I liked the earlier series when I first watched it in reruns late at night on PBS. I liked the relaunch in 2005 but the writing was increasingly spotty in quality the farther they went past that first season. That is until Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie. That season was the beginning of the series authors writing the ship. While I wish that pair of actors could have stuck around longer but I am please to say that the quality of the show has held up during the new doctor Jodie Whittaker.