10 Doctor Who Stories With WORSE Endings Than Flux

The Doctor has been lured to his final resting place, Trenzalore, where the Great Intelligence intends to destroy him across his whole timeline.

Anyone expecting more insight into the Doctor's career in the Division or indeed their planet of origin clearly has a short memory. Doctor Who has been constantly dangling potential reveals of the lead character's past before yanking them away. The Name of the Doctor is a perfect example of just that. We were never ever going to learn their name. What could it possibly be? Do any of us even care?

In the event the name becomes the meaning and promise of the Doctor's chosen title, as a means to introduce the one who broke that promise. The John Hurt reveal and the glimpses of past Doctors in the opening sequence do a lot of heavy lifting to distract from an incredibly messy script.

Have we spent enough time with Clara and the Doctor to believe that she would willingly sacrifice herself to be splintered across all of time and space? And how the hell do the Doctor and Clara get out of the time stream at the end? Is it really enough for River Song to enigmatically suggest that Clara will be fine and then pick up again months later with her in a new teaching job?

It's not, and Steven Moffat so desperately wants you to be distracted by the appearance of John Hurt that you'll forget what a mess he's left behind.