The only issues I've had so far is that the writing seems to be more suited to the longer serial format from before New Who started, and thus it felt like about four episodes worth of stuff was being crammed into a single episode.

This. So much. I just really feel like most of the episodes really need to be longer, especially Victory of the Daleks. That one could have had one 45 min. episode leading up to "testimony accepted" (or whatever it was) and then another 45 min. episode after.