i can very clearly tell that moffat is writing eleven from a place of "he's such a cool and smart and powerful guy and you should admire him so much" but every time this happens in an episode i just roll my eyes. i know that maybe there's people out there that like the doctor being like that but nine and ten sold me on the idea of the doctor inherently being this hundreds-y/o alien being that's lived for so long but still heartbreakingly down to earth and it's just hard. to hook up the wires of my brain. w eleven's era. when this is what drew me to the show