Not based on my ratings from the score sheet thread, Series 7 has proven to be a very mixed bag so far, which isn't a good thing when you compare it to the series gone by. If a whole series isn't impressive to me, it's seldom more than a finale or a particular slur of consecutively average episodes that lets it down. Series 7, though, has been firing in all directions with good and bad episodes almost alternating throughout. It's very uneven, and it isn't the only thing...
The pacing for the series has been completely off, with not only a too-large gap between series halves but also with the episodes themselves proving to be insufficiently paced and containing rushed endings a lot of the time. The lack of two-parters doesn't help, making the already manic series charge through it's movie-theme-of-the-week with blundering inelegance. Why they'd opt for such a constricting structure in the first series since the revival that also sees a mid-series cast shake-up is beyond comprehension. There are moments of fleeting greatness on display but very few get realised.
RTD's third series is the only one that suffered to the same sort of extent...maybe it's a "difficult third series" thing for Moffat too? Then again, Series 2 recovered with a astring of fantastic episodes near its end, and even its controversial finale wasn't without merit. Series 7 could change my opinions yet