When will Doctor Who start taking itself seriously?

[Marsden]

Thank you, Ubik.

But I'm not seeing it like you, which is fine, we have different viewpoints, as it should be.

I just don't think Blink lacks a monster, Stone Angels, and it works out in the end, although it's much more imaginative than typical. And I find it quite humourous, although when Billy's dies that really gets me, but then it's back to timey-wimey fun action stuff.

The one of the episodes I forgot is Human Nature, has a monster, the family, and even though the Doctor is hiding most of the epidode, he beats them in the end. It's a less jovial ending, but still rather satisfying. And The Doctor Dances, which I apologize but that's the same story as Empty Child, was one of the happiest endings when everyone is better at the end.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

Also Androzani-although it's not really the 'bad guy' of the story-has that pretty goofy Dragon-like monster.


Also Androzani was from a particularly violent season, especially with Warriors of the Deep and Ressurection of the Daleks where pretty much the whole supporting casts and the monsters die like in Androzani.

 

[I am not Spock]

Every Doctor Who story exists within it's own bubble, and follows on it's own fractured logic, not related to real-life or even necessarily with other Doctor Who stories. The only thing that matters to Doctor Who is the story being told in the current episode. It's almost more like an anthology series, in a way.

True. At least until the current series, with the show runners insistence on arcs.

TOS was mostly an anthology series too. Just hopping from one standalone adventure to the next, with only the familiar characters as a consistent theme

 

[MacLeod]

Well DW has a get out of jail free card when it comes to continuity. It's a time travel show and as the show itself has said time can be rewritten.

 

[JoeZhang]

Well DW has a get out of jail free card when it comes to continuity. It's a time travel show and as the show itself has said time can be rewritten.

Surely it is more straight forward than that? Simply that the show doesn't give a shit about continuity - consistency mainly but not the sort of nerdy american idea that everything must fit like a jigsaw.