Howling:There are three main timelines in the DWU

What if there are three main timelines in the DWU. The first timeline is the classic series timeline which consists of the classic series. the Virgin New Adventures, the Virgin Missing Adventures, the Past Doctor Adventures, and the Eighth Doctor Adventures, and Scream of the Shalka. The second timeline is the DWM timeline which consists of most of the DWM comic strips. The third and final timeline includes an altered version of the classic series, the Big Finish audios, and the Revived series of Doctor Who from 2005 to the present. All these timelines have differences. For example, in the first timeline, the Doctor was loomed and is a reincarnation of the Other who was part of a triumvirate which consisted of Rassilon, Omega, and the Other himself. At the end of Lungbarrow, the Tardis console begins to change into the one seen in the TV movie. After Lungbarrow, the events of the TV movie take place and after that are the Eighth Doctor Adventures. In the EDAs, the Doctor ends up destroying Gallifrey to prevent a war that would involve the Faction Paradox and the Enemy. In the second timeline (the DWM timeline), Ace is killed and the Doctor goes to acquire the Master's remains, setting up the TV movie. After that, the Eighth Doctor meets Izzy Sinclair the DWM Eighth Doctor comic strips take place. In the third timeline (the Big Finish/New Who timeline), the Doctor has his Big Finish adventures. In the Night of the Doctor, the Eighth Doctor only mentions his Big Finish companions and not of the others such as Fitz, Sam, Trix, Compassion, Izzy, Destrii, and others. I theorize that that means that while the Big Finish audios take place in the same timeline as New Who, it takes place in a timeline that is different to the ones in the comics and novels.

- In CC: The Beginning and TV: The Name of the Doctor, it shows the Doctor leaving with Susan. However, in Lungbarrow, the Doctor travels to Gallifrey's past and meets Susan there and it was stated that she was the Other's granddaughter. She recognized him as her grandfather and left with him in the Tardis. So these are clearly different timelines that we are dealing with. - In DWM: Ground Zero, Ace is killed and the Doctor is much older. However, she is clearly alive and older in the Virgin New Adventures while the Doctor still looks a little younger than how he was portrayed in DWM: Ground Zero. So these are clearly different timelines that we are dealing with. - In TV: The End of Time, the Master mentions his father and in TV: The Sound of Drums, he is shown as a child. However, in Lungbarrow, it was clearly stated that Gallifreyans were loomed, not born. This means that in New Who, Gallifreyans were born instead of being loomed. So these are clearly different timelines that we are dealing with. - In New Who, the Doctor states that he is 900 years old. However, in TV: Time and the Rani, the Doctor in his Seventh incarnation states that he is 953 years old. Also, the Seventh Doctor had his 1000th birthday in the novels. So it appears that the Doctor in New Who is a much younger Doctor than the one from the other timelines. - In EDA: The Ancestor Cell, the Doctor destroys Gallifrey and erased the Time Lords and the Faction Paradox from existence to prevent a war between the Faction Paradox and the Time Lords (which can be chronicled in the Faction Paradox novels). Yet in New Who, the Doctor destroyed Gallifrey because there was a Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks. And don't give "There were two destructions of Gallifrey" thing. There is no way the Doctor could have destroyed Gallifrey twice. That is just stupid. It is clearly a different timeline. - In New Who, Sarah Jane Smith never met the Doctor after TV: The Hand of Fear. However, she had met him again in TV: The Five Doctors and had also met the Eight Doctor in the EDAs during the 90s. Also, she was portrayed as being married and as a mother where as in New Who, she states that she has never been married before.

Also, Time Lords are not a race, it is a rank. And a Time Lord gains their second heart after their first regeneration. 24.115.233.143talk to me 23:23, January 13, 2014 (UTC)


 * And only in the realm of Doctor Who could an explanation like this be considered plausible. Or, as these timelines seem to split off in sequence, either there were divergence points, or the history of the Universe was rewritten. —BioniclesaurKing4t2 - "Hello, I'm the Doctor. Basically, . . . run." 03:18, January 17, 2014 (UTC)