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

[Snaploud]

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?"

Wow. That's a terrible idea. It's up there with wiping out the star trek history (to the point of destroying the Vulcan homeworld in the 23rd century) and then having Jim Kirk go straight from cadet to captain in just a few days....

 

[The]

You mean the incredibly successful, popular, and pretty much BEST Star Trek movie ever made? Yeah, I'd sure hate to replicate that........

Oh and btw, when people say it's the "end of the series", that generally means you don't see what happens afterwards. So, erasing the entire history of the show with the final stroke would be, for me, genius given it's a show about time travel.

But, hey, whatever floats your boat.

Speaking of, though, I don't see your own offering in this thread.....

 

[Shazam!]

I'd end it with a regeneration into the 14th Doctor

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

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

Eh?

Oh, you mean Morbius. Right.

 

[The]

^You know how Allyn is about the "pre-Doctors" stuff...

 

[Jax]

Before The End of Time aired and The Master's fate was seemingly decided by RTD, I came up with a base for a story that would revolve around The Doctor/His Daughter Jenny and The Master.

Basically Jenny Time Lord DNA that handles regeneration was activated by that planet terra forming device in the episode that brought her back to life at the end of the Doctor Daughter episode. Her regenerations are totally different due to how she was created so instead of 12 she has only 6 and they are not done in flashes of energy but in a more suttle way something similar to how Jack returns from the dead. Her lifespan is also only that on a standard human too.

Anyway The Master would want to steal her lives (5 left) by the use of some wacky device

The Doctor would stop The Master from gaining more lives but not be able to stop the process from beginning and with Jenny's last action before death she transfers her 5 regenerations into The Doctor against his wishes.

Now I probably wouldn't make that a 13th story but something for Smith maybe.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

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.

Except that Susan was not really one, and Romana is nowhere to be seen, or was someplace else.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Just have him regenerate expecting to die for good this time, the 14th Doctor gets up and says something about not expecting that to happen and goes off on another adventure.

Or just explain the 13 lives limit was more of a guideline than a rule.

 

[G2309]

I always thought the regeneration issue was answered when the Master returned in series 3. The Timelords ressurected him to fight the Time War. The limit on lives was self inflicted by the Time Lord's so that they wouldn't live so long.
But in a war for the survival of their was they would have lifted this limit. So we don't know how many times a Time Lord can regenerate now.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I see I'm still in the vast minority of actually having The Doctor die for good. Have him face his mortality and end it.

 

[Starkers]

When the actor playing the 13th Doctor announced his retirement from the role, if I were the producer I'd have make great pains to say I was auditioning for another Doctor. I'd hire the guy (John X) but say the show was going to take another short rest before we started filming.

I'd have the Doctor killed, probably in finally defeating the Daleks. The Doctor would think this was the end, but the public would know he's going to regenerate into John X.

Except he doesn't. He dies, no regeneration, no nothing, perhaps just a silent end credits ala Adric.

And at the end of the credits? Coming soon, John X is the First Doctor in Dr Who the early years

 

[The Nth Doctor]

You had me until the final sentenance.

 

[Venardhi]

Instead of a Doctor Who the early years, have a spin-off featuring some of the companions and supporting cast of the final seasons, dealing with the loss of the Doctor while they try to carry on his work and culminating in a huge event where they have to find a way to resurrect him to fight the big bad.

 

[Starkers]

You had me until the final sentenance.

ha ha sorry

I wonder if you could hire an actor for a role you had no intention of them fulfilling just to trick the viewing public?

 

[Venardhi]

Be the easiest job they ever did.

 

[Starkers]

True, and guarenteed convention appearances for life!

 

[G2309]

I always thought the regeneration issue was answered when the Master returned in series 3. The Timelords ressurected him to fight the Time War. The limit on lives was self inflicted by the Time Lord's so that they wouldn't live so long.
But in a war for the survival of their was they would have lifted this limit. So we don't know how many times a Time Lord can regenerate now.

Does noone agree with my analysis of thisthen?

