Yes, I thought Bilis made an excellent villain, and I thought he was doing just fine by himself. Where did he come from? And what was the significant of all the clocks (since they weren't just about making money)?

The ep featuring The Beast in Doctor Who was by far my least favourite. The lead-up was alright (and I really liked the characters in those eps), but then the Beast itself and all the resulting stuff was just... irritating. And heavy-handed, I thought. I don't mind some mythology in my SF - I think it's great to borrow the tropes - but a clumsy transplant job doesn't really work for me.

"Ngati Poly" is just my blending of a couple of terms. "Ngati" is the prefix name to a bunch of iwi (super-tribes, if you will) in NZ. It originally means "descended from" - so Ngati Porou is a conglomeration of tribes whose members all count Porourangi as their ancestor. A slang term in NZ is to refer to (generally Maori-friendly) European-descended people as "Ngati Pakeha" (pakeha means "white NZer"). Pakeha all have some kind of "kinship", but we're not necessarily directly related. So, I thought it could work well for the clumps and conglomerations you get in poly groupings. :-)