Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: 7 Things That NEED To Happen

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It goes without comment, by and large, that Doctor Who fans are a fairly demanding bunch. Ironically much more so now than we used to be back in the wilderness years (1990-2004 with the exception of two hopeful weeks in 1996).

It turns out that it’s a lot easier to be demanding about the content of Doctor Who when they’re actually making it.

And so, for those of us who vividly remember seeing the release of The Sirens of Time and thinking that we couldn’t criticize it because we’d waited so long for something new, it’s easy to not want to take the new series for granted.

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i like the new series and i think the special will be good for fans both new and old.

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Let me start by saying that although I chose to take on this particular topic I could not be more excited for all the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary fun. I eagerly await every month’s retrospective look on BBC America at a past Doctor, am reading the new specially commissioned stories, and I already bought a new shirt to wear just for November 23rd.

As an American I will undoubtedly miss out on a number of the planned goodies, including the radio special and Live Q & A. This article would also become unwieldy if I were to try and discuss everything going on in the world of Doctor Who this year, so I have limited my nitpicking to potential problems with the television special.

Thankfully for me between what is and is not already planned I have plenty of room to doubt its overall success. With that in mind here are five reasons the 50th Anniversary will disappoint—no matter what sort of fan you are.

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