Heeeeyyyyy Not Dead. Poster (1/3) Of A Little Series Im Working On

Heeeeyyyyy not dead. Poster (1/3) of a little series I’m working on

ATCHOOO!!!!

I don’t think it’s ’before‘ and ‘after’ as it would be with a conventional war (when 1935 is ’before’ WW2 and 1955 ‘after’). There isn’t a year it starts and a year it finishes. In fact I don’t really believe the Time War should really have a conventional ‘beginning’ in any way (I mean, I appreciate it’s ambiguous but I’ve always intended Starship of Theseus to be the Doctor’s first encounter with it - where it isn’t happening… and then it’s suddenly been happening for years. One of the reasons I’m a bit grumpy any speculative timeline puts any  Time War related 8th Doctor story before it, does rather negate the point and make him seem a bit callous to my eye!).

But in terms of the Doctor‘s timeline (and that of the Time Lords and Daleks) there clearly is a universe in which they’re not fighting the Time War (the classic series), and a universe when the Time War is over and done (the new series) and the Doctor has crossed from one to the other (despite this basically being borderline impossible). So the Doctor can literally be in the exact same time and place but on different sides of the war.

If that’s a little confusing, I’d argue that’s exactly how it should be as the Time War is a battle fought by beings who live four dimensionally and shouldn’t be wholly comprehensible to those of us who have to limit ourselves to three.

— John Dorney on how stories can be set “before” or “after” the Time War (x)

what i thought the master had planned with the forced regeneration. alas

The Sixth Doctor is the Mid-Life Crisis.