In my view, the only really decent episode was Time Heist. Self-contained, few if any loose ends, ditto plot holes (based on a single, remembered viewing; I could stand correcting). All in all, one of the few in recent years that I would be happy to call Doctor Who.
The biggest disappointment was Listen. It was building up to really nice potential. Things happening by something unseen. The moment when Clara and young Danny were under the bed and it dipped as the 'thing' appeared in it was genuinely creepy. The sequence with the shape under the sheet ranks as one of the scariest scenes in the series' history. But then - nothing. It just stopped and was never developed or even mentioned again. It was as though Stephen King wrote it. And that ending was the biggest non sequitur imaginable.
I quite liked Mummy, for the most part. Maybe it was Frank Skinner, by far the most believable character next to the captain. Also the Doctor's apparent using of the humans was very Sapphire And Steel. But again, that ending. "With one bound he was free. And they all lived happily ever after."
As you say, lazy.
Capaldi's Doctor is refreshingly alien and ambiguous, however. And occasionally, even if accidentally, channelling Tom Baker through the voice.
The biggest disappointment was Listen. It was building up to really nice potential. Things happening by something unseen. The moment when Clara and young Danny were under the bed and it dipped as the 'thing' appeared in it was genuinely creepy. The sequence with the shape under the sheet ranks as one of the scariest scenes in the series' history. But then - nothing. It just stopped and was never developed or even mentioned again. It was as though Stephen King wrote it. And that ending was the biggest non sequitur imaginable.
I quite liked Mummy, for the most part. Maybe it was Frank Skinner, by far the most believable character next to the captain. Also the Doctor's apparent using of the humans was very Sapphire And Steel. But again, that ending. "With one bound he was free. And they all lived happily ever after."
As you say, lazy.
Capaldi's Doctor is refreshingly alien and ambiguous, however. And occasionally, even if accidentally, channelling Tom Baker through the voice.
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.'
