Curse of the Black Spot and Victory of the Daleks are easily the worst episodes in Moffat's run to date, in my opinion. Funny how they were both the third episode in their seasons. The Rebel Flesh was fairly slow too, but I forgive it because it was setting up The Almost People, which I quite liked.
Easily. I also did not like Cold Blood and The Hungry Earth when they first aired, but I rewatched them recently and I felt a little more affection this time around. I think it was latent anger for Rory's death.
You make me want to rank things. So here's how the episodes fall out in my opinion, with the groups in order but no particular order within the groups beyond chronological.
The episodes I love
The Eleventh Hour
Vincent and the Doctor
The Big Bang
A Christmas Carol
I'd move A Christmas Carol down a category.
The Doctor's Wife
A Good Man Goes To War
The episodes that are pretty good
Flesh and Stone
Amy's Choice
I loved this episdoe.
The Lodger
This one too.
The Pandorica Opens
And this.
The Impossible Astronaut
This as well.
Day of the Moon
And this one. Okay, maybe I am a bit more generous.
The Almost People
I'd actually put this in the "average" category.
Let's Kill Hitler
The average episodes
The Time of Angels
The Vampires of Venice
I'd move this one up to "pretty good."
The Hungry Earth
Cold Blood
The episodes that were kind of meh
The Beast Below
I would move this one to "pretty good" or "average." I liked it quite a bit.
The Rebel Flesh
The episodes that sucked
Victory of the Daleks
Curse of the Black Spot
I'd put Night Terrors in "pretty good" or "average." Probably the latter. Though average for Doctor Who is still a pretty high bar. Even the episodes that sucked had some good moments!
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Doctor Who - Night Terrors
04/09/2011 09:20:40 PM
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I actually thought that was one of the weakest Moffat-ised episodes
05/09/2011 02:16:09 AM
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The beginning was quite slow.
05/09/2011 03:24:00 AM
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My estimation.
05/09/2011 05:04:57 AM
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My rankings would be pretty similar
05/09/2011 04:00:14 PM
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