User:The Time Lord/The Library

Welcome to the Library, a planet-sized archive of every idea that I have ever had during my time on this Wiki for my various Doctor Who-related creative projects!

The Library exists to catalogue the growth and development of my many works. While some of the ideas listed here are in use today, many others are not. Rather than lose these unused concepts to the sands of time, they shall be stored here for safekeeping.

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Oldest Ideas

 * The Thirteenth Doctor will be played by Eric Idle.
 * Idle's Doctor uses the motto, "Always look on the bright side," to reference Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.
 * The Thirteenth Doctor goes off to solve something known as the "Chaos Paradigm."
 * To reveal the Chaos Paradigm, the Doctor must first find special artifacts hidden throughout time and space.
 * The Doctor faces alien versions of the god Anubis in ancient Egypt; the pyramids are their spaceships.
 * The Thirteenth Doctor is cold, vain and arrogant.
 * He can also be a well-mannered, charming, and polite individual when the situation demands him to be.
 * He is skilled at manipulating others to achieve his goals.
 * He has an uncaring, sadistic side
 * He prefers to work alone.
 * This is all the result of a glitch in the Doctor's second regenerative cycle that awakens his inner darkness and calls forth the Valeyard.
 * The Thirteenth Doctor battles against the Valeyard with help from his previous regenerations.

Second-oldest Ideas

 * CASTING CHANGE: The Thirteenth Doctor will be played by Jason Isaacs.
 * The Thirteenth Doctor begins a romantic relationship with a woman known only as "the Shaman."
 * It is implied that the Shaman is a future incarnation of the Doctor.
 * The Doctor eventually finds himself in the Medusa Cascade.
 * It is in the Medusa Cascade that the Doctor realizes why his previous self's face was so familiar to him: the Tenth Doctor had been told after meeting Lobus Caecilius that his true named burned brightly in the stars here.
 * The Doctor answers the Question and begins a hunt for Gallifrey.
 * After the return of Gallifrey, the Doctor is revealed to be the Other reincarnated.
 * The Doctor battles Rassilon and Omega to determine the ruler of all time and space.
 * The Doctor wins this battle by calling upon everyone he has ever helped throughout history. By finally accepting his identity as the Other, the Doctor repairs the glitch in his regenerative cycle.
 * The Doctor becomes the new ruler of Gallifrey and regenerates again.
 * EPISODE CONCEPT: Photographs. Something is attacking the citizens of Earth through photographs, sucking them in, trapping them, immortalizing them in time so they die but cannot pass on. At first people just start disappearing and then turning up in photographs, pained expressions on their faces like they're trying to escape their prison but cannot. Then the danger becomes more real. The people in the photographs, even the ones who were there before the ones that go missing were captured, start moving. The Doctor helps a common British family discover that it's dangerous to keep so many instances of frozen time in one place. But how does the Doctor stop this new threat? Does he go into the photos, or does he coax something to come out? The madness only intensifies when at the end of his journey, the Doctor comes across a mysterious photo that is unlike the others, one of his first incarnation. There is a flash of light, a camera flash, and the Doctor awakens in a mysterious world, lying on the ground. Standing above him is the First Doctor. "Tell me! Who are you?" the Doctor demands to know. "Why, I'm the Doctor." the First Doctor responds.
 * Trailer script

