User blog comment:MasterCharmander13/Doctor Who:Matt Smith's Top 39 Episodes/@comment-3538016-20140203193028/@comment-3538016-20140203230102

The Eleventh Hour was the perfect first episode for Matt Smith's Doctor, far outshining The Christmas Invasion in which the Doctor spent most of the episode in bed. The Eleventh Hour does a beautiful job of setting up the Doctor's new character, with an impressively original enemy, epic speeches, a wonderfuk new companion, and a new bowtie.

The scene in which 11 steps through the holograms showing the previous Doctors... how could I possibly describe how brilliant that was? The Eleventh Hour is tied as my favorite episode with one other. If I had any doubts as to the brilliance of Steven Moffat, Eleventh Hour dispelled them.