10 Reasons Doctor Who Is In Serious Trouble

Picture this. A tenth Star Wars film reveals that Yoda was the one true Jedi. It was in fact he who was the only one naturally born with the powers of the force. The Jedi however, figured this out, milked Yoda of his powers and injected the powers of the force into all Jedi, before wiping everyone's memories of what occurred. All good with that?

Of course not! Not only would this feel tacked on and be completely out of place with a character we loved, it would also leave a sour taste in the mouth in regards other Jedi. We'd be left questioning if Obi-Wan and Samuel L Jackson were bad dudes all along.

This is the problem with such a 'big statement' lore changer, it literally changes the way you watch previous episodes. Matt Smith's Doctor was slowly dying? Nah, he wasn't, he would have been fine anyway. The Doctor's continued anguish about the loss of his people throughout the Davies era? He was just overreacting, they were all assholes. Excited about seeing Whittaker as the first lady Doctor? I wouldn't be, there were heaps before she came along. Remember William Hartnell's First Doctor? Well, he wasn't even in the first dozen.

Having a big reveal like this is all well and good if it is meticulously planned from the start, each hidden clue leading to the one final revelation. What we got instead from the Season 12 finale was a piece of fan fiction to undo a continuity error everyone had forgotten about.