Deep Breath is a fairly solid start to the Twelfth Doctor. There's a lot of awkward writing choices along the way that make it somewhat unsatisfying, but overall it works as an introduction to the new Doctor and some of the plot concepts we could expect out of Series 8. The Paternoster Gang were starting to wear on me pretty heavily at this point, but everyone is doing a great job acting. It's mot the overblown use of Clara and the gang to begin with that feels unnecessary. A story more independent of Moffat's older characters would have done a lot to benefit Deep Breath, but that is sadly true of a lot of the Twelfth Doctor.

The dinosaur CGI wasn't great and the T-Rex was kind of pointless anyways. It barely even paid off with the appearance of the clockwork robots. They, and their scenes in the restaurant and underground lair, were pretty great. Lots of good moments there. Lots of potential overall, to this episode, unfortunately it didn't all come together as much as I wish it would have.