re: Doctor Who Season 8 Premieres this Saturday

I liked the episode. It usually takes a while for the new Doctor to shake out so even though Capaldi didn't knock my socks off, I'm willing to give him the time.


SPOLIERS...SORT OF.











And I do like, and hope they continue, down the path of showing the Doctor as the close to godlike alien that he is; in other words, we're not really supposed to "relate" to him like with Matt Smith, which made the end a nice touch. Four and Six did good work with that but this one is even older, darker and potentially more jaded.

His previous self wants Clara to stay by him to help the new persona keep a hold of some of that empathy for humanity and lesser beings.