When I started on Vincent and the Doctor, I was prepared to hate it. "the doctor and amy meets vincent van gogh" didn't sound exciting to me and it was written by a rom com writer. The monster wasn't special either. The real pull for me was how the episode treated Vincent's condition (if it was another show, you'd expect that it ended with Vincent Van Gogh returning home pleased himself and finally cured of his depression, with the tardis duo waving off into the sunset).

The Louvre scene at the end was touching (oth louvre scenes - vincent first. Then Amy's.) And what the doctor said to amy is easily one of the most quotable things Eleventh has said so far (second only to the "there's one thing you never put in a trap" for me)