I openly agree it went down after her departure, but as I said there were a few moments of Brilliance in there as well... “Heaven Sent” being probably the best example I can think of off the top of my head.
I’ll take your word on it, but I wasn’t willing to sift through the sewage to reach an occasional diamond...
I restarted watching Doctor Who after Matt Smith became the Doctor. They had an all night marathon and My wife and I stumbled on it at his beginning. We ended up watching all night and became hooked on the new Who. Went back and rented the older episodes on Netflix, back when they had discs.
We watched until Clara left. It was hard to keep watching Capaldii but we stuck it out. After Clara left, we just couldn’t be bothered anymore. They clearly hated their audience and we moved on.
The new Episode Boom was great. Moffat really tore the military industrial complex to shreds, “ war is busniess, and business is booming.”