“THE QUESTION, THE FIRST QUESTION, THE QUESTION YOUVE BEEN RUNNING FROM ALL YOUR LIFE, DOCTOR- “Who wrote Beethoven’s Fifth?”

I don’t want them to revisit Midnight entity, that’s what appealing about it.

Midnight is a fantastic episode. I'm glad they never cleared that up.

Top 10 Dropped Doctor Who Plot Threads We'll Never Get Answers To: Number 1: Who really composed Beethoven's 5th?

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How could you not mention the doctors daughter? Really hoped that would have been a spinoff

I think the weeping angels were proof that sometimes it‘s better to leave an awesome villain shrouded in mystery in a single episode than try to bring them back and make them less mysterious.

With Ace, she was meant to appear in the S5 finale of The Sarah Jane Adventures but obviously that couldn't happen following Liz Sladens passing

I think the Reapers showing up in “Father’s Day” was due to the huge number of paradoxes existing at the same time. We had three of Rose, two the Doctor, and a live Pete. Granted, one of each Rose and Doctor did vanish, but they were there for an instant, which was likely enough to summon the Reapers. Remember, in our universe, it is a TV show, so there will be inconsistencies. Out in the multiverse, there are numerous universes where the Doctor exists, and everything makes sense, in a timey-wimey way... :)

I'm shocked there's no mention of the doctor's daughter. I'm still hoping to see her in the show some more.

Chris Chibnall wrote Jack so spot on because he wrote loads of the best Torchwood episodes 😂 but damn, I wish he’d bring Jack back for more :/

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Chibnall used his best crayons when he was writing that minute of jacks screentime

The Silurians: Hey we live inside the Earth and have been doing so for a very long time! Also Silurians: Wait, there are tons of baby arachnids living inside the earth?

“Explaining” it would kill it stone dead. Midnight was brilliant as it was. Possibly the best thing NuWho ever did (along with Blink) Leave. It. Alone. They destroyed the weeping angels with too much exposure. They would totally destroy the Midnight entity by revisiting it. It’s what Doctor Who _should_ be like. Mystery and terror.

I like to think river song just went and hunted down the whole chapter

One plot/enemy they absolutely ran into the ground were the Weeping Angels. They went from being terrifying monsters to goofy and outlandish bad guys.

My pick would be Gus from Mummy on the Orient Express, or rather, the people who were behind him. They were never exposed or thwarted at the end of the episode. They seem to have a roadshow version of the SCP Foundation going on. They're resourceful enough to *phone* the TARDIS. That's lots of writing room!

“The Doctor just goes, *oh crap it’s you again!* “ 😂

The kovarian chapter actually makes sense, they left because they succeeded, the doctor was supposed to die at that lake, and he "did" the robo suit thing died and that completed the circuit, their whole mission was to make sure that the doctor did die there, thus they made River, once he completed his death for them, they were done, so they left.

Two things: a) Ace set up a foundation as revealed in Sarah Jane Adventures "The Death of the Doctor" b) Chibnall had a hell of a lot of experience writing for Jack on Torchwood

It’s weird that in “Don’t Blink”, the reason that the characters survived was because the angels were tricked into looking at each other and therefore trapping themselves because even the angels cause themselves to turn to stone if they look at each other, but after this episode, any other angel centric episode never brings this back up again and it’s never used as a method to escape the Weeping Angels.

Jenny was also a plot point I wish they would have made more episodes about, because she just gets in a ship and flys of.

The fact that we know nothing about the midnight entity is part of what makes that episode SO good. I wouldn't touch it, it's perfect.

1:24 This is one of those things I hope never gets an answer as it just adds mystery. Another example of this sort of thing is how the Doctor still didn't fully understand the entity from The Satan Pit. 6:38 I think Classic Who fans have explained it as "Time Lord is a rank not a species" which makes sense seeing as characters like the Doctor and Master had to go to Time Lord Academy.

