(Yes, I've only just watched this one, and the latest is waiting on video and who knows when I'll get round to it - so please no spoilers if you reply to this...)

The main thing that niggled me about this episode was Rose's voice. She seemed to have a strange lisp that I'm sure I don't remember her having before, more than anything like in early Buffy when actors hadn't got used to the false vampire teeth. Having also now listened to the confidential, Billie's own voice didn't sound like that at all, so it must be her somehow not getting the original Rose voice quite right. A very superficial thing to be irritated by, but I did find it bugging me throughout the episode and pulling me out of the story.

I rather agree about the 'labour camps'. I was discussing this with Skordh, and he said he thought it worked well and was moving, while I thought that while over all they just about got away with it and pulled it off, probably through sheer force of good acting all round, I really wasn't happy with the way such a weighty and real human catastrophe was shanghaied in basically for entertainment purposes. I don't think I am putting this very well, and what you say pretty much covers what I mean I guess, so hopefully you see what I'm trying to get at.