It's still a collage of reused ideas that worked fairly well in Moffat's other episodes but were just tiresome here

And that right there is a big reason why I did not like these episodes at all. Moff just seems to keep repeating the same themes and tropes over and over again... but he gets less and less effective.

I also really dislike River because we're forced to think she's a speshul snowflake... without her ever earning said distinction. There have been plenty of female one-offs who have come off fantastic (even in several Moff episodes- like Nancy) without the writing having to browbeat the viewers into it.