Dr Who, what, why....

What we learned from last nights I-player
The first episode of Dr Who seemed to be written in entirely in clichés:

• Characters who walk up to a large building and stop before walking in and look up the entre length of building like you don’t.
  


• They seemed to be showing a PowerPoint presentation on celluloid film using a projector?
  


• We had the over branded evil lair, if you were sucking a planet dry would you really bother to have a logo fitted to the window cleaning cradle?
  


• We had the evil character exposition bit.
  


• Is there anywhere that still has steel dustbins not wheelie bins?
  


• Why did the henchmen shoot down the door when the baddy later opened another door with her sonic screw driver?
  


• Did we really need to have a diabolic machine actuated by a huge switch?
  


• Why does Katherine Tate seem on the edge of one her comedy show characters all the time?
  


• Flying cocking saucers.

I do know that genre shows use cliché as short cuts but if you raise the bar on a genre you have to meet your own standards. And yes I’m coming over like a sad Whovian but I bet my sharp nephews would have spotted a lot of the above, kids aren’t stupid and deserve well written programmes.

Good points it is Dr Who and I quite liked the Adipose creatures, I’m sure it will get better but it is worrying.