Honestly, this is a story I love.

it's early in the first season of New Who, and is the first pseudo-historical. It does a good deal of establishing things for the series to come, getting rules of time travel out of the way, and having Rose dress up appropriately for the era. Plot itself is the sort of thing I could've seen Sapphire & Steel doing.

All the actors all around were putting on good performances. Gwen, in particular, was a standout, and Charles Dickens. The 9th Doctor is on form, and reminding me of exactly why I like him. The "happy medium" line, his ability to switch from jovial to deadly serious...

Gwen's talk with Rose was great.

The Doctor does have a brief reference to The Myth Makers, which is always nice to see.

And, of course, the scenes in the archway...

All in all, may be overrating slightly, but I just genuinely feel really good watching it.