Looooooooove Jodie's Doctor, love Graham, liked Ryan and Yaz, and this series was, uh... "good" for me. Just kinda felt like a whole lot of "good"/"alright". Basically "monster of the week" stuff every time, more or less. I dunno. I'm not super confident in Chibnall's abilities as a showrunner for DW, to be honest. Moffat and RTD were doing much stronger stuff than this in their first series. There wasn't even that one episode that really, REALLY did it for me either. There's usually at least one. Rosa was great but not quite there, and The Witchfinders was brilliant before it shat the bed at the end.
And while I appreciate the lack of returning villains, is "Tim Shaw" really the best they've got?
As an absolute slut for Daleks I will have very strong opinions on their appearance during New Year's. God I hope the redesign is good.
Also, I was pissed about the gap too, but: