How would you end Doctor Who for good?

[Gingerbread Demon]

You know what?

The Giggle would have been a near perfect ending for the show.

If it were me I'd do something super cheesy that might upset people. They wrap their latest adventure and the Doctor and companion walk into the TARDIS which fades as they leave.

Moments later it reappears in a new location they exit and have small chatter, then the camera pulls back more and more revealing the cameras and lights.


Then fade to credits acknowledging thanks to the Doctor for letting us film all their adventures.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I think that 13's ending would have been perfect sans Tennant.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I think that 14's ending would have been perfect sans Tennant.

you mean The Giggle?

 

[Turtletrekker]

you mean The Giggle?

Sorry. 13. Power of the Doctor. Edited.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Sorry. 13. Power of the Doctor. Edited.

OK never seen that one

 

[BillJ]

I wouldn’t. The beauty of the premise is that it doesn’t need an ending.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Ah. Well, think of it as completing your David Tennant Doctor Who experience by watching the regeneration clip. What I'm talking about is the beautiful pullback with the Doctor regenerating outside the TARDIS. They were unsure if the show was coming back at all when they filmed this, so this very well could have been the end of Doctor Who, at least temporarily. If they had ended with that pullback, with the Doctor regenerating with the promise of new adventures that we will see someday, I think that would have been a great way to end it. The best part would have been that without showing the Doctor's new face, they could pick up the show in another 20 years but still pick up right where they left off.

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ETA: Yes. The clothes. Don't blame Chibnall for that one. That was RTD

 

[Starkers]

Firstly let's be honest, the show will never end, it might go off the air for a while but it'll come back.

But ... If it was to end the obvious choice is that the 27th Doctor is dying, on the verge of regenerating and stumbles through a portal which completely erases their memory and they regenerate as a child who falls out of the other end of the portal on ancient Gallifrey to become the Timeless Child.

 

[cultcross]

I wouldn’t. The beauty of the premise is that it doesn’t need an ending.

Agreed - i think ending it - in the sense of ending the adventure for good - would be a mistake. It's a neverending story. Its ending shot needs to be the same as Stargate's - heading off on another adventure.

 

[Mage]

Agreed - i think ending it - in the sense of ending the adventure for good - would be a mistake. It's a neverending story. Its ending shot needs to be the same as Stargate's - heading off on another adventure.

Agreed. I stopped watching Dcotor Who during Whitaker's second season. Loved her Doctor, but even during Smith's run, the writing got sloppy, not to mention Capaldi's.
For me, even though I sometimes hear glimpses of what is happening, the Doctor's adventures are always going on. Like some of the people that he/she/they (that will upset some people) helped in certain episodes, the Doctor was there for a moment but will ALWAYS be there, in some time. In some form or another. And will always help those who need it.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I have to admit, for all the flaws of Chris Chibnall's run, he actually did give it a fantastic ending that would've worked as a finale for the whole show. No fourth wall breaking, nothing to do with the Timeless Child, the classic companions get one last appearance, and the Doctor gets to regenerate with a smile on her face. The show could've been cancelled right there, but the Doctor's adventures continue.

 

[Chakoteya]

By reconning Time of the Doctor so he didn't get an unprecedented 13th regeneration and just went off into the Matrix.

 

[The Wormhole]

By reconning Time of the Doctor so he didn't get an unprecedented 13th regeneration and just went off into the Matrix.

Hardly unprecedented. The Master was offered a new cycle of regenerations in the Classic Era and clearly got them when he was resurrected to fight in the Time War, as we clearly see him definitively regenerate in Utopia. All of this predates Time of the Doctor.

 

[Yistaan]

The Division shows up out of nowhere, ties the Doctor down and he screams while they wipe out all his memories, then the last scene is a CGI Peter Cushing (from Disney's Star Wars vaults, that's why Disney got involved with Dr. Who all along) stumbling out with no memories and a rebooted identity, ready to go through the events of the two Cushing Dr. Who movies.

 

[JD]

I would do a final season where we got one last appearance from the Big Bads, like the Daleks Cybermen, Sontarrans, The Master, ect., bring back fan favorite companions from both the old and new show, and then end it with the Doctor going into the TARDIS to continue having new adventures. I really think it's a show that shouldn't give a definitive end to the Doctor. If someone decided that they absolutely had to give the Doctor a definitive end, I would end it with him or her regenerating into a CGI deaged Tom Baker and landing the TARDIS near The National Gallery in London, as a set up for his appearance as The Currator in Day of The Doctor. I was under the impression that The Currator was supposed to be an old Doctor who had retired from adventuring, so I would just stick with that as his/her ending.

 

[Saul]

I'd probably return to Trenzalore and finish his/her/their story on that planet. I know that Doctor Who will probably never end but I kinda like the idea of having a definitive ending for something. As a viewer I'd like to see the complete story in my own lifetime. They could end the story with the Doctor not regenerating and if they wanted to years later find a way to bring them back. The timelords reviving the Doctor for some emergency.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

If I really HAD to end it, like really enforce an ending, I'd do it in a way that you'd have to rewatch the entire thing all over again. The last Doctor, knowing he's on his last legs, takes his TARDIS back to before he first left as the original Doctor, and he'd live out his days before advising the First Doctor that he should really get out there, leave and explore the stars. Then you see Hartnell's Doctor beginning his DW journey, and its a circle. The story's over, but let's do this again, why not.

Its not a great ending, but I can't think anything better than the Doctor, always on the run, always out there, endlessly travelling around the cosmos.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Somewhat similar thought, but I'd make the Doctor a closed timelike curve - he'd be revealed as an error-correction mechanism created to protect conscious entities in the Universe, who was deliberately fostered with the Time Lords, possibly by himself. He would be the ultimate grandfather paradox with no beginning and no end, yet be finite. It would seem appropriate that what goes around comes around. The series itself has to end some time.

 

[Starkers]

Somewhat similar thought, but I'd make the Doctor a closed timelike curve - he'd be revealed as an error-correction mechanism created to protect conscious entities in the Universe, who was deliberately fostered with the Time Lords, possibly by himself. He would be the ultimate grandfather paradox with no beginning and no end, yet be finite. It would seem appropriate that what goes around comes around. The series itself has to end some time.

As I said upthread, for better or worse Chibnall has set up as a possible closed loop end/beginning point with the Timeless Child.

The BBC will never can the show though, even if they ended it and never bought it back, sooner or later someone would.

And even if you did have a definitive end, well Sherlock Holmes fell to his death and still came back, Bond, Batman etc always return so even if Ncuti regenerated into a child and stumbled through that time portal it wouldn't stop anyone with the rights from creating new Doctor Who starring Olivier Colman as the 'first' Doctor and starting the whole shebang off again.

 

[Saul]

A closed loop sounds even more of a definitive ending because it gives us the complete story of a beginning middle and end to the Doctor.