
I mean, if he's gonna start with "I know these teeth"...
Dec 9, 12:58pm: Will the Fourteenth Doctor's final words be some variant on "I don't want to go"? → Will the Fourteenth Doctor's final words be some variation on "I don't want to go"?
Not sure how to resolve this. Spoilers for The Giggle:
His final words before he thought he was going to regenerate were suitably throwback-y ("Here we go again. Allons-y.") but nothing about his desire to go. So there's an argument for NO.
And also his last lines in the special obviously had nothing to do with regenerating at all.
But there's also an argument that he hasn't said his last words yet! Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor apparently feels the benefits of Tennant's retirement, so I wonder if he might return to that moment at some point in the future and say something like "Time to go." But apparently there are no plans for him to return yet. So there are arguments there for reopening and for N/A.
I'm leaning towards resolving NO. Anyone else have any thoughts?
@BoltonBailey Sounds exactly like something Davies would do!
Is that a counterpoint, though? My thinking is that would resolve YES - it's clearly riffing on the original.
@NcyRocks Oh ok, I thought it explicitly had to be along the lines of the Doctor again expressing the sentiment that he didn't want to regenerate. I take "variation" to mean something similar in meaning rather than something semantically related but potentially totally opposite in meaning.
@NcyRocks This was my thinking as well, fwiw. Anything that's clearly a callback to the original line.
@BoltonBailey Ah, I see. Sorry about the miscommunication! I was thinking that his final line might be similar to "I don't want to go" in the same way that his first line echoed the Tenth Doctor's - "New teeth, that's weird" -> "I know these teeth". I was thinking of it as a variation almost in the musical sense. I'd be interested to hear how you'd have phrased that differently.
@NcyRocks I might have said "Will the Fourteenth Doctor's final words be a callback to 'I don't want to go'?"