But it wasn't until Eleven's first episode that we see the Doctor win the day by reputation alone. Nine and Ten liked to remind people he was the Doctor (often to folks that didn't really know what that means), but it wasn't until "The Eleventh Hour" that we we see him solve week's plot by saying "I'm The Doctor, you know that means you'd better run now." That never sat right with me.

Though I admin I tuned out midway through Capaldi's run. It's not fair of me to judge all of Moffat's time on the series when I only watched half of it. I'm going to go rewatch Coupling now.