10 Things Nobody Wants To Admit About Doctor Who
Doctor Who has had many faces and many flaws, but we don't admit to all of them...

In the 1990s, when Doctor Who was a slightly embarassing bit of archive television, commentators would often talk about its "wobbly sets". But those commentators trotting out this criticism would never admit that the sets on John Cleese's acclaimed sitcom Fawlty Towers wobbled far more frequently than any spaceship set on Doctor Who.
Which isn't to say that Doctor Who fans are blind to the flaws of the show. Far from it! We all love Doctor Who, and that means we come to accept certain uncomfortable truths about the show and its limitations. As the new Disney+ era has proved, Doctor Who doesn't have the money to compete with Star Wars or the MCU, but that's fine. It's always been the scrappy little show that could, and we love it for that.
However, there are other elements of Doctor Who that, for whatever reason, fans are more uncomfortable about admitting.
Sometimes that refusal can come from a place of embarrassment. Case in point, the frequent arguments over whether or not Doctor Who is a kid's show. That's far too knotty a discussion to dive into here, but what other uncomfortable truths about Doctor Who do fans still refuse to admit?
10. The Time Lords Are Really Really Boring

Famously, The Deadly Assassin was devised by Philip Hinchcliffe and Robert Holmes to prove that Tom Baker couldn't hold the show by himself. While that part of the plan backfired spectacularly, The Deadly Assassin did explain a fundamental truth about the Time Lords – they're highly ineffectual and really quite dull.
Despite this, countless novels, audio dramas, comic-books and TV episodes have been written about the Time Lords and their long, complicated history.
This obsession with the Doctor's people seems rooted in a desire to give Doctor Who its own convoluted, Star Wars-like mythology. But Doctor Who isn't really an epic myth of gods and monsters, it's a show about someone with a magic police box, passing through, helping out where they can. Hell, the Doctor left his home planet in the first place because he was fed up of the Time Lords and their boring machinations, and that's why the most exciting and interesting Time Lords are the ones that fled for the stars.
The Doctor, the Master, the Rani, and the Meddling Monk are all great because they use their gifts for good, evil, or personal profit, and they've also had their horizons opened by extensive intergalactic travel. The Time Lords that remain on the dullest planet in the universe are all petty politicians or fusty old academics that don't live long in the memory.
Quite frankly, the Master did us all a favour when he blew the place up.