Somewhere Different Now

Dude! The fact that they ignored The End of Time (with its interesting development of the mysterious character of Rassilon) took away all my old-who-fangirl joy at Gallifrey being restored. I had this whole backstory built up in my head where the Time War had driven the Time Lords to be so desperate that they resurrected one of the shadiest--but most powerful--historical figures from their past in order to help lead them out. I mean, how bad do things have to be before you bring someone back from the grave to be your totalitarian dictator? I'm guessing pretty bad, and I'm guessing at that point you're fighting back pretty viciously yourself, even if the Daleks started out as the aggressors. But this episode completely bypassed any of the moral questions of who's the bad guy here, choosing instead to make the Time Lords out to be bumbling and innocent, and ignoring the fact that genocide, even of an evil race like the Daleks, isn't something to wholeheartedly celebrate--a lesson the Doctor has come face to face with TWICE before the Time War, but which Moffat chose to forget.