What overarching stories, exactly? Bad Wolf ended up being just one big deus ex machina because there was a Dalek fleet that needed destroying and Torchwood was overshadowed by Daleks and Cybermen owning each other. I'll give you serials 3 and 4 but here's the whole problem I have with RTD, he'd back himself into a corner and then have to pull something out of his backside to keep everybody from dying like they would have otherwise. To each his own, though. I just feel so lonely in my Moffat love some times T_T