10 Recurring Complaints About Doctor Who Right Now
4. It's Too Childish
Doctor Who can be too complicated, but also too childish. Some point to the Chibnall era's more on-the-nose moralising, while others point to a more simplistic approach to heavy subject matter, like civil rights.
Others just point to the silly monster costumes, which is... y'know, fair.
And yet, Doctor Who is never going to be another grim adult sci-fi show with a fear of jokes. Who didn't see those fleets of Dalek, Cybermen, and Sontaran ships massing together in The Vanquishers and not feel sheer child-like glee? What's the point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes?
Hilariously, this criticism goes all the way back to the show's early days. One boy wrote into Junior Points of View to claim that The Web Planet, with it's chirruping insect people, was treating him and other kids as if they were babies. A few years later, another child complained about the scientific inaccuracies in the Troughton era.
Everything changes... but everything stays the same.