Oh dear. This was brutally bad. If I see another actor hissing through prop teeth that make him unable to close his mouth I'm gonna puke.
Too much levity, too much Rory, too much vampires and too much earth. For f**ksake, stop writing stories set on earth! It's earth again next week - or some variant of it. No more earth!
The sequence where the vampire lore was explained with reference to the 'perception filter' and the unconscious was tedious in the extreme.
Most people on this thread won't care but life-long Who-nuts held countless autopsies on the show in the years that it was off our screens and they all came up with the same conclusions: deadly to the show is constantly setting the stories on Earth, over-adherence to continuity, the omnipotence of the sonic screwdriver and two or more companions. All of which we have at the moment. The boyfriend + girlfriend combination invented by Russell Davies is particularly unwelcome.
Male assistants will always be spare pricks until the doctor is a woman and we got along fine for years with the tacit assumption that the doctor was knobbing his female companion.
On the plus side I continue to enjoy Matt Smith and Amy Pond. They are both bringing real excitement and depth to the parts. Obviously lose the bow tie at some point.