The Moffat Era In Review

I'm going to use some statistics to answer part of this question, courtesy of this page:

graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0436992

which takes its information from IMDB.

Each episode of modern Who has been rated by over 1,000 people (more precisely: 1,310 (Eaters of Light) to 14,110 (Day Of The Doctor)) which statistically gives these ratings a reasonable amount of credibility as to the reception of the series as a whole (by comparison, the Classic series - graphed here: graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0056751 - has between 65 and 976 reviews per episode) compared to what we might individually think. If you activate the season trendlines you'll also see that Moffatt's seasons have a more uneven spread of quality as the seasons progress, which would indicate that people grew less impressed as each season progressed: however, when you look at actual ratings you'll see that there are only four episodes with a rating of lower than 6.5 (Love And Monsters, Fear Her, In The Forest Of The Night and Sleep No More) - 2 from RTD's era, 2 from Moffatt's.

Personally, though (which is apparently all that matters), I've really enjoyed Mr Moffatt's run: he has done roughly as many things that I object to that RTD did, or that JNT did, or that... (you get the picture) and has done as many interesting things as each of them. He's placed too much emphasis on the silly occasionally as well as turning up the drama stakes a bit too much for me as well. But at his best, he has managed to advance the cause and main themes of show admirably. When all is said and done, he has always tried to be an ambassador for the show and has taken it to places (production-wise as well as geographically) that it hasn't been before, and has never shied away from trying to push the show in new directions rather than relying on traditional stories or even story-telling.