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Post by librarylover on May 30, 2009 16:19:15 GMT
I was bored and in a strange mood when this idea came to me. With the next regeneration around the corner it got me thinking of the inevitable day when the Doctor will be gone forever. Please suggest your own ideas.
10. Apparently reversing the polarity of the neutron flow doesn’t always work.
9. When I say run, I mean RUN!
8. Jelly babies may be hazardous to your health.
7. I’m always alright.
6. If this is one of The Master’s ridiculously overcomplicated plots to take over the universe . . . I don’t get it.
5. Rose Tyler, I . . .
4. Nitro 9 destabilizes with age.
3. Never tell your dimensionally-transcendental, sentient spaceship that she’s looking a little bigger on the outside.
2. I knew I should have gotten rid of that tuxedo.
1. I’ll explain later.
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Post by clocketpatch on May 30, 2009 16:41:00 GMT
;D ;D ;D
I think my favourite is #3, just 'cause, LOL, but they're all pretty fantastic and very fitting. Oh Doctor...
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Post by lynda on May 30, 2009 17:09:13 GMT
This is pretty much the most hilarious thing ever.
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Post by librarylover on May 30, 2009 19:11:08 GMT
I think my favourite is #3, just 'cause, LOL, but they're all pretty fantastic and very fitting. Oh Doctor... I really like #3 too, for a variety of reasons. I can't believe that I didn't think of this one before, but it just occurred to me: "Hey! Who turned out the lights?" |
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Post by Stripes on May 30, 2009 23:14:32 GMT
I think my favourite is #3, just 'cause, LOL, but they're all pretty fantastic and very fitting. Oh Doctor... I really like #3 too, for a variety of reasons. I can't believe that I didn't think of this one before, but it just occurred to me: "Hey! Who turned out the lights?" That made me laugh. Also, what would the Tardis do if The Doctor mention that she is looking bigger on the outside? I am guessing she would lock him out, maybe throw some of his stuff out, you know like those dramatic women who throw their boyfriends shirts and poo poo out the window after she caught him cheating. |
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Post by jjpor on May 30, 2009 23:31:30 GMT
Heheh; I like #1; it seems very fitting indeed.
Of course, I'd be willing to bet that when Doc Thirteen's end finally comes around, they'll come up with some timey-wimey, handwavy workaround to allow him to keep on truckin'.
I hope so, anyway!
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Post by Stripes on May 30, 2009 23:36:13 GMT
You know I had a thought, I want the Doctor to die. I want him to live his 13 wonderful lives and then died. Why? Because I don't want this show to be one of those shows that just go on and on and on. Besides, the show will need to end one day, why not have it when he is suppose to die. Leave while it's still on top, unless you know, the show isn't on top by the 13th Doctor.
Didn't they end Star Trek?
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Post by librarylover on May 30, 2009 23:36:29 GMT
Heheh; I like #1; it seems very fitting indeed. Of course, I'd be willing to bet that when Doc Thirteen's end finally comes around, they'll come up with some timey-wimey, handwavy workaround to allow him to keep on truckin'. I hope so, anyway! Thinking that #1 would be a pretty funny epitaph is what started the whole thing. And I agree, I think that they will find a reason for more regenerations. |
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Post by poetry on May 31, 2009 3:49:32 GMT
I particularly like #7. He somehow looked particularly dead when said that line, like the entire universe had passed him by.
Yes, I agree that when the show eventually comes to an end, they need to give the Doctor a proper, dignified send-off. I don't know how they could possibly give him a poignant enough end. The only one I would trust to do it properly is Steven Moffat, and he won't still be running it by the time it does, unfortunately.
It's interesting you should post this now, because I've been writing fic that takes place in an era after the Doctor's final death.
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Post by clocketpatch on May 31, 2009 13:37:49 GMT
Why? Because I don't want this show to be one of those shows that just go on and on and on. Newton, I think you need to take a step back and remember what show you're talking about/ xD DW like, invented going on and on WAY after a show should stop... and see what interesting things we've got out of it? ...like, The Coat... |
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Post by jjpor on May 31, 2009 22:06:05 GMT
Yeah, I mean, if there was a time when Who should have just stopped, enough!, then it was probably about 1980, or maybe even earlier. Then, though, we wouldn't have things like the Coat, as Clocket says, or, more to the point, Seven! Having carried it on past the point of no return as they have, they may as well keep on going as long as they can. I hope that when NuWho eventually ends, as it must, it'll only be another 10-20 year gap before someone gives us NuNuWho. And when they do, there'll be millions of 40-something NuWho fans going "David Tennant was _the_ Doctor; this new fella's just doing a third rate impression of him". ;D
I can dream, can't I?