 

[Meredith]

I would basically do this:

The doctor in his "13 incarnation" is fighting a desperate battle to defeat the Daleks. He gets Zapped/Irradiated/shot with some sorta Dalek weapon. He still has to defeat the doomsday device the Daleks setup. He struggles to make it in time, slowing down as his ravaged body starts to fail him. He makes it into the control room barely but collapses before making it to the console. He is laying on the ground trying to regain strength saying to himself, "not yet, not yet, I must save their lives...". He collapses in pain and regeneration starts, but sputters out 1/2 through, he still is the same actor, but he looks older and more sickly but now has enough energy to stop the device.

His Companion finally makes it to the control room to find the Doctor collapsed on the ground looking sickly and ancient. They bend over and the Doctor whispers to her, "I wish I could have slipped away peacefully earlier, but I had lives to save, now I fear I will spend the rest of my short life in agony...." he says while grimacing in great pain.

His companion/s and some allies carry him to his Tardis and he painfully set the Tardis to take his companion home at last before he passes. The Tardis dematerialzes for the maybe the last time. As they are traveling throught he vortex the Doctor collapses again and this time regeneration energy starts washing over him, this time it is a pale blue/purple colour and he changes, but not into a new Doctor, but his skin becomes black and thick and almost charcoal like in appearance, his hair becomes super long and the roots turn grey almost like mane that extends down his back, his finger nails grow really long and sickly looking. Through all this smoke emerges from between the cracks in his skin. Basically implying this is what happened to the Master when he ran out of regenerations.

He mutters "Help Me........." in a hoarse voice as the Credits Roll in the Cliffhanger ending.


In the next season/special I would have the Doctor's companion to pilot the Tardis under his direction to a Medical facility on a Planet like the one in New Earth. The Companion says to do whatever they can to "save the doctor", the medical staff do so and before too long they wheel the doctor out of "surgery" and he looks "different" in that his body is sorta platstic looking, they reveal to the companion that they have moved the Doctor's brain into an artifical body. The medical staff finish up working on him by making the skin on his body look more real.

The Doctor himself is none too pleased, he just wanted to go to the Hospital to die in peace, pumped full of painkillers, but his companion filled out the wrong forms, the form they filled out was to give the Hospital permission to use "Any Means Availible to save the patient's life".

For the rest fo the next season the Doctor is having a hard time getting adjusted to his "new life" as he is part machine now, kinda like a cyber man, kinda like a dalek. He has an adventure where the Autons are able to control his body (now made of plastic of course) to funny effect. He finally appreacites his second chance at life. In the end of this season he somehow restores Gallifrey to it's former glory, maybe even better and they grant him a new line of regenerations, they medics on Gallifrey move his brain outside of his artificial body and trigger a regeneration, his "brain" then regenerates into a new naked body(Like in Journey's End) and the adventure continues.

 

[Meredith]

Instead of a Doctor Who the early years, have a spin-off featuring some of the companions and supporting cast of the final seasons, dealing with the loss of the Doctor while they try to carry on his work and culminating in a huge event where they have to find a way to resurrect him to fight the big bad.

I like the Idea of UNIT/Torchwood bringing back the fourth Doctor ala. Jon Culshaw, based off the scans some unit personal accidentally took of him back in the 1970's using some unknown at the time alien scanner technology. When they revive him they make some "tweaks" to his DNA because the device didn't get all of his DNA correctly scanned, but his personality is preserved via the device's neural scanning technology.


The "New" forth Doctor then Regenerates into a new doctor.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I haven't seen it talked about. Leaving aside the issues of extra/ unlimited regenerations, is the Doctor entitled to a Thirteenth Incarnation? I mean, Ten(nant) had two regenerations.

There's the most recent one, where he turned into Smith/11 obviously. But before that, there was the one where he deflected the energy into his hand and it turned into 10B, the clone. He himself didn't regenerate but he did nonetheless use the energy that goes with the regeneration process. Wouldn't that be the same as using up a regeneration? If so, surely there should only be one more Doctor after Matt Smith's incarnation?