One of my favourite internet corners for Doctor Who was pretty scathing about Resolution. They have their reasons; I feel rather more forgiving. Still, here are some of my favourite criticisms:
I always thought mediocrity would be childsplay to achieve but they've made it look like really hard work.
(Well that one's a bit harsh.)
On Ryan's dad: His oven is given almost exactly as much characterization as he is.
Yyyeah I can't disagree. I still have little idea of why Ryan's dad was so neglectful, if he's really learned something or just wants to avoid the consequences of his actions, and (perhaps most importantly) whether Ryan is best served trying to re-establish a relationship or learning how to set firm boundaries instead. (I mean, don't throw him to the Daleks, but there are other options.) I do think that it would better serve kids to teach them that they don't have to assume responsibility for their parents' inability to parent than to give them another "it's not too late" message. Those are hardly in short supply on TV already. (I also think it would've made a better story for Ryan's dad to sacrifice himself to defeat the Dalek. However, it would've had wider implications for the series, possibly even making it hard for Ryan to keep travelling with the Doctor. Or it may have made for more texture in the TARDIS relationships and the Doctor's own self-image, who knows.)
Finally, I agree with both of these comments SO HARD:
In a way, Chibnall's failings for me are best represented by him having a Dalek controlling someone driving a car, yelling at them wanting them to go faster, and utterly passing on the opportunity to have it yell "ACCELERATE! ACCELERATE!"
Look, if you're going to do an episode where the Dalek has to rebuild (it? his? her?)self out of spare parts and not have a gag where the Dalek uses an actual plunger, you're just failing at being Doctor Who.
The serious point behind this: I think Chibnall's Doctor Who takes itself a bit too seriously. Which is to say, I think it's too worried that someone's going to laugh at it. It's a family show promising all of time and space. If it can't get silly sometimes, who can?
(Plus, I would've loved if they'd really leaned into the junkyard Dalek idea. Actual plunger! Corrugated iron skirt! Helmet made from a hubcap! And still taking out an entire platoon of soldiers. I'd have been right into that.)
Another analysis of this season which I found quite compelling: [link] It suggests that the key difference between this Doctor and previous ones isn't that she is more morally opposed to killing. It's that she doesn't have any inner conflict; and the world in which she operates doesn't challenge that. (I would say more that the Doctor and writers don't really notice when the world challenges that.) That marks her out from every Doctor since at least the Ninth. I must admit, this surprises me. Broadchurch was chock-full of inner, and outer, conflict. We have the biggest TARDIS crew, with the greatest number of possible interactions, in 35 years. I really was expecting to see more.