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Post by IMForeman on Jun 1, 2009 4:29:25 GMT
Ha, these are good.
The idea of the Doctor dying for good makes me sad. I think they should do something suitably epic (where's RTD when you need him?) and maybe leave it open-ended as to bringing him back. I can't imagine them laying the whole franchise to rest, although who knows what it'll be like by that time. But, you know, sad.
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Post by librarylover on Jun 1, 2009 13:23:10 GMT
The idea of the Doctor dying for good makes me sad. Oh dear, I didn't mean to make people sad! Think of him being gone for good as an alternate reality. It will never happen here! With apologies to "Casablanca", we'll always have DVD. (And books/audio/fan fiction too.) We lost some of One and Two for awhile, but the recon experts are giving us many of them back. It will be a continuation of a beautiful friendship. Hmmm, could a Doctor Who/Casablanca crossover work? |
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Post by IMForeman on Jun 1, 2009 14:09:42 GMT
Well, it was more the idea of the show killing him off for good that was sad than your epitaphs, which were very funny. Didn't really make that clear, did I? I might have to try and think of some.
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Post by magnusgreel on Jun 1, 2009 14:46:06 GMT
Is this the last words of Ten or of Thirteen? Any big NewWho fan who wants to end it after 13 might consider that it had gone on for 26 years then continued for 12 or 13 years in novel and CD form after that, so the end-it-before-it-gets-old idea could have been executed well before RTD brought Who back on television. I think we just went through his 13 lives far too fast.
RTD did come up with his own plan to continue after Thirteen, which I'll not divulge here. I don't like it. Another stray thing to throw into the conversation-- Eric Saward, script editor, wanted DW to end during Trial of a Time Lord, with his being executed. This may be why we don't have a lot of 80s nostalgia...!! Not the warmest nor fuzziest of decades...
Last words for 13... give me a minute...
"He'p me mommy!!!"
"Now I'll never know if I was right to blow off saving Adric!! I probably was though.... BOOM." (And he actally says "BOOM".)
"At least I have the consolation of knowing that the entire Universe is about to snuff it along with me! (Someone mutters in his ear.) Except for the Daleks? Well for the love of..." BOOM.
"Know what I'd enjoy right now? Some honey-roasted peanuts. Don't ask me why, but I really--" BOOM.
Back later.
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Post by jjpor on Jun 1, 2009 19:25:57 GMT
"At least I have the consolation of knowing that the entire Universe is about to snuff it along with me! (Someone mutters in his ear.) Except for the Daleks? Well for the love of..." BOOM. That made me laugh, and partially because it's actually true; how many final, apocalyptic endings have they been through now? More than the Master; and quite a few of them just during the span of NuWho. It is indeed Rule Three of Writing NuWho; Thou shalt always bring back the Daleks... I think the thing about ending Doctor Who "For Good" is, what showrunner would dare? What kind of monstrous self of self-importance would somebody have to have to consider that it was okay for them to just bring the curtain down forever on this phenomenon that has been maintained for nearly 50 years by so many different pairs of hands? Not that there aren't people out there who fit that bill, mind you! ;D Still, I think that when NuWho does end (and it will), it'll be just like when Seven and Ace wandered off into the greenery at the end of Survival. I hope so, anyway; it seems fitting. |
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Post by reversethepolarity on Aug 29, 2010 6:01:17 GMT
These are great. I particularly like 10, 6, and 4. 6 was just perfect. = )
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Post by kirkg on Jun 15, 2011 0:36:10 GMT
May we contribute one?
"It's just a fairy tale? Aren't we all?"
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Post by aquabluejay on Jun 15, 2011 4:32:21 GMT
I like 1, 7, and 10. XD
Also, you like that line WAY to much Dad.
Let's see... One of my personal favorites, which I wrote for a project in school where we had to compose our own epitaphs some years ago:
"Everyone dies At Least once."
I think it's fitting here... although I think I'd rather like to have the Doctor use that line while explaining regeneration to a companion.
Amy: You've died before?
Doctor: Well... Everyone dies at least once, Pond.
Rory: OK, that is Not normal.
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Post by clocketpatch on Jun 15, 2011 22:51:44 GMT
I can hear this exchange perfectly, though I see Eleven rounding on Rory and spouting off: "Normal is relative, Mr. Pond. Sometimes you die and stay dead. Sometimes you turn into a plastic Roman soldier. I get a new body, new face, new personality, the whole bundle. And so it turns."
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