Doctor Who: 10 Biggest Plot Holes Of The Revived Series So Far
7. Rassilon In Name Drop Only
In the episode The End Of Time, the Time Lords returned (more on that later) and leading them was their Lord President, the highest authority in the Time Lord hierarchy. It was also revealed that the reason the Doctor killed the Time Lords was because the Lord President was about to destroy all of time itself in order to let the race ascend to godhood. That's all well and good (epic, almost) but then, just when the Lord President's evil plans were about to fail, the Doctor went and called him 'Rassilon'.
Suddenly, the fans went wild. This was a pretty big deal. The Time Lords returning was one thing but no one knew that Rassilon would return, too. It makes sense, then, that amidst the fanfare nobody noticed the tingling sensation at the back of the head saying "That makes absolutely no sense". Has everybody forgotten that in The Five Doctors (the only episode Rassilon appeared in before the revived series), he was described as someone who knows "very well that immortality is a curse, not a blessing". Yet here he was proclaiming, "I will not die!". Whatever happened to character consistency?!
Continuity is one thing but Rassilon's Classic Series episode was the 20th anniversary, a story which everyone remembers. In that story, Rassilon was a God who was immortal and could probably kill an armada of Daleks in a blink of an eye. He wasn't just an "ordinary" Time Lord, yet in The End Of Time he was portrayed as a man so afraid of dying that he would kill everyone in the universe just to survive. Seriously, the two Rassilon's couldn't be more different. How and why did Russell T Davies decide to revive the character in this peculiar way? And why is nobody else confused?!