With regard to Sarah's fight against the not-Uncle in the dream being ineffective because he wasn't really *there*, I think the point was that she basically had to want to fight to live. She'd been finding it easier to do as the Large Red Dream Creature wanted, to stop fighting, to be a good girl and go into the deep, dark place where it was peaceful, or at least less scary than wherever the Large Red Dream Creature was. I agree, it wasn't at all clearly written, we could have used an anvil or two in that instance.

The Large Red Dream Creature was a sort of a sickly hybrid of the amazingly wonderful Large Red Dream Creature in Fisher King and the pretty damned scary Ghost of Xmas Future in Scrooged. I saw what they were going for. They didn't make it.

I'm thinkin' the dreams were in Clark's head, not in the girl's head... school, the lake, the Kent's barn; they were all places she'd never seen. Clark says, "How *do* you get into my dreams" to Sarah.

Good review, with some interesting points raised! Not sucky. But, y'know, lucky for Brian.