heliopausa

The first episode of the new series unexpectedly came my way over the weekend, so I watched it, mostly to see what I thought of Peter Capaldi. (I abandoned Doctor Who at "The Girl Who Waited", in Season Six. Pah!)
I thought he was what you'd expect -- a solid, experienced actor, able to work the script to good effect. The script itself I didn't think much of -- button-pushing, script-by-numbers, for the most part, but I thought the android's see-through head was brilliant. And the actor, too, of course. :) (And, speaking of aliens' appearances, Strax seemed, curiously enough, less visually convincing than I remember him, or any other Sontarans, being before.)

Apart from that, nothing that would draw me back into watching, though I did wonder... that garden at the end looked a lot like the garden in "The Girl Who Waited". Can it be that they realise how totally abysmal the ending of that episode was, and plan to unpick it all and start again?

In other news, trying to write the NFE story is like trying to wade through peanut butter. Very, very bland peanut butter. :(