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Old 27-10-2016, 21:29
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Lets say you were head writer for Series 10 what would your story arc be and what would each episode consist of?
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Old 27-10-2016, 21:37
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Bring back proper slightly easier to follow story lines that progress each episode.
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Old 27-10-2016, 21:39
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Series 10 of........?!!?!?!
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Old 27-10-2016, 22:07
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If I was in charge, gawd help you all, I don't think I'd do an arc! Maybe a few linked stories during the series a la Seasons 18, and 20, but I'd have a go at a series that doesn't necessarily build up to a big conclusion that attempts to 'tie up' all the 'clues'. I'd have the last 2 episodes as a 2-parter with a really eye-catching cliffhanger to the first part, but give the 'series arc' stuff a break, tbh.

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Old 27-10-2016, 22:11
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Let's see a nice bit of manipulation and subtle hints over the course of the series resulting in an explosive 2 part finale
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Old 27-10-2016, 22:45
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My story arc? .... the butterfly effect.

Whilst the doctor enjoys his freedom in time and space, at the far flung regions of the universe lies an adversary who is frozen in time and cannot move. If he is freed the doctor becomes frozen...

Episodes explore the concept of the butterfly effect. Series ends on a three parter where the doctors ancient nemesis ... omega is freed.. the doctor is trapped. Its left up to Bill to trick omega into the path of the weeping angels and thus resetting equilibrium
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Old 28-10-2016, 00:43
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Episodes explore the concept of the butterfly effect. Series ends on a three parter where the doctors ancient nemesis ... omega is freed.. the doctor is trapped. Its left up to Bill to trick omega into the path of the weeping angels and thus resetting equilibrium
I've loved the idea of a story that combines Omega and the Weeping Angels, giving the latter the finale they've deserved for a long time...and frankly a story a little more about them. I used to love the idea of the butterfly aspect being explored by visiting lots of different points in history where the Doctor's allies all assemble to take down a great threat from across the ages. You could hypothetically have the Paternoster's in the Victorian era, you could have Jack at any point in Earth's future, River in the 51st Century, Jenny (daughter) cropping up to finally give some pay off for making us watch her come back to life back in Series 4, Missy could be involved, they could even give a small crossover to the Class lot too. It'd be very 'Children of Time' but with more of a plot driven purpose for so many people involved and rather than trying to get them all into one scene together the story is just about how they could communicate across time...with only limited time travel among them. Usually I wouldn't be so fond of looking backwards rather than forwards so much, and there's next to certainty that something like this would never happen, but I like the concept.

Alternately I love the idea that the Shadow Proclamation could form the basis of a story arc, and a potential new threat for the Doctor if handled in a particular way. They presumably exist across a wide scope of time, I think it'd be quite refreshing to see the Doctor get an organisation that exists across all of time posing some kind of threat to him... essentially what Torchwood could have been had it not eventually been very C21-centric. It's not just one entity out to get him, not one plan hatched... wherever the Doctor lands, the Shadow Proclamation could be following.
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Old 28-10-2016, 01:20
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I've loved the idea of a story that combines Omega and the Weeping Angels, giving the latter the finale they've deserved for a long time...and frankly a story a little more about them. I used to love the idea of the butterfly aspect being explored by visiting lots of different points in history where the Doctor's allies all assemble to take down a great threat from across the ages. You could hypothetically have the Paternoster's in the Victorian era, you could have Jack at any point in Earth's future, River in the 51st Century, Jenny (daughter) cropping up to finally give some pay off for making us watch her come back to life back in Series 4, Missy could be involved, they could even give a small crossover to the Class lot too. It'd be very 'Children of Time' but with more of a plot driven purpose for so many people involved and rather than trying to get them all into one scene together the story is just about how they could communicate across time...with only limited time travel among them. Usually I wouldn't be so fond of looking backwards rather than forwards so much, and there's next to certainty that something like this would never happen, but I like the concept.

