Casting Out Demons no comments

I thought it was all over . . . it is now!

I struggled to keep an interest, I really did, but every weekend that I was away I just couldn't be bothered to record it, knowing it would remain unwatched.

So the end came about - Galvin's big secret was revealed at last, and it was a better secret than I was expecting. The hero remained lukewarm to the last. (I prefer Luke on the Sarah Jane Adventures.) Mina did her reluctantly-becoming-a-proper-vampire thing again, and we can all get on with our (half-)lives.

Richard Wilson reappeared as the oracle figure and was, as usual, wasted. Likewise Mackenzie Crook made a comeback from the dead . . . briefly. I came away feeling that they'd wiped out the wrong half of the cast.

I wonder if they held off filming the last episode until the viewing figures had stabilised, or even filmed an alternate ending, in the hope of a surprise hit. This felt like a final episode rather than a finalé.

With no secret, no oracle and no recurring villain left it doesn't look set up for a second series. (Except maybe for Nina's 'unresolved issues'.) I can't say that I'd be sorry if that proves true.