Hmm, I do see what you're getting at, but I don't think this episode is trying to be A Clockwork Orange or to appeal to the geek demographic: I think it's Saturday evening family entertainment aimed at ten-year-olds of any age. And on that score it delivers: I love this episode not because it presses my fan buttons (which it also does) I love it because I wish, when I had been ten, Marc Warren had said those last lines directly to me, as I was sitting there in front of the telly.