9 Problems With Doctor Who No One Wants To Admit

8. A Lot Of The Storylines Make No Sense

Seriously. It's actually shocking how many gaping plot holes there are, if you really look into it. Two words in particular spring to mind when discussing how confusing the show has become over recent years and those, if you haven't already guessed where this is going, are River bloody Song. OK, so that's actually three words, but there is literally no excuse for how daft her story became. What was Steven Moffat thinking?! The sad thing is, it started out great. Really, really great. The Doctor meets a mysterious woman from his future who seemingly knows everything about him (even his god damn real name!) and then he's forced to watch as she sacrifices herself in order to preserve the memories she knows are still to come for him. Beautiful. But then she had to go and spoil it all by returning in Series 5 and it all got very silly, very quickly after that. So she's Amy and Rory's daughter, yeah? But she was kidnapped shortly after her birth by the Silence to be raised into a psychopathic killing machine (for apparently no reason whatsoever) before deciding that she couldn't actually murder the Doctor after all because she was so suddenly head over heels in love with him. Bet you didn't see that one coming, did you? Oh, and that's not even to mention the fact that she actually ended up growing up alongside her parents under the guise of their reckless best friend. She also has Time Lord tendencies, too, because she was conceived aboard the TARDIS, so why doesn't the Doctor just give all of his friends their own bunk bends to bonk on and then they'd have new Time Lords to spare in no time at all?! Is it just us, or should the Doctor actually have just died when he got shot by that impossible astronaut? It would've been a lot less confusing for the viewers, for sure. Seriously, River. You can take your wretched spoilers and shove them up your arse. And what about Clara Oswald being the impossible girl, then? Just why - out of all of the Doctor's companions - did she deserve the coveted accolade of being the one who jumped into his time stream to save all of his previous incarnations? She was born to save the Doctor, apparently, which isn't pompous at all, but surely Steven could've come up with a better way of honouring the previous Doctors in the show's 50th anniversary year? Because surely that's what the whole plot was even for. It doesn't serve any other narrative purpose. The whole Trenzalore thing didn't make any sense, either, and the Eleventh Doctor was probably just as glad to finally see the back of it as the rest of us when he dropped his bow tie in a metaphorical sort of way and declared that the essence of one's being is like breath on a mirror... or something. Let's hope, for all of our sakes, that Series 9 makes more sense, eh?