[spinaltap]

Off topic but I think movies and TV shows are suffering the same problem. We have exhausted every way of telling good stories. Nowadays if you want to give the audience "something new" or "something they've never seen before", the only way is to increase craziness and intenseness, which is the opposite of good stories.

[dhosek]

I think that's less a question of having ways to tell good stories and more one of a creative space being exhausted. There's a desire in a long-running series to keep raising the stakes as the series progresses, but doing so reaches a point where there's nowhere left to raise the stakes. I think that's been a bit of the problem with Doctor Who in the last few years. As they've kept raising the stakes (right up to the existence of the universe), there's nowhere left to go.