Of course, SPOILERS! abound.
Love the opening. Just the perfect way to start out.
Also love that Clara and the Doctor have slipped into an affectionate, NON-EROTIC friendship.
Ooh look, you can see Matt Smith (or his Stuntman) holding on to a couple of handholds cut into the bottom of the TARDIS when they are helicoptering it in at the beginning.
On the Sciencey Girl with Doctor #4's scarf:
I've seen some speculation that she is the daughter of the Museum Curator, ie. the older version of the Doctor played by TOM BAKER!!!! at the end, and that Jenny her sister is the cloned daughter from a couple of seasons ago. A cute idea, but it doesn't really work out. For at least two reasons: 1) It would make her rather romantic obsession with Matt Smith's Doctor more than a little bit creepy. But more importantly, 2) obviously no one at UNIT knows that the Doctor is the Curator and still hanging around, otherwise, they would at the very least consult him. (More on this later.) And UNIT definitely would find out that this girl is a Time Lord, give the thoroughness of their check's, and they don't display any behavior that suggests they know she is the Doctor's Daughter.
So, sorry, she's just a fan of the Doctor, maybe she saw the scarf in old file photos and got it for herself. But she's not the Doctor's (or the Curator's) Daughter. I mean, sure, Moff and Co could decide to do that, but I think it'd be stupid, and there's no legitimate way to build it into the show based on what they've done.
Shooting "No More" into a wall with a laser rifle? Lame.
So wait, how did Queen Elizabeth get the painting again?
So they just hang a painting of a young Queen Elizabeth I with someone who looks an awful lot like the Doctor (and whom UNIT and probably others know to be the Doctor) right in a public museum, despite the fact that there are tons of conspiracy theory types obsessed with both the Doctor and the idea that QEI had affairs and perhaps even children? That seems a bit sloppy. And yes, it is in a public part of the museum as far as I can tell: It certainly looks like all the other public spaces, and they close it off from the rest AFTER they walk in, then it reveals the secret Under Gallery, which is the place where art too dangerous for "public consumption" is kept.
Tennant doesn't miss a beat, he's the Doctor all over again. His accent is noticeably different, though. To my amateur Dialectologist's ears, he sounds a bit more cockney; or maybe that's a bit more Scots?
I don't see how the "shatter pattern" of the glass from the paintings tells you anything. Just the simple fact that the glass is IN THIS ROOM tells us that it was broken from the inside of the magic 3D paintings.
Confusing the polarity :)
I love David Tennant/the Doctor embarrassing himself trying to get the respect as a serious actor/Doctor from the revered older generation/regeneration. "I've no idea where he picks that stuff up.
"Even that one?"
I love that the older Doctor doesn't bat an eye at the Doctor traveling with two young male Companions :)
Guy's reaction to the threat of being Frogged is fucking classic.
The Zygon would also immediately recognize that the girl was a Time Lord. Even if Zygons only copy memories and not physiology, she would obviously know that.
I love the ongoing software metaphor, the returning as oneself, multiply and different, and the joke of the unlocked door. The Doctor's ideas are big, and they deal with big things. He needs his companions for the practical and the mundane.
So, the resolution of the Zygon/Human plot (they have to negotiate in total good faith with each other) is cute, but doesn't humanity already have some sort of deal with the Silurians? And the Zygons are, in fact, INVADING. Why do the humans need to negotiate with a force of invading conquerors, even if they are without their own planet?
Couldn't they just use The Moment to destroy only the Daleks? Oh well.
I like to think that rather than simply retconning the destruction of the Time Lords, the Doctor changing his mind functions as some sort of massive Schroedinger's Cat experiment. In order to become the Doctor who could make and carry out the decision to save Gallifrey, he had to go through destroying it. The consequence could be that if/when he does find Gallifrey, they have memories of being destroyed by the Doctor. Even though he rescued them from Oblivion, they cannot forgive him, and so exile him again.
Perhaps Gallifrey lives in the realm of the Dream Lord, some alternative fictional/imaginary universe. The Doctor has to confront the Dream Lord in order to reach it; the Peter Capaldi/Toby Jones interactions could be amazing. This could also give us a reason to go into his past, the past of Paul McGann. Capaldi/Jones/McGann.
