10 Current Doctor Who Problems And How To Fix Them

5. Humanoid Aliens

Back in the early years of Doctor Who, when William Hartnell was the TARDIS pilot, and the programme was yet to reach colourisation, many of the strange alien species that were encountered resembled human beings. This was obviously due to the technical limitations of the time, in conjunction with the limited budget given as well. But in the modern programme, aliens still commonly bear a humanoid resemblance. There's nothing wrong with this as it still saves the BBC money, and most of the creatures are still creative both visually and conceptually, demonstrating telepathy, teleportation, invisibility and other strange and distinct abilities. But the issue is that there's a lack of diversity in the visual department. The majority of enemies that te Doctor has encountered have been strangely equipped with two legs, two arms, two eyes, etc. Mixing it up, therefore, isn't a bad idea. Not a lot, but just perhaps an animal alien that resembles a dog? Something along the lines of a clearly inhuman alien. There has been a recent increase in exactly that, as evidenced by the Boneless this last year, but even they eventually adopted human-like qualities.