8x01 Deep Breath

What is it with Moffat and this desire to neg female characters? It's kind of annoying, to be honest.
Plus, I think that Clara went from "new companion with something strange going on" to "girl who knows the Doctor best" a bit too fast - it feels like this weird switching back and forth between "oh she's so special and amazing," and "let me cruelly point out flaws that she does not actually display." For instance, she keeps getting called a control freak, but they've given her so little time for character development that I'm not actually sure she is - in fact, throwing herself into the time stream, or her first reaction being to trust the Doctor to come for her is the opposite of a control freak, really. Or they make a huge thing out of the fact that Clara is upset that the Doctor isn't the pretty (questionable, honestly, looking at Matt Smith objectively, but that's just an aside) young man she knew, when a. it's understandable to be disturbed to look into a completely changed face (hell, Rose had the same issue and her Doctor actually got prettier - sorry Christopher), and b. he was also acting completely different from the man she fancied, which seems kind of important to acknowledge. I mean, if he looked different but acted the same (like old!11th) or looked the same but acted differently (like cyber-planner!11th) she stood by him, but both at the same time would throw anyone off.
And what is it with every female character having to be in love with the Doctor? I liked how they subverted that trope with the Ponds, but why does it keep happening? Please, please tell me Missy is just joking or delusional and it's not actually the case that as soon as the Master regenerates into a woman he falls in love with the Doctor??
Still, Moffat's a good writer regarding unexpected and interesting storylines, and I really like the Paternoster gang. And of course, Peter Capaldi is great.

This is the season that made me drop the show. I wonder if i will still have similar feelings by the end, or if i find i will like it, as i have for example season 7, which i liked a lot more upon rewatching.

With this episode, i like it more now.

As an introduction to a new doctor, it is actually quite good. I wasn't a fan of the first half with the doctor all rambly, although i liked him being a grumpy with people and kinda crazyed. And then when he was mostly lucid is when i really started to enjoy his character.

I love the phone call with 11 and Clara.

Vastra was right about Clara in her behavior towards the doctor. Vastra understood the importance of being witness to a timelord, the doctor, regenerating.

I used to not like the doctor's friends in victorian britain, but upon rewatching the show i did come to like them. In this episode i like them even more. They are also hot.

I liked Strax and the doctor's comments about Clara.

Clara got roasted this episode a lot, and i like it, she could do with a little humbling, and she definitely got humbled here. Maybe it was a bit too much though.

Don't like the new theme tune.

I like 12 and Clara's dynamic.

Tardis design hasn't changed enough.

I liked the doctor's rescue of Clara.

I like the moral ambiguity of whether the doctor killed the machine or the machine self-destructed, even though it looked like the machine would self-destruct.