Ursula reading Elton the ingredients to chocolate muffins as they bake cakes together. No. Instead, Russell T Davies made reference to a man performing sexual acts to Moaning Myrtle's animated, concrete face. The cracks in the time and space, erasing all in their wake, had their uses after all.
