10 Biggest Doctor Who Criticisms (And Why They're Wrong)
1. It Ignores Continuity
Continuity. It’s a tricky thing. Especially for something that’s been around for decades, frequently contradicts itself, and once produced The Two Doctors. A story so out of whack with established canon that it took a fan theory the BBC took a shine to for it to make any kind of sense.
After a new episode of Doctor Who airs, fans are almost certain to start picking apart how it matches up to the lore established by other episodes. It’s traditional. It’s also why the Reapers from Series 1 are still constantly being discussed eleven years after a single appearance. But for Doctor Who, continuity can’t really be a priority.
Usually when a TV or movie series keeps a tight grasp on its continuity, it’s one that ends up lasting maybe a decade at most and stays broadly the same the whole way through. For Doctor Who, that’s never going to happen. We’re fifty-three years and more than eight hundred episodes in so following continuity to the letter would be massively restrictive on Doctor Who’s storytelling. Not to mention you’d need an enormous dossier of Who trivia and a small army of fact checkers to keep track of it all.
So with Doctor Who continuity, it’s best not to overthink it. There’s usually an explanation of sorts if you’ve got the interest to look further into it. And if not; just put it down to certain aspects of time being prone to change, stick the kettle on, and try to relax. Which isn’t bad advice for life in general as well.
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