Alternately I love the idea that the Shadow Proclamation could form the basis of a story arc, and a potential new threat for the Doctor if handled in a particular way. They presumably exist across a wide scope of time, I think it'd be quite refreshing to see the Doctor get an organisation that exists across all of time posing some kind of threat to him... essentially what Torchwood could have been had it not eventually been very C21-centric. It's not just one entity out to get him, not one plan hatched... wherever the Doctor lands, the Shadow Proclamation could be following.
I'd love a shadow proclamation arc too. What i'd do is have a Master/Missy plot to take control of the unvierse essentially. The first episode of the series The Doctor and her run into eachother on this very important and high ranked planet where by the end Missy frames The Doctor for killing a very important figure to try and destroy his reputation.

This basically leads to a story arc avoiding the shadow proclamation, restoring his reputation, figuring out what Missy has planned and it all comes to a front in the season finale. Where The Doctor gets captured and Missy launches her universal domination plan. But how can The Doctor save the universe from Missy when he is going to be executed by the shadow proclamation.?
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Old 28-10-2016, 07:05
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Mine would involve a 'Watcher' type character
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Old 28-10-2016, 07:56
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Sometimes, as I'm sure most of us probably do, I like to imagine how I'd write the show. Some of my ideas:

First Series

This would be a fairly light arc, similar to series 1. They'd be hints to a place in the universe, holding a relic of divine power from the dawn of time and that the cybermen are chasing it.

11 ) War of the Cybermen - The Mondasian cybermen close in on the legendary relic, only to be met with hostility from their parallel universe cousins, who seek the same thing. And caught in their fight is the Doctor and his companion. Together they discover the ancient past that threatens every lifeform in the universe. The God Machine, a morphic field for morphic fields that binds all life in the universe and denotes it's physiology like an archive if blueprints.

The episode ends as a cyberman enters the machine which rewrites the basis of life in the universe, destroying the machine in an epic explosion.

12) - The Dying of the Light - The universe is changed. Now written as steel, order and logic than flesh and chaos. Life is but a memory of a forgotten time as cold metal lies where anything organic used to be. The only flesh left in this universe is the Doctor's and his companion.

After fighting for their lives from an onslaught of mechanical nightmares who see their existence as a hearesy, the Doctor manages to build a new God Machine from his TARDIS, but before he can enter it and serve as the template for biology, his companion sacrifices themself to restore life to its original form.

Second Series

Episodes in this series would contain a subtle reference to the arc. There would be some deadly toy or game as background elements (such as news broadcasts). At the end of the first story, a mysterious woman is looking for the Doctor.

11) A Game of Worlds - When the universe cracked from Series 5, an ancient entity slithered through. The Celestial Toymaker. Enraged at his entrapment by the Doctor, he draws his old foe into a new and deadly game that he cannot win.

The episode ends as the Doctor has an impossible choice to make. The destruction of Gallifrey or the destruction of Earth, and the woman finally catches up with her past. She's found her grandfather. The Doctor.

12) Checkmate - Susan reunites with the Doctor, having been tasked by Gallifrey to give him something. An item that will bring the toy maker to a stalemate as the two Timelords use this borrowed time to devise a plan to end the Toy maker's games for good.

13) Unnamed Christmas - The Toymaker had a contingency plan. And it would if course fall on Christmas day, when gifts of toys are made across the world...

Third Series

The Doctor gets a new companion, a patient who is terminally Ill with a mysterious disease who he whisks away to the stars.

The Doctor takes his new companion to several places he has been before which contain aftermath of this deadly disease, which he becomes less oblivious to and more interesed as time goes on as he watched his companion wither and age. Also, his TARDIS gets increasingly faulty and unreliable as the series goes on.

11) The Pandemic of Time (Part One) - The Doctor discovers that this virus seems to
feed on temporal energy. The story concludes as the Doctor realizes that patient zero is his TARDIS, and it has been spreading the illness through his travels for a long time. It ends with the TARDIS and his companion dying an invasion of the neverpeople (from the Zagreus audio story) creatures made of anti-time, who are able to invade now the heart of the TARDIS has been infected.

