10 Reasons RTD's Doctor Who Return Failed
1. He Wrote The Show Into A Corner
The Doctor regenerating into Billie Piper was always a baffling choice. But at the time, we could at least speculate about how it was going to be resolved.
Now we know that there’s not going to a follow-up (and, according to RTD, there was never going to be), we can see it for what it was: a last ditch attempt to appeal to Disney, creating so much of a buzz about Doctor Who that they realise they’d be mad not to recommission it.
Which, as we all know, is exactly what happened.
In hindsight it just feels so pointless – and so avoidable, when you think that it could have just been an open regeneration. Or something like the ending to Survival in 1989, when the Seventh Doctor and Ace walked into the (metaphorical) sunset.
Instead, RTD created a cliffhanger that will almost certainly be ignored by the next team, and effectively ensued that the next era of Doctor Who will be a soft reboot. Because how the heck do you come back from something as baffling as that?
It’s quite impressive really.
Oh, and we’re still none the wiser as to whether or not Billie Piper is actually the Doctor. Either way, you just know that Big Finish are rubbing their hands together with glee…