I liked the general feel (and Liz 10!) of these first 2 eps, and Matt Smith & the Companion's actress are very, hm, earnest - but yeah, I'm not getting a really strong sense of personality from them. Some of that might be just the series needing time to find its own way...some of it, too, I suspect is writer; Moffat is rather plot-focused while RTD was very char-focused (at the expense of plot, oftentimes). Am going to keep going with it myself, see how it goes...

(but yeah, a not-Brit-from-21st-century would be cool! Like Leela - I should really watch more 4th Doctor eps sometime...)