From: blueshirt@indigo.news   
      
   Your Name wrote:   
   >   
   > 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."   
      
   A perfect explanation that works well.   
      
   > 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"."   
      
   I'm sticking with the Grand Moff's version. It makes more sense   
   to me than any of that rubbish Doctor Who fandom spews out.   
      
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