Bingowings said:
It no longer has the shock of the new (new Doctor, new head writer, new companions, new Tardis, filming in HD so new texture and look, many new writers).
It has even shed most of the few things about the RTD era that the previous series hung onto.
If you go back and watch even a later David Tennant show for the most part they seem very very different (which is good because this is what the show has done since 1963).
It's certainly turned into a darker, uncomfortable less obvious place for telling it's stories.
It has a different energy to it (more Sapphire And Steel than Buffy The Vampire Slayer).
It's also nice not to have a clue were the general thrust of the story is going and not having tabloids putting shots of the finale on the front page months in advance so you can't avoid it even if you want to.
That's true, it is nice that the 'papers aren't doing that any more, but a lot of what's been happening in this series seems like a retread of plots from the last series. Like, when the one-dimensional paranoid violent woman triggered a war with the humans and the "gangers that the Doctor was trying to form a peaceful coexistence with...was that not a blatant retread of what happened with the Silurians last year when the mother of that boy offed the lizard lady and triggered the war?
God damn, I'm bored with Dr.Who this year...even the ones I've enjoyed have still been a bit boring.
It's like...enjoying your fave food but it's a fave food you've had so many times lately that it's getting monotonous. I wish they'd expand the show to some stuff they haven't already done variants on in the last couple of years.