This is EXACTLY how I felt right after watching it. Not that there weren't parts I loved (oh, RIVER), but there was way too much setup and way too little follow-through. Now, they did a good job with setup and follow-through in last year's arc, so I'm willing to wait and see. But this just seemed sloppy. We end an episode with Amy shooting at a little girl, and the only fallout is that halfway through the next ep, she says, "Gee, sorry I shot at you. Glad I missed."? REALLY?
Did you think that the (900-year-old) Doctor was behaving particularly strangely in Part 1? He was so cold with Amy when he told her never to try to fool him, and with River when he said that he didn't trust her. Sure, he's an alien -- and Matt Smith plays him as more alien than a number of the Doctors -- and he doesn't have to be warm and fuzzy. But it's a bit at odds with how he usually behaves toward them. And then, later, everything was just back to normal, flirting outrageously with River and joking about "time heads" with Amy. I get that he was suspicious because he could see that they were keeping something from him, but I don't know. It just felt off, and I thought we might get more of a reason why.
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Did you think that the (900-year-old) Doctor was behaving particularly strangely in Part 1? He was so cold with Amy when he told her never to try to fool him, and with River when he said that he didn't trust her. Sure, he's an alien -- and Matt Smith plays him as more alien than a number of the Doctors -- and he doesn't have to be warm and fuzzy. But it's a bit at odds with how he usually behaves toward them. And then, later, everything was just back to normal, flirting outrageously with River and joking about "time heads" with Amy. I get that he was suspicious because he could see that they were keeping something from him, but I don't know. It just felt off, and I thought we might get more of a reason why.