User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-79.68.246.214-20131114171340/@comment-104.159.165.3-20140918054219

I've decided that I consider everything to be canon. When you are jumping back and forth through time changes are going to happen no matter how careful you are. To quote the 10th Doctor "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff."

So, at some point in the DW universe's timeline timelords were loomed and than a change was made to the timeline. It could be one big change or lots of small changes. Either way gallifreyans now reproduce through biological means and the looms are erased from the timeline. "Normal" beings do not even realize a change has happened as their memories change to conform to the new reality. Time sensitive's like the time lords retain ( to a greater or lesser extent) knowledge of events that occured before the change. There is an 8th doctor story where he says that he remembers being a boy and having a mother and father but he also remembers being loomed and he was not sure which memory was true. There is also another story in which the doctor says that a time lords greatest nightmare is to return home only to find out that your past as you remember it never happened.