Christopher Eccleston gets vindicated once again. I knew RTD would fuck this up. He didn't have a script for the Christmas special. Why did he even get Billie Piper to be the supposed next doctor, you wonder?
Nostalgia bait!!! RTD having a midlife crisis and trying to relive his glory days and unleashing the mid of his life on doctor who.
Let me write for doctor who man, I could do so much better. I want an episode where a maths nerd begs the doctor to let him meet Euler. EULER THE GOAT!!!
Like you have insanely good plotlines if you look at doctor who as a vessel for a story, rather than a story itself.
We don't need to know so much about the doctor, although it is fun and interesting; I feel like the longevity of doctor who lives in the mystery.
So, we need to let the doctor be a mystery and do a character study once in a while, but space it out. Let the doctor experience more things, like the possibilities are genuinely endless. But, within the vessel of the TARDIS and an immortal character.
You didn't have to mess with the vessel RTD. Anyone can be doctor who, nostalgia bait wasn't necessary.