Doctor Who: So Steve Moffat Has a Problem With Spoilers? Me Too!

It's why I don't do recaps, and it's why I don't really write extensively about the plot of any one show, because I know that I'd rather let the action unfold the way the writer, director and performers intended. After all, they worked on it for weeks and I only spend an hour.

Okay, sometimes more than one hour. And especially when it's Steve Moffat. I've watched my Coupling DVDs till they're raw on the data side and just three days ago I stuck The Girl in the Fireplace in the DVD player again, because it's just that damned good.

So, nothing to spoil things for this week's BBC One Doctor Who broadcast, episode title Silence in the Library, except to say that with a running time of a little over 42 minutes, hopefully the US audience will see the whole, unexpurgated thing when it airs here in three weeks (three, right? not four).

The titular library, by the way is huge. Or it could just be the ittiest-bittiest thing in the world. I know, more intrigue!

It's all the stuff you expect from a Steve Moffat episode, an intriguing way to get into the story through the eyes of a little girl (though Sally Sparrow wasn't so little), a nod to the technological, lots of running and once again, a worry about something that one usually wouldn't worry about -- in Blink it was the weeping angel statues, here it's something as simple as a shadow, or is it?

This one adds a guest star, and I have to believe from watching the first part of this double-header that Alex Kingston may become more than a one-shot Doctor Who guest star. And she looks great (I haven't seen her since her run on ER) and her character, an archeologist, has a history with the Doctor, though that history is a point of contention between the two.

And the little girl the story is told through is just the most precious thing, but I'm certainly not gonna tell you anything more than that (her pic is above left).

And of course, Tennant, just one of the most charming screen presences on TV screens worldwide. You gotta give it to him, he is a joy to behold with all that energy and the animated features and his delivery. What a pleasure from week to week to watch him play the character he became an actor to play.

It should be an exciting second part next week. And we'll all be here to vaguely reference it next week, as Moffat would prefer to the spoiler route, as long as we remain out of the shadows.

Certainly, if this is the kind of stuff to expect from a Moffat-led Doctor Who production team, we are in very good stead.