I'd broadly agree with this. I want to like this story, given that it is trying to do something a bit different and given how much some people seem to hate it*, but it isn't giving me enough to work with.
* There seems to be a rule that whatever story comes last in the Doctor Who Magazine season poll is something I rate higher than anyone else does, but it was hard to be really enthusiastic for Rings, although I think I still prefer it to Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and Nightmare in Silver. And now I have written a footnote that is longer than the main text...
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* There seems to be a rule that whatever story comes last in the Doctor Who Magazine season poll is something I rate higher than anyone else does, but it was hard to be really enthusiastic for Rings, although I think I still prefer it to Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and Nightmare in Silver. And now I have written a footnote that is longer than the main text...