The Midnight Entity was never dropped; it was never meant to be explained. Fear of the unknown makes it scarier, and the mystery is far more interesting than any answer we could have ever gotten

I thought Season 7 of New Who in particular was filled with dangling plot threads. What became of all the splinter Claras? We never see any again. (Personally, I'm okay with this.) The Doctor spends a lot of time (mostly between episodes) erasing mentions of himself from databases all over the universe, but it comes to nothing. It serves no purpose in the end and is just dropped. In "The Time of the Doctor," the events on Trenzalore are changed thanks to the intervention of the Time Lords, which means the Doctor doesn't die there, which means his tomb isn't there, which means Clara doesn't enter his time stream via the tomb to become splinter selves, which essentially means the Doctor should never have met Clara... (And yet she's still there. Clara is always still there. We cannot escape Clara.)

The thing about the event is Father's Day that many seem to forget :P is that specific wound in time was a very vulnerable one. More than any others. Because when Rose saved her dad she did it in front of her past self that was there minutes before this along with the past Doctor. This led to their past selves simply disappearing because the events that led Rose and the Doctor to go there for a 2nd time never happened anymore and they got trapped in a sort of time-loop inside the wound with the TARDIS being thrown out of it.

They should've kept the Weeping Angels like the Midnight Entity, they became more and more overused and started to become ridiculous

The Valeyard is mentioned in Twice Upon A Time by the Testimony Avatar when showing the First Doctor his future. To be fair they cut out all the jokes.

It’s my theory that the reapers only appear when someone tries to alter fixed points in time. The reason why they don’t appear is because the other paradoxes are done during flexible points and won’t cause catastrophic damage to the timeline

Surprised u didn't mention Jenny, the Drs' clone daughter

Captain Jack's missing memories. Two years of his life were wiped from his mind and he has no idea why.

The trickster. Yes I know it's sja but it's a pain that we never saw him lose permanently

Since the metacrisis doctor and Rose both age normally, they are set up for future appearances without having to explain that later.

No one here right now, absolutely no one: *WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RANI?! I WANT HER BACK!*

Victory of the daleks had a lot of potential, but because the daleks looked like toys the plot thread was dropped

Ooooh the Valeyard is a biggie. When the Virgin New Adventures books were a thing writers were asked to not write him into a story as it might get a little too complex and create holes. He has however popped up in a number of audios, including one where he himself is put on trial. Ultimately he is the reason why the 6th Doctor regenerates (again in Big Finish) as the Time Lord sacrifices himself to prevent becoming The Valeyard, and even then he doesn't know if it'll work until he hears the voice of the 7th coming through. Personally I'd love to see ol' Val return......... no idea why.

What about the old woman who spoke to wilfred in end of time. Who was she?

I think the reapers never returned because during the events of ‘fathers day’ it was an extreme example of a paradox because the doctor and rose were seen by the other versions of them and roses father didn’t die, that is two paradoxes in one event so that’s probably why the reapers came, the other paradoxes weren’t as extreme because they are one paradox in one event

One of the series of the Diary of River Song deals with Kovarian after the events of the season 6 finale

The Midnight Entity was Merlin discovering he has magic on a tour bus taking him to Camelot.

Who in their right mind would want an explanation to Midnight? That would be like scientifically disproving all of the ghost stories by MR James.

The valyard is repeatedly mentioned as one of the doctors titles.

they need to make an entire series of Clara and Me

You was right the first time with the Reapers, it was a special set of circumstances. Rose only saves her Dad after already failing to save her Dad and seeing him Die. "I know what I'm doing, you don't. Two sets of us being there made that a vulnerable point"

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The Biff Tannen BTTF joke got me! I actually laughed out loud! Well done!

Sleep no More is an underrated episode. THANK YOU, Rich!! Nobody can see that and it gets the worst hate.

I would love to see the top ten stories for each DOCTOR WHO

Theory: The Metacrisis Doctor eventually becomes the Peter Cushing Doctor of the 60s era films. And those are his and Rose's grandchildren.

