Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-27280472-20160606210324/@comment-27280472-20161128160235

Pluto2 wrote: Aren't we ASSUMING Death Comes to Time ends with the Doctor dying?

All we're given is a burnt umbrella. It's even made clear that they didn't find a body.

It could go either way as to whether or not the Doctor actually dies at the end. Did he die? Did he get up and walk away, leaving behind his umbrella? It's not explicitly stated either way, thus we can't say it negates the TV movie - because that's speculation. You're right about all of that, but it doesn't matter. It was decided in the earlier discussion, and therefore is completely immutable. The point of this thread is just to have it considered an alternate universe rather than NOTVALID - a meaningless policy distinction that keeps the story from being covered in the proper context.