10 Reasons Doctor Who Is Better Than Star Wars

7. Doctor Who Has Better Aliens

Perhaps this point covers some of the same ground as the earlier observations about imagination but aliens are a vital part of both franchises and therefore deserve some individual attention. In Star Wars, aliens are mainly actors with heads and hands made up to appear exotic. Examples include Admiral Ackbar, all the guys in Jabba's palace, Jawas, sandpeople, and so on. Alternatively, the aliens are humanoids done in CGI or are simple puppets. Still, these aliens are humanoid: only a tiny number are non-humanoid (Jabba himself, for one). Doctor Who has plenty of humanoid aliens (Draconians, Ogrons, Judoon, cat people - the list is extensive), but it also has plenty of non-humanoid ones. From the Daleks themselves to the Macra, Rill, Great Intelligence, seaweed creature, Nestenes, Axos, giant spiders, Rutans, Ogri, Tythonians, Mara, Vespiforms, Vashta Nerada, Atraxi... Even the Myrka in Warriors of the Deep wasn't humanoid - it was rubbish, but it wasn't humanoid. Now, plenty of these Doctor Who aliens are rubbery and only bear up to close examination on very small black and white TV screens, preferably with lots of static, but it has to be said that they are much more memorable than yet another guy with a funny mask on. What's worse, in Star Wars, Luke, Han, and Leia are all from different planets yet they all look the same, species-wise. With the central characters, Star Wars isn't even trying to portray aliens. So what's better - trying and failing or not trying at all? When Star Wars did go all out, it managed Jabba the Hutt: a marvelous multi-operator puppet that still looks great today (and better than the modern CGI version). But how many other aliens did Star Wars achieve that looked as good?