So, why exactly do you watch Doctor Who? Seeing as you apparently hate pretty much everything about it.
Srsly, this episode was great, standard monster-of-the-week fare, with fun twists and a well contained story. If you take Doctor Who this seriously all the time, you're probably not going to enjoy it.
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I grew up watching Doctor Who and by that I mean the old Doctor Who when it was made on a budget of next to nothing and was, no matter its faults, almost always charming and enjoyable.
The problem with much of new Doctor Who is that it takes itself far too seriously. It tries to be like all American sci-fi series in that it has a glossy view of the future and lots of explosions and special effects but, some of the time and not always, the show has lost the charm that made it such a great show in the first place.
Now you guys said that last night's episode was fun and had twists and a good story but it just didn't. It was just a case of "stick a monster on a pirate ship and make everything vaguely spooky and then find some exceedingly convenient way of everything working out for the best". That isn't standard Doctor Who at all. It reminded me a fair bit of the last two RTD years of the show, when it was so regularly suffering from the same flaws that I began to find it about as enjoyable as I find Strictly Come Dancing.
For what it is worth, I think Matt Smith is a great doctor most of the time but last night he had so little to work with in the script that he could not help but be a little annoying.