Doctor Who season eight

[Esquilax]

It was wrong to introduce him right at the end of the episode like that - either introduce him earlier in the episode or don't let him speak at all until his first episode just close with Rose looking horrified.

Just once I'd like to see them break out of the stifling formula and do something new like having the Doctor regenerate at the beginning of an episode, give the new guy some time to breathe so we can just get on with it when the next season starts. I'm so tired of always having to do an episode about regeneration every time: we get it by now!

And also, the thing that bothered me about the "Into the Dalek" episode - the humans have ineffective weapons against the Daleks, right? But it's been well established that Dalek weapons can easily penetrate and destroy other Dalek's - so why are they not using Dalek weapons against the Daleks? They must have killed enough to accumulate some (all they have to is disconnect them from the dead daleks and connect a trigger), and yet no one is using them!!

There are a lot of stupid Dalek logistics things about that episode. Like how they kept Rusty in a room he could easily break out of, instead of even attempting to fortify it against Dalek weapons. Or how apparently Dalek suits have no scanners to detect things like little cracks in the hull that let in radiation. Or why the Dalek fleet would bother trying to rescue one Dalek when every other portrayal in the revived series has had them executing any Dalek that didn't live up to their ideals. Or why the Daleks would be at all surprised that Rusty had gone rogue, given that in the very last episode they had been in it had been established that they were all networked together.

It's dumb.