The Girl who Died/The Woman who Lived
I'm not sure what to make of The Girl who Died/The Woman who Lived. I'm not even sure if its accurate to treat it as a two-parter since the two episodes were written by different people and feature a central character who, in the second episode, is (deliberately) almost unrecognisable as the character who appeared in the first.
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Given the more humorous elements of The Girl who Died didn't bother me, in fact I enjoyed them, I think this season, so far, has been pretty strong. Having said that there haven't been any episodes that have really stood out and I had vaguely thought, based on pre-publicity, that one of this pair might do that. In the event I preferred the slightly slapstick humour and lack of pretence of the first to the higher aspirations of the second which I didn't feel entirely worked. There's nothing particularly wrong with these episodes but I wasn't excited.
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Given the more humorous elements of The Girl who Died didn't bother me, in fact I enjoyed them, I think this season, so far, has been pretty strong. Having said that there haven't been any episodes that have really stood out and I had vaguely thought, based on pre-publicity, that one of this pair might do that. In the event I preferred the slightly slapstick humour and lack of pretence of the first to the higher aspirations of the second which I didn't feel entirely worked. There's nothing particularly wrong with these episodes but I wasn't excited.