Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-25041817-20150105184924/@comment-188432-20150107001808

Eh, I dunno, guys. People are always trying to make a nice, tidy bow out of the Eighth Doctor's time, and it's basically impossible. The production staffs of the various media were in direct and sometimes explicit contradiction with each other.

In this instance, you can't really reconcile The Glorious Dead, published in 2000, with The Gallifrey Chronicles, published in 2005. Chronicles says the Master is still inside the Eighth Doctor's TARDIS' Eye of Harmony, due to the events of the TVM. Also, you've got interior TARDIS meetings between the Doctor and a questionably corporeal Master in Sometime Never... and The Deadstone Memorial (both published in 2004) — so it's best not to be definitive about anything Glorious is saying.

It's problematic in the extreme to say that Glorious was set after books that had not yet been written. Not impossible, I guess — but pretty difficult.