Hm. I am largely baffled by your dislike of Moffat's episodes. I love them. I have loved both of them this season. I think Moffat's episodes are the most Douglas Adams-y thing I have seen on film since Tom Baker (if we really needed a sixth Hitchhikers' book, Moffat should have written it; I know Gaiman was offered it, but that would have been weird and darkly wrong, and the one that we wound up is bad (Christmas present)). I think my feeling about what is likely to be the major difference between the Moffat era and the Davies era was summed up in Eleven telling Amy that he was the last of the Time Lords without turning into the ANGST! that Ten (and Nine) always got into. My heart did break for him when he had to decide between the whale and the ship. (And yes, I too was wondering what happened to all the other nations, and why the UK wasn't able to build an actual space ship.)

(I should get some Dr. Who icons.)