It was a good mixture of emotion and horror, like you said, but Stephen made a great point in that the beginning was very slow indeed. They could have sped that up massively. There were some nice emotional moments between the father and son, and Matt Smith was excellent as usual. It was nice to see pro-active Amy and Rory, though their part in the episode really lacked any depth. It was fun though. I loved the way Rory assumes he's died again.

All in all, it was fun, but not particularly emotionally engaging. I'm glad you liked it, but I didn't see how it had more soul than other episodes of the last two series. The Doctor's Wife springs to mind particularly, along with Amy's Choice and Vincent and the Doctor. Those three episodes are nothing if not emotional journeys with a secondary plot about a bad guy.

I agree that some of the writing in A Good Man Goes to War was more than a little heavy-handed in some parts, but overall I think I have to disagree with you that the Moffat era lacks true emotion. I think it's there, I think it's just more subtle than in RTD's time, which I appreciate immensely. Too often RTD ran past "emotional" and into "overwrought melodrama," which really cheapened it for me. More than just the Rose thing, and especially near the end of the run.

I also like to think that the Eleventh Doctor just deals with his emotions differently. The Tenth wore his on his sleeve, but the Eleventh doesn't. Instead he bottles them up inside and makes a joke instead (sonic cane, if you will). I like this, and I think it makes the scenes where he does show self-doubt, reflection, or sadness all the more potent and valuable.