Doctor Who: 10 Huge Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About The Doctor

It makes perfect sense for the Doctor to reunite with their past incarnations in anniversary stories, and if this was something that happened every ten years or so, then fine and dandy. But it’s not.

It really became a trend with The Five Doctors in 1983, which brought back all the Doctors up to that point, and was indeed an anniversary special. But then we had The Two Doctors just two years later, and Dimensions in Time eight years after that. This was the start of these one-off, infrequent special events becoming... well, the exact opposite.

All four of the last regeneration stories have been multi-Doctor to varying degrees, and it felt like the Thirteenth Doctor had to share half her era with the Fugitive Doctor. And is anyone going to be surprised if the upcoming Christmas special involves multiple Doctors too?

That's not to mention the constant Doctor clip shows we've seen lately nor the regular team-ups in expanded media, all of which contribute to this feeling that what was once a unicorn is now just... a horse. The same horse in that same field you drive past on your daily commute.

The first eight years of NuWho went by without any multi-Doctor stories (save for those Metacrisis shenanigans) – and nobody batted an eyelid. The more this sort of stuff happens, the less special it feels.