What a strong debut! Beautifully shot and directed, with very slow and thoughtful pacing. Beautiful tonal shift from what we had in the Moffat era.

While Whittaker is still finding her footing and feels a little generic NuWho Doctory, her performance still shines with lots of great moments.

Each of the companions get something to do, which is lovely! Though they're all pretty underwritten, except for Grace.

My main issue though with all of this, is that there's a lot of tell and not show. And this makes some of the dialogue incredibly clunky.

But overall it's a very fun, entertaining Doctor and era opener!

This is genuinely one of my favorite episodes of New Who. I love the way it introduces both the Doctor and her companions, as well as the way it really takes the time to show us who the Doctor is after regenerating. The post-regeneration amnesia adds an interesting twist to the story, and Grace’s presence adds a lot to what will become the TARDIS fam’s relationship with each other. All in all, I think this is a really great episode, and would give it a 5/5.

13 rewatch begins! The Woman Who Fell To Earth! Girlfriend and I watched all these when they first aired, it was her first live Doctor Who since early Matt Smith, feels really nice to come back to them. We loved this again tonight!

Jodie is an absolute treasure from the second she opens her mouth, I am sold on her as my protagonist, as The Doctor specifically, and as an absolute sparkly ball of charisma on screen, she is so much fun constantly (“A half hour ago I was a white-haired Scotsman!”). The building the Sonic scene is iconic stuff, and I love that this Doctor is so hands on, such a fixer, a doer, an engineer. I cried again about Grace, who is such a great character in the short time we get with her, and her plan at the end actually does work! She would’ve been such a great member of the fam.

I really like Graham and Ryan, but I feel so warmly towards Yaz in particular, right from her first scene, she’s such a clever and capable person who’s just immediately charmed by The Doc. She must be the only companion who is in every episode of their Doctor’s tenure, even Jamie showed up in the second Troughton story, and Donna/14 don’t really count (Rose/9 kind of don’t either, because 9 clearly has adventures pre-Rose, and Rose carries on with 10; Yaz meets The Doctor a half hour after she regenerates and leaves a half hour before she regenerates). I love the idea of the Stenza trophy hunt, and that Tim Shaw is a cheating little loser.

But the main thing to say, and I remember feeling this at the time, this is possibly the best the show has ever looked. Girlfriend made a point of saying, and we’ve watched all of the 15th Doctor pretty recently, “this one doesn’t look like a TV show at all, it looks like a movie!” The cinematography, lighting, special effects in Jodie’s era are outstanding. And this has one of the great surprise cliffhangers of the reboot! Also, of course, I adore “Eat my salad, Halloween.”

One of the best first episodes for any new Doctor, not as good as The Eleventh Hour which is pretty hard to beat, but certainly miles better than The Christmas Invasion (I’ve never ever liked that one), or Church On Ruby Road. Rose is iconic for sure but I do find I have to apologize for it a bit when I show it to people. Don’t have to apologize for anything about this one. 4.25/5

It was... really good!
Honestly, felt like a breath of fresh air, I'll explain later why.
Jodie Whittaker is great as the Doctor. Haven't quite picked up on her unique features, gonna watch a couple of episodes tomorrow to get more of that. Out of her new companions Graham is my favourite so far. Ryan and Yaz are fun, but I need some time to get to know them.
The villain felt like sort of Doctor Who meeting the Predator which is a really fun idea. The villain was imposing and felt like a threat.

Now, about the breath of fresh air.
Even though I'm very positive towards NuWho, there is one thing that makes me prefer Classic Who over it. And that is - pacing and music.
The new episodes (even the good ones) often tend to rush things - the pace of the episode just keeps accelerating, going faster and faster like a runaway train, and the music just keeps blasting into your ears. Murray Gold is good, but one gets tired (that's also one of my problems with the Fifteenth Doctor era - it keeps rushing and always has music that often distracts me).
While Classic Who doesn't hurry. It takes its time to establish the characters and setting, and doesn't have the music blasting into your ears. Even when the episodes get intense, they are FAR from the NuWho ones. Classic Who is more relaxed and doesn't bother.
And I see why some of you said that 13's era has a classic who vibe, and I felt it in this very episode - *The Woman who fell to Earth* does happen really fast, but at the same time it doesn't feel rushed. It's calm and hasteless - it doesn't try to outrun a train, it takes its time. And the music, which is very good I must say, is dark and imposing, yet not loud. It's subtle, and that's what makes it stand out.

Proper quips, good villain and JODIE!!!!!!! Love that she built her own sonic and LOVE how fast she's like "yup we're best friends!"

Also Grace would have been a terrific full season companion and as much as I love Graham, he feels like the inverse of a typical DW companion. Which I guess is to be expected from an old show in its 11th series.

And yes of course I am now reading into every glance Yaz and The Doctor share together I AM INCONSOLABLE