An unconscious Karen Gillan. Yes please.

I- wait...uh. Did I say that out loud?

Please tell me that dude kicks someone. Best. Episode. Ever.

Well Smith is my Doctor, so any arguments I make in his defense will be immediately shot down. (Tennant is still my favorite, but Smith is my doctor).

But the argument I would make, is that his incarnation hasn't really been given a whole lot of super serious moments to play from a script level. But when he is given those moments, I love the shit out of them, and think he pulls them off nicely.

David Tennant was great, but his companions got progressively more annoying, in my opinion. And RTD's scripts got progressively more ridiculous and mawkish until the finale just threw up on itself and sobbed.

Matt Smitt under Steven Moffat was a wonderful breath of fresh air that is only just starting to go a little stale after last year's season-long shaggy dog story.

I have just watched the Christmas special from 2011, The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe for the very first time.

It wasn't all that great.

In general, a Doctor should last three or four years, a companion one or two. Show runners, about the same length as a Doctor and ideally should straddle either side of a regeneration. Go outside this, and things start getting stale. Just the fact that RTD was allowed to step aside and we didn't get a repeat of the whole JNT fiasco was wonderful, regardless of how actual episodes are.
(for those newer fans, Jonathan Nathan Turner became head producer during the 4th Doctor's last season. He lasted until the show was canceled, covering Doctors 5 through 7. In the later years when he tried to quit, he was told he wouldn't be replaced and the show would be canceled)

NO. You MUST believe what I believe. This is the true and right way of the world, because I am ALWAYS right.

/Slams hammer on desk/

NOW OBEY!