S34E1: The Bells of St John (spoilers)

[Captain Seafort]

Starts 1815

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

So...

The Great Intelligence looks like a major enemy this time around, probably recurring too.

[Captain Seafort]

Both it and, if the amount of interest in that book is anything to go by, Amy.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Glad to see UNIT called in, too.

[Graham Kennedy]

Less than impressed. Reasonable enough idea, but the rush-rush-rush pace of modern Who is getting on my nerves a bit at this point. Plus, I could hardly tell what people were saying in the action scenes because the background music was at least as loud as the dialogue.

[kostmayer]

Less than impressed. Reasonable enough idea, but the rush-rush-rush pace of modern Who is getting on my nerves a bit at this point.

Agreed. Theres been some cracking single episodes, but a lot would really have benefited from being a double episode.

[Captain Seafort]

Agreed. Theres been some cracking single episodes, but a lot would really have benefited from being a double episode.

That's been a problem ever since they started over with the 45-minute standalone format, rather than the old style which were really TV movies split into bite sized chunks.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Yeah. Some of the old serials had a might too much padding, but a lot of New Who's more compressed than a paper bag stood on by an elephant.

[Nutso]

It doesn't help that the characters are always running, and the music is always pumping making it feel like everything is just blazing by. At least to me. I think Seafort nailed it with:

That's been a problem ever since they started over with the 45-minute standalone format, rather than the old style which were really TV movies split into bite sized chunks.