NO MORE MAGIC!

Like a lot of other people, I'll be watching Doctor Who on Christmas Day. No doubt I'll enjoy it as usual but, somehow, it's just not the same as the good old Doctor Who of days gone by. 

What I used to enjoy about Doctor Who was that it was all science-based. The Doctor would not heed the superstitious ramblings of those around him and usually proved that there was a perfectly logical explanation for everything that was happening. True, the monster was usually some guy dressed in tin-foil or bubble-wrap but that was compensated for by great stories and good scripts. 

I stuck by the programme even during the terrible days when Peter Davidson was the Doctor. The stories were getting worse and the characters were dreadful; for example, some old geezer with a seagull slapped on his napper called The White Guardian. I stuck with it and things improved when Colin Baker took over. Then it all started getting silly when Sylvester McCoy became the Doctor and the stories started to get so that you had no idea what was going on half the time!

Anyway, through it all the Doctor clung to his belief in science and that was what the programme was all about. Not like nowadays. Practically ever series with David Tennant involved some kind of 'prophecy,' whch began to get a bit boring. On top of that we've had the Devil, masonic Daleks, magic spells bringing The Master back to life and changing The Doctor back from the tiny thing he had been turned into. To be honest, some of the storylines belong in a pantomime rather than in Doctor Who!

Yes, it looks better nowadays with CGI monsters instead of a lump of plasticene but they really need to stop being so lazy with the stories. Like I said, The Doctor always used to use science and logic to sort things out. Nowadays something magical happens, which is just lazy writing. 

So I'll be watching on Christmas Day but I'll be hankering for the good old days of Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker!