The Jago and Litefoot Revival (Spoilers Upon Release)

My review is now on Planet Mondas:

www.planetmondas.com/2017/03/28/review-jago-litefoot-revival-act-one/

Whether you like it or not, Doctor Who explicitly doesn't have a canon, and everything counts. Trying to ignore anything requires willfully ignoring the intent of the production team.

Everything counts. This is the official position of the people making the franchise. Both versions of Human Nature happened. They've got a lot of differences. Steven Moffat has said that a Doctor Who canon is "impossible." Russell T. Davies has said that canon is word that has "never" been used in the production office. Basically, the people who make the series have said that there isn't a canon. The Doctor's life is constantly being rewritten, and is a tangled web of contradictions. If you try to cut even a single thread, the whole thing falls apart.

Well, both views certainly have merit. The canvas is there, but the choice of brush strokes are entirely up to the individual.

Are the Unbound stories each part of a separate continuity like the universe in Inferno or are they a product of the Doctor's biodata being burst open during the Time War that collapses into a single strand when that conflict ends? Are the TV Comic adventures part of the Land of Fiction, an idle daydream of the Doctor's or a combination of the two? Did the War Doctor (who I really want to call the Renegade) always exist prior to The Name of the Doctor without any intervention or was he created when Eleven jumped into his own timestream and retroactively put into place like Three's regeneration in Interference? Are the wars mentioned in the EDAs and NuWho the same conflict from two differing perspectives or two completely separate entities? Are the Second Doctor's greyer adventures in an era prior to or immediately following The War Games? Is Death Comes to Time a Seventh Doctor adventure or one of the last exploits of an incarnation who resembles Sylvester McCoy? Is the Shalka Doctor an alternate Ninth Doctor that was shunted from existence when the Time War came or a future incarnation who merely visited Warhol while in his ninth body? Are the Target novelisations their own separate canon or part of the Game of Me from Campaign?

Unlike most shows there isn't as much power behind authorial intent as something like Babylon 5, for example. Doctor Who is a series that lives, breathes and thrives on Death of the Author. It can all fit together, but how exactly it does so often depends on whoever is tying it all together and that is often the viewer. I point to the Whiskey-Wolf Loom theory that whiskeybrewer and I came up with, stating that the Doctor was loomed and had parents as well; a loving couple who illegally fed their genetic data into the machine to secretly make a child. It's often difficult, but there are ways to do it from a Watsonian (i.e. in-universe) perspective.

Eugh! Gross! No wonder he ran away. Why can't they use machines like normal Gallifreyans. Perverts.