I considered reviving one of the old Who threads, of which there are many, but new Doctor, new thread.
And, can we just start off with the awesomeness of this opening performance? All the finding himself bits were there, but along with the increased militancy of the latter Tennant. We saw the attempted use of the Shadow Proclamation by Eccleston, but it never carried the force with him that we see wielded at the end here. I guess the best compliment that I can pay is that I didn't miss Tennant in quite the way I'd expected to.
ETA: Also, I liked how it played with the TV trope of everyone having to be pretty by having Amelia halfway towards believable as a cop (though obviously seamed stockings are not usually standard police issue). Also, having the Doctor say that they were doing a special on TV faults when they burst into the older woman's house.
It's a pretty clear break from the RTD days in that there's a new TARDIS and opening credit sequence, though there's only so much you can really alter with the DNA of a show this old (though the vignetted walkthrough of the field was new and fun, and the Star Trek ripoff with the blue light from the side and glowing hair was different, though probably explicable because he's still leaking power from the regeneration).
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