The road less travelled...

is there an "Other" button? lol

I suspect that you may not have any of these as the planned ending, that you have something else in mind for this. But I voted anyway.

I do think that given the various seeds you've given Jack throughout the story, somehow dying, or at least giving up some of his Immortal energy to save Donna would be an apropos ending. Given the way he was so emotionally pummeled in COE, he may very well feel like this would be the way to go (sort of like Nine when he took the Vortex from Rose in POTW).

And about that whole FOB thing? There are some of us who don't believe Jack turns into the guy in my icon.

*waits last chapter and prepares to be a blubbering mess by the end of Friday(my time)*

Welll, we know what the readers what, but what do *you* want to write? Remember, you can write alternate endings and such (kind of like deleted scenes on DVDs :P)

I'm going with door # 1 with cookies no less!

Fffff, I'm a sucker for happy endings. =P

I don't know if I could pick any one of those options... I think that I'll go for Jack sacrificing himself, because Jack always comes back, right? And it would be atoning for the earlier incident. I don't know about the Doctor and Donna travelling together forever, but I don't want anyone to die! Choices, choices...

In other news (aka an entirely new comment stream lol) I've a few thoughts on the above options.

Donna travels with the Doctor forever. Nice and shiny, but after how much strain she's had put on the old ticker (to use the phrase, not to call Donna old) her forever's going to a: start a bit later, because she's going to have to recover from this lovely event, and b: be a little bit shorter....well, not necessarily, but you know what I mean. The happy ending is even going to have flaws. (As in it can't work out perfectly, not you'll write it rubbish-like or anything.) 8/10

Donna wakes up, but her mind has to be wiped again to save her life. This....this does nothing. Everything that holds true for the last one holds true for this, and she won't have gained anything for it anyway. Everyone will be emo and nothing will have changed. 5/10

The Doctor in the parallel universe has to sacrifice himself to save Donna. Don't mean to be companionist, but I don't think Rose would allow it. Heck, if Donna was conscious I don't think she'd allow it either. I think it would be a very 'clean' solution, as I get the tiniest (no really, the tiniest, no sarcasm there) feeling that Rose still pines for Ten proper so while she'd be upset she's probably secretly looking for Ten anyway. 6/10

The Doctor in the 'real' universe has to sacrifice himself to save Donna. Wouldn't he just regenerate? Or no? Either way, Donna would feel like crap for making her best friend kill himself (which also holds true for the previous option) and I can't help noticing that you don't say 'and it works', so it's possible that he sacrifices himself and she still doesn't make it. And if he won't regenerate and he knows it (for whatever reason) I don't think he'd do it necessarily, because while he'd want to save Donna the universe needs its Doctor and he would know that Donna would understand that. 5/10, but 8/10 if he regenerates

Jack sacrifices himself to save Donna. Again, would this one be possible? I do have the scenario in my head that by doing this he loses his technical immortality and thus is able, if you will, to become the Face of Boe (if you believe that bit) at some point rather than just staying like he is. (Aka he'd age much like Gollum!Doctor and end up looking horribly different than he did before, etc.) I think this would be an interesting choice though, because it would prove the Doctor wrong, for one thing, and it would also be something very noble (forgive the pun) for him to do for her after what he did to her brother. And besides, I'd love to see Jack step up and do something like that, especially if he knew there was a risk to it. The problem is I just don't think Jack 'sacrificing' himself for Donna is possible, considering his immortality. 7/10

Donna dies happy, having saved the Doctor. Not only does it seem like this is the solution we'll end up with, but it's the most plausible. As mentioned above, Donna (at least the Donna with her whole brain) wouldn't want someone to sacrifice themself for her, and I honestly think that if it came between her dying or either of the Doctors dying (and I mean dying, not regenerating, because that wouldn't matter to her much) she would choose to die. Of course the Doctor will feel bloody awful, but....erm, when does he not? 8/10


Final rank:
Donna dies (tie)
Ten regenerates (tie)
"Just this once, everybody lives"
Jack dies
10.5 dies
Ten dies (tie)
Brain rape v2.0 (tie)



(Did I or did I not get bored? Lol. The moral of the story is that there is no perfect solution, but no matter what you decided it will be beautiful as always. Oh, and of course the scores don't reflect the ideas so much as how much I may or may not like them, which of course isn't static anyway.)


ETA: Whoa! Lol epic!comment is epic. :p