After complaints that the programme treated the audience as if they knew its entire history,
Lyman Spong intentionally made ‘The Navigator’ a jumping-on point for new or lapsed viewers.

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After complaints that the programme treated the audience as if they knew its entire history,
Lyman Spong intentionally made ‘The Navigator’ a jumping-on point for new or lapsed viewers.
Both fans and critics alike openly criticized Series 12 for the lack of familiar characters,
prompting Pat Bacall to correct that intentional oversight by bringing back loads of well-known characters, including Captain James and the Goon Squad, in Series 13.
Even those behind the scenes during Series 12 admitted that the character of Suri Shah was underutilized.
They even released a public statement to that effect and promised she would be more developed in the following series.
The Tenth Inspector seemed a bit too eager to reincarnate,
whereas the Eleventh Inspector was somewhat regretful about his turn.
Since the programme was revived, only Joanna has walked away relatively unscathed by her adventures with the Inspector,
everyone else has ended up in a parallel universe, mentally crippled, trapped in the past where the BOOTH can’t travel, or dead.
Lyman Spong had to come up with a way for the programme to continue after the twelfth actor to portray the Inspector,
which he did simply by having the Infinity Knights give the Inspector a new reincarnation cycle.
Some fans questioned how a Blorgon could beg mercy from Brooke Rhapsody in ‘The Panopticon Closes’ when they normally don’t seem to understand mercy.
But, then, once Brooke supposedly killed the Inspector the next series, perhaps the Blorgons had reason to truly fear her.
The ‘new archetype’ Blorgons were so hated that
the programme reintroduced the classic Blorgons in their next appearance.