1) Neither episode starts as you’d expect
2) Both episodes open magnificently, especially episode two which is a patented Moffat-montage special
3) The gay agenda is back!
5) There is an Easter Island gag
7) There are lots of Americans with guns gags
8) There are two fez mentions
9) It’s very, very dark and spooky at times. Wait till you see the scene in the Whitehouse toilets…
11) There is the startling return of a familiar special effect… twice
13) The Utah footage is quite simply stunning, but there’s not as much of it as we’d expected
15) Rory gets to wear some specs
17) The President’s nose dominates any scene it’s in
19) Matt Smith takes his portrayal of the Doctor up a gear
21) The first time we see the Doctor, he’s naked. Sort of…
23) The first episode is a little talky and surprisingly character-led when you’d expect a barnstorming opening; the second episode kicks off storming that barn and keeps storming it
25) It’s funny, it’s wildly inventive, it’s fiendishly clever, it’s surprising, it’s audacious, it’s uncompromising and it’s quite unlike anything else on television
27) However, it’s so packed with ideas, you can’t help thinking some important elements are undeveloped. There are enough great concepts here to fuel five or six episodes, which is a good thing in many ways, because it keeps the energy fizzing and the plot surprising, but they do all fight for room a bit. We’d certainly liked to have seen more about the monsters’ background and had the dénouement clarified, among other things
29) You may suffer from revelation fatigue by the end of it. And a lot of things – perhaps a couple too many – are not wrapped up in the story itself, but are ongoing mysteries to be sorted out later. This show is getting like Lost, designed to be picked over on the internet! Let’s hope it doesn’t take seven years to get some answers
30) The final, final, final scene, though, will ensure you’ll carry on tuning in to find out what happens next… or maybe in the story after next. Or maybe next season…
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