12) The Pandemic of Time (Part Two) - Time is threatened by a plague of entities who seek to consume all time in it and the next, and the Doctor is to blame, for the virus that brought them was born in the wake of his reckless abuse of time travel...a paradox too many.

Fourth Series

1) Beware the Shadowmen - Set in an abandoned hospital in London. Creatures that you can't see or feel but live in the shadows. They are beings that live in the timeline of a person, constrained by their scar from birth to death. Harmless...but somehow, they are escaping these prisons to pray on a future they should never have.

The Doctor notes that the influx of so many creatures is odd, and theorizes that it could only happen in a temporal-spacial crossroad. A place in space and time that a choice will determine the direction of a largescale event. A fixed point that hasn't happened yet in that place.

10) (Leads in to final): The Doctor and his companion visit earth after a hectic adventure. They are interested by a terror event where a bomb explodes in a crowd of people. The Doctor, horrified but further to his shock, hundreds of injured people begin glowing orange. They are regenerating.

11) Age of Immortals - The Doctor discovers that humans have seemingly gained the ability to regenerate. It isn't long because before he discovers that it has a price. Humanity has been fashioned as a weapon...by the exiled Lord President Rassilon.

12) End of Eternity - In the far reaches of the universe, a madman waits inside his dark blue box, waiting for the end of everything to come. The time lock has been shattered and the Doctor must take up arms to keep the horrors he fought against at bay, and this time he won't be alone. He'll need his every self, both past and future to stop the war and...himself! The valeyard has come.

The story draws to a close as the Doctor looks over his injured, but treated companion in a hospital. The same hospital from the episode at the start of the series. As he turns to walk away, Rassilon finds him in a corridor and shoots him with a gun for exiling him.

The Doctor begins to regenerate. It is revealed this event was the potential fixed point that birthed so many shadowmen.
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Old 29-10-2016, 14:00
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Having a christmas special with the celestial toymaker as the big bad is an inspired idea and u have to wonder why it hasnt already been done
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Old 29-10-2016, 15:39
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Sometimes, as I'm sure most of us probably do, I like to imagine how I'd write the show. Some of my ideas:

First Series

This would be a fairly light arc, similar to series 1. They'd be hints to a place in the universe, holding a relic of divine power from the dawn of time and that the cybermen are chasing it.

11 ) War of the Cybermen - The Mondasian cybermen close in on the legendary relic, only to be met with hostility from their parallel universe cousins, who seek the same thing. And caught in their fight is the Doctor and his companion. Together they discover the ancient past that threatens every lifeform in the universe. The God Machine, a morphic field for morphic fields that binds all life in the universe and denotes it's physiology like an archive if blueprints.

The episode ends as a cyberman enters the machine which rewrites the basis of life in the universe, destroying the machine in an epic explosion.

12) - The Dying of the Light - The universe is changed. Now written as steel, order and logic than flesh and chaos. Life is but a memory of a forgotten time as cold metal lies where anything organic used to be. The only flesh left in this universe is the Doctor's and his companion.

After fighting for their lives from an onslaught of mechanical nightmares who see their existence as a hearesy, the Doctor manages to build a new God Machine from his TARDIS, but before he can enter it and serve as the template for biology, his companion sacrifices themself to restore life to its original form.

Second Series

Episodes in this series would contain a subtle reference to the arc. There would be some deadly toy or game as background elements (such as news broadcasts). At the end of the first story, a mysterious woman is looking for the Doctor.

11) A Game of Worlds - When the universe cracked from Series 5, an ancient entity slithered through. The Celestial Toymaker. Enraged at his entrapment by the Doctor, he draws his old foe into a new and deadly game that he cannot win.

The episode ends as the Doctor has an impossible choice to make. The destruction of Gallifrey or the destruction of Earth, and the woman finally catches up with her past. She's found her grandfather. The Doctor.

12) Checkmate - Susan reunites with the Doctor, having been tasked by Gallifrey to give him something. An item that will bring the toy maker to a stalemate as the two Timelords use this borrowed time to devise a plan to end the Toy maker's games for good.

