Doctor Who: Um...

I sometimes get slightly grumpy when I see posts bemoaning Doctor Who, because they occasionally seem to be complaining that DW isn't the brilliantly-scripted work of transgressive cutting-edge science fiction that it could be if the BBC wasn't pandering to the smelly masses. It's prime time entertainment with a mandate of being kiddy-accessible, so it's never going to be that. But even with those constraints, DW can and has been very good, as seen in 'Dalek', 'Human Nature', 'Blink' or even last year's 'Flatline', so it's a bit disappointing when we get something like 'The Magician's Apprentice' (which, thanks to being on holiday, we've only just seen.)

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