I will try to keep this pretty vague with minimal spoilers if any. NO PLOT-RELATED SPOILERS.
This was not a bad episode or a bad performance on behalf of Jodie Whittaker for the premiere of the new doctor. However, the pacing was especially slow, even for a premiere/pilot. There were times when scenes were placed awkwardly apart from each other, and when they continued on with some of the parts I found myself remembering, oh yeah, that happened in this episode (but it literally felt like it was hours ago) This was a longer episode than usual though, but it felt like it could have been done in 45-50 minutes without cutting anything important.
Several times throughout the episode I felt like I was watching a movie with all the plot development parts cut out and only the character parts left in. It seemed like not much was happening in the moment but then in hindsight it was like a lot less time had passed than what had actually happened, but it felt like hours had gone by.
There was not a lot of humour or charm either apart from the initial character introductions. I'm still not sure how I feel about the new doctor, but it's only been 1 episode, so hopefully the new characters will grow and improve in future episodes. There were parts of the episode that felt like the writers thought the audience would care more about certain characters at least more than I cared about them this early on.
The episode was not as good as I had hoped for, but not as bad as I had feared it could have been. But it was still a slow start with some serious pacing issues, even for a premiere/pilot.
Overall I would probably give this episode a 6.5/10.
