I mean, this was basically my feeling for huge swathes of Ten's run. I didn't have the fullness of Doctor Who background to express it in the same way, but it was 'this show and this character are absolutely not being what this show and this character constantly declare themselves to be.'
Well I very much liked it at the time (give me a tortured hero with a god complex and I'll be interested!), but I still remember watching Eleven and it being like a huge missing piece of jigsaw had been added and suddenly I realised that THIS was what the show was meant to be. (I have told you this before, but yeah. Going from Eleven and back to Ten must have been jarring) But then Nine was upfront about him being a walking shell of a man who had to kill his own people and Ten was a ruthless bastard from the word go ('No second chances, I'm that kind of a man'), so it never pulled its punches.

Something went wrong with this episode, and I have a feeling no matter what happens with the rest of the season a lot of people are still going to loathe this one with a fiery passion and I'm gonna feel like it was one of the more interesting ones of the season. But I've gotta say that this is the first episode that's made me feel like perhaps this season and this Doctor are actually going somewhere?
Well if being 'Too nice' is the overarching problem, then yes, it's definitely being consistent, and this episode is where this became impossible to ignore.

If it's going somewhere - I will mark it down as interesting. If not - I shall just keep hating it!