10 Things You Should Probably Hate About Doctor Who
10. The Anti-Ordinary Agenda
"You'll have to get a mortgage!" Rose Tyler chortled, to the Tenth Doctor's uncharted horror. And then the end credits roll and the rest of us are back in the real world where we have to deal with our ongoing financial woes. Yep. Just in case you hadn't figured it out already, the 9 to 5 sucks. All human beings do is get up, go to work, eat chips (lots of chips!) and then go to bed. We get it, so stop shoving it down our throats at every available opportunity, would you?! Sheesh. As much as Rose Tyler was a great companion (some would even say the greatest, while others would say... well... yeah...), you can't help but wonder if she grew up with some sort of personality complex which resulted in her wrongly believing that she was better and more deserving of an exciting life than everyone else around her. Her self obsession was endearing in moderation but then she kept harping on about the irrelevance of normal life like it's a bad thing. Like Mickey Smith one wisely said, it's what the rest of us do when she's off galavanting through time and space. Oh, then Donna Noble came along who showed us that being ordinary is actually the best thing in the world... so nobody really knows what to think anymore. Doctor Who can be blamed for making the mundanitiesof real life even more overwhelming. Thanks for that.
Dan Butler is the Doctor Who Editor at WhatCulture.com. When he isn't writing his own articles or editing other people's, he can be found trawling the internet for gifs of Steven Moffat laughing. Contact him via dan.butler@whatculture.co.uk.