User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1272640-20161223201024/@comment-5.2.105.85-20170105130650

SeaniesBeanies wrote: Erm, what? Shalka was always intended to be set in the DWU as it was in 2003. Everything up to that point was part of continuity. This was the Ninth Doctor at the time. The Doctor there was the same one who stole a TARDIS and ran away with his granddaughter Susan.

So is Rowan Atkinson's Ninth Doctor, but nobody with their head screwed on is going to take The Curse of Fatal Death as valid territory. TCOFD is a parodic story, whereas SOTS was an official, serious continuation.

Also, please don't say that one would have to have the heads screwed on to accept it - that's a boderline personal attack.

I personally except it as a divergent timeline, it's no more ridiculous than some stories in the revived series - many of the ridiculous things that were shown in TCOFD such as the Master kissing/loving he Doctor, the Doctor loving a companion, a Time Lord regenerating into a woman or even friendly timey wimey banter have all been integrated into the series proper as serious plot devices.