I really liked 'Hide' - but I'm not sure why it was called that. Who was hiding? Or were the ghost-hunters in a hide in the bird-watching sense?

Good question. I suspect it was a self-referential echo of "Blink".

Hee! That's an interesting observation. I wonder if it's some hint at something undiscolosed as yet, or merely a title overstating its case? Moff does enjoy leaving little clues toward his grand schemes, but he can also fumble with the best of them, as with The Bells. =:/

I liked "Hide" too, especially Clara's line "We're all ghosts to you" - that was well done. There aren't nearly enough small-scale stories in Who now.

I get so tired of him saving the universe. I think those "big" stories are the ones that should be rationed. I don't want him to be a superhero or a god.

That's odd. You'd think they'd have adjusted the dates so the role fitted the actor. I don't see there was any crying necessity for the story to be set as late as '74.

My only theory is that, as part of the channeling of the classic series they seem to be doing, they wanted this story set in the Tom Baker era (which had some spooky mansions, horror, parking the TARDIS at the Earth's beginning, and ethereal space travelers in all-white).

Although maybe those aren't specific enough to the Tom Baker era.

Quite possibly.

Heigh-ho. Moffat makes my brain hurt.