10 Things You Should Probably Hate About Doctor Who

2. The Timey-Wimey Nonsense

Time travel is one of the most fundamental aspects of Doctor Who's far reaching formula and, generally speaking, its fans wouldn't have it any other way. They couldn't have it any other way, of course, since the show without the TARDIS would warrant its entire winning format effectively redundant, but it would be nice if the show's mythology could stick to the rules of time travel that it has previously established. Like, when can't you change time, for example? The Doctor harps on about "time being rewritten" but apparently only he can decide when or when it can't. 'Fixed points' is a thing now, an event or moment in history which unequivocally cannot be changed under no circumstances... but why not? It's a get out clause, if anything, because why wouldn't the Doctor go back in time and save everyone on the Titanic, or tell everyone to evacuate Pompeii before the volcano erupted, a la Donna's suggestion? It's because he can't, to put it bluntly, but it's still not 100% clear why he can't. So hate Doctor Who for making the concept of time travel even more confusing, perhaps more so than it actually needs to be. It's probably best to just grin and bear it.