10 Categoric Reasons Why Doctor Who Is The Best Show Ever

6. Unlimited Exploration Of Time, Space And Genre

"A thing that looks like a police box, standing in a junkyard, it can move anywhere in time and space?" said companion Ian Chesterton to the First Doctor, thus uttering a question that reflected the audience's disbelief. Five decades have passed but for anyone who watches Doctor Who for the first time, the diseblief remains the same, only to be quickly suspended when the TARIDS whooshes away. The Eleventh Doctor reinforced that premise with the now already more famous quote,"So, all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will. Where do you want to start?". Most fans already knew that, but the reason why Matt Smith's Doctor said that during his first adventure, The Eleventh Hour, goes deeper than accommodating new viewers. Unbeknownst to the older fans, the show had once again changed its meta-genre and was about to become a sci-fi fairytale. You see, folks, when Verity Lambert and the gang created the concept of a time and space travelling alien with vast knowledge of the Universe, they couldn't have possibly grasped how limitless the series' apparently simple concept really was. Thus it quickly went from an educational adventure show to a "base under siege" series to an spy thriller to a Gothic horror and so on. It's not always easy to exactly pinpoint this, though. Few can really tell exactly what meta-genre David Tennant's run belonged to before Steven Moffat took over. But guess what, after Matt Smith's departure, the fairytale ended and it changed again into what can be described as darker character drama. The outer layers will surely change again when the time is right, but one thing you'll always be able to say about Doctor Who is that...