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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2016 9:01:18 GMT
Hey everyone,
What if....Doctor Who actually ended? A definite ending for our Time Lord. "All those me that could have been, eh?" The Doctor says to his companion. How would you feel as a fan? The only hope for revival would be a reboot? The tale ended and concluded. The blue box a prop in a set on a television show. The last sting of the theme being oh so final.
For me, it depends. As much as I take issue with elements of it (the depiction of the Time War and how it relates to The End of Time, The War Doctor), I can't lie and say that The Day of The Doctor wonderfully encaspulates fifty years of Doctor Who - and if we recieved a tale which closed the lives of our favourite Time Lord, I'd accept it. Saddened and heartbroken, but satisified.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Feb 17, 2016 14:11:11 GMT
I would have been happy with it if it had ended after the Doctor was at the end of his original regeneration cycle but now I can't see a natural end for the show. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on the quality of the writers to find new and original ideas.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2016 17:20:28 GMT
Thing is, even if it ended, we'd just keep adding more bits in the middle. Time is relative.
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Post by jasonward on Feb 17, 2016 17:34:30 GMT
Thing is, even if it ended, we'd just keep adding more bits in the middle. Time is relative. And it would only be that time lline, no reason a Doctor from another time line couldn't or wouldn't show up. |
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Post by aztec on Feb 17, 2016 17:46:29 GMT
I had always liked the idea that if the show were to end, it would be on a infinite loop (i.e the very last Doctor just before dying travels back in time and merges with the tardis just before the first Doctor steals it or something), but as Dalekbuster said, now he's got a second regeneration cycle there isn't really anything to stop the show from being renewed as long as someone is interested in funding it, nor does there seem to be a natural ending in sight.
Really though, as it's a show about time travel you could just keep adding new stories for earlier doctors, or invent alternate incarnations or timelines, even if we were to have another 'wilderness' years era with no new show in sight, fans or professionals are sure to create new stories of their own.
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Post by christmastrenzalore on Feb 17, 2016 18:15:59 GMT
The Doctor gets back to Gallifrey, and is shown a time lapse of a potential future, where he could settle down, have a family, and die peacefully of old age. The camera pans across to his face, and after a period of deep thought, he cracks a cheeky smile. Cut to black. The sound of the TARDIS de-materializing is heard.
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Post by jasonward on Feb 17, 2016 18:22:18 GMT
The Doctor on Gallifrey, being trapped and hunted by The Timelords senses his own demise throws himself into the looms...
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Post by relativetime on Feb 17, 2016 20:48:12 GMT
I think what's so beautiful about Doctor Who is that it theoretically could go on forever. History is always happening and what may be too soon for writers to tackle today will be fair game in the future. Speaking of the future, as long as there IS a future to imagine, I don't see why we can't take Doctor Who there. New ideals or lessons will always happen for the creative mind to make stories about.
So, with that being said, I think the only appropriate way to end the show would be to end it on an ambitious note. Perhaps how Survival handled the end of the series in 1989 - the Doctor and his companion setting off for more unseen adventures. That's the moral of the show, to me - time always moves on, nothing is ever final.
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Post by Shiny on Feb 17, 2016 21:01:39 GMT
I don't think that's possible at this stage. They could end an episode in a way that seems final and irreversible, but someone can still bring the show back a decade later and somehow find a way to return things to the status quo. Writers have destroyed the TARDIS and killed off the Doctor loads of times. I doubt any showrunner would ever end the show like that, but even if someone did then someone else could always find a way to rewrite it later on.
When the current run of Doctor Who ends, which it will eventually, there will always be hope.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2016 21:16:18 GMT
If I could be in charge of the last Doctor Who episode, I would end it with something vague but also very magical.
Something that wouldn't permanently end the Doctor's life, but something that would feel very final that makes you think "Ah, why bother making any more past this point? That was as good enough of an ending as it needed to be."
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Feb 18, 2016 14:24:58 GMT
I'd have the final episode be Him being back on Gallifrey for the whole episode, being on the council. Then the ending would be him getting bored sneaking into a museum where the old Type 40 Tardis is, still stuck as a police box mind. He goes up to it, puts his hand on the door, it opens, he gives a sly smile and then walks in. The final shot would be the Tardis dematerialising. Bring the series full circle as it were
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Post by CookieMaster on Feb 18, 2016 16:27:29 GMT
I had always liked the idea that if the show were to end, it would be on a infinite loop (i.e the very last Doctor just before dying travels back in time and merges with the tardis just before the first Doctor steals it or something), but as Dalekbuster said, now he's got a second regeneration cycle there isn't really anything to stop the show from being renewed as long as someone is interested in funding it, nor does there seem to be a natural ending in sight. Really though, as it's a show about time travel you could just keep adding new stories for earlier doctors, or invent alternate incarnations or timelines, even if we were to have another 'wilderness' years era with no new show in sight, fans or professionals are sure to create new stories of their own. How about say, Capaldi, regenerating into an infant William Hartnell and taken back to classic Gallifrey by his last companion, who is human and claims to be his mother (Half-human on his mother's side eh?). He'd have 10 regenerations left for Doctor's 2-11 (The Hurt regeneration being retconned as being created by sisterhood magic and meta-crisis being only a small amount of energy), so by the 11th Doctor he is once again gifted with a new cycle and the loop can initiate again. The Morbius Doctors could also be retconned as distorted pictures of Davison to Smith from the last loop, with Capaldi's Doctor also being 'The Other'. Bit much? Probably.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2016 2:18:58 GMT
I rather like Craig Hinton's take on the final incarnation of the Doctor eventually transforming into the Guardian of Justice, while his final companion assumes the mantle of the Time Lords in order to continue his legacy.
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Post by icecreamdf on Feb 20, 2016 21:51:39 GMT
I don't see why Doctor Who should ever end. I hope that it goes on forever. I'm sure that there will be times over the years when the writing sucks, but then there will be times again when the writing is amazing. Even if it gets cancelled again, they should leave things open for another relaunch after a couple of decades.
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Post by elgranto on Feb 21, 2016 2:18:38 GMT
I rather like Craig Hinton's take on the final incarnation of the Doctor eventually transforming into the Guardian of Justice, while his final companion assumes the mantle of the Time Lords in order to continue his legacy. I rather like that idea; have the program continue but with a new lead character who takes over after the Doctor's retirement or death. The Doctor may meet his end one day but Doctor Who will go on forever. |
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Feb 23, 2016 0:38:28 GMT
Ive always imagined the finale as being that one last "can't escape" moment, a big bang and then the credits run in silence - with a long "The Doctor, played by William Hartnell....." sequence.
Then a post-credit scene of the TARDIS materializing somewhere, cue end credits with music.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 3:26:30 GMT
One of the successful parts of Death Comes To Time was the "death" of The Doctor and the aftermath. Much like Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman it essentially draws Christ parallels and hints that the Universe won't let The Doctor die.
In Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe, he kills Wolverine only to find him alive and well a few issues later. The explanation? Wolverine is popular so he can't die. That's the in-story reason! Very meta, very cool. Essentially that's where we are with Who. It will never, ever end. When it goes off air again no-one will write the final end. It will be open-ended. There's no doubt.
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