Who Review: "The Eleventh Hour"

"The Eleventh Hour" is about KAREN GILLAN'S LEGS the Eleventh Doctor saving the planet in 20 minutes without the sonic screwdriver or the TARDIS. All well and good.

So... who put that perception filter there? Couldn't have been Prisoner Zero, otherwise KAREN GILLAN'S LEGS Amy would have realized that there was a missing room in her house all of a sudden. Or maybe that's not how the perception filter works. Maybe it makes you not even notice that you're not noticing stuff, which makes sense, but Amy can still see that the TARDIS wrecked her shed. (Ah, but the TARDIS was broken, the TARDIS crash-landed, etcetera.)

Here's a bigger question: Prisoner Zero winds up getting caught because Amy knew what it looked like. So, um, remind me why a shapeshifting alien on the run for 12 years would reveal itself to anyone, ever? Or why it would stay in that one house? (Answer: KAREN GILLAN'S LEGS.) Or how it got the freakin' perception filter to begin with... Is it a perception filter? Can't be, because the nurse can see it in any of its other forms. That whole thing with the perception filter, I'm trying to say, was weird and just a tad... unnecessary?

Okay, enough complaining. What I liked about the episode: KAREN GILLAN'S LEGS, the fish-custard scene, the duck pond scene, "I'm the Doctor. Basically... run." The computer-virus-saves-the-world thing was interesting, but the basic setup felt like a rehash of "Smith and Jones," just in the suburbs instead of on the Moon, and hey, it's a lot better because of this.

11 steals his outfit from a hospital. Where have I heard that before?

I love that the Doctor mentally traumatized his companion before she even set KAREN GILLAN'S LEGS foot inside the TARDIS. That's a nice touch.

Also: This was awesome. I've done a bit of whining about teeny bits of the plot, but it was awesome.

Okay, last thing. 10 was 5 on espresso, yes, but now it's 11's turn to be 5, by which I mean he's a very young actor filling a very large pair of shoes, and that the outgoing producer was very big on flash and fun. Steven Moffat's clearly the second coming of Robert Holmes, which means 11 needs to eventually be 4. Wheeeeee. Confused yet? KAREN GILLAN'S LEGS.