This is a spoiler-free review of Doctor Who Season One episodes one and two
One of the complaints that was occasionally leveled at last year's trilogy of 60th anniversary Doctor Who specials was that it perhaps felt a little too much like returning showrunner Russell T. Davies' previous era of Doctor Who. Those episodes - and I personally loved all three - consciously mimicked the structure of a David Tennant season of yore. There was the light-hearted opener, an experimental middle-season chapter that foregrounded character work, and the classic everything-but-the-kitchen-sink finale. Absent, however, was a sense that the "RTD2" era would be moving in new directions.
