Doctor Who: Series Seven, Part Two

Doctor Who: Series Seven Part Two, 2013. An alien travels through space and time with a human girl.

Created by Sydney Newman, C.E. Webber & Donald Wilson. Directed by Saul Metzstein (2 episodes), Colm McCarthy (1), Farren Blackburn (1), Douglas Mackinnon (1), Jamie Payne (1), Mat King (1) & Stephen Woolfenden (1). Written by Steven Moffat (2 episodes), Neil Cross (2), Mark Gatiss (2), Stephen Thompson (1) & Neil Gaiman (1). Starring Matt Smith & Jenna-Louise Coleman.

Concept: 4/4 (Great)
Story: 1/4 (Bad). None of the individual episodes have particularly good stories, and any of their harmlessness is offset by a terrible overarching "mystery."
Characters: 2/4 (Indifferent). Clara barely gets a chance to be a character at all, and when she is it's usually as a collection of Doctor Who Companion tropes (What's that you say? The new companion is a plucky young woman from present-day London? How do they think of these things!). Meanwhile, after three seasons, I still have no idea what the 11th Doctor is like - except that he has a habit of running into River Song, which is almost as annoying as, say, the 6th Doctor's costume.
Dialog: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Pacing: 3/4 (Good)
Cinematography: 3/4 (Good)
Special effects/design: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Acting: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Music: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good, 3/4). Aaaand all of the optimism I had from the first part of the season is gone entirely. It's still a pretty good show (it is Doctor Who, after all), but my excitement level for more is just about at zero. The reveal at the end of the finale does nothing, since Moffat is so damn predictable at this point that no one would believe for a second that he would actually do anything with the potential to cause real change in the show. Which would be fine, if the show behaved like Doctor Who should - if it were a series of adventures. Instead, he keeps trying to tease things, trying to imply that something really big is coming. And he never delivers. He barely ever manages to deliver comprehensible plot resolutions, much less Something Big. His idea of a major revelation is to have someone say, "this is a major revelation," then carry on as before. This show desperately needs a change - something majorly different, like a female Doctor, or an old Doctor, or an established actor, or a companion that isn't just another in the long line of Rose clones. But Moffat will never do it.
Objective Rating (Average): 2.4/4 (Okay)