I completely and utterly agree with everything you said Si665, you summed up the current state of Doctor Who perfectly. Lucas, I don't think he was referring to The Bells of Saint John individually, but instead to the Moffat era as a whole. Things like the pandorica, silence/doctors death resolution etc are all prime examples of a Deus Ex Machina.

I'm guessing the motorbike's anti gravity.  I don't think that was ever mentioned before and it just came out of the blue.
However, I think that's what made it awesome.
Even if he hadn't used to bike, he could have just used the TARDIS and it wouldn't have make much of a difference except it wouldn't have been as fun.

I enjoyed the episode, the Doctor was just delightful here.  Though, I do admit, it is a bunch like the Wire.  But I don't really care.

I really liked the bit where they when into the TARDIS and came out in the airplane.  The part was amazingly well done.  They seem to be having a lot more fun doing fancy stuff lately.

Yeah, because they've sure summed up Oswin's plot line in just one episode.

If you think that ridng up the side of a building with an anti gravity motorbike is too far-fetched, perhaps you shouldn't be watching a television show about a man who travels through time in a phone box.

I'm sorry, but if an anti-gravity bike is the worst thing in the episode, it can't be that bad. I think the Wi-Fi deal/Recycling The Wire's plot, is much worse. Of course, that comes from a non-viewer.
And quick endings started back with RTD, not Moffat.
End of Time, Doomsday, Last of the Time Lords, just to name a few. The only difference is that RTD usually gave us something bigger to worry about. (Doctor's regen, Rose's "Death", Donna's Amnesia, Ect...)
I didn't mind 11's "Death", or The Pandorica, and would argue that RTD is the worse of the two, but Moffat seems to be trying to take the title.

In other news:
50th anniversary foe revealed. Oh my....This wins the ugly award.
10 and Rose are also returning for the special, and I'm really looking forward to that dynamic between doctors.

But neither does it preclude any other fantasy/sci-fi elements from being introduced to the show, and I don't see how or why the anti-gravity bike is bad. Many of the props in Doctor Who have a distinctly retro feel--the Police Phone Box would have slipped into obscurity if it wasn't for Doctor Who.  The 10th Doctor's Timey-Wimey Detector (as seen in Blink) looks like an old cassette recorder with some random bits attached to it.  In the same episode, the TARDIS is shown to have a DVD slot in it (which, when you consider this is supposedly highly advanced alien technology, is rather odd).  I don't see how a 1950s-style motorcycle with a built-in anti-gravity generator doesn't fit in with the rest of the technology in Doctor Who.

I myself found the introduction of the bike rather abrupt, but by the end of the episode I'd gotten used to it.  What I found more annoying was the fact the Doctor uses it to supposedly "protect" the TARDIS, but he just leaves it standing in the middle of London's South Bank, in full view of the public--so basically anyone can just pop into it without the Doctor realizing.  And when you consider that the villains could use the WiFi to control any given passerby to simply walk into the TARDIS and take control of it, it seems like a pretty stupid thing to do.

This is where your logic makes absolutely no sense to me.  You really expect a TV Show that involves a device which defies nearly all laws of physics known to man (time travel, being "bigger on the inside", etc.) to give an in-depth explanation of a vehicle's anti-gravity functions?  There are any number of ways the bike could drive up the side of the Shard.  It's not necessary to know every last detail about how things work, and it would be boring and pedantic if the show did this.  It's shown that the bike is kept inside the TARDIS, so it clearly belongs to the Doctor and he might have even owned it for a long time--why should that be a problem? 

While I found the episode itself not particularly outstanding, it wasn't exactly horrible, either.  I do think the idea of mind-control through WiFi is quite clever, if rather gimmicky.  (I was a bit disappointed, though, to find that is was mostly a bunch of people typing on computers that were behind it, rather than an "actual" ethereal monster living in the cloud, which would have been a lot more interesting in my opinion.)  The episode did feel rather rushed, especially towards the end, and the ending was a little too neat and clear-cut, though it still definitely wasn't Deus Ex Machina.  Then again there's only so much you can fit in a 45-minute episode, and all things considered it could have been worse.

I really liked the idea of special objects with sentimental value being currency.  It's pretty far-fetched, but really interesting and totally the sort of thing I really wish I thought up myself.

The villain in this episode was so ridiculous and over-the-top that I loved it.

They did a really good job on the costumes in this one with all of the random aliens going about.  It looked a lot like Star Wars up until the people with a few lines on their faces came up who looked like typical Star Trek aliens. He he

you can watch them on BBCAmerica or you can illegally download them

i do the latter

don't turn me in please

"Well that was a sentimental and somewhat r e t a r d e d #DoctorWho episode. Do I care about the silly consequences of a child messing up a song?"

I'll expand upon my tweet here. I found that episode to be quite a mixed bag, all the aliens reminded me fondly of the RTD era, and the majority of the costumes were good too, but I also found the existence of mega god planet intelligence and it destruction with a leaf to be extremely stupid. The singing of the girl, and her in general, was bloody annoying, at least the man in the temple was much better in terms of his voice.

All in all it was pretty weak, it's plot was really too fast paced and plain stupid, it was a bit fractured, and left me thinking that Doctor Who now just orbits its stories around the fears of childhood, for example of getting crap wrong or getting lost.

Next week the Ice Warriors + Liam Cunningham (who is the greatest) will be featured, in a submarine. My expectations are pretty low, which saddens me deeply.

As my friend kindly pointed out today, how the fark did they survive with absolutely no atmosphere? It was a pretty weak episode as a whole frankly, and I hate how the demonic intelligence god supreme parasite thing's face just happened to form a scary human skull. It was on too large a scale for a single episode of 45 minutes, and it just ended up being rushed and silly. I found the speech to be marginal, but not that good. It was a pretty meh episode.

Note, I surveyed all my Doctor Who orientated friends today, and not a single one enjoyed it.

The chunks seemed to be much smaller than actual planets and the system seemed to be entirely filled with air.

I'm guessing that each chunk has its own artificial gravity, which would be believable since artificial gravity has obviously been implemented in Who for a very long time.

Also, the big star thing is probably way smaller than an actual star with it compared to those chunks.

The one thing that did feel pretty off, though, was that they lost their star.  Wouldn't they freeze?  They would have to quickly evacuate the entire system as the temperature would rapidly fall into an unlivable level after a while.
Unless, of course, as well as artificial gravity, they also had some sort of atmospheric conditioning, which might be plausible.

Still, I that seemed like it would have been a big problem at the time.