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   On 2025-12-01 12:40:11 +0000, Daniel70 said:   
   > On 1/12/2025 11:22 pm, solar penguin wrote:   
   >> Daniel declared:   
   >>> On 1/12/2025 2:30 pm, Nomen Nescio wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Could a retcon be concocted that way?   
   >>>   
   >>> Sorry. What do you mean?? Peter Cushing being one of the missing   
   >>> Timeless Child incarnations?? (I could live with that.) Peter Cushing   
   >>> being after DoctorJo?? (I could live with that ... but less so.)   
   >>>   
   >>> What do you mean??   
   >>   
   >> The only trouble is that the Cushing Dr Who films were remakes of   
   >> Hartnell serials. You would have to explain why both Doctors were   
   >> present at the same events, doing the same things at the same time, but   
   >> never saw each other.   
   >>   
   >> And that's before you deal with the alternative versions of Susan, Ian,   
   >> Barbara, etc. Are they all Timeless Children too?   
   >>   
   >> You could probably find a way to make it work, but it seems like it   
   >> would be a lot of trouble.   
   >   
   > Oh!! Is that right? O.K., then, that WOULD make things difficult!!   
      
   Peter Cushing theorised that the Toymaker made the Dcotor relive the   
   adventures:   
      
       When Cushing was asked how his Doctor fit into the continuity   
       of the series, he said, "One of the few episodes of the Doctor   
       Who series that I saw involved a kind of mystical clown   
       (The Celestial Toymaker), and I realised that perhaps he   
       kidnapped Doctor Who and wiped his memory and made him relive   
       some of his earlier adventures. When Bill Hartnell turned into   
       Patrick Troughton and changed his appearance, that idea seemed   
       more likely. I think that's what happened, so I think those   
       films we did fit perfectly well into the TV series."   
      
      
   BUT, an in-universe solution already exists where the character Peter   
   Cushing was playing in the two movies was NOT the real Doctor Who.   
   Cushing was playing a human actor making the story with the real   
   Doctor's approval:   
      
       In the 2018 novelisation of "The Day of the Doctor", it is   
       established that in the Doctor Who universe, these two Dr. Who   
       movies are fiction movies, Peter Cushing was an actor, and the   
       actual Doctor approved of these movies. This has been described   
       as "corrective canon"."   
          
      
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