Yeah, I don't get it either. I mean I do like Eleven, Amy and River Song, but that's always going to be a matter of personal preference. But I find it very odd...not so much that people don't like his main characters and use that to opine that he's bad at constructing them (cus not everyone's as awesome at you at telling the difference between characters one doesn't like and characters that are badly written!) but that people believe Moffat himself doesn't care about character? Or thinks it's unimportant? Because objectively the entire season kind of...hangs off of character arcs, both resolved and unresolved. But hey. We can at least agree that RTD didn't do a great job, which is disappointing since I do think he's a capable writer in other formats. I just think that Doctor Who didn't end up playing to his strengths and allowed him to kind of...descend into indulgence.

I'm not a huge old skool fan, but I did watch Doctor Who before the new series. Sylvester McCoy and Ace are probably my favourite team-up, though I always surprise myself with how much I enjoy Troughton whenever I catch an episode with him in it. :)