13) Unnamed Christmas - The Toymaker had a contingency plan. And it would if course fall on Christmas day, when gifts of toys are made across the world...

Third Series

The Doctor gets a new companion, a patient who is terminally Ill with a mysterious disease who he whisks away to the stars.

The Doctor takes his new companion to several places he has been before which contain aftermath of this deadly disease, which he becomes less oblivious to and more interesed as time goes on as he watched his companion wither and age. Also, his TARDIS gets increasingly faulty and unreliable as the series goes on.

11) The Pandemic of Time (Part One) - The Doctor discovers that this virus seems to
feed on temporal energy. The story concludes as the Doctor realizes that patient zero is his TARDIS, and it has been spreading the illness through his travels for a long time. It ends with the TARDIS and his companion dying an invasion of the neverpeople (from the Zagreus audio story) creatures made of anti-time, who are able to invade now the heart of the TARDIS has been infected.

12) The Pandemic of Time (Part Two) - Time is threatened by a plague of entities who seek to consume all time in it and the next, and the Doctor is to blame, for the virus that brought them was born in the wake of his reckless abuse of time travel...a paradox too many.

Fourth Series

1) Beware the Shadowmen - Set in an abandoned hospital in London. Creatures that you can't see or feel but live in the shadows. They are beings that live in the timeline of a person, constrained by their scar from birth to death. Harmless...but somehow, they are escaping these prisons to pray on a future they should never have.

The Doctor notes that the influx of so many creatures is odd, and theorizes that it could only happen in a temporal-spacial crossroad. A place in space and time that a choice will determine the direction of a largescale event. A fixed point that hasn't happened yet in that place.

10) (Leads in to final): The Doctor and his companion visit earth after a hectic adventure. They are interested by a terror event where a bomb explodes in a crowd of people. The Doctor, horrified but further to his shock, hundreds of injured people begin glowing orange. They are regenerating.

11) Age of Immortals - The Doctor discovers that humans have seemingly gained the ability to regenerate. It isn't long because before he discovers that it has a price. Humanity has been fashioned as a weapon...by the exiled Lord President Rassilon.

12) End of Eternity - In the far reaches of the universe, a madman waits inside his dark blue box, waiting for the end of everything to come. The time lock has been shattered and the Doctor must take up arms to keep the horrors he fought against at bay, and this time he won't be alone. He'll need his every self, both past and future to stop the war and...himself! The valeyard has come.

The story draws to a close as the Doctor looks over his injured, but treated companion in a hospital. The same hospital from the episode at the start of the series. As he turns to walk away, Rassilon finds him in a corridor and shoots him with a gun for exiling him.

The Doctor begins to regenerate. It is revealed this event was the potential fixed point that birthed so many shadowmen.
Holy sh*t these episode sound AMAZING! I'd want to see these translated onto screen, sometimes I think the people on here have better imagination than the writer themselves, Time Pandemic and Age of Immortals sounds really interesting too and you can build up a lot of suspense in these.
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Old 29-10-2016, 16:02
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Age of Immortals - The Doctor discovers that humans have seemingly gained the ability to regenerate. It isn't long because before he discovers that it has a price. Humanity has been fashioned as a weapon...by the exiled Lord President Rassilon.
I love this idea, and whilst it may be wishful thinking I do kind of hope that they pick up on the fact that Rassilon is out there and probably none too happy. I think it'd work great as a mid-series story for Series 10... rather than an arc itself though. Series 7, 8 and 9 have all had Timelord-heavy stories at their end and I think it risks becoming the new 'Daleks in every finale' thing that seemed to plague RTD. By all means another Timelord story, but somewhere other than the finale for me.

