The revival of Dr Who has been fun to watch over recent years and it’s been great to sit down, now with my own kids, and watch the BBC not only bring back the classic TV show, but actually improveDr Who it enough to make up for the last few years in the 90’s which were shudderingly awful to watch, as Michael Grade did a hatchet job on the show he despised.

However - Series 4, has been stutteringly awful so far though - and the over-emotional garbage that infests every episode is really beginning to make things boring - how many death scenes of much loved relatives/friends/lovers/children can we endure per episode?

Perhaps Russel T Davies is pandering to a wider american audience, or perhaps he’s just running out of ideas - the anst ridden Doctor is starting to become a little tiring, and the self-indulgent internal strife he continually seems to go through gets boring when story after story rarely moves it on.

Basically, it needs a direction, and some kind of closure, at least to some of the long running under-current threads that have framed the first 3 series - you lose interest if all you ever get is hint after hint at the backing story, the reason for the self-punishing angst, upset and continual sense of loss - with never any attempt to tie the story together and explain what happened, and move the story and character on.

And no more death scenes - stop inventing people that become important to the main characters in fifteen minutes of screen time, only to kill them off so everyone can grieve and we get 5 minutes of over-emotional music to make us all feel bad - it’s just getting a bit poo.  Episode 6 of Series 4 was just terrible, an invented clone “daughter”, annoying bubbly and attractive, predictably loathed by the Doctor and first, and loved by the end, only to die pointlessly and needlessly (and of coure, revived without the Doctors knowledge, to keep the door open for future episodes).  Mr Davies, sort it out,.