8 Things Non-Fans Don't Understand About Doctor Who

8. It's About Much More Than Travel Through Time And Space

Yes, the general premise of the show is that the Doctor and his companions travel around, righting wrongs and helping people across all of time and space. But that's such a broad explanation, isn't it?

Doctor Who has explored countless themes in its lifetime on the air. Love, friendship, humanity, morality and existentialism to name a few, but no theme pops up more than that of loss. The Last of the Time Lords is (mostly) alone in the Universe, and while each incarnation of the Doctor lives with it in their own particular way, the unavoidable truth is that, at its core, Doctor Who is about the loneliest hero in all of space and time.

That's not to mention the Doctor's companions. There was the apparently unbreakable bond with Rose that was broken by the distance between universes, the hot-cold, never-in-the-right-place-or-time love between the Time Lord and River Song, and the marriage of companions Amy and Rory, who gave us a love story that spanned millennia.

It's not easy to put into words the remarkable spectrum of topics that Who covers, and those who don't watch the show really don't understand that it's more than just fighting aliens in space.