Love the title sequence. Very original but with nods to the classic 'time tunnel'.
Hate the new music. Too much like the ill-advised and never used Delaware "Jews harp and stylophone" arrangement.
Capaldi seems to be hitting his stride as the Doctor, outstripping his predecessor by light years. The costume keeps making me expect him to channel Pertwee, in the same way that Eccleston allowed flashes of Hartnell to show through occasionally.
Kill off Strax and Vastra. Robert Holmes and Malcolm Hulke must be rotating in their graves at what happened to their creations. That said, Vastra turned in the more credible performance of the two and had some of the best lines in the first episode, particularly to the policeman at the beginning. Also that first episode dragged on far too long; the padding was painfully obvious. And that final scene with the telephone call was overindulgent, unnecesary and schmaltzy. Why should Clara have any trouble accepting this new Doctor, since she is so intimately involved throughout his timestream? Why should his new appearance surprise her in the slightest?
Yeah, that third story was by far the weakest. The problems clearly started early on, with Moff's instruction to Mark Gatiss to "write me something with Robin Hood and robots". Gatiss is a decent writer with an acknowledged passion for and knowledge of the series, but I don't think he was the strongest choice to pull it off.
Hate the new music. Too much like the ill-advised and never used Delaware "Jews harp and stylophone" arrangement.
Capaldi seems to be hitting his stride as the Doctor, outstripping his predecessor by light years. The costume keeps making me expect him to channel Pertwee, in the same way that Eccleston allowed flashes of Hartnell to show through occasionally.
Kill off Strax and Vastra. Robert Holmes and Malcolm Hulke must be rotating in their graves at what happened to their creations. That said, Vastra turned in the more credible performance of the two and had some of the best lines in the first episode, particularly to the policeman at the beginning. Also that first episode dragged on far too long; the padding was painfully obvious. And that final scene with the telephone call was overindulgent, unnecesary and schmaltzy. Why should Clara have any trouble accepting this new Doctor, since she is so intimately involved throughout his timestream? Why should his new appearance surprise her in the slightest?
Yeah, that third story was by far the weakest. The problems clearly started early on, with Moff's instruction to Mark Gatiss to "write me something with Robin Hood and robots". Gatiss is a decent writer with an acknowledged passion for and knowledge of the series, but I don't think he was the strongest choice to pull it off.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
