Agreed. I hate the rushed feeling. Tennant was the worst at that. I also hate how it's all "Pull solution out of your butt" in the last few minutes. I liked the old school way of having time to actually have a conversation and plan, not just shouting and running.
A nice start. Don't care for the new opening sequence, new theme or new logo at all. The classic styling that was revealed a few months back was alright, but this written out on one line version with the giant DW smack in the middle really looks lame to me. Blech. Maybe I'll get used to it. But right now I'm rather cold towards it. I wonder if they even tried to bring the "face" back to the title sequence?
Matt was good, Karen was good, for a Regen-recovery/introduce a New doctor & companion the episode worked very well. The story itself worked fine for what it had to do. Did feel a bit rushed yes. There seemed to be a nod (intentional or accidental) to all of Moffat's previous Who scripts. Adored the nod to the previous Doctors at the end and the semi-Pertwee nod in how Smith got his new clothes.
Love the new console room- still not 100% on the new console itself. Felt it was a cheat that it just spit out a new Sonic without him having to actually make it which I would have preferred.
But look, in the end most of these are niggles - I enjoyed it- bring on next week.