Doctor Who verdict behind the cut.
Capaldi is going to be awesome. But they weren't kidding about how dark they're gonna take it. Anyway, perfect action, yay familiar faces coming in, and were we supposed to believe that was River at the end there? Or just someone River-esque? Either way, can't wait.
The bad: I felt like the writers just found some of the most popular speculation posts and built off of them. Coulda been good, ended bad-ish. We didn't need to hear "But he's/I'm so old/not Matt Smith" what, ten times? There was some other comment made that made me remember some dumb speculation bit on here and I kind of hated it. Same kind of went for "I'm not your boyfriend"- I guess what I personally thought went without saying/what we were told that I thought was just going to be a general idea wasn't going to be physically said three times.
Overall, however, 8/10. I'm willing to overlook the small personal peeves with it.
I can't wait for new episodes :D