Third-oldest Ideas

 * S11E01 Villain/Plot Idea - I had the idea that maybe we could use the Vashta Nerada? I'd like a physical enemy, but think…a dark forest is a primary setting, so plenty of "shadow opportunities." Maybe the Vashta Nerada want a physical form, seek the Doctor's body, and aim to escape with it in the TARDIS to consume the denizens of other worlds in darkness? Maybe the clue to Gallifrey could be the skeletal remains of a Time Lord…
 * A family who lives in a log cabin in a deep, dark forest rescues and cares for the Doctor while he's unconscious.
 * The Doctor protects this family from the Vashta Nerada as payment, not because he cares about them (or so he says).
 * After the Vashta Nerada threat passes, the Doctor has a moment with the family's eldest daughter, who asks to travel with him. The Doctor tells her no, and she asks if he'll be lonely. The Doctor then motions to the TARDIS, fully repaired with a new interior design, saying that it is the only companion he'll ever need. The daughter is saddened by this, but the Doctor, being a charmer and gentleman in this incarnation, as well as a little lustful, draws her in for a passionate kiss before departing.
 * The episode could take place in Victorian France...I was looking at old architecture, such as Notre Dame Cathedral, and had the idea that maybe the Doctor could face off against a series of skeletons possessed by the Vashta Nerada as they scale the building.
 * This episode needs to do the following, no matter what:
 * Set the Doctor off on his quest to find Gallifrey, no matter what (I was thinking that he finds the remains of a Vashta Nerada victim and finds a medal or something with Gallifreyan writing on it amidst the skeletal remains).
 * Establish the Doctor as a flawed, unstable man who is darker, meaner, and more unreliable than his past incarnations.
 * If the Doctor Gets a Companion - I've had the idea that perhaps the companion is somehow the Rani, returned to the form of an adolescent girl through experimentation on her own body in a desperate attempt to cheat death after her regenerative cycle expires…
 * The companion does not necessarily have to be a secret or blatant antagonist; I just think, given her unusual youth in comparison to other companions, her personality should be something intriguing like her herself. She is something higher than a normal adolescent (many things about her are meant to suggest or hint at this) and should at least be a complex character people can get attached to (or love to hate if she's an antagonist). She is someone I could have a lot of fun with; maybe she could have a childlike demeanor, making her dangerous and unpredictable, but this hides an equally dangerous wit. Perhaps she toys with the Doctor or views him as his plaything; sometimes, she'd help him, while other times, she'd hinder him.
 * This companion should at least have the same level of prominence in the Doctor's life as Clara currently does, being the one who has helped the Doctor in each of his incarnations' lives...
 * As far as how many episodes I would like to write, my answer is this: the same as in an official season of Doctor Who. If I adhere to tradition, then that means a grand total of 13 per series.
 * In terms of what type of plot I'd like to have: something that has as much prominence as the Silence did during Matt Smith's run as the Eleventh Doctor. On the Thirteenth Doctor's adventures, the plot is hinted at and/or moved towards, while some episodes devote themselves to it. This would be true for both Series 11 and Series 12.
 * If we bring back Rassilon and Omega, we have two of Gallifrey's founders right there. If we reveal the Doctor to be the Other reincarnated, then we could have a three-way battle for rule over Gallifrey, and I feel like that has much "epicness" potential. The one thing I want to stress about the Time Lords this time around is I want them to be a bit more grand in terms of their design.
 * Regarding the rebuilding of Gallifrey, that's a gradual "in the background" thing, and not something I wanted to focus on plot-wise. Whenever the Doctor returns home in future series, we'd see that things improve a little bit every time. Ultimately, the end result of this course of action will be New Who with a Classic Who feel, perfectly uniting the two eras in the show's history.
 * Personality-wise, the Thirteenth Doctor is a reference to the unluckiness/death brought about by the number 13 in many cultures. As such, he is dark, prefers to work alone, self-absorbed, et cetera. He is still a hero, but he is one who makes all the wrong choices. Over time, though, we see him start to mellow out a bit and become sort of like the Twelfth Doctor or Ninth Doctor, where he still has spurts of darkness but the potential for kindness and humor.