I'd have the Doctor come to earth mid-series and discover that humanity has gained the ability to regenerate. Give it a bit of an urban/political feel to it, and you could even reveal Rassilon to be the ominously aformentioned Minister of War.
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Old 29-10-2016, 16:18
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I love this idea, and whilst it may be wishful thinking I do kind of hope that they pick up on the fact that Rassilon is out there and probably none too happy. I think it'd work great as a mid-series story for Series 10... rather than an arc itself though. Series 7, 8 and 9 have all had Timelord-heavy stories at their end and I think it risks becoming the new 'Daleks in every finale' thing that seemed to plague RTD. By all means another Timelord story, but somewhere other than the finale for me.

I'd have the Doctor come to earth mid-series and discover that humanity has gained the ability to regenerate. Give it a bit of an urban/political feel to it, and you could even reveal Rassilon to be the ominously aformentioned Minister of War.
But I'm curious what would the price be? Thats the bit I'm curious about. Maybe you can have Rassilon try to create a new race of Time Lords through The Human Race. And The Doctor and his companion at the time would notice that Human Technology and science is being accelerated at a tremendous rate. And the cost will be so big that The Doctor has to stop it. And maybe you can have the companion involved somehow?
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Old 29-10-2016, 17:20
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I wouldn't have any 'breadcrumbs' representing a story arc, in fact, I wouldn't have any arc, just separate stories.
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Old 01-11-2016, 14:10
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Something along the lines of investigating whether Missy is really the regeneration of the John Simms master(or other) or maybe a master from another dimension or timeline.
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Old 01-11-2016, 14:48
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Thinking about it a bit more, I love the idea of a story arc that wraps itself up unexpectedly prematurely and the finale then takes a wild tangent. The series alludes to a certain threat for the whole series, only to have it easily thwarted by a larger threat in the penultimate story... with the larger threat then being the focus of the finale, completely out of the blue.

For example, a series that hints that Missy is coming back, only when she eventually does in episode 10 she's quickly thwarted by Omega who assumes centre stage in the finale instead (as an example...I didn't say a good example ). Or maybe if Series 9 had built up Rassilon and the Timelords as the main threat more effectively, only to pull the rug from under our feet and have the Doctor go full on vengeance mode/Valeyard and have him rather unexpectedly become the main threat that nobody saw coming.

The only show that I've seen do something similar is Buffy... wrapping up its rather lacklustre story arc in Season 4 an episode early leaving you wondering what the final episode was going to do (as it happened, something experimentally fantastic), and in Season 6 where it strung you along thinking The Trio was going to be the big threat of the season only for Willow to assume that position instead. It's a similar idea, and I'd love to see Doctor Who do something similar...the closest I guess it got was the end of Series 2, by having the Cybermen as the big threat before chucking in the Daleks as well. But that was more a case of escalating the problem further rather than literally obliterating one problem and replacing it with a far worse one.
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Old 01-11-2016, 17:05
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Thinking about it a bit more, I love the idea of a story arc that wraps itself up unexpectedly prematurely and the finale then takes a wild tangent. The series alludes to a certain threat for the whole series, only to have it easily thwarted by a larger threat in the penultimate story... with the larger threat then being the focus of the finale, completely out of the blue.

For example, a series that hints that Missy is coming back, only when she eventually does in episode 10 she's quickly thwarted by Omega who assumes centre stage in the finale instead (as an example...I didn't say a good example ). Or maybe if Series 9 had built up Rassilon and the Timelords as the main threat more effectively, only to pull the rug from under our feet and have the Doctor go full on vengeance mode/Valeyard and have him rather unexpectedly become the main threat that nobody saw coming.

The only show that I've seen do something similar is Buffy... wrapping up its rather lacklustre story arc in Season 4 an episode early leaving you wondering what the final episode was going to do (as it happened, something experimentally fantastic), and in Season 6 where it strung you along thinking The Trio was going to be the big threat of the season only for Willow to assume that position instead. It's a similar idea, and I'd love to see Doctor Who do something similar...the closest I guess it got was the end of Series 2, by having the Cybermen as the big threat before chucking in the Daleks as well. But that was more a case of escalating the problem further rather than literally obliterating one problem and replacing it with a far worse one.
I love the idea. "True Blood" always had a thrilling penultimate episode which was then wrapped up *very* quickly in the finale which was mainly about setting up the following season in style.
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Old 01-11-2016, 20:31
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I love the idea. "True Blood" always had a thrilling penultimate episode which was then wrapped up *very* quickly in the finale which was mainly about setting up the following season in style.
Once Upon A Time has been doing something similar, and it's been great. The lacking story arc in Season 5 was wrapped up three episodes before the end, and the finale was focused on setting up the events for Season 6. The show has since gone further still, by abruptly offing the main villain it was setting up just four episodes into Season 6... now all bets are off as to which direction the show will go in.

