I had an idea for finding Susan

[Gingerbread Demon]

I had an idea for finding Susan in a future series of Doctor Who as a season long arc.

They hunt to find Susan and find a crashed TARDIS and a seemingly lifeless body nearby and they bring her onboard, does Sexy have a medical suite? They bring her onboard and revive her to find out that it's Susan who's ship crashed in the time war and they had to go almost to the edge of the known universe to find her because Sexy found anomalous readings from the fringes of deep space.

The Susan story isn't the whole series, they have other adventures just that's the arc running through the series.

 

[marillion]

I'd like to see a return for Susan as well. Not sure where she'd get her own TARDIS though. Is there reason to believe she got caught up in the Time War? I realize the Doctor thought he was the last Timelord following the original conclusion of the war, but does that mean he knew Susan was caught up in it?

 

[Awesome Possum]

I got impression the Doctor had good reason to think the rest of the family had died. Since the Time Lords are back, you’d think that any family connection would come up as a possible person to meet. But they haven’t.

I do like the idea of Susan returning. Maybe she disappeared before the war and had no clue it happened. She could meet the Doctor and not even be aware things had changed, other than a few of regenerations. It would be interesting to see Susan meet the current Tardis crew. Especially since we already have a grandfather and grandson and contrast their relationship with the Doctor and Susan. She may not stick around, maybe she got inspired and wants to go into the family business of helping people though time and space. So she sends her off with her blessing and hopes that they get to meet up again one day.

It would need to be called Family Reunion.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

If Moffat wouldn't bring her back (and he almost did with Capaldi), Chibnall won't. And maybe that's for the best. I wish they did bring her back for End of Time, for obvious reasons.

 

[Mr Soak]

All in all, I think bringing Susan back for a bit of resolution would be welcome. She hasn't been on screen since 1983 (and who knows where in her timeline that was), and for Big Finish listeners, she had a few adventures with the Eighth Doctor. So whether the Doctor apologises for abandoning her or for what happened in the audios, phrasing it ambiguously could cover both events.

Personally, if i was in charge and was bringing Susan back, I'd make it a cameo at the end of a series. The Doctor is visiting a hospital because reasons, and s/he comes across an old woman who looks familiar. The Woman doesn't recognise the Doctor, but when the Doctor spots a fob watch, things fall in place. The Doctor encourages the woman to open it, and leaves. The woman opens the watch, and her memories return. As the camera pulls back, and the woman becomes obscured behind a curtain, she starts glowing. Cut to credits. The woman of course, is Susan, who was chameleon arched to hide from the war.

The chameleon arch/fob watch setup would have to be reestablished earlier in the season, otherwise casual viewers will be lost.

Ultimately, I don't have any particular storyline in mind, I'd just like Susan return.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Day of the Daleks.

The Daleks "used Time Travel" to reverse their loss to the Doctor, Susan, Barbara and Ian, which means that they most probably went back and killed the Doctor before he could end the Dalek Occupation of Earth in 2115.

Was this the first strike in the time war?

(Predating Genesis of the Daleks)

A time remnant of Susan could have been created there, where the Daleks won, who then still survived the collapse of that paradox when the Daleks cocked up Day of the Daleks.

 

[Nightowl1701]

As of her most recent chronological appearance in Big Finish, the Short Trips story All Hands on Deck: Susan is recalled to Gallifrey at the outbreak of the Time War. The Eighth Doctor tries to manipulate events to force her to stay on Earth, she catches him at it, and there's a huge falling-out. Their relationship already frayed by the death of her son Alex (at the hands of the Daleks), Susan and the Doctor are no longer on speaking terms as she joins the war effort.

From there, it's not hard at all to imagine her dying in the War still estranged from her 'Grandfather.' And not by the Daleks either. If I really wanted to twist the knife, I'd have either Romana or Rassilon manipulate the Doctor into (inadvertently) killing Susan himself.

Or Option B, which I'm still all these years later convinced is the right one: "The Woman" in The End of Time, the 'lost and disgraced' whose name Rassilon had erased from time itself, was in fact Susan. (RTD had originally meant for her to be the Doctor's mother, but both he and Moffat deliberately left the door open for other possibilities.)

Next month's Tick-Tock World, where Carole as 'The Woman' meets David Bradley's TARDIS crew, will hopefully be illuminating...

 

[The Nth Doctor]

It's probably nothing (especially since it seems to coincide with a recent book), but the official Doctor Who YouTube channel posted this video today:

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[urbandefault]

I had an idea for finding Susan in a future series of Doctor Who as a season long arc.

Supposedly, this works:

 

[BritishSeaPower]

My new pet fan theory for Susan, based on some of the Missy/12 hints in Hell Bent/Heaven Sent, is that the Doctor isn’t the reincarnation of The Other - Susan is. And so the Doctor “stole the President’s daughter” perhaps to free her from the legacy of the Other and it explains some of the little tidbits of Susan - naming the TARDIS for one. It’s sort of a half-baked cake, but I’ve been thinking about it lately.

 

[thribs]

I doubt she would want to see him after what happened to her son.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Susan was on Star Ship UK, and lets face it, she was probably the chief engineer who put the whole thing together.

Which sounds like Susan turned in to a real nogoodnik.

Unless Starship UK's engine was always meant as bait to draw in her grandfather?

Which is still bad.

She doesn't have a key.

If Susan had a key, I would assume that she has been in her room in the TARDIS since The Beast Below.

Although.

She'd had 300 years to find enough left over Dalek tech to jimmy the lock.

So...

Susan is in her room her room listening to the White Album,

Moody fricking pouting angsty teenagers.

(She got older quickly before The Five Doctors, so her husband didn't look like a perve, and then much, much later started ageing backwards (like River did) so that the beast below did not eat her.

 

[thribs]

Starship what now?