Doctor Who: 10 Biggest Missed Opportunities Of Series 8

Series 8 was definitively a mixed bag and, with all of its factors considered, the debut adventures of the Twelfth Doctor well and truly had it all, from bright and juicy Jelly Babies to the more disconcertingly brown off-brand variants which were thrown in there to ultimately spoil it all.

The major low points include some unfathomable design and narrative decisions and, while these don't always manage to spoil the series as a whole, they have certainly caused some frustrated fans to question what the writers and show producers were even thinking in the first place.

Of course, with a head writer who is also the executive producer, and subsequently the boss of the writers he decides to employ, the concepts for the series aren't going to be altered particularly far from the Grand Moff's original design. As such, there were many moments throughout the latest series which needed to be retouched by somebody else's creativity, as well as entire episodes which required a major rethink.

Whether or not you loved Series 8, this was as such always going to be a fairly easy list to write. The narrative holes that Steven Moffat leaves are so wide and unavoidable that, at this point, nearly everybody has started to notice them, even Grandma on Christmas Day who was transformed before your very eyes into a ranting mess after watching 'The Snowmen'.

So, without much further ado, let's begin to fill them in.