User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-26845762-20160825145828/@comment-1506468-20160826161457

The difference, from how I perceive it, is that an alternate universe is a universe specified to be different to our own within a licensed story, whereas a NOTVALID universe is just a story set in a universe with a completely different continuity with no explanation as to why the difference has occurred. Also authorial intent is a factor, as per the original Unbound stories were specified to be in a completely different continuity and separate to the main DWU.

Moving away from the semantics of canon here, I see the Warner universe as just another universe existing alongside the main DWU now that this new boxset has been released. The boxset has specified that Benny is travelling to another universe and is meeting this other Doctor, who has appeared in other stories beforehand. Basically this new boxset has legitimised the two Warner Unbound stories as existing within an overall continuity, just not in the same universe as most of the stories we experience.