I don't hate The Bells of Saint John.

Thanks to a number of Moffat-related decisions, it has some key weaknesses. Clara essentially has to be introduced for the third time and a lot of it is rushed for what turns out to be the permanent version of her. The whole thing with her and wifi is pretty lame and already quite dated.

Yet there are exciting aspects of this episode. I love the sense of action and frantic pace it manages to achieve and it feels entirely appropriate for the Eleventh Doctor. Out of the dozens of Moffat-era episodes that work as jumping on points, this one is pretty good, even if, again, points are rushed along the way. The stuff with the Great Intelligence also has some neat ideas to it. Both the ideas of being able to edit humans like a video game character, and our villain character being brainwashed from childhood to serve the villain are cool ideas, and I think Moffat does enough service to both of them that there is just enough value to Bells of Saint John it manages to overcome some of its weaknesses.