I must have turned off before this "coming soon" section, either that or they didn't have it on the iPlayer version?
I really enjoyed that for the most part! They kept the story simple for an opening episode which is reasonable and worked well to push the focus more onto the characters who all had moments to shine. Jodie seems promising, hard to know exactly where her interpretation of the character is going to land yet but she's certainly an engaging lead and managed to walk the line between "oddball" and "know-it-all" well enough. I also think I'm going to take to these companions far more that I expected, I audibly groaned when I heard that Bradley Walsh was going to be a part of this and he did seem to be the worst part of things initially but fair play to everyone involved, by the end I was very impressed by him!
That said I agree with others that it was disappointing to see the Doctor continue to pull deus ex machina solutions out of her ass with no real build up or internal justification to it. The writers really need to stop just going "because <sci-fi nonsense A> and the fact that <sci-fi nonsense B>, if I just do this <almost always pointing the sonic at something> then the world will be saved!"
It was a better first episode than Capaldi got (Peter tried his best but that story
) and I'd say it's also plenty better than Tennant's intro in the Christmas Invasion, but it still falls short of the 11th Hour which to me remains the pinnacle of New Who Doctor intros, such a strawberry floating fantastic episode.
My personal New Who Doctor intro ranking:
11th > 13th > 9th > 10th > 12th