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If any of y'all watched the new series, of course - the whole "woman Doctor" thing probably catapulted it off of CE's radar.

Personally, I enjoyed it. If this was a Russell T. Davies series, it would probably be the worst one of his run - but if it was a part of Moffat's run, I would probably rank it as equally as good as series 7, or even slightly lower. Which is to say - worst case scenario, series 11 is in the absolute middle of New Who seasons.

The episodes I liked, I really liked - Demons of the Punjab was a fantastic episode, it might trump Capaldi's run as a whole in my eyes. I also rather liked the first two episodes, even as people seem to dislike The Ghost Monument a fair bit. Chris Chibnall didn't write the better episodes of the season, but I liked his offerings well enough - like the Tsuranga Conundrum was just a good character episode, it really rang true with what I liked about Doctor Who as a kid.

But the season's best episodes were definitely done by the other writers - even with its weak villain, Kerblam was a really good action romp. Demons of the Punjab - already talked about it, loved it - The Witchfinders was surprisingly decent considering that I'm not a big fan of English historical episodes and It Takes You Away was flawed but nice.

My least favorite episode was Arachnids In The UK, because the Trump commentary was excruciatingly on the nose and it had probably the most needlessly self-righteous Doctor moment of the season. This was before Demons, so Yaz was still very much a periphery character compared to Ryan and Graham - and she got shafted in favor of her own mum in this episode. Not every episode in a series is going to be a winner, so it's not that big of a deal - but it was definitely this season's weak link.

My only other complaints are that the big Rosa Parks moment from episode 3 was really let down by the cheesy song choice and that the villain of that episode was flatter than a grilled cheese on a busy motorway, the TARDIS crew felt a bit too bloated with Yaz getting shafted for most of the season and Ryan and Graham falling out of focus in the second half of the season, and that while it was a good bit of poppy, sci-fi fun - again, very RTD - the finale crammed too much le epic finale stuff into a single regular-sized episode. Again - out of all of New Who, this ranks right in the middle for me.

But it was a solid season, and I adored Jodie Whittaker's take on the character. Capaldi had the brooding thing going for him, and I liked him well enough, but as an older bloke I feel like he didn't bring as much energy to the table - Whittaker's brought a lot of that David Tennant/Matt Smith energy back, there's running and light-hearted quips again - it's nice to have that sort of energy back. And with her accent, there's a solid little nugget of the Ninth Doctor seated in there somewhere - overall, it's just a nice, new experience.

I'm pretty vocal in my feelings for Moffat's run - he wastes centuries of the Doctor's life off screen so that his version of the character gets to say that he's 2000 years old instead of 1000 years old, he does all of these stupid gigantic Doctor events like his name, or his death, or having the Doctor literally be the centre of the universe. The only series I liked of his was series 7 because it had fun monster plots and Matt Smith had finally grown into the role enough for me. It helps that, even with its flaws, the Clara subplot was still new and she hadn't overstayed her welcome yet - her and Matt Smith had great chemistry, and Matt's acting in this series was really the pinnacle of his run. The rest of Moffat's run, I can more or less leave behind - but 7 was a good series.

Series 7 is the only Moffat series that I would say could be better than series 11. Series 1 - 4 just beat out 11, and 7 isn't far behind, but 11 was the best series of the show after a lot of what I see as Moffat-shaped flops. Not the best series - but it was solid enough, and I liked it
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