User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-31010985-20180428165444/@comment-6032121-20191213223842

TV Comics told unique stories, yes; the point of comparison was in the fact that it has a version of the First Doctor called "Dr Who" with an outlandish family tree, which are two of the commonly-cited "strange" traits of the Cushing Doctor. Besides, since novelisations and adaptations have been ruled equally valid to the thing they're retelling, I don't see why that especially matters.

You speak of the film's status as a "direct reboot" being "generally accepted", but see, that's the thing, I'd like to see some hard quotes on that. There was some discussion of that very "accepted fact" on a Doctor Who Discord, and the thing is really, one struggles to see how Dr. Who and the Daleks is any more of a reboot than Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks was. It wants to go ahead with the business of retelling the Dalek story in a new medium, so it snips off the Tribe of Gum business and generally feels free to completely change the hows and whys of the beginnings of the Ian-Barbara-Doctor-Susan TARDIS team. In hindsight it feels more inflammatory to go "what if the Doctorhad just finished building the TARDIS" as opposed to "what if Susan's fake last name was English and Barbara was a secretary", but as far as a casual TV viewer was concerned, I scarcely think one would have been more of a reboot than the other.

That being said, I wouldn't have Dr. Who merged into First Doctor, necessarily. Instead, what we'd have is that in the First Doctor page's section about The Daleks, you'd have "According to another account, the Doctor who took his granddaughter Susan, as well as Ian and Barbara, on this adventure was a rather different individual, though the consequences for the Thals and the Dalek City were much the same." or something like that. And conversely, on Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks), you'd have "According to many accounts, the Doctor who went on these Dalek-fighting adventures was the First Doctor, the longer-haired, clean-shaven, more cantankerous first incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor."