[sricks3]

To me, the show's nature completely changed when Stephen Moffat took over. I really enjoyed the Ponds' story arc, but it felt like Moffat had just thrown out all of the other characters and stories that I'd grown to love before the 11th Doctor showed up. The monster-of-the-week show with the occasional through-line had become (for better or worse) a show about a multi-episode, multi-season plot. It was almost a new, different show with the same basic premise.

And then Clara came along. It's kind of like how Capaldi and Whittaker went; Jenna Coleman seems like a pretty good actress given a vacuous role. Even the character started out as an interesting twist with lots of potential for good story telling, but it seemed like Moffat couldn't quite figure out what he wanted to do with her but couldn't let her go, either. I don't remember exactly how long she was the primary companion, but it felt like an eternity (and I guess in canon, it sort of was).

[mindslight]

Moffat wrote some of the best episodes of the Davies era. It felt like when he was put in charge of whole seasons, he applied his same writing technique to the larger scale of whole seasons. Which resulted in each individual episode being too sparse.

[phpisthebest]

My viewership of the series declined after Amy Pond as well.... there was something missing