An idea for the final episode of Doctor Who

[Newspaper Taxi]

For whatever reason, the 13th Doctor 'dies' and is engulfed in regeneration flames. Then everything fades to white; Then the second part the screen slowly fades out of white and a young boy is lying in a field of alein grass. The boy gets up and realizes he's on planet Gallifrey -- and that he's gone back in time to before the Time War.

The Doctor quickly realizes that he's the Doctor, and that he's gone back in time to his own childhood. He decides that this time he's going to do it all different -- no running around and mucking about with time; he'll just stay in the Time Lord Academy and maybe this time there will be no Time War. (Among other benefits.)

There's a montage of him going through Time Lord Life. It starts with him looking into the flames as that one ritual goes, but The montage continues with him studying, and becoming a man, and growing older -- but as the montage goes on you can see that the Doctor is slowly getting less and less happy and grumpier. Finally he throws everything off his Timelord desk in his Timelord office and shouts, "That's enough!"

He grabs his grand-daughter Susan and starts to run to a certain facility. Susan wonders why her dad isn't coming with them and the Doctor says it's because he's a boring stiff. They sneak past other Time Lords, and into the TARDIS garden, and find an older TARDIS slated to be returned to TARDIS-fertilizer, and they steal it...

And then end up materlizing in a junkyard in the 60's on planet Earth...

 

[Candlelight]

The 13th Doctor collapses and regenerates, then sits up.

"Oh that's right... it's FOURTEEN..."

*cue fans everywhere jumping on the internet for discussion*

 

[Candlelight]

Or he regenerates into a dog and runs off into the sunset.

 

[Professor Zoom]

The 13th Doctor collapses and regenerates, then sits up.

"Oh that's right... it's FOURTEEN..."

*cue fans everywhere jumping on the internet for discussion*

507, or whatever the Doctor said on the Sarah Jane Adventures. That would piss off SO many fans. I would love it.

 

[Newspaper Taxi]

Or he regenerates into a dog and runs off into the sunset.

Funny you should say that...

I made a post waaay back in the day suggesting it would be funny if it turned out Matt Smith was merely hired to *Voice* the doctor and not play him...And instead the Doctor would be played by a Dog.

 

[Cutter John]

Hey they did that whole wierd thing about Timelords turning into animals on their last life in the tv movie (never understood a word of it) so yeah, the dog thing would work.

Tho personally, if it were really going to be the last ever story, I'd just like to find out how it all began.

 

[Candlelight]

Hey they did that whole wierd thing about Timelords turning into animals on their last life in the tv movie (never understood a word of it) so yeah, the dog thing would work.

Tho personally, if it were really going to be the last ever story, I'd just like to find out how it all began.

13 convinces 1 to leave Gallifrey.

"If you wanna find out how I end up back here old man.... here's the keys, why don't you take her for a spin?"

 

[Lonemagpie]

13 dies, regenerates as normal. 14 looks at sarah, or some other old character who's returned who knows of the 13-lives limit, and says "What?"

 

[Rarewolf]

*cue fans everywhere jumping on the internet for discussion*

Surely there should be fan protests demanding it end with Doc 13

Even as far back as 1983 the Master was offered a complete new life cycle. Whilst there is no longer a Timelord Council to make such offers, it can be worked around.

 

[Sindatur]

*cue fans everywhere jumping on the internet for discussion*

Surely there should be fan protests demanding it end with Doc 13

Even as far back as 1983 the Master was offered a complete new life cycle. Whilst there is no longer a Timelord Council to make such offers, it can be worked around.

Not only that, but, the Master is still living "Regeneration to Regeneration", always with some some twist how he was able to live one more life. So, despite the Sarah Jane "507 Regenerations" comment, we still have the Master as proof of someone who used up all his Regenerations

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ Except that the Master didn't regenerate in "The End of Time" he was brought back through a complicated resurrection process that involved his signet ring. He was brought back to life in the Time War as as a solider. If he does return again I'm sure there will indeed be another contrived explanation for it.

 

[Sindatur]

^ Except that the Master didn't regenerate in "The End of Time" he was brought back through a complicated resurrection process that involved his signet ring. He was brought back to life in the Time War as as a solider. If he does return again I'm sure there will indeed be another contrived explanation for it.

Sorry, yea that was my point. The Master and the Doctor were school pals (according to NuWho), the Doctor's only used 10 Regenerations (And had only used 3 by the time the Master was shown using alternative methods of coming back to life). Just saying the Master still seems to support Classic Who limited number of Regenerations, despite the "507 Regenerations" line in Sarah Jane

 

[Haggis and tatties]

The universe needs the Dr, its wont just let him go when his time is up.

And we dont want to go though This again.

 

[BlastHardcheese]

13 dies, regenerates as normal. 14 looks at sarah, or some other old character who's returned who knows of the 13-lives limit, and says "What?"

Sarah's gone.

 

[Lonemagpie]

13 dies, regenerates as normal. 14 looks at sarah, or some other old character who's returned who knows of the 13-lives limit, and says "What?"

Sarah's gone.

Not when I wrote that post, she wasn't...

 

[Chaos Descending]

Hey they did that whole wierd thing about Timelords turning into animals on their last life in the tv movie (never understood a word of it) so yeah, the dog thing would work.

Actually if you follow the whole theme of the TVM, any time the Doctor regenerates it's considered a "death".

I was dead too long this time. The anesthetic nearly destroyed the regenerative process.

Therefore he meant he could only become an "animal" (actually it's "another species" if I recall Grace's question correctly) upon any regeneration, not necessarily only his "final" death.

 

[Shatnertage]

How about this: at the end of 11's tenure he gets a whole new set of regenerations after a complicated pseudo-magical ritual revolving around his fez.

 

[Starkers]

Ultimate regenerations are cool...

 

[SonicRanger]

I was dead too long this time. The anesthetic nearly destroyed the regenerative process.

Therefore he meant he could only become an "animal" (actually it's "another species" if I recall Grace's question correctly) upon any regeneration, not necessarily only his "final" death.

I've tried to figure out if that's what he meant by being "half-human" -- it was a somewhat botched regeneration because of the anesthetic, and because he was dead too long, he regenerated as half-human.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Even as far back as 1983 the Master was offered a complete new life cycle. Whilst there is no longer a Timelord Council to make such offers, it can be worked around.

Why assume the council's offer was genuine? They could have been lying to the Master. After all, from their POV, why would somebody as evil as he, be trusted with a whole new set of lives? He always lies, so they justify lying to him in turn.