One Doctor Who Plot Hole That Has Made No Sense for Almost 60 Years
The Doctor Who universe has expanded a lot over 60 years, but there is one thing it still hasn’t done.
It seems like the longest-running sci-fi show has done it all and has seen it all. Alien worlds? Imagine the wildest one, and it probably already exists in Doctor Who. Time periods in Earth’s history? The Doctor has definitely shaped humanity for thousands of years. Parallel universes? Check. Planets outside the universe? Been there, done that.
The Doctor Who writers have explored most (if not all) possibilities that the sci-fi genre can offer, and yet they manage to come up with something new every season. That’s a real miracle!
However, there is one plotline that the series hasn’t attempted, and it would change the narrative of the show. Doctor Who has featured countless stories with advanced alien species, but it has never shown viewers another planet that would be less developed than Earth at any given point in time.
In the show, humans are always the most primitive species (even if the episode takes place in the future). There can be bug-like (The Unicorn and the Wasp) or fish-like aliens (The Vampires of Venice), and they always have better technology and seem to be further down the evolution line.
Just once, we would really love to see some extra-terrestrial life forms that would be on the same level of development as modern-day humans or even lower. Give us aliens who don’t have spaceships to travel across galaxies, have only just learned to split the atom, or are barely out of the caves (or the equivalent of them).
This would be a refreshing angle to tell a Doctor Who story from. With Russell. T. Davies coming back to the series, one can dare to dream. After all, he was never big on epic complicated episodes, instead choosing to focus on relationships and “cozy” storytelling.
Doctor Who will return in November 2023.