ElectricTeaParty.net being social

I view TV like a hamburger. Sometimes I feel like a hamburger, and I go out and I expect to buy a whole hamburger. But TV today is like you go into the shop, and they give you 1/24th of a hamburger, and say "well, you'll just have to come in once a week for the next year to get most of the rest of the hamburger."
"MOST of the rest??"
"Oh yeah, well we won't quite finish the hamburger this year. We'll leave you hanging until next year to finish the last pieces of the hamburger, and then we'll start on weekly installments of fries along with a dribble of pop here and there."

WTF I JUST WANT A COMPLETE, SELF-CONTAINED GODDAMN HAMBURGER!!

So I've seen the first couple new Doctor Who episodes. The first one had some glitches and shortcomings, but... whatever. It's only the first episode, right? But watching the second... I'm getting more and more worried that they've completely ruined my favourite TV show, and the best and longest-running sci-fi show that ever was. Now don't get me wrong - I'm not just being a nitpicker. There are some very fundamental laws of the Whoniverse which have been broken here, and it really shakes the foundation of the show! Russel T. Davies, the mad Welshman to whom the Who legacy has been entrusted, claims he doesn't want to alter any of the basic aspects of Doctor Who - "otherwise," he says, "you might as well just create a whole new show." Quite right. But check this out: [list:a1df7f75c5] [*:a1df7f75c5] [b:a1df7f75c5]The Doctor is a renegade Time Lord, who breaks the rules of non-interference, and campaigns (wittingly or unwittingly) for good.[/b:a1df7f75c5] But in the new version, it has been revealed that the Doctor is not [i:a1df7f75c5]a[/i:a1df7f75c5] Time Lord, but the [i:a1df7f75c5]last[/i:a1df7f75c5] of the Time Lords. Did I miss something? Did the TV movie kill them off? And by the way, how, why, and when did the Doctor regenerate into his present form?