To quote Madam Vastra “Well, here we go again.”

• I don’t like the new version of the theme.  The opening sequence isn’t bad, but the theme just isn’t working for me.
• Capaldi is growing on me.  Slowly but surely he’s really starting to fill out the role nicely.
• A Fantastic Voyage reference, a Sherlock Holmes reference, and a Star Trek reference, all in the same episode.  Truly, the nerd is strong with this one.
• Danny Pink is adorably awkward, I approve.  Also, it will be interesting to see how he and the Doctor react to one another.
• Is the Doctor a good man?  More on this later.
• Clara is the Doctor’s carer.  This is something that has come up before with other companions, and I like that it’s come up again.
• Is the Doctor giving odd nicknames to enemies that he’s using for other purposes a thing now?  If it is, I kind of like it.
• Concerning not killing the Doctor before he can save you: Oh, Clara.  Honey, that’s as old as the Doctor himself.
• Clara slaps the Doctor.  Honestly, I’ve been waiting for someone to do that.  He really does seem to need a good whack upside the head.  I mean I know he’s just regenerated, but he really does seem to be forgetting who he really is.
• Gretchen Alyson Carlyle.  Remember that name, ’cause she was one badass lady.
• And Missy once again.  Still not sure what her deal is, but it can’t be anything good.
• The second I saw the Doctor giving Rusty a peak into his mind, I had a feeling it would backfire.  And I was right.
• The theme of goodness comes up a lot in this episode; is the Doctor a good man?  Can there really be a good Dalek?  In the end, it depends on whether or not you’re willing to work towards being good, no matter how bad you’ve been.
• And we get a nice callback to the episode “Dalek”.  When it happened I literally said “There it is again!” out loud.  I really do think that the Doctor “making a good Dalek” is something that needs to come up to remind the Doctor that there’s still a lot of anger that he needs to deal with.
• Would Journey have made a good companion?  Maybe, but I don’t think that the Doctor is ready to deal with all the stuff that she would bring up for him just yet.
• And to answer the question of whether or not the Doctor is a good man, I’ll just reiterate what Clara said; he tries to be, and that’s the whole point.  He’s not perfect, he doesn’t always do the right thing for the right reason, but he tries and that’s the important part.

So that’s episode 2 in the can.  What did I think overall?  Not bad, better than the last episode in my opinion.  Looking forward to the Doctor meeting Robin Hood, that should be really interesting.