Doctor Who: 5 Good Things About Day Of The Doctor (And 5 Bad)

2. Christopher Eccleston's "Omission" Is Glaring

Regeneration Hurt Into Eccleston As it has been the custom in past anniversary specials, the showrunner and the BBC will try to corral all living incarnations of The Doctor into one room and create a reason that all of these people are back together, despite the Universe-harming implications and everyone's age. However, we all know Christopher Eccleston's checkered history with the BBC has made things harder on any current efforts to do just that. Yet even when Tom Baker managed to show up, decades after spurning the last couple of Anniversary events, Christopher Eccleston still couldn't be bothered to film a day's worth of material to help bridge the gap. A quick regeneration sequence, a couple lines of dialogue, even being in the final line-up of all of the faces of The Doctor: any one of those things would have meant the world to fans worldwide. But "he didn't feel he could come back to it", and as such all we got was a shorter than short glimpse at the eyes and forehead of the man who would be Nine. C'mon Chris... you were surely in London filming Thor: The Dark World. You couldn't have taken a lunch break?
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Mike Reyes may or may not be a Time Lord, but he's definitely the Doctor Who editor here at What Culture. In addition to his work at What Culture, Mr. Reyes writes for Cocktails and Movies, as well as his own personal blogs Mr. Controversy and The Bookish Kind. On top of that, he's also got a couple Short Stories and Novels in various states of completion, like any good writer worth their salt. He resides in New Jersey, and compiles his work from all publications on his Facebook page.