Doctor Who: 10 Episodes That Should Have Changed Things Forever (But Didn't)
2. The Stolen Earth & Journeys End (David Tennant)
The non-regeneration regeneration stands for many as the biggest travesty of the Russell T Davies era. Yes, he spun it into a decent yarn but the human Doctor and the Doctor Donna were just too far to stretch credulity, even for Doctor Who. That Steven Moffat tied this into the 50th special, taking a veiled swipe at it in the process, was laudable but never in the history of Doctor Who have we seen a Timelord able to regenerate and keep the same face. Romana was, for some reason, able to try many different forms without losing lives but this, like the Klingon forehead ridges, is something we just dont talk about. Apart from that one strange Douglas Adams brain fart regeneration is a well-established process; every cell in the body dies and he gets a new face I cant control it said Christopher Eccleston. Yet David Tennant somehow guides the rest of the regeneration energy into the spare hand. So is this a new tactic? Regenerate, lop off an appendage quickly enough for it to grow back then keep it around in case of death? No, these episodes belong on this list because they stand as the episodes that truly should have changed everything, we should have had a new Doctor. But we didnt.
I.T. Consultant, technophile and Doctor Who fan. I like to talk about tech, take films apart and make excuses for Doctor Who's continuity errors. No other show has the power to make me feel like a big kid.
