River continuing to act out of character, and The Doctor doing so too now, they're just being mean to Alice for no reason and it's really weird. Even after River gets put in stasis, Eleven continues to do so. It's sort of implied that it's maybe to convince her to do what she does at the end of the story, but even then I just don't believe that that's how Eleven would act if that even is the intent of that ending, and I don't know if it is.

They also completely gloss over Ablsom's reaction to seeing his wife again here. Sure there's a full page splash of him swearing at Eleven, but that's kinda it? And Eleven doesn't seem to care at all, seemingly telling Abslom to hush, which somehow he then does???

There's some really solid art here, but there's also a lot that almost looks traced, it's a very strange mismatch.

Also Squire's back! I guess she didnt' just vanish in the last issue, weird art choice there then. But regardless, she then almost immediately takes out the main problem of this whole series, and almost immediately almost dies.

I don't know how to put it other than this feeling like an issue where a lot of things just kinda happen.