Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-31010985-20180428165444/@comment-4028641-20200303045024

It's probably just simpler for clarification, to at least let the reader understand that there is an incongruity.

Even just saying "in one reality" does the job (instead of "in an alternate reality." This is a good compromise, because it doesn't speculate on the "Canon" of the stories, but still lets the reader understand the issue at hand). The latest episode clearly wants us to accept all these "odd" Doctors as possible realities, and we should accept that our readers are intelligent enough to decide how to read these stories.