"Painfully unfunny, ghashly performances, pointless, shamefully-terrible guest star stunt-casting, and a paving stone giving a blow job. For me it's the very worst instincts of the RTD years taken to their furthest extreme"
This perfectly describes the godawful "Voyage of the Damned".

I find "Voyage of the Damned", "Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End", "The Impossible Planet"/"THe Satan Pit" and "The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Sky" to be awful beyond reason.

Out of experience, the best introductory episode to Doctor Who would be "The Eleventh Hour". Each character is nicely introduced and it perfectly renders the sense of adventure and fun of the show.

I feel grief for her too, I can't seem to control it.

New Year's Day, and the best TV episode of the year has already been broadcast?
Thanks for ruining 2012 Moffat.

It all depends of which Eccleston episodes you've seen…
He had some very Good stuff (Dalek or Moffat's The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances for instance), but he also had that awful two-parter with overacting farting fat aliens, and during that era, the show had to find its feet, and loads of its secondary cast went for…