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I like her a lot. She's got this energy I really like, she's a tinkerer and she exemplifies this personality point past Doctors have had where she figures something out, then puts 2 and 2 into someone's hands and gets them to make 4. It feels like she exemplifies a love of knowledge and learning, and she loves to share that same feeling of discovery when she figures something out with other people in the room. I love it a lot more than Moffat's tendency to go "I'm the doctor and I'm so clever, try and keep up everyone, off to the next brilliant exclamation because I'm the doctor and I'm so clever and amazing!".

With that being said, though - the material Jodie Whittaker is working with hasn't been great.

Off the top of my head, the episodes I've enjoyed have been the first two episodes of series 11, the Tsuranga Conundrum, Kerblam, Demons of the Punjab (which is a highlight of her run), the series 12 two-parter at the start, Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror, the Mary Shelley episode, the last two episodes of the season and the most recent new year special.

So basically, I like about half of the run - maybe a little less. And a few of my "liked" episodes are kinda contested in the fanbase, like the Tsuranga Conundrum - it was a serviceable monster of the week episode, warts and all.

The only episodes I would actively call bad are Orphan 53 and Arachnids in the UK, but it's not exactly peak Who all round. I tremendously enjoy Jodie Whittaker's Doctor though, and I'm hoping they're gonna knock it out of the park for series 13. I would still rank the past 2 seasons over most of Moffat's work, except for like series 7 and maybe a pass for series 5 with 2 incredible episodes.

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