My wife is obsessed with Doctor Who, so I see bits and pieces of shows all the time, from lots of different seasons. I've watched a couple of full episodes, but they were from Tennant's time period, so you're right, I haven't really given the more recent stuff a fair chance. Mostly because I didn't think that changing doctors would affect my opinion. I liked Tennant as a character very much, I just thought the plots and situations were ridiculous, and didn't see that changing just because they got a new doctor. Unless they hired a new team of writers and boosted the budget by a few thousand percent at the same time.

Maybe I'll try some of the later episodes at some point. In the meantime, please don't be offended by my post; tis all in good fun.