Despite my reaction earlier, it's not Smith specifically. There's a lot of people who make these things happen, the lead actor is merely the public face. I just think Moffatt at his best is like Russell T Davies at his worst (and he could churn out some real clunkers, be honest). All that guff about prophecies, comedy Sontarans, destroying fairytale monsters with the power of love (and not the Huey Lewis kind) - I mean, really!
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'