"I suppose we can still enjoy the mundane though. Can we?"

You can enjoy whatever you like, DtheG! How could I stop you?

Speaking personally, though, I find that forms of entertainment that I could 'drive a bus through' are not entertaining. I regard them as insults to my intelligence.

I suppose that I want my entertainment to be provided by people who know more than me and can give me fresh insights into the way the world works or, at least, to allow me to suspend my disbelief. I know that's a tough call - but there you go!

At a deeper level, though, Dr Who suffers from, what I call, the 'make it up as you go along' syndrome. The writers assume that they know everything that there is to know about Science Fiction (whilst actually they know very little). They then assume that because SF often contains fantastical elements they can just make it up without bothering about consistency or credibilty - whereas real SF authors often care deeply about such things. It's a bit like so-called folk singers who assume that because folk music is old it must have something to do with troubadors etc. - and hence proceed on that basis without actually doing any research.