Absolutely the worst movie.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Our first real episode with Peter Capaldi is a nice introduction to him, I think. I think the episode itself is merely okay (in Victorian London, a cyborg who has taken so many human parts since its construction it is now more human than robot could be a threat to the Doctor and Clara), but it does a wonderful job, I believe, of commenting on the backlash that might have resulted in an older actor's casting of a treasured sci-fi character that had been portrayed previously by three much younger actors. Clara is (obviously, and why wouldn't she?) having a hard time adjusting to the new face (and age?) of the new Doctor that has "replaced" Matt Smith. She just doesn't know if she can get used to Capaldi's Doctor. I felt that this episode does a swell job of showing a "babe introduced to a new world out of the womb" in how frenetic and confused Capaldi acts to his surroundings right after his regeneration change. I think a regeneration is a traumatic event that truly changes the Doctor as he behaves, looks, and reacts differently with each transformation; it takes time (and why wouldn't it?) to adjust to such a change. So we see the Doctor gradually become more comfortable in his new skin while Clara herself must slowly embrace who this man now is. Who could expect that any companion can just brush aside the man they have become so fond of and close to for this new man with such a different face and disposition? There's a scene where it appears Capaldi leaves Clara to be killed by the lead cyborg harvesting human organs (it even kills a dinosaur that had caught the Tardis in its mouth, which stuck in its throat bringing it in time with the Doctor to Victorian London!), and she must orchestrate a means of protecting herself in dialogue with it. The banter between Doctor and companion has always been a thing of value I place on this long-lasting show. Chemistry between them can make or break the series. Sometimes casting is great and other times perhaps not so. I think the 80s was a down decade in that regard. But I think the 2000s (Piper, Gillan, and Coleman) certainly hit it out of the ballpark. Matt Smith's era was especially worthwhile in the relationships of Doctor and companion. I loved seeing how the companions became often so vital in how the Doctor succeeds against his foes, and their rapport during trouble enhances the excitement of scenes where the adversaries (and dangers that come with them) come close to vanquishing them. "Deep Breath" brings back characters seen previously in Victorian London: the lizard-alien, Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh), her wife, Jenny (Catrin Stewart), and butler, Strax (Dan Starkey). They all help the Doctor against the lead cyborg's army of unemotional robots in form of Victorian humans in an old ship that has been disguised as a restaurant. Missy, later to be determined as the female version of The Master (an old Who adversary), has welcomed the lead cyborg to her "paradise" for "him". The Doctor kept mentioning how the cyborgs remind him of something else (cybermen?) and knowing that really is telling due to how both Missy and the cybermen later factor greatly in a key episode towards the end of this season with Capaldi's version of the "man in the blue box". Neat makeup effects for Peter Ferdinando's half-human/half-robot as half his face is human while the other half shows all the mechanics working within him/it. Smith's call to Clara from Trenzalore, appealing to her virtuous nature regarding helping Capaldi, is a sweet, emotionally potent moment that allows her closure and a renewed interest in continuing on despite the regeneration taking away the man she cared for so much.

Spoilers alert! 9/10 ! What an introduction!! The TARDIS out of a dinosaur and the 3 that help comes along.So how does a dinosaur combusts , and what is a mechanical man doing in 1800 London? Surprise is what Moffat is an expert at! SS MArie Antoinette! Whoops robots that managed to time travel.Maniacs are on the loose.How to stop them? Hopefully put the Doctor in the trap.And don't breathe or the droid will react.All right so these robots murder for spare organic parts.THe Doctor is still going through a regeneration crisis.He could not recall the repair droids gone mad.Worth watching if you are into minor complex plots and surprises.The old Doctor coming back and encouraging Clara to help his new self. What a whooper.After all while in London, Clara was going is this the same person? And the machine getting to Heaven? Hmm.I look forward to next week.

I've watched every single episode of Doctor Who since the very first episode, those episodes that were lost, I listened to the audio and looked at the still photos of the scenes. So, with that preamble, I must say I'm glad they finally went back to an 'older' Doctor. I get it that a lot of people like to see romance in every TV series they watch, but honestly, Doctor Who was never about that. The whole innuendo thing was sporadic (if that) in the old series, while the new series almost all companions and Doctors had something going on. So, that's over for now and I for one am glad. Now, as for the episode itself, I loved the setting, the characters, the story, the actors. It was funny (maybe too funny? nah, I like funny). Only thing I didn't like was that even considering the "don't try to make sense of Doctor Who" world, this one made even less sense ... (slight spoilers ahead) ... The Tardis brought a dinosaur? And a spontaneous combustions? Droids doing combustions to hide corpses, so they took the eye of a dinosaur and then imploded it? seriously? how where LOL wut? I'm all for outlandish scenarios but at least try to make some sense of them! Anyway, regardless of the non-sensical parts, I still give it a 9 since I just loved the new Doctor, and the episode was well made.

I had high hopes for this new incarnation of the Doctor, but after a very few minutes of viewing, I realised those hopes are likely to be dashed in this coming series.Capaldi makes a very nice Doctor. It's nice that an older actor has been assigned the role again. I always thought Chris Ecclestone was a good choice to reboot the series and Capaldi has a similar gravitas that, frankly, neither Tennant and certainly Matt Smith lacked.That said, Capaldi is utterly wasted here. The scriptwriting is uniformly terrible and calls for yet more of the clownish buffoonery that sadly has become so prevalent in the last two Doctors' tenancies.I'd hoped for more. I'd hoped for a more serious Doctor. I realise it is early days for the new Doctor, but on the strength (or lack thereof) of this first episode, I expect things to descend into inanity and endless scenes of "Look at me! Aren't I clever!"It's a shame, really. A new Doctor is the ideal time to steer the show in new directions. Instead it seems to be intent on sailing over the same old territory again. I note the next episode is to feature Daleks, for goodness sake! Have they no imagination anymore? In short, the episode was too long, too foolish and too muddleheaded to be more than a casual diversion. In other words, exactly the same as the last couple of series, which is to say, frivolous nonsense that you will forget (thankfully) minutes after it is over.SUMMARY: Weak start to the new Doctor. They are badly in need of a new direction and new writers.