10 Doctor Who Mysteries With The Worst Possible Answers

10. The Thirteenth Doctor's Fob Watch

The Thirteenth Doctor's decision to not open the fob watch containing her lost memories is definitely satisfying on a character level. It's an explicit choice by the Doctor to focus on who they are in the current moment, rather than be defined by their past. It's also a pretty decent allegory for a 60-year-old TV show, too.

However, this choice still felt quite disappointing in the moment. The whole reason that the Flux happened was because the Doctor had gone poking around in her past, and it destroyed half the universe! Not only that, but the Doctor watched Swarm and Azure murder her adopted mother, and came face-to-face with Time itself.

After all that madness, it does feel like a bit of a cop-out for the Doctor not to get some answers, especially when those answers were literally in the palm of her hand. This is what she was looking for all this time, and she just... throws it away? And ultimately, we're no further forward with the mysteries of the Division or the Fugitive Doctor than when those concepts were first introduced!

Although, let's be honest, the true disappointment will likely come when a future showrunner decides to actually open that fob watch... but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.