Even though i thought that last week's premiere was merely fine, I imagine that even if i had loved it I would have come away from "Into The Dalek" thinking that it would have served as a better introduction to Peter Capaldi's Doctor. Hell, the opening scene was better than the entirety of "Deep Breath". In a few minutes, you got to see The Doctor being slightly ridiculous - he saves Journey Blue (Zawe Ashton) from Dalek ships while holding a couple of lattes - while also managing to talk Journey out of killing him by, in essence, being a total dick to her. ("You'll probably feel a bit sick. Please don't be." "My brother just died!" "His sister didn't, you're very welcome." "You'd starve to death trying to find the light switch.") Then, when told by Colonel Morgan Blue (Michael Smiley) that, despite being grateful for saving Journey, he still intends to kill him, The Doctor's response is a sardonic "Well, it's a roller coaster with you, isn't it?" All of those lines could have been said by Matt Smith or David Tennant without changing a word, but they'd have probably made the gag a bit more obvious. That dryness, that flipness that Capaldi brings to the character didn't really show up much in "Deep Breath", but it was on full display here and I thought it worked brilliantly.