Absolutely my take. My son wants to watch all of 12 and it reminded me why I've avoided season 8 for so long - very uneven in quality and characterisation. Season 9 is when it really clicked. S9 is possibly my favourite season of new Who. 10, 4 and 5 are pretty close.

Although tbf I forgot how entertaining some of s8 was - Time Heist, Robot Of Sherwood and Mummy on the Orient Express are all great watches.

Children are great at giving brutal judgements though - that was great, I liked most of it, the ending was rubbish but most of it was fun so it was good etc. It's interesting rewatching old and new Who with children... The Evil Of The Daleks animation lost points for not having the emperor come in sooner. I could get behind that argument