The stories make far more sense, the endings are reasonably well-foreshadowed and there is considerably less technobabble. There's also been a lot more and far more logical use of the show's time travel premise. The show jettisoning the heavy baggage and continuity of the Davies Era, such as Rose's family, Mickey, Donna and her family and so on, was also a good idea. DOCTOR WHO is about the Doctor visiting different worlds and times in the TARDIS and resolving problems. Having a large supporting cast and something of a base of operations on contemporary Earth with allies to call upon was a nice idea and experiment, as in the UNIT days of the Third Doctor, but after four years the show did need to ditch it and get back to its core premise. The result of this is that this season feels pared-back, streamlined and maybe a little more claustraphobic than previous seasons, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it has successfully reintroduced some tension to the show.

All of that said, disappointments from the Moffat Era have mostly revolved around his 'I, Borg'ing the Weeping Angels (taking a previously cool and badass enemy and weakening them, mostly by ignoring the very, very clearly-established rules previously set out for them) and of course 'Victory of the Daleks', not for being necessarily awful ('Daleks in Manhattan' was far, far worse) but for taking such a cool premise (the Daleks versus Churchill and the Doctor and Space Spitfires in WW2!) and wasting it.

My other big disappointment this year is the arc plot. Frankly, DOCTOR WHO should ditch the arc plots as the show is simply not well-suited to it. 'Bad Wolf' was a nice idea and as an isolated experiment would have worked well. But having a 'big bad' threatening in every episode every year is turning WHO into BUFFY, and it's getting a bit silly. On the original series exactly three seasons out of twenty-six had a season-spanning, 'big bad' arc plot and the show coped well without it for the rest of time. In addition, with the escalating threat of each season and each finale, there's nowhere for the show left to go. Once you have the Daleks trying to destroy the universe and then the Time Lords trying to destroy all of time and space and every dimension of existence in their entirety, these 'cracks in time' just feel a bit dull.