Many seasons start with a great potential, only to fall on their face. It can create such nice ideas... and then destroy them by reusing and abusing them.
(Weeping angels)
It also doesn't know how to 'scale'.
In the first (2005+) episode with the Dalek, you see how terrible and brutally efficient they are. Fast forward a few episodes/seasons, and now you must have an entire army to show how things are 'bad'.
Did you notice how many times the overall arc changes? Or rather, how it isn't described at all so the writers can come up with whatever they want?
SPOILERS
"Bad wolf" ---> "Oh I've just taken these words and sent them myself in the past." Yeah, right.
"Silence will fall" ---> So it's an event? Eh... no... it's a species that make you forget when you watch them? Almost... It's a religious movement! There! Phew, we almost had to plan something!
Many seasons start with a great potential, only to fall on their face. It can create such nice ideas... and then destroy them by reusing and abusing them. (Weeping angels)
It also doesn't know how to 'scale'. In the first (2005+) episode with the Dalek, you see how terrible and brutally efficient they are. Fast forward a few episodes/seasons, and now you must have an entire army to show how things are 'bad'.
Did you notice how many times the overall arc changes? Or rather, how it isn't described at all so the writers can come up with whatever they want?
SPOILERS
"Bad wolf" ---> "Oh I've just taken these words and sent them myself in the past." Yeah, right.
"Silence will fall" ---> So it's an event? Eh... no... it's a species that make you forget when you watch them? Almost... It's a religious movement! There! Phew, we almost had to plan something!