I'd love to see Doctor Who try something similar...provided it doesn't stop the finale feeling like a finale. It does need balance.
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Old 01-11-2016, 20:56
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I do not agree with the idea of completing a series arc just before the final and teasing the next in the last episode. I've seen a few shows do it now and it just makes for a underwhelming conclusion. What is often enjoyable about a final is the finality of it and not knowing where the show will go next until the following season as it offers a cooldown and time of contemplation that just can't be had if the show blunders into its next story.

Momentary cliffhangers to the next arc can work. The Vampire Diaries handled this so well, but I am against using a whole episode as it just leaves a feeling of incompletion both sides.
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Old 01-11-2016, 22:07
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Sometimes, as I'm sure most of us probably do, I like to imagine how I'd write the show. Some of my ideas:

First Series

This would be a fairly light arc, similar to series 1. They'd be hints to a place in the universe, holding a relic of divine power from the dawn of time and that the cybermen are chasing it.

11 ) War of the Cybermen - The Mondasian cybermen close in on the legendary relic, only to be met with hostility from their parallel universe cousins, who seek the same thing. And caught in their fight is the Doctor and his companion. Together they discover the ancient past that threatens every lifeform in the universe. The God Machine, a morphic field for morphic fields that binds all life in the universe and denotes it's physiology like an archive if blueprints.

The episode ends as a cyberman enters the machine which rewrites the basis of life in the universe, destroying the machine in an epic explosion.

12) - The Dying of the Light - The universe is changed. Now written as steel, order and logic than flesh and chaos. Life is but a memory of a forgotten time as cold metal lies where anything organic used to be. The only flesh left in this universe is the Doctor's and his companion.

After fighting for their lives from an onslaught of mechanical nightmares who see their existence as a hearesy, the Doctor manages to build a new God Machine from his TARDIS, but before he can enter it and serve as the template for biology, his companion sacrifices themself to restore life to its original form.

Second Series

Episodes in this series would contain a subtle reference to the arc. There would be some deadly toy or game as background elements (such as news broadcasts). At the end of the first story, a mysterious woman is looking for the Doctor.

11) A Game of Worlds - When the universe cracked from Series 5, an ancient entity slithered through. The Celestial Toymaker. Enraged at his entrapment by the Doctor, he draws his old foe into a new and deadly game that he cannot win.

The episode ends as the Doctor has an impossible choice to make. The destruction of Gallifrey or the destruction of Earth, and the woman finally catches up with her past. She's found her grandfather. The Doctor.

12) Checkmate - Susan reunites with the Doctor, having been tasked by Gallifrey to give him something. An item that will bring the toy maker to a stalemate as the two Timelords use this borrowed time to devise a plan to end the Toy maker's games for good.

13) Unnamed Christmas - The Toymaker had a contingency plan. And it would if course fall on Christmas day, when gifts of toys are made across the world...

Third Series

The Doctor gets a new companion, a patient who is terminally Ill with a mysterious disease who he whisks away to the stars.

The Doctor takes his new companion to several places he has been before which contain aftermath of this deadly disease, which he becomes less oblivious to and more interesed as time goes on as he watched his companion wither and age. Also, his TARDIS gets increasingly faulty and unreliable as the series goes on.

11) The Pandemic of Time (Part One) - The Doctor discovers that this virus seems to
feed on temporal energy. The story concludes as the Doctor realizes that patient zero is his TARDIS, and it has been spreading the illness through his travels for a long time. It ends with the TARDIS and his companion dying an invasion of the neverpeople (from the Zagreus audio story) creatures made of anti-time, who are able to invade now the heart of the TARDIS has been infected.