I feel like the appearance of the Reapers was a rather unique paradox... because a lot of the times the paradoxes that exist don't involve the Tardis inhabitants crossing over their own timeline, doing something that directly affects their own past in a sizable manner. Rose saving her dad though... was exactly that. It was a paradox that was not easily accounted for. A child with a dead parent going back to save their parent but then if that parent was alive, they'd never gone back in time to save that parent, perhaps never time traveled at all impacting events that she was already a part of, creating this massive tangle. The closest I recall we have to this severe of a paradox is the end of time humans invading present day, but for that the Tardis was heavily modified to protect that paradox, likely preventing such intervention.

The Midnight Entity should remain a mystery. Never reveal it's origins. Ever. The anonymity of it is what makes it so unnerving and terrifying.

9:36 Ah yes, those iconic Doctor Who races like, uh... The blowfish, hoix, and roboforms (at least according to the wiki)...

I'd love them to bring the Ogrons back. They just disappeared after the last time they teamed up with the Daleks.

One thing which is a sort of dropped plot is the Time War. The one thing about that is the Doctor put Gallifrey into a time lock to protect his home from the Daleks. However, now that Gallifrey is out of the lock, the Daleks either haven't noticed or don't care. COME ON!!!!

River left kovarian to die in "The diary of River Song" in season three

*One thousand years later* Humans: "Good news! The Doctor has forgotten about this and we have developed a bio-weapon to wipe out the reptilians!"

The big question is still.. “What is your name, Doctor?”

"And then he broadcasts it to the universe..." The Netflix ad afterwards: *shows the popcorn screaming and hiding behind the soda*

Vashta Nerada. I would have liked to seen a story line focusing on them on Earth.

There are 2 abandoned plot threads that I'd really like to see revisited. 1. The Minister Of War. Casually teased in Before The Flood and never mentioned again... 2. Harmony Shoal. Last seen infiltrating UNIT in The Return Of Doctor Mysterio, they could easily have reappeared in Series 10, but no. And now Chibnall has done away with UNIT, we'll likely never see that picked up on. Moffat's era really was a mess.

Missed some major examples that are very important to the canon of the series. 1. The Doctor's promise to return visit Susan Foreman! This is arguably the most important plot point that was dropped from the entire series. In its original context The Doctor was promising Susan that he would return for her. This was something I kept wanting to see followed up on once I first learned of it. All during, Tom Baker up to the first cancelation. Once the Show was rebooted... I just 'knew' this would be addressed each season, just to be disappointed, again! 2. What happened to the Black Guardian? Through out the trail I had thought it would be revealed that the Valeyard would be the Black Guardian or, later in the serial, the Valeyard was 'splintered' off of the Doctor by the Black Guardian for revenge. 3. What happened to the 'Rejuvenation' ability. {At this point my comments kept getting clipped. Think it relates to copy pasting the Actresses names from webpages because it clips right at the name. So I have edited. Have Jodie attempt a Rejuvenation. It goes wrong. This kills The Doctor triggering the standard Regeneration. Fourteen would then be portrayed by Jenna-Louise Coleman. No I do not want to start a Flame War, but she is one of the top three companions. Sarah Jane, the best, and not sure between Clara and Susan. Why does the bad guy have to kill The Doctor each time? A refreshing reason to the actor's change. 4. Genny. Spelled this was because it is short for generator. Normally spelled Ginny or Jenny. Think officially it is Ginny, ut I do not know off the top of my head. Knew someone that had this spelling in real life. Honorable mention. 5. What happened to Adric and Romana?

midnight really showed tennants acting - he was always amazing but that episode was so good

I WANT MORE JACKIE TYLER

No. 1: why haven’t we seen the Black Guardian again?

Midnight was the scariest episode of Doctor Who for me. Not the monster, although the monster was scary. It's how the people react to it. It was entirely too realistic to how real people would react in the worst possible way. The Alliance came together to beat the Doctor because his TARDIS was going to blow and destroy the entire universe. EVERYONE was going to become nonexistent, so there was a huge motivation for them to team up and not fight each other. Nothing short of complete destruction would cause them to team up again.

