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Aka the BBC3 one, Dead Man Walking.
Okay, I freely acknowledge that my Whedon injuries are showing in this one.
The killed character brought back with the other mitten placed on the wall way back in S1.
Actual permanent cost of bringing said character back both to the character himself but also to those bringing them back and innocent bystanders.
Dead character walking has actual death related issues like not being able to digest, sleep and shag. Actual makes sense , plus, sure beats a molecular sunburn and an on-going program of self indulgent whining/ taking it out on others.
No heeeeeeveen rubbish/shoring up wishful thinking or imaginary friends in the sky. All while keeping an exploration of scary things that can come out of the unknown when monkeying around with natural processes.
Owen has no soul now - he thinks - and his team-mates care about him and didn't make mall jokes over his room temp body at the end or at the start with the autopsy.
Owen keeps his inner git and snark even when he's being heroic and saving the day and stopping Gwen hogging his two minutes.
And he called Tosh on the reality of last minute declarations to the dead - though in this case the writers and the actress do make me believe her, love her, care for her and hope these two crazy kids can make it. Which way beats hoping for being eaten by feral cats/swallowed up by red hot lava.
Owen also called Jack on wanting to save him only to use him and Jack denied it and I believed him. Which, again, so much more satisfying than a weekly does of kick in the teeth.
Death as a force waiting in the unknown for when the natural process is screwed with tops a pathetic gift with purchase.
Moving hands are never not scary. I jumped when it got Martha.
Creepy children that know stuff (has a Layla Miller moment) are never not scary and I can't help thinking that that girl was Faith, the one that beat Death last time.
Owen working out the way to beat Death and be a good Doctor to the kid with leukaemia was also good show not tell of who he is. Especially combined with the kiss of wanting it anyway-get Tosh out of harms way was also most welcome.
The relationship between the Weevils and death both small case and capital letter was established and made them much more interesting.
The promo makes it look like Owen's exploring the consequences of being dead and there are consequences to that behaviour. Me like consequences.
And Ianto poised to tackle Evil Mitten with ice hockey stick.
I did like it that there wasn't as much Martha worship this week, as it got very OTT, but there was good continuity across the episodes and both series instead, especially in the Owen/Gwen hug that didn't discuss to death their thing last year but hung on it.
Martha's old age make-up was so much worse than the Doctor's last year.
I liked that they acknowledged that bringing back Owen did kill people, but I like it all the more because there wasn't a big cheesy speech at the end about it but the implications that they have to make up for it was just left there.
Some cheesy moments, especially the Ancient Martha and multiplied Weevils, but all in all, I liked it and Matt (Impossible Planet/Satan Pit) did another good scary one.

And I'm also glad that they're repeating Being Human after it, as I enjoyed the a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost share a house, with side orders of Bitey, vampire politics and Harry Potter sorting conversations when I saw it on Monday.