Concerning the body count in an inaugural outing - I'm not seeing the shock here. Deep Breath had a way higher body count than this, and a lot more body horror too.

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So are we in a new timeline where the several highly publicized alien invasions happened and everybody pretty much rolled with it? Because while I would have loved and laughed at ''alien invasions only happen in London'', ''Aliens aren't a thing'' seems weird.
Actually, they said "Aliens aren't a thing in Sheffield" specifically, and I'm not familiar enough with the post-universe reboot timeline to know if that's true or not but it seems close enough to be a funny line.