Originally Posted by Damien

It's been run into the ground. They need a long break and also now to detach itself from the narrative universe built up over the last 20(?) years. Every time I watch it now, it feels tired and struggling for purpose, written without much energy.

With politics, I think the biggest problem is that it's very didactic. Sci-Fi deals better with allegory that isn't quite so in your face, but Doctor Who got to the point where the characters are literally explaining the moral of the story in the writing. I didn't watch much since Matt Smith left, but I watched the Christmas Special when Tennant came back. There is a sequence where, upon meeting an alien life form, a family is more concerned about not misgendering the alien. It takes you right out of it; you see the seams in the writing and the messaging. That's been one of the biggest problems: ham-fisted and poor writing.

Of course, the biggest problem is that they did an episode where they meet The Beatles and didn't end with a Beatles song. Unforgivable.