The episode was up, down, up down, all over the place. In places it tried much too hard to be funny, as if it were attempting to shift genre to a bad sitcom.
A lot of the initial discomfort can be put down to the transitional period between Doctors, or at least I hope so.
I hope he settles down and actually gives a Doctor with a bit of dignity, a bit of gravitas. Smith's immature idiot was alright, but I think the Doctor was in a midlife crisis from Eccleston onwards, getting younger and sillier by the incarnation.
There were some moments of absolute genius, some glimmers of hope, but overall I am underwhelmed. Let's hope it was a bad start to a good Doctor.
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