11 Biggest Problems With The Chris Chibnall Doctor Who Era
6. Terrible Villains
One of the most important parts of Doctor Who is the monsters that The Doctor fight, and this is another area where this current era is completely screwing it up. Sacha Dhawan's Master is great, the Cybermen still rock and Tzim-sha was solid, but other than those examples? Nothing's been overly great.
The vast majority of the villains have been either bland, scare-free, clichéd aliens, or thoroughly underwhelming humans.
The embarrassingly bad 'P'ting' thing in The Tsuranga Conundrum, and those ridiculous mud monsters in The Witchfinders are some of the worst monsters in modern Doctor Who, but it's the human villains in particular where this has really fallen apart.
The worst example of this was Charlie in Kerblam!; not only was he a badly-written antagonist, but the plot twist about his evil nature made no sense, and he never felt like a villain at all. There were similarly bad twists involving humanoid side-characters being villains in Praxeus and Demons of the Punjab (that villain was very badly played too)- and that's not even mentioning Arachnids in the UK's cringe-worthy Donald Trump parody.
Speaking of which...