YMMV / The Sarah Jane Adventures, S4 E1&E2: "The Nightmare Man"

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The Slitheen cameo flashback pretty much has no point or bearing to the plot, besides Luke talking to Sarah Jane about college.
• Complete Monster: The Nightmare Man is a Vishklar who begins tormenting Luke with terrible dreams so as to feed on the boy's suffering. Once he has gained enough power, the Nightmare Man traps Luke in his own nightmares before doing the same to the boy's friends. The Nightmare Man then reveals he plans to do the same to the rest of humanity, plunging them all into an eternal sleep where the Nightmare Man can torture them and bask in their terror forever.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Sarah Jane's appearance as an elderly lady in Clyde's flashback becomes this after the untimely death of Elisabeth Sladen, within a year of this story's broadcast. An earlier concept for the story would have hit even worse, with a nightmare version of Sarah Jane's funeral.

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