How would you end the 13th Doctor's story?

[doctor_76]

For me, it would be see his 13th incarnation be an older man again, perhaps laying in his bed in the TARDIS dying of old age. Content to lay his burdens down and let the universe take care of itself... He closes his eyes for the last time, lets out his last breath, and drifts away... The camera pans slowly away (sad music playing), images of all his lives showing on the screen, then the music swells as the TARDIS console is shown... Slowly fade to black... Then suddenly we hear the Cloister Bell ringing an alarm, the camera snaps back across the console, down the corridor, slams through the door of the Doctor's chamber, zooming in on the bed. A young new bewildered 14th Doctor shoots straight up in the bed, hearing the bell, looking at his hands in disbelief, and one word... "WHAT?!?"

This is my wish for the final scene of the final episode of the 13th Doctor's season, titled "Miles to Go Before I Sleep..."

 

[doctor_76]

The whole season and the final episodes would be geared toward making you think that the show was ending for good... Tying up ALL loose ends and story lines... Right down to the last moments as the Doctor dies, you think this is it... Even with the fading to black of the screen. Then suddenly, you (the viewer) are jerked back into the world of DOCTOR WHO, the same way the Doctor will be jerked back to life.

And I like the idea of neither the viewer or the Doctor knowing WHY he is still around... Has he been granted a new set of regenerations? Is this a one shot deal? How will the knowledge of lack there of when it comes to his new mortality, effect the way he acts? Not only would be be the man who makes TIME better, he could be the man living on borrowed TIME!

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

"Well, the Holy Non-Euclidian Talisman of Wüddragal'aozz certainly did the trick! I was a little bit worried there for a moment. Now, where were we?"

 

[JoeZhang]

A wizard appears and does some hand-waving and then he runs away.

When asked how he is still alive, the Doctor says "A wizard did it".

 

[Bones2]

My story idea for him getting more lives is centered on the 12/13 regeneration, and would get him 6 more lives. So he'd just regenerate.

 

[doctor_76]

I like the idea of no one knowing why he is still alive... Not even the Doctor, himself!

The idea that he actually was at peace and ready to die, but something pulled him back. Like time or the universe or fate just couldn't bear to be without the Doctor!

 

[Brent]

Well, we know reginerations can be taken from other timelords and given to other timelords, so maybe down the road he reconnects with sole long lost timelords, Susan? Romana? And maybe they give him a few lives, I dunno.

 

[John Picard]

He would trip over a brick.

 

[Kibbin]

I thought it might be good for the doctor to pop his cloggs in some big finale, save the universe and die in the process. Then maybe set the tardis adrift sortof like a viking funeral pyre (no need to set it on fire tho ) Then if the ratings are still strong have somebody turn up at the start of the new series in the tardis calling himself the doctor. Who is he? how did he come back? Can we trust him? He'll explain it later!

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Since the timelords could "grant" someone like the Master a whole new set of regenerations, one wonders if they were keeping in place the limitation factor as well.

No timelords (ie: Gallifrey), no limitations.

Didn't the early timelords (Rassilon, Omega, etc.) have unlimited regenerations, until they got too powerful and were overthrown?

 

[Bones2]

^
Yeah, but on the other hand, no Time Lords/Gallifrey could mean no one to hand out regenerations (however that works). So the Doctor may be stuck with his lot.

 

[captcalhoun]

i'd actually kill him off and leave no chance for him to regenerate.

 

[Skellington]

The King Arthur ending, with the inconceivably distant future or the very early universe as the isle of Avalon. Maybe it's the TARDIS that's about to finally die, and just before it drifts off to a TARDIS graveyard at the end of the universe, the Doctor makes the decision to pass through those police box doors one final time and go down with his ship. Maybe both are dying. I kind of like the idea of the Doctor not being able to face the rest of his life without the TARDIS, and vice versa.

Or he's just about to do something really unwise that could remould his entire history. "GERONIMOOOO!".

 

[The Doctor]

By regenerating into 14 with no mention of the supposed 'limit.'

 

[EJA]

Hasn't Steven Moffatt said somewhere that the regeneration limit issue will be addressed in some way in Series 5?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

How would I end the 13th Doctor's story? Well, that's "Caves of Androzani," what with the eight pre-Hartnell Doctors, y'know...

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

We find out an unintentional consequence of the Time War is that the Doctor somehow wound up with the regenerations of every Time Lord that was lost. Probably after some reveal along the lines that doctor_76 (welcome!) mentioned.

 

[Joe Washington]

This is how I would end it: For the first half of the final season, I would have the Doctor doing everything he can to keep himself from thinking about his impending final death. But at some point, he is forced to face it and come to terms with it. He starts bringing closure to unfinished business from his past, saying goodbye to old friends, and ending the threats of old enemies once and for all. Then the thing that triggers his death happens and as the Doctor is dying, he gets into the Tardis and rubs his fingers across the control panels of his machine recalling all the adventures he and his beautiful Tardis has been through over the many years. He puts in the Tardis's final destination which turns out to the orbit of Gallifrey. The Doctor opens the Tardis's doors and watches his home planet whose tragic demise still affects him to this day. He says goodbye to Gallifrey and closes his eyes as his body succumbs to death. Just when the audience's eyes are full of tears about the passing of the beloved Doctor, the camera closes in on the Doctor's hand and a burst of regenerative energy starts circling around it. Then we abruptly cut to black leaving the audience with questions of what just happened.

 

[Silent_Bob]

Assuming that the episode was being made in some dystopian future where Doctor Who was being cancelled again for what appeared to be the last time, i'd have the Doctor bow out in truly heroic fashion saving Earth for the umpteenth time.

Then as he lingered on the edge of oblivion i'd stick in some suitably sad but inspirational music and have a flashback through the highlights of his previous incarnations- Fourth arguing with Davros, Ten running through the fields of New Earth with Rose, Six strangling Peri, Robert Webb as the 12th Doctor facing down his nemesis The Master as played by David Mitchell...and so on.

As the episode draws to a close The Doctor breaths his last, the camera pulls out from the Tardis's control room back towards the doors which begin to swing shut for the final time...when just as they inch close, a faint wisp of gold can be seen drifting from the Doctors mouth.

In other words i'd kill him off, but leave open the possibility of the Doctor regenerating should the BBC change its mind again.

If it occurs without the threat of looming cancellation, i'd go with Doctor_76's idea.

 

[The]

I'd have it where, to save existence and actually wipe out the Daleks for the final time, The Doctor chooses to overwrite his own timeline. Final smile from the Last Doctor, he flips the switch, and everything goes white.

Slowly, it fades into a view of the stars, pans down to Earth, zooms down into a nighttime scrapyard, past a small sign that reads "76 Totters Lane", to finally come to a stop as we see/hear the TARDIS landing. After a moment, the doors open and a CGI William Hartnell and Susan come out...

"Where are we, grandfather?"

"Oh my child, this planet is called 'Earth'."

"Is it dangerous?"

"Hmmm? Dangerous? I don't know, my dear.....I've never been here before. Let's find out, shall we?"