I don’t want to bother politicos with this stuff, so I’m using SpoilerVision™ again to keep this stuff out of their face. I’m a huge Lost fan and have wanted to write about it for ages but I always managed to restrain myself… until now.

I have a guess about what’s going to happen in the next episode, and I thought I’d be brave and post it on the off chance someone out there is equally obsessive who actually understands what I’m talking about. You never know.

Yes, I’m fully up to date on Lost, I have seen “Across the Sea” (Broadcast in the UK on Friday  14th May) and I won’t hold you responsible if your wild speculation turns out to have been right. Please show me the full post using the magic of SpoilerVision™.

Is this a disturbing new front on the digital divide? Lucky BBC HD viewers of Doctor Who were blissfully unaware of an on-screen trail for “Over the Rainbow” that popped up on the screens of the peasantry watching on BBC One.

Likewise, the last leader’s debate on Sky News was the same – the Sky News HD version (launched that day especially for the occasion) contained minimal onscreen graphics and no adverts while peasants watching on BBC News or Sky News Normal found themselves plagued by tickers and other distractions.

Suddenly people have a new reason to get HD: It’s altogether more civilised, for now. They’re going to hound you until you submit, you know? Get used to crappy drawings of Graham Norton.

For the record? That cliffhanger was pretty rubbish even without the trailer appearing over the top. Trust me, that distraction did Moffat a favour – it made you think you’d missed something good. Cliffhangers like this suck, they’re lazy writing and they leave you without a satisfactory conclusion to the episode. He’s literally just chopped a double length episode in half, a la the Matrix Sequels.

Moffat should take a tip from the writers of Lost on this one – they’re masters at suspenseful endings that make you tune in again and again and combining that with an episode structure that has a satisfying beginning, middle and end too. If it’d been Lost, they’d have escaped from the caves, been relieved and only at the very end would they have discovered some hint that their troubles are far from over. Perhaps the problem here is the conflict between the traditional Doctor Who cliffhanger versus what actually makes good viewing. But hey, at least I actually care now, which is points for Moffat at least.