The biggest 'what happened' moment to me in modern Doctor Who was what happened between Name of the Doctor and Day of the Doctor, what the hell happened with that cliffhanger.

I will never watch a follow up Midnight episode! That episode was perfect art! I don't want it ruined.

My headcannon is the Reapers appear in paradoxes where a person is too close or touches their past/future self. And that's why the Doctor is a bit reluctant whenever he comes in contact with another Doctor. Because it might summon reapers. In the wedding episode with Rose we had a double paradox, they went back in time twice to the same period and actually managed to erase themselves as the first visit. That might be a reason too

At least we’ve got an answer regarding Ace

I think the metacrisis doctor will become the valeyard. Hes between his 12th(Tennant 2nd regen) and final (smith) regeneration. Also it would be great to bring tennant back as a villian

Ace was meant to be in the Sarah Jane adventures series 5 episodes called the battle of bannermen road.

Going with the alternate dimension theory, having 13 collide with Rose and the Metacrisis Doctor would be GREAT

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I have always wanted Jenni, the Doctors daughter, to come back.

Reapers Vs Weeping Angels! With the Doctor just trying to keep people alive while it's happening.

What happened to Jenny the Doctor's Daughter. Davies said she hit a piece of space junk and fell into a sun, which makes me sad. Georgia Moffett doesn't even need to come back, Jenny could have regenerated so a new actress could pick her up. having Jenny meeting 13 and saying "Hello Dad" tickles me pink

I have a theory about the midnight entity. Basically if you remember house from "The Doctor's Wife" episode, house was a living planet who didn't have a physical form except for said planet. What I am proposing is that the midnight entity is the planet Midnight or at least a certain part of it, similar to house. It would make sense as the planet is one thing that wouldn't be vapourised by the planet's surface, because it is the planet. My explanation to why it picked off this particular shuttle is that maybe it was dormant and just happened to wake up when this shuttle came to pass. Or something to do with the doctor's presence? You have to admit that House and the midnight entity have similarities, they posess or corrupt beings that come into contact with them, they both seem to have a connection to fear (House seemed to enjoy scaring and toying with Amy and Rory and the midnight entity picked on Sky Sylvester, who was the most scared)

1. The Doctor's Mother (maybe?) in The End of Time. Although the MASSIVE retcon means that she now CAN'T be the Doctor's mother or sister, so... who was she?

in regards to The Valeyard check out Big Finish Doctor Who: Afterlife Unbound: He Jests at Scars... (a what if the Valeyard had won story) The Eighth Doctor - Doctor Who: Time War 3 story 4: The War Valeyard Doctor Who: The Sixth Doctor - The Last Adventure story 4: The Brink of Death Doctor Who: The Sixth Doctor Adventures - Doctor Who: Trial of the Valeyard

The Villain Alliance kind of did re-form in this post-Pandorica version of the universe at the end of the Matt Smith run for the exact same purpose. They were all there circling Christmas on Trenzalore, we just didn't get to see them hanging out together like in Pandorica.

You said you were sticking to things only seen on telly, but number 1s a deleted scene. How does that count?

Please for the love of God stop mentioning the reapers. I explain this in the comments every time. The reason why we never see them again, despite paradoxes, is because of what happened. Rose and the Doctor essential interfered with their own history, literally changing it before their past selves' very eyes, causing the past rose and doctor to just disappear. That is something we have not seen again since in the show. We've seen characters change what they know about their future, but never interfered with their previous selves

Audios are Canon to the TV show! You know that!

