The TARDIS lands on top of him, and he's squished and dead and because others can't get in to move it, he regenerates eternally and dies over and over forever for all eternity.
How would you end Doctor Who for good?
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But even then Big Finish or someone else could slot missing adventures in wherever they liked, and RTD, Moffat and Chibnall have all muddied the water somewhat to the extent that you could slip additional Doctors into the supposedly closed loop if you really wanted.
RTD - By creating the bigeneration we don't know for sure what happens when 14 dies, does he just die? Does he regenerate into 15 and immediately move through space and time to the end of the Giggle, or does he regenerate into 14A and give us a branching timeline of Doctors?
Moffat - On the one hand he closed his own loophole by showing the regenerations of McGann to Hurt and Hurt to Eccleston, but by creating the War Doctor he proved it was possible to insert another Doctor into the timeline if you really wanted to.
Chibnall- By creating the Timeless Child he's created the possibility of dozens, maybe even hundreds of pre Hartnell Doctors.
RTD - By creating the bigeneration we don't know for sure what happens when 14 dies, does he just die? Does he regenerate into 15 and immediately move through space and time to the end of the Giggle, or does he regenerate into 14A and give us a branching timeline of Doctors?
Moffat - On the one hand he closed his own loophole by showing the regenerations of McGann to Hurt and Hurt to Eccleston, but by creating the War Doctor he proved it was possible to insert another Doctor into the timeline if you really wanted to.
Chibnall- By creating the Timeless Child he's created the possibility of dozens, maybe even hundreds of pre Hartnell Doctors.
The idea originated before Chibnall got directly involved with the show. I think I first heard it in the late 1980s.
A timey-wimey loop can loop many times.
I'm quoting the episode.
Oh, yeah. Futurama!
As I recall, we didn't quite get to see Eccleston emerge from Hurt.
I figured that we could still get an anniversary episode or mini-series with Richard E. Grant's other Ninth Doctor -- no longer just "animated" -- having an adventure, one that gets him to also eschew his expected doctoral enumeration making way for the Official Ninth.
I'm another who thinks that Doctor Who doesn't need an ending.
But just for the sake of the exercise, if I was forced to end the show, I'd have whoever the current Doctor is start to regenerate, but then fade to black before we see who they regenerate into...
And then we'd hear a voice we never heard before say, "Finally! A Ginger!"
End credits.
But just for the sake of the exercise, if I was forced to end the show, I'd have whoever the current Doctor is start to regenerate, but then fade to black before we see who they regenerate into...
And then we'd hear a voice we never heard before say, "Finally! A Ginger!"
End credits.
Why would you want to? It's one of those shows that could go on for ever. I know it won't, it'll end one day. But there's no reason to have a final end. Compare with Star Trek. That doesn't need a final end either but the individual parts of it do. I hope that the end of Picard S3 is the last we see of that crew as it was a fitting ending. But there is no need for Trek as a whole to have a finite ending. And Doctor Who doesn't need one. Few shows stick the landing, why try to if you don't need one. The Doctor is always out there, in his blue box, saving the day. If I had to end the show, I can't think of a better way than the end of Survival:
"Come on Ace, we've got work to do."
"Come on Ace, we've got work to do."
Torchwood: Exit Wounds...
Seconded. I vaguely recall a YouTube video edited to show her regenerating, but fading to black instead of what we got. Leaving it open-ended for a real surprise for when the show would return. Chibnall could be hit or miss, but when he hit the mark - he'd hit it really well. Also kudos for him to try to approximate the classic run more than his predecessors, which includes Sydney Newman as he (among others) also thought of the character regenerating gender, but I'm straying...
Another great example of open-ended closure would be the precedent of "Survival", which was not the last filmed but had enough room for a cozy monologue (though 13's, even the mild fourth wall break of "Doctor who'ever you are", is better. Actually, it's not much of even a mild wall break as she may have been recalling a moment of an earlier incarnation (Hartnell) stating "Eh? Doctor who?" when Ian calls him Doctor Foreman. If she were gawking at the camera, then it'd be far worse.)
Or "Revelation of the Daleks", which had the intended destination "Blackpool" edited out of the master tape, ensuring it could not be re-inserted decades later, but with the ending being as short and sweet with no emotional saccharine. As a result, Six tells Peri "Fun? Oh, I suppose anywhere will be peaceful after Necros. All right, I'll take you to--".
