Howling:Virgin era vs. New TV Series

The novels published by Virgin in the 90s revealed a great deal of background information about the Doctor and Gallifreyan history and culture, specifically the books Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible, Cold Fusion, and Lungbarrow. They showed how, in Gallifrey's distant past, the inhabitants were cursed with sterility, so Rassilon created the Looms to make new Gallifreyans. The Other, an associate of Rassilon in this era, had a family with a woman named Patience. When the Other got on Rassilon's bad side, the Other's family was massacred, with the acception of Patience, who fled in a prototype time machine, and the Other's granddaughter, who was rescued by a man resembling the First Doctor. The Other threw himself into the Looms, eventually being reborn as the First Doctor, who emerged from the Loom as a full-grown adult, like all Gallifreyans. Families on Gallifrey have no parents or children, only Cousins.

But now we have the New TV Series, and all this is suddenly in doubt. The Doctor has mentioned having been a father and being married, and a flashback in Listen shows him as a child. The Master has also been shown to have started out as a child, and mentioned his father. There's also the Doctor's cot in A Good Man Goes to War. How can all of this be, when the Virgin books paint a totally different picture? And we also know the Doctor didn't find Susan in Gallifrey's past, as Name of the Doctor clearly shows them both leaving the Gallifrey of the First Doctor's time together. So, what do we do? 82.4.125.59talk to me 14:45, February 28, 2015 (UTC)