Doctor Who is terrible. Bloody awful. Really quite naff. Flooded with plot holes, inconsistencies and convenient moments that eliminate any feeling of genuine threat - if only it took itself a touch more seriously instead of running up and down corridors bellowing, "GERONIMO!" at every given opportunity. If it just had the courage to go through with storylines that are brave, risky and ultimately, shockingly original. The potential has always been there and sometimes the show gets remarkably close to reinventing itself, but, unfortunately, it always inevitably spirals back down into this weirdly revolting pool of shit and puss that roughly translates onto our TV screens as a man wearing a bow tie who always saves the day thanks to some bizare coincidence or by simply using his now all-purpose sonic scredriver that could destroy a planet if it wanted.
If the show kills a character, it has to learn that the character cannot
come back to life. Not once, not twice, not three times. Kill them,
keep them dead. Then we know that with whatever happens, it's life or death. Death gives a story scale, it makes everything seem bigger and badder. And the same goes for
the villains, of course! Rather than mindlessly annihilating every single Dalek that could ever be found in
all of space and time just one or two episodes after introducing them, keep them
as a constant threat, building the tension and coming up with evil plans that are more impressive
than planting a bomb that can be switched off by a man remembering
stuff. Then, we will begin to worry that the next time they magically
all re-appear, the Doctor may not finish them off quite so easily!
That said, season 7 might switch everything up. Who the fuck knows? What we do know is one thing that's obvious - despite the Dalek in the poster's poor aim, people will probably die. It's unclear yet as to whether they actually don't die but instead end up 'trapped' in a parallel world, only to clamber back through space and time and into our dimension again a few seasons later after having developed a speech impediment. Maybe - hopefully - it gets darker, or maybe, just maybe, it can go a whole season without cutting any corners or running through a single corridor. The presence of almighty Farscape star Ben Browder may help up the ante but only time, ironically, can tell.
The new trailer can be found below. It includes dinosaurs and robots and explosions, so that's good.
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