I'm fairly sure there's nothing above that can't be found, better written, in twenty other meta posts.

Even if that might be (and I've no idea if it is) I can tell you this much right now - this post is the first I've seen that's actually given me a moment's pause in the general "meh" I've been feeling (last week's golem ep aside, 'cos I bloody adored that) lately. I'm... gonna take what you've said here onboard and do some thinky-thinking and see how I feel about it all in the morning...

In other words, um, thanks for that. *little smile*