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I got Eleven via fanmail:

1.Do you love/hate this character?
Love the character (not the biggest fan of moffat’s who)

2.What’s your favorite trait of this character?
The darkness underneath the childlike act.

3.What’s your favorite moment/event involving this character?
Him and Idris making their escape

4.If you could have one power/attribute/etc. of this character, what would it be?
I’d take a tardis. Otherwise finding joy in the small things

5.Have you ever pictured this character naked?
I generally try not to. Eleven isn’t a doctor I can do smut with.

6.When did you fall in love/hate with this character?
Fish fingers and custard

7.Who’s your OTP for this character?
I don’t really have one. River, I guess, but but that’s only ‘eh’

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Smith tried pretty much everything. Playful, petulant, shouty, giddy, mopey, nasty, lachrymose … he put it all out there, but with nothing really at stake, it was like watching a workshop at the Actor’s Studio or something. And his even his considerable charms couldn’t smooth over his character’s jaw-dropping sexist comments, leering at women, and non-consensual kissing—culminating in the groaningly poor regeneration episode “The Time of the Doctor,” in which he essentially planted one on the Pope. Now, he apparently had had a relationship with her, but that’s also a problem: Yet another powerful woman turns to putty in the Doctor’s hands? Again, bad fanfic.

The Atlantic: “How Doctor Who Betrayed Matt Smith”

I just reblogged this article but, ugh, this needed it’s own post. It is bad fanfic. It’s embarrassing, in a way, and infuriating in every other. I don’t care who you are, writing a franchise is not about you, it’s about the integrity of that property and what you bring to it. 

(via wintergrey)

All of this. I’ve said this. I think Matt Smith has done the best he can, but I really don’t like what Moffat has done. I’m hoping that with Peter Capaldi being an older and more established doctor he can challenge moffat more.