4. He Never Pulled Logic-Defying Resolutions Out Of Nowhere At The Last Minute
This might come as a shock to some of you, but RTD's arcs were all pretty much a mess. Every series he'd write himself into a corner and throw the same trick of a throwing us a Deus Ex Machina, something which got progressively worse as they went along. Remember The Last of the Time Lords where everyone prayed for the Doctor and he started to fly and everything went back to way it was? Or Journey's End in which the entire resolution revolves around one giant logical failure that the Daleks would be dumb enough to have a button (because Daleks have fingers now) capable of destroying their entire fleet in the prison (where they keep their enemies) of their own crucible? And yet one misguided redesign and people claim Moffat ruined the Daleks, I think portraying them as idiots is far worse than making them look a bit silly. Say what you will about Moffat's resolutions to his immediate arcs (not his grand ones, those are yet to be resolved) but at least his resolutions are based on previous established story elements that serve a greater purpose later on. Case and point the series 5 resolution - although requiring suspension of scientific disbelief (it is a sci-fi show) - makes logical sense based on what had been previously established about the Pandorica, what it does and what it's supposed to be. It makes sense that the restorative energy inside it would be the thing that could be used to save everyone, as it is after all the perfect prison. And the Tesselector in series 6 being the way the Doctor avoids his death - again, they establish this story idea earlier on in the series and it pays off later on. What do these resolution have in common? They have a rational, even if some are pushing the realms of logic you can get behind them and see why they would work the way they do.