Because Karen Gillan wanted to pursue her acting career by shaving her head and being in Guardians of the Galaxy and even the Doctor cannot beat real life, in-universe as badly explained as people think it is , it was explained.
As for show runners, given a choice I'd bring back Douglas Adam (Resurrecting him for this and many many other reasons) but personally anyone is better than RTD who lets face it was just as bad if not worse but somehow gets a pass because he brought the show back.
As a writer I think Moffat is better suited to single or two part episodes, season/series long plot lines are not his forte with Doctor who.
As for other generic complaints about the show, eh , the show has always had silly science and ridiculous concepts, it's always been daft and wonderfully ludicrous science fiction with quarry's that stand in for alien worlds.
it's the characters and stories that have kept it going, the continuity of the old series has been described as "Whatever the writers could remember on the day" and it's continuity is always always going to contradict itself because of how long it's been going and how many people have worked on it.
As for retooling it or rebooting it into a straight forward sci fi series would kill it's heart and that would be worse than anything any writer could do could ever do.
Accept it and love it for the silliness it is or please walk away and find some other scifi series that is closer to what you think Doctor who should be, don't turn Doctor Who into some grimdark series, let it be the lite fluff it is.
Because that's why I love it, because there's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
As for show runners, given a choice I'd bring back Douglas Adam (Resurrecting him for this and many many other reasons) but personally anyone is better than RTD who lets face it was just as bad if not worse but somehow gets a pass because he brought the show back.
As a writer I think Moffat is better suited to single or two part episodes, season/series long plot lines are not his forte with Doctor who.
As for other generic complaints about the show, eh , the show has always had silly science and ridiculous concepts, it's always been daft and wonderfully ludicrous science fiction with quarry's that stand in for alien worlds.
it's the characters and stories that have kept it going, the continuity of the old series has been described as "Whatever the writers could remember on the day" and it's continuity is always always going to contradict itself because of how long it's been going and how many people have worked on it.
As for retooling it or rebooting it into a straight forward sci fi series would kill it's heart and that would be worse than anything any writer could do could ever do.
Accept it and love it for the silliness it is or please walk away and find some other scifi series that is closer to what you think Doctor who should be, don't turn Doctor Who into some grimdark series, let it be the lite fluff it is.
Because that's why I love it, because there's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.