Doctor Who
I felt we'd seen all the deeper thematic stuff in this episode before, and it wasn't all appropriately placed here. The Doctor feeling guilty and old and self-hating, the Doctor's ability to empathise with any monster going, the day being saved by someone suddenly thinking in a different way. I didn't really get the "Amy losing faith" thing. I mean, it's nice for her and the Doctor to see each other as people and for her to see his limitations, but I think this was only a problem because it was convenient for it to be solved right now, not something really demonstrably true of her characterisation and their relationship so far. I prefer to think of her as having learnt her lesson in that respect when she was little, and while kind of expecting him to save the day because of course he always does give or take a few deaths, but being a little cynical and not having complete personal trust.
Also, I preferred last season's more episodic format. This one feels like it has too many themes that ought to be more continuing than they are. There's the time Rory and Amy had a surprise baby they then lost for good (and does anyone really know how the fuck River's timeline works and how she ended up being Amy and Rory's friend?), the time Amy's other self got killed (basically by the Doctor and Rory, I was bitter about that), and the time Amy apparently had a drastic change in her way of relating to the Doctor that I daresay won't be perceptible. And I didn't see why he was all "You have to go and live in this house for a bit or you'll end up dead and broken." It's not as if he's planning to leave them for good, so even if that was going to happen, how's this going to help?
And the creepy frequently-conquered cowardly alien bit was weird. I'm sure someone has written a massive rant about imperialism and victim blaming. But I did like the creepy aesthetic of this episode, and I'm sure it would all be made better if only someone wrote an epic Amy/Rory/Doctor fic with lots of adventures and humour and emotional wallowing.