My personal theory is that the Meta-Crisis Doctor IS The Valeyard. According to the Master, The Valeyard is an, at the time, future incarnation of The Doctor set somewhere between their 12th and final incarnations. If we take that as meaning the thirteen incarnations The Doctor had between being The Timeless Child, and getting new regenerations in Time of The Doctor, that would set him somewhere between David Tennant's half regeneration, and Matt Smith's incarnation. The only one that fits that bill is the Meta-Crisis Doctor. It also makes sense that the Meta-Crisis Doctor would resent his other self for trapping him in an alternate universe with a single life time. It's also even hinted at that the Meta-Crisis is a darker incarnation of The Doctor, being a clone of the Doctor as he was in The Christmas Invasion, where he lost the hand that the clone grew out of.

I think the crack gave the angels extra powers like being able to keep their form when they move and being able to project themselves from screens and being able to acquire new angels

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I LIKE Clara's ending. Helps that she's my favorite companion. Also, I like that she was frozen between heartbeats and her next when, whenever that will be, will be her last. I think The Doctor literally said something like, "You may have 5 minutes or 15 years, but your next heart beat will be your last." And I think that's a crazy way to "live" but also, we all could be dead 5 minutes from now or may get another 15 years. It's a nice, interesting sci-fi way to put it. She's the same as us and different at the same time. It's pretty cool. And I like that she gets a happy and bittersweet, tragic ending all at the same time. Only in something like Doctor Who is that even possible, imo.

DW scrip writers, watching this video: oh shit we forgot about those maybe we should revisit them

When they first went to that alternate dimension that Rose ended up stuck on The Doctor said that when the time lords were around it was easier to go to other dimensions, since we know they are around now I think it would be interesting to have a reason to go back to that dimension and see the meta crisis doctor and rose. Since he is human Tennent being older would make complete sense

Did Chibs write Capt. Jack “spot on” or was the poor script interpreted “spot on” by John Barrowman?

Still hope we'll See the Doctor's Daughter return, and The Valeyard.

The mystery of the Midnight entity is what makes that episode so brilliant

Sleep No More is probably my favourite episode of the past 5 years its just so creepy and I had chills running up and down my spine and it made DW feel more like a horror show we need more of this it was just so good

I always thought Clara and ME in the TARDIS would've been an amazing spinoff. Sad it never came to be

I agree with most of these. I would love to see a spin off of the adventures of Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax.

Theory: the Reapers and the Weeping Angels are two sides of the same species, in constant flux between dimensions, and you only see one side of them, with different motives, according to which dimension you are viewing them from.

Good list, but I have six comments: 1. You forgot the major unexplored thread of the Doctor as Merlin, which was brought up in “Battlefield “ with the Seventh Doctor. There should be a huge series of stories with potentially many Doctors. 2. If you look closely at the “Midnite” episode, Sky Silvestri describes a bad lesbian relationship that she is trying to forget and run away. I’ve always thought she was running from the Rani or similar female baddie. If it was the Rani, then the Midnite entity could be one of her creations. 3. Don’t forget the Rani mystery. What happened to her anyway? 4. Whatever happened with the Doctor’s daughter? 5. Whatever happened with Mickey and Martha? 6. Whatever happened to River Song, who seemed to be “alive” in some way within the Library computer? She also seemed to be able to exist outside of the Library computer in some way that the Doctor saw her too. I forget the episode where the Doctor tells her ghost (?) goodbye.

One dropped idea that comes the mind was the Dalek redesigns from Victory of the Daleks. Outside a few cameos, we never really got to see them perform their assigned roles on TV before their design was dropped and the show returned to the classic design. The reason for this was mainly due to fans not reacting well to the new designs. While we never got an reason in the show for their disapperance there is techinically a explanation for it in a unlikely place. According to a article from the Radio Times, at the Doctor Who Experience there was a Dalek ship you would enter, in which there was a exchange between the resdsign Daleks and a army bronze/classic Daleks who belong to Davros. The two sides were fighting over who are the true pure Daleks and given the fact we've not seen the redesigns for a long time now, it's clear that Darvos's army won and are the current dominate faction. So once again splintering Dalek factions had led to another civil war, just a shame we didn't get to see it on screen as it would have been great to have a fall scale Dalek civil war with current effects.