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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2016 12:16:29 GMT
Hey everyone,
Let's say that you have to make the last series of Doctor Who - it's an inevitability that you are experiencing. What would your final season involve?
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Post by muckypup on Feb 18, 2016 12:31:15 GMT
no point, it's never ending
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Feb 18, 2016 14:03:58 GMT
As I said in the other thread, the series has already gone past its natural ending of the Doctor dying after using up his first regeneration cycle anyway but if I absolutely had to write a final Doctor Who series, I would do it as an event series with episodes airing Monday-Friday every day of the week Torchwood-style and it would centre around the Cybermen invasion I mentioned in the final cyberman episode thread. Each day before Friday would lead up to the Cybermen's successful conquering of the entire universe with every species everywhere converted. The Doctor would lose and maybe even be converted himself.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Feb 18, 2016 19:07:25 GMT
As I said in the other thread, the series has already gone past its natural ending of the Doctor dying after using up his first regeneration cycle anyway but if I absolutely had to write a final Doctor Who series, I would do it as an event series with episodes airing Monday-Friday every day of the week Torchwood-style and it would centre around the Cybermen invasion I mentioned in the final cyberman episode thread. Each day before Friday would lead up to the Cybermen's successful conquering of the entire universe with every species everywhere converted. The Doctor would lose and maybe even be converted himself. Good god that's a grim ending. I know.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2016 2:03:25 GMT
Good god that's a grim ending. I know. I think that's awfully thrilling. It's The Children of Earth for the Doctor. |
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Post by relativetime on Feb 20, 2016 5:54:36 GMT
A final series... Hmm... Well, there's the obvious route of bringing back familiar faces - any previous companions, maybe a few past incarnations of the Doctor, and roll out the Daleks, Cybermen, and whatnot. Just a huge hodgepodge of the show's history. I imagine that's what a lot of people would expect to see.
However, I'd honestly approach the series like I would any other series. I might have a few returning faces, but I'd keep them restrained to a single episode and I would be very selective in who does return. For instance, maybe I'd bring back a companion from last series or the series before that to help the Doctor and his new companion defeat a threat to Earth, then leave at the episode's conclusion.
I think I'd have the Master/Mistress or the Daleks/Davros as the finale's villain and the finale would definitely conclude the series' character arcs and mysteries. But that final scene should, to me, just be the Doctor and his companion heading off into space for more adventures - sort of like how Survival ended. It just seems like a more fitting "conclusion" for a series with a character that can go anywhere in time and space and who never truly dies.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Feb 20, 2016 10:33:56 GMT
I know. I think that's awfully thrilling. It's The Children of Earth for the Doctor. Thanks.  |
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Post by constonks on Mar 13, 2016 10:30:45 GMT
The only way I can see an ending being final is if he regenerated into the Curator.
I think I'd kill off the Daleks for good - the Time Lords could finally succeed at erasing the Daleks from history by sending the Doctor to make peace between the Thals and Kaleds. I think the Doctor could settle down after that. Maybe even on Skaro.
I'd end on a Doctor returning to the TARDIS alone and regenerating, but wouldn't show the next one on-screen, to allow the New Wilderness Years writers to come up with all sorts of new Doctors in any order they want without having to all focus on the current Doctor as in '89 and '96.
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