I don't know if Moffat could have done much. Helped the pacing, which needed it, but if the underlying message was still going to be A Boy Needs His Daddy's Unconditional Love (or he'll terrorize the neighborhood), then there wasn't much of a foundation to build on. The Twilight Zone did that plot better and scarier back in the 60s.
SJA, on the other hand, was all about families being broken up and childhood fears; it would have been perfect. Clyde could have told the boy that his father left him and things were (relatively) okay; Sarah Jane could have gotten in the lecture about how aliens are people too.
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Date: 2011-09-04 12:42 pm (UTC)SJA, on the other hand, was all about families being broken up and childhood fears; it would have been perfect. Clyde could have told the boy that his father left him and things were (relatively) okay; Sarah Jane could have gotten in the lecture about how aliens are people too.