12) The Pandemic of Time (Part Two) - Time is threatened by a plague of entities who seek to consume all time in it and the next, and the Doctor is to blame, for the virus that brought them was born in the wake of his reckless abuse of time travel...a paradox too many.

Fourth Series

1) Beware the Shadowmen - Set in an abandoned hospital in London. Creatures that you can't see or feel but live in the shadows. They are beings that live in the timeline of a person, constrained by their scar from birth to death. Harmless...but somehow, they are escaping these prisons to pray on a future they should never have.

The Doctor notes that the influx of so many creatures is odd, and theorizes that it could only happen in a temporal-spacial crossroad. A place in space and time that a choice will determine the direction of a largescale event. A fixed point that hasn't happened yet in that place.

10) (Leads in to final): The Doctor and his companion visit earth after a hectic adventure. They are interested by a terror event where a bomb explodes in a crowd of people. The Doctor, horrified but further to his shock, hundreds of injured people begin glowing orange. They are regenerating.

11) Age of Immortals - The Doctor discovers that humans have seemingly gained the ability to regenerate. It isn't long because before he discovers that it has a price. Humanity has been fashioned as a weapon...by the exiled Lord President Rassilon.

12) End of Eternity - In the far reaches of the universe, a madman waits inside his dark blue box, waiting for the end of everything to come. The time lock has been shattered and the Doctor must take up arms to keep the horrors he fought against at bay, and this time he won't be alone. He'll need his every self, both past and future to stop the war and...himself! The valeyard has come.

The story draws to a close as the Doctor looks over his injured, but treated companion in a hospital. The same hospital from the episode at the start of the series. As he turns to walk away, Rassilon finds him in a corridor and shoots him with a gun for exiling him.

The Doctor begins to regenerate. It is revealed this event was the potential fixed point that birthed so many shadowmen.
You've been waiting a long time for someone to ask for story ideas, haven't you?
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Old 01-11-2016, 22:30
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You've been waiting a long time for someone to ask for story ideas, haven't you?
I work a boring mindless job...so my thoughts turn to more interesting things while working. They've just accumulated.
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Old 01-11-2016, 23:20
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I do not agree with the idea of completing a series arc just before the final and teasing the next in the last episode. I've seen a few shows do it now and it just makes for a underwhelming conclusion. What is often enjoyable about a final is the finality of it and not knowing where the show will go next until the following season as it offers a cooldown and time of contemplation that just can't be had if the show blunders into its next story.

Momentary cliffhangers to the next arc can work. The Vampire Diaries handled this so well, but I am against using a whole episode as it just leaves a feeling of incompletion both sides.
I think it can work, but you need to give it balance and the writing needs to be layered. For Doctor Who it wouldn't be so much a case of wrapping up a story arc early and then moving on to the next thing prematurely, it'd be more a case of blowing all expectations out of the water and presenting a threat that completely obliterates the threat you thought you were getting. The End of Time could have done it... it sets itself up to make you believe that the Master is the big threat in the story, with Part One ending under the implication that actually there's an even bigger and previously unseen threat coming... the Timelords. Then Part Two happens and the Timelords actually do very little... it's a shame as when they do appear they render The Master effectively powerless in an instant. Rassilon owns the room. If the story had been a lot more straightforward and had developed the Timelords and Rassilon as a more conventional threat throughout that second part then they'd have done this kind of thing already. Have them literally burst into the room mid-Master-victory and send the story spiralling in a completely different direction that nobody saw coming. Have the Master not bested by the Doctor, but by an even bigger threat that now has to then be dealt with.
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Old 07-11-2016, 13:37
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I want a Dalek companion.
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Old 07-11-2016, 15:45
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I want a Dalek companion.
I'd rather a Cyberman companion just like Kroton ('The Cyberman with a Soul'), that would be interesting for a few stories.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Kroton_..._of_a_Cyberman)
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