10 Doctor Who Endings That Get Worse The More You Think About Them

The Dalek stories were a high point of Thirteen’s era, showing us new versions of the show’s oldest and most classic monster, and once again proving why they take that top spot of arch-nemesis.

The problems with Revolution of the Daleks come when the writers suddenly realised they only had 10 minutes of screentime left and still had to say bye-byes to Captain Jack, Ryan and Graham.

After an exciting return for Jack in Fugitive of the Judoon, and a fun prison break sequence at the start of this episode, it was nice to see him and the Doctor share a nice heartfelt goodbye as these long-time friends part ways again. Oh sorry, no, what we actually got was a rushed voiceover of Jack having already left off-screen as he calls the Doctor to let her know what he’s up to next. Alrighty then.

But while Ryan and Graham do actually get an emotional exit from the Tardis, it’s then somewhat sullied by an unfathomably clunky final scene, where Ryan’s all-but forgotten dyspraxia – which was introduced all the way back in his first episode as a huge storyline for him – returns in a half-hearted attempt to bring things full-circle, before he falls off his bike and a laughable hologram of Grace appears before their eyes.

Ah well, at least she wasn’t a frog this time.

What’s weird about this ending is that it was very nearly the end of the Thirteenth Doctor’s era as a whole, with the COVID-19 pandemic almost preventing Series 13 from going ahead.

Viewed through that lens it becomes even more distressing/funny that potentially the last thing we saw from Doctor Who for quite some time was… this.