Twelve I love, with his prickly vulnerability and blue basilisk eyes; I don't know what this incarnation is capable of.

That is a very nice way of describing him.

I wish we could have Vastra and Jenny as companions.

Yes! I understand Vastra might not want to leave her consulting practice for long, but that's the beauty of time travel, isn't it? I'm not as attached to Strax, I'm sorry; I like when he is apologetically failing not to plot against the Doctor (". . . and we will not melt him with acid"), but he is otherwise kind of one-note.

The Clara-bashing is tedious and I wish Moffat would step down, at least as showrunner.

Even if he just had someone to plot out the seasons for him and let him concentrate on the smaller scale. His one-off episodes are great: "Blink," "The Night of the Doctor." He writes very entertaining dialogue; his characters have some of the fastest double-talk since the age of screwball. It just doesn't all hang together on more than delivery. The Eleventh Doctor's last season drove me up a wall.

I'd love it if that garden turned out to be in Portmeirion.

Okay, even if it was just a filming in-joke, I'm hoping now.