<p>I'm so glad to find other people who liked Midnight! Hubby was okay with it, but my mom *hated* it. She was upset that there was no "monster". Well, there was, but the monster was *us*. She was expecting some special effects, I guess, but personally I've always preferred psychological terror to cool FX anyday. Take "Silence in the Library". Well, it did have a great visual monster in the skeleton in a suit, but the real menace was invisibly tiny.</p><p>The monster in this was, in a sense, ourselves. Locked in a room with a bunch of strangers, unable to see the outside, aware of a nameless, formless menace that had just killed two people and now seemed to be taking up residence inside someone's head . . . . How do people behave in that situation? Would people stay level-headed and rational, like the Doctor? Would they take that risk? What if there was a chance, however tiny, that the menace could be eliminated just by chucking one person out into the lethal sunlight on this planet? Would it be worth killing an unfamiliar woman for the chance to save yourselves, especially if you felt she might be doomed already anyway?</p><p>Fear changes the equation for most of us. It was a very good episode, and powerful. </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>