This is the show I was promised, and I'm still waiting for it:

Not to go around stirring up apathy or anything, but a quick look at Wikipedia shows 5 episodes written by Moffat, one co-written by Moffat and two by Peter 'Kill The Moon' Harness.  Sigh.

But, hey -- if a guy dressed like this can make one of my favorite records of all time, anything's possible.

Wait, I just noticed that I misread the Wikipedia page.  It's only four solo episodes by Moffat! (I'd mistakenly included the Christmas episode.)  We're saved!! 

Or not.

The last few series have left me with the same sense of detachment I had back watching Star Trek: Voyager 

I think it looks interesting.

...then again, I said the same thing about series 6, so fuck me, right.

Give "Mummy on the Orient Express" a chance. It's a genuinely good episode. As for the rest of that series? Flatline has some fun moments, but ultimately played too much on that, and the series finale is... in lack of better words; wank.

I was quite surprised to find I rather enjoyed the first episode of the new series

This may not be much merit, considering I'm the resident Doctor Who apologist. But this episode really was bloody good, I'd be more than happy with it as the first part of a series finale - nevermind and opener.

Another instance of the show introducing but failing to explore a concept that's well more interesting that anything we're shown.

Perhaps this is all foreshadowing for future episodes, or just cool snippets that couldn't be worked into a full episode for whatever reason, but for me, it made for a really frustrating watch. It's not fun to watch a show where people talk about doing really cool stuff when we actually get to see them doing very little. Capaldi is the only thing about the show that I like at this point, so I think it may be time for me to give it up.

So,  I decided to catch up on some Doctor Who now that school is done for the quarter (tough quarter all around). I had not watched much of Matt Smith but Capaldi's performance interested me, so I got through most of Series 8 and saw the latest episode "Sorcerer's Apprentice".

First of all, Series 8 was interesting because it wove the thread of the Doctor's question "Am I a good man?" throughout with the final speech in "Death in Heaven" which really was interesting from the Doctor's point of view. Just really in depth, psychological questions that I found rather intriguing.

Christmas special was rather odd, to me, but it was ok.

Which brings mean to "Soccer's Apprentice." Fist of all, Missy is a rather interesting character. Not sure I'm 100% on board, but intriguing none the less.

Secondly, it may be a tired argument, but the cold open of the boy with the hand minds (or whatever) was very well done, and the moral conflict that comes about fascinates me. So, I'll be curious to see how it plays out.

I kind of liked how it tied back through out the Doctor's various incarnations as to his interactions with the Daleks.

Again, just a fascinating insight in to the Doctor's psyche, in my opinion, so it keeps it interesting. Capaldi is my favorite Doctor in the modern era thus far.

As always, if you don't like Doctor Who, come back in three years. Everyone in front and behind the camera will be different.