Do you want the Time Lords and Gallifrey to return?
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Personally I don't, I just found them a bit dull in the classics. I thin RTD did the right thing getting rid of them tbh.
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I do like the idea of Gallifrey and the Time Lords being out there somewhere. After 7 series of 'the last of the Time Lords' thought it was good to shake things up and address the Time War. But as always with returning elements, the story's the thing.
They were part of the worst conflict in all of space time.
You can't just bounce back from that.
By all means bring back some of the old favourites like Romana and Rassilon, and maybe some of the more obscure ones like Borusa and Flavia.
But if the Time Lords do come back, I want their stories to be existential ones.
How do they relate back into the Galaxy after what happened?
What happened during the time that they were banished, and how has it changed them?
There have been some great time lords in the past. They have made great companions, great acquaintances and great enemies. Their manipulations have the potential to create unique stories and ideas.
In fact the whole concept of a race dedicated to maintaining the balance of time really appeals and their absence explains why the universe has almost torn itself apart twice now without them.
I hated it when they were removed. I never bought the idea of how it was even plausible for all of them to disappear from all of time and space and nothing I've seen about the way the time war played out explains it.
Absolute yes for me. Bring them back and bring them back to stay!
just to see how 12 would react to the Time Lords using a Time Scoop to summon him to Gallifrey
We've seen how the Doctor would react to the knowledge of Gallifrey, he would feel obligated to go home and fix it. In truth, the reason that the Time War happened and the Time Lords became insane was because rather than try to fix their problems, the Doctor ran away and surely his conscience would drag him back there.
And as the Doctor himself noted in Death in Heaven, the Doctor is not that man. He is the madman with a box and a screwdriver, who doesn't stop. Bringing back Gallifrey would be a poor move for the show (plus although I've not seen the classics a lot of people clearly don't regard the Time Lords or Gallifrey highly, the words dull are thrown around a lot).
Allude to it now and again by all means, but don't bring it back. Why waste money on a bunch of sets just for the Doctor to go home when we have all of time and space at our disposal? One of the biggest strengths that newer Doctor Who has is that it actually manages to extend the depth and mystery of The Doctor. Gallifrey returning would take all of that away, and further negate the emotional resonance of the stories told so far - something The Day of the Doctor is already partially guilty of.
I don't mind a very gradual story where the odd Timelords are slipping through into this universe. The Master is back, maybe another will eventually. But it's not a story to be rushed, and frankly I'd prefer a new threat/directive when it comes to Series 9.
But Superman is not unique or the last of his kind there is Supergirl-Zod and others
By the last episode of Buffy there were 100's if not 1000's of slayers and even before that there was Faith and other slayers
After the 50th I was worried this series would be all about the Doctor bringing back the Time Lords it was a pleasant surprise that it wasn't.
With "The Last of the Time Lords", over time we learned that it's because there was a war against the Daleks and both species were destroyed (excepting the Doctor himself, of course); oh, and then we learned a Dalek had survived; and then a few Daleks; and then the Master; and then.... well... you get the picture. We were drip fed bits through both tenures, until SM decided to "blow the doors off" with "Day of the Doctor".
I think we've had just one reference to the "Quest for Gallifrey" in series 8 and it will be drip fed slowly like that for several years.
If SM is wise, he'll leave the final stages of the search (and perhaps the rediscovery of Gallifrey) to the next show runner.
The problem with bringing back Gallifrey full time, and the Time Lords fully restored, is that the Time Lords are too powerful. It'd be too easy for them to create a problem, or fix one, "deux ex machina" style. This wouldn't make for good drama.
My point is that Krypton wasn't brought back with a planet full of Kryptonians and the premise if the whole if Buffy was that there was one slayer. Faith was an anomoly caused by the death of Kendra another anomoly when Buffy died and came back alive. The 1000s of Slayers occurred due to Willows magical interference in the final episode only.
I disagree, the classic series never had that problem despite the Time Lords being around full time.
Last time the Timelords returned was "The End of Time"....... enough said!
Though I'll admit the last 20 minutes of Part 2 (after all the Timelords crap was over) was enjoyable.