Doctor Who: 5 Mistakes The Revived Series Is Making (And How To Fix Them)

5. Storylines Are Getting Too Complex

Time travel is a tricky element to integrate into any story. There has to be some semblance of logic to it, or else the entire story may lose credibility and viewers. Fictional entertainment does encourage a €œsuspension of disbelief€ because doing so makes it easier and more fun to enjoy a wild, fantastical adventure that could never happen in real life. If viewers have to ignore too many things, though, it can become tedious to keep up the pretence. Doctor Who fans want their shows to be crazy and fun but they want them to make sense in-universe, too. Without this, the show loses the believability that it is existing in its own separate dimension. It has been excellent at drawing viewers into its own little universe from the very beginning and its return in 2005 brought a fresh perspective on the wonders of the universe and our own lives. For a show about time travel, a tricky thing to include even as a background element, its fairly consistent in-universe logic makes it stand out as a triumph of television. However, its pride at crafting intricate time travel storylines is starting to go to its head as said storylines are becoming more and more complex. Still scratching your head over how River managed to grow up alongside Amy and Rory? Or if/how the events of The Time of the Doctor influenced or rewrote The Name of the Doctor? Did The Day of the Doctor leave you wondering if that "time lock" was really as effective as it was supposed to be? The wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stories are fun but they€™re starting to give most people a headache, trying to keep the beginning, middle and end straight. Fortunately, the solution is simple. Write less intricate plots. A simpler, more straightforward story every now and then is refreshing and adds variety. It certainly wouldn€™t hurt anything to have a (mostly) paradox-free episode for a change, either.