10 Current Doctor Who Problems And How To Fix Them

2. Aiming The Show At Children

Did Doctor Who come across as a kids show in the first season when Eccleston watched a future human-trampoline explode into tiny chunks, letting her internal organs splatter across the ships floor? No. Did it seem like a children's show when Jack Harkness continually made sexual remarks while he was on screen? Of course not. But the show also featured a plastic Mickey Smith running around, and Vinvocci, a race that resembled vibrantly colored cacti. Doctor Who has been intended as a family programme since its revival and it has always found a balance between child and adult. Hence why, in the Russell T Davies era, there were both Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures simultaneously, so that either types of fan could enjoy more of the Doctor Who mythos without having to sit through older episodes that many of them find archaic. But recently the scales have been tipped in the favour of the younger viewers. The Sontarans have been reduced to mere comedic relief, children storm the TARDIS interior with alarming regularity and Robin Hood and Santa Claus are a part of the programme's universe (Santa less so). Simply put, it needs to be dialed back a bit.