Love and Monsters: An episode about a group of people with complex backstories (losing children to drugs, having their mother killed when they were a child) who bond over the Doctor. Manipulated and killed. Subplot about Jackie Tyler dealing with never knowing when her daughter will be home, if she ever comes home, and the shit she has to put up with because of it.
   âLet me tell you something about those who get left behind. Because itâs hard. And thatâs what you become, hard. But if thereâs one thing Iâve learnt, itâs that I will never let her down. And Iâll protect them both until the end of my life. So whatever you want, Iâm warning you, back off.â
It parallels Elton (who lost his mother) and even Bridget (who lost her daughter), who got involved with LINDA as a coping mechanism for being left behind.
Itâs also got a great ending speech:
    âyou know, when youâre a kid, they tell you itâs all, grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and thatâs it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. Itâs so much darker, and so much madder. And so much better.â
A message that RTDs Doctor tries to convey in almost every episode.
Frequently dismissed by people because âlol monster not scaryâ. Maybe if he was a stone angel with some pointy teethâŠ
Space Pig: Clearly not meant to be taken seriously. Designed to be obviously not an alien to the audience, to show the gullibility of humans and their tendency to overreact and act violently when faced with the unknown, as the soldiers did when they shot him to death when he clearly showed no threat. Also, meant as a DISTRACTION for the overreacting humans so that the real alien threat could put the world on red alert and they could get ahold of nuclear weapons.
Scribble: A product of an emotionally disturbed child from an abusive home where her only living family member refuses to give her closure of the abusive part of her childhood.
Slitheen: Skinned human beings and wore their pelt. Intended to use nuclear weapons to destroy the planet to sell for profit. A clear symbol for the destructiveness of corporate greed. But like âlol it fart and green so it badâ, right?
Lazarus: Tried to play god and delay the inevitability of aging and death. It resulted in him becoming quite literally a monster whoâs fears and selfishness made him disregard otherâs lives.Â
    âIt doesnât work like that. Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. Itâs not the time that matters, itâs the person.â
Everything ends. Thatâs a common theme in Davies work. Heâs informing us that death is inevitable but it doesnât have to be horrible if we make the most of what we have.
Shrivelled Ten: The Master purposefully made the Doctor pathetic and weak to destroy the will of the people of earth. The Doctor is a symbol of hope, and if you weaken him then people give in to their fate.
Max Capricorn: He planned to wipe out London just to get revenge on members of the board. His inability to let go of his anger at the board is paralleled by his inability to let go of life, hence his existence as a cyborg at 200+ years of age. but âlol head on wheals, right?â
The Master: Heâs completely physically unstable, because he planned his own resurrection as a means to escape the Doctor and cause the Doctor grief. His physical instability is just a visual manifestation of his emotional/mental instability. Itâs symbolism Davies uses to get his point to the audience.Â
Chloe Webber: Already addressed this a bit, but Iâll continue. Chloe was being possessed by another child who she felt kinship to, because she literally had no one. She had no way to communicate to other children because of the emotional distress her father caused, and her mother also had emotional distress which caused her to not be able to communicate with Chloe about her father. The means the Isolus uses to get to Chloe is hardly relevant when you put it into the perspective of WHY she targetted Chloe.
Tinkerten: This is admittedly a Deus Ex Machina, but itâs a decently executed one, because the story arc is intended to take a backseat to character and emotional one. From a narrative perspective, Marthaâs journey is less about finding a solution to the Master and more about her coming in to her own person. Furthermore, the God Symbolism is used for a reason, so it can be deconstructed (as RTD tends to do), as the minute he survives, heâs punished for his hubris. His self-righteousness (forgiving the master) leads to the Master deciding to leave him alone in the universe, and later leads to Martha leaving, as he caused a HUGE rift in her family life.
RTD knew he was writing a kids show. He took serious stories and complex emotional arcs, and buried then under sixty feet of silly to get them accross to the young audience, as he should. Moffat, however, takes silly nonsensical stories and shallow emotional âarcsâ, changes the chronological order, ads some scary monsters and flowery speeches, and thinks himself mature.
I read somewhere that RTDâs Doctor Who was a serious show pretending to be silly, and Moffatâs was a silly show pretending to be serious, and I think this all explains it well, and youâre a perfect example of the people who buy into it.
Now, tell me again why I shouldnât prefer RTD to Moffat?
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