User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1272640-20161222080541/@comment-1272640-20170107063220

Thefartydoctor wrote: Can I just add a very simple and obvious point? If you make a "What if?" story invalid for that reason alone... then what makes it different than The Story of Martha? That takes place during The Year That Never Was, which is a negated timeline- "What if the Master used humans from the future to slay the present day humans?"

The only thing holding that together is the fact that the main character of the main story (Martha) originates from the original reality. But then again... so do the Unbound Doctors. They just haven't exited this deviation. What I'm saying is, that novel is from a negated timeline. I recall it ends just as Last of the Time Lords begins. If someone just had the book to go by, they wouldn't see the reality/timeline reverted back.

In summary: we either have a very fine line between what is and isn't acceptable... or we're being biased towards New Series stuff. Thoughts? Exactly!

In the light of new information, I feel rather strongly that the Unbound series be treated as alternate universes, rather than invalid.