Contemporary Ideas

 * S11E01 SYNOPSIS: Having crashed the TARDIS, the newly-regenerated Thirteenth Doctor lies unconscious in the woods for decades. Meanwhile, an ancient evil awakens that seeks to use both the TARDIS and the Doctor's body for a wicked purpose.
 * S11E05 SYNOPSIS: A string of murders on New Mars and the search for an ancient Ice Warrior weapon force the Doctor to make a difficult decision.
 * S11E09 SYNOPSIS: In Perfection, beauty is the law. The Doctor must avoid temptation at the hands of the gorgeous Queen Saphira while he investigates the temporal forces acting upon her supposedly-magic mirror.
 * S11E02 SYNOPSIS: On the research station Ouroborous, a low-grade researcher has brought the long-extinct Wirrn back to life in hopes of gaining the attention of her superiors. When the insectoid aliens are set loose, the Doctor is called in to save the day.
 * Ideas for Episode Titles
 * S11E06 SYNOPSIS: While visiting England in 1897, the Doctor has a run-in with Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula.
 * Elaboration on The Warrior's Sword - Yes, "The Warrior's Sword" intentionally questions the Doctor's morality. It shows you how far-gone this thirteenth incarnation is; he does things past Doctors wouldn't dare do. This can be derived from the fact that for many people, 13 is an unlucky number, hence the Thirteenth Doctor would be "faulty."
 * Elaboration on The Queen's Mirror - "The Queen's Mirror" has to do with people's fear of death. The world of Perfection worships beauty and is meant to play off of the Thirteenth Doctor's own vanity; people become obsessed with appearances in the first place because they wish to look and be young as to avoid death.
 * S12E01 Synopsis - The Doctor teams up with Missy in 17th Century France to stop an evil entity from using the Doctor's body and the TARDIS for a wicked purpose.
 * S12E01 TEASER STUFF
 * "The bitch is back." - Yes, Missy is going to return in the first episode of Series 12, assuming something isn't done to prevent this.
 * "An unconventional TARDIS" - The Valeyard, the main villain of Series 12, is using the Doctor's TARDIS to accomplish his goal. Getting it back from him is one of the goals of the episode. However, to time travel, the Doctor needs to use Missy's TARDIS. I envisioned it being a black and gold sports car :P The sight of that in the 17th century makes it "unconventional," not to mention its shape is very unlike that of the Doctor's TARDIS.
 * Louis XIII - This was to place the episode in terms of time period more than to suggest a character's appearance; while Louis may make a cameo, at most, this is meant to suggest 17th Century France as the setting for this episode.
 * "There is some evil in all of us, Doctor. Even you." - This is actually a quote from "Trial of a Time Lord" spoken by the Master. It hints at the Valeyard's return, as well as the Master's/Missy's involvement in the episode/story arc.
 * "Gateway to Gallifrey" - This could be the device that connects the three story arcs of the Thirteenth Doctor's era together.
 * S11E01 Idea - After the Thirteenth Doctor regenerates, he crash-lands in a forest. He emerges from the smoking TARDIS, and then he collapses. It's kinda like when the Tenth Doctor entered his post-regenerative coma. The Thirteenth Doctor's just took longer, possibly due to the absence of tea…

Older Ideas

 * The entire series is about the DoctorDonna's attempt to reunite with the Doctor himself. She's always either one step ahead of him or behind him, though, as she goes on her own adventures with Jack Harkness and River Song to aid her.
 * That being said, I'm not sure how to distribute the episodes for The Doctor. All I know for certain is while they lead up to their overarching plot conclusions, the adventures of the reawakened DoctorDonna either lead into, take place at the same time as, or take place just after the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors' adventures (specifically from after The End of Time until at least Deep Breath).

Contemporary Ideas

 * Tagline for Series 1: "The Time Lord Awakens."
 * Cast of Series 1: Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, Alex Kingston as River Song, John Barrowman as Jack Harkness, Alan Cumming as the Master
 * Michelle Gomez makes a guest appearance.
 * Premise of Series 1: By learning to control her metacrisis powers with help from River Song and Captain Jack Harkness, Donna Noble is able to keep herself from burning up and dying. Even so, she is in grave danger. Old enemies are returning, hoping to use Donna's unstable Time Lord abilities for their own nefarious purposes.
 * The events of Series 1 take place analogous to the Eleventh Doctor's adventures.
 * The Master pretends to be a protagonist (perhaps with a different name) to get close to Donna before revealing his truly evil nature as the series progresses.
 * The Master seeks the DoctorDonna's untapped metacrisis energy to find Gallifrey before the Doctor does so that he can be its savior and gain the prestige and praise meant for his former best friend.
 * Missy is born as a result of the female-born metacrisis energy the Master absorbs in order to cheat death after his final battle with the DoctorDonna. The Master regenerates as he is about to die and assumes a female form.
 * Cast of Series 2: Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, Alex Kingston as River Song, John Barrowman as Jack Harkness
 * Premise of Series 2: A continuation of the story of the reawakened DoctorDonna, in which Captain Jack Harkness and River Song attempt to help Donna reunite with the Doctor. At the same time, the trio must face a new threat, one that seeks to rewrite history to promote the rise of a new world order.
 * The events of Series 2 take place analogous to the Twelfth Doctor's adventures.

Older Ideas

 * We can explore the Paternoster Gang's founding in mini-sodes or flashbacks.

Contemporary Ideas

 * Perhaps this spin-off is a Doctor Who-ified Sherlock.