Theres supposed to be a storyline which
Spoilerand that does rather suggest they might be scraping the barrel.
But:I like the episodes where they give us something that really breaks away from the formula.
The daughter thing sounds fairly unformulaic to me. There was a novel which came out a few years in which the Doctor adopted a daughter (who I think was a Time Lady; I didn't read it) so it'll be interesting to see if it's related to that at all.
Fair enough. I did perhaps contradict myself a bit there. I was thinking specifically about those episodes where they've made something which could almost have been a stand alone, one off tv play, like "Blink" and that one featuring Peter Kay.
I'm not sure the daughter thing is particularly unformulaic. Obviously its not the typical running around corridors away from monsters thing but theres been a bit of "Doctor doing normal, real life stuff" before and I suppose its an extension of that.
I think what bugs me is that there are so many hints that this series'll be played for laughs a bit more and I hope theres plenty of creepy strangeness to balance that out a bit.
This is a bit unlike me as usually I wait to see something before I start having a pop at it. I suppose that like a lot of people I now have high expectations of Doctor Who.