I didn't like it. The plot was nothing but bits from old Moffat scripts,the new Doctor was never given a chance to stand on his own two feet either being overshadowed by the other characters or the last Doctor,and Clara was written as a fan girl on the internet and came off as just being mad that the Doctor is not a pretty boy any more,I can't believe this is the same character who jumped into the Doctor's time stream and saw him in the last moments of the time war,I will have hard time liking the character after this. i liked her before but I think the spoiled fan girl act broke the character beyond repair. Oh and the story was the most slow paced in the series history and I have no idea what the new Doctor's personality is or why he is so depressed. i swear Marven the paranoid Android has a more cheery out look on life. This new doctor has one note and that is suicidally depressed. This is the first Doctor in the history of the show that I didn't like by the end of his first story. I am saying this as a Moffat fan and someone who has defended him in the past but i think it is time for him to go. His female characters have lost all personality,he is out of ideas for stories,and he has reduced the Doctor to a depressing bore that I really don't want to spend time with because he seems to suck the life out of every scene he is in and every person around him. Again i am saying this as a Moffat fan but i think it is time for the guard to change.
I was excited by the idea of getting an older Doctor again and after the events of the last story I thought the Doctor would have a new lust for life but instead he has just gone down the same depressed path that the series has been heading down the past few seasons. I wouldn't want to travel with him,in fact I wouldn't want to spend five minutes with him because he is such a depressed wreck he makes me want to slit my own wrists. The Doctor is supposed to bring out the best in people,not leave them wondering what the point of life is. This depressed Doctor may have stood a chance if the story gave us some hint as to why he is depressed but it didn't,he just won a major victory and got a whole new set of lives and all he does with them is mope.
Maybe the series it's self needs a rest and I hate saying that but right now it feels tired and depressing.
I don't know about anyone else but I don't watch Doctor who in order to feel depressed and have the Doctor tell me how pointless life is. I'm sorry I know I will catch flack but for the first time in history I didn't like a Doctor and I really found the whole story to be a depressing bore that went completely by the numbers and had no sense of energy or excitement to it. I am not even sure I will watch next week's episode and that is a first in the history of the show for me.
My rating for this story is 1/10. Sorry I am a fan of Moffat's work and I really wanted to like this but nothing in it worked for me.