I don't think I like the new opening sequence. The previous one was great. This one seems too cliche, cluttered and a little too kid-friendly.
The episode was a little too jokey. If they would've cut all the obvious gags (ie Jenny thinking she was posing for a painting) and left the one when Strax hit Clara in the face with the paper, that would been hysterical instead of just getting a chuckle out of me.
The overall look seemed cheap and inconsistent.
Moffat is a genius at creating monsters. Perfectly creepy. I loved the way the lead android left his hand stuck to the coat. That was brilliant...BRILLIANT!!
Bringing back Matt Smith was a pretty cheap move at helping the audience accept Peter but it was effective, I'm a mark, I liked it. It does feel a little sacrilegious though.
Peter's not working for me right now. He was great at the end and had moments throughout but I'm just not "seeing" the Doctor yet. Get it? I'm just like Clara....which is who Moffat used as a metaphor for the audience. Another cheap grab, but executed very well.
It got kind of dark too. "I'm gonna have to kill you"? Assisted suicide? That was a pretty aggressive approach to solving the problem. And the impalement was a little crazy too.
I don't know what Peter's gonna become, but I really felt the Doctor the most right after Clara hugged him at the end. When they were walking off and he was talking about not having money and whatnot, he had a childlike apprehensiveness too him. I would've liked to have seen more of that. His quirkiness wasn't believable enough, but he's new. At first I didn't like Matt Smith or David Tennant.
I really liked the way they began to explain why he chose that face. That helps clean up why we saw Peter Capaldi with David Tennant in Pompeii and why we saw Colin Baker with Peter Davison on Galifrey. WHAT? Who do you think you're messing with? I'm going DEEP with this review tonight.
I like how Clara was all upset about him changing and not wanting to know him anymore.
It was also pretty sexual too, with the kissing and the flirting and Jenny's little pushed up titties.
As for the woman at the end. At first, when she said the Doctor was her boyfriend, I thought she was the TARDIS and the Doctor somehow saved him and loaded him into a "promise land" simulation. Moffat said that the Rani probably wouldn't return and that he'd rather stick to the most popular old villains and focus on creating new ones.
http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a401680/doctor-who-steven-moffat-rules-out-return-for-villain-the-rani.html#~oNQrsiRJ90INhk That was from 2012, though.
I doubt it's River. I guess we'll find out at the end of the season.
