In the BBC's Doctor Who, our hero's constant death & rebirth may be a show-saving gimmick, but it's also what makes the show deeply beautiful.
Matt Smith
Let's look back to Doctor Who Series 9, Steven Moffat's most interesting & consistent season, and Peter Capaldi's second as The Doctor.
Doctor Who Series Six was when the modern era of the show hit its peak in popularity but also when it started to become too much.
Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa on undertsanding the pressure, getting support from past Doctors, almost spoiling the news to Matt Smith & more.
Some of Doctor Who's most emotional moments all share a common thematic thread: the fear of being forgotten after one's gone.
A look at how composers Murray Gold & Segun Akinola enhanced some epic Doctor Who moments for more than a decade since its return in 2005.
Doctor Who stories set in the future tend to be about class conflict, the evils of capitalism & fascism - part of British Sci-Fi tradition.
Doctor Who stories involving parallel worlds tend to work best when emotions and heartbreak are tied to science fiction high-concepts.
In Doctor Who, timey-wimey stories work best when they're simple, and they get really bad when they're overly complicated with no heart.