Curmudgeonly thinkings about the season premiere of Doctor Who:
There were a lot of things that made me uncomfortable about this episode, and nothing that really was good enough to make up for it.
The Doctor slams Amy about gaining a few pounds? I know, I'm being all size-acceptance-overboard. She did dig at his age, first. Eh. He should be over it, and be the better sentient being. Does he have a reason to want to hurt her, really?
Don't EVEN get me started on how River Song was written. Ok, too late. So much too cutesy -- the "Did you touch something?" routine around the Tardis controls was implausible to me. And her bit about not being able to survive meeting the Doctor who doesn't know her? I don't frequently get all pissy about men not being able to write female characters believably, but this did it. Maybe it all comes out in the wash later. Maybe it makes sense -- but I'm having trouble having that faith here. Maybe it hangs together better if I watch all her episodes over again.
The creepiness factor with the aliens was pretty awesome, but I'm not finding the premise there plausible. We can't possibly get by with that many holes in our memories, can we? People aren't ever looking long enough at the same time to link things together?
Too much sad & icky, not enough awesome.
I'll keep watching, of course ;-)