Talk:The Kingmaker (audio story)
Question
IS this story a dream, cause frankly it seem to not work with doctor who canon well. Or was the event erased after the big bang two?74.73.148.152talk to me 01:08, June 16, 2014 (UTC)
- I don't know the story, so I can't answer your specific question, but there are lots of stories in the DWU that don't work with other stories (just look at the Daleks, for example...or the Great Intelligence...or the Cybermen). As for the event being erased, we would have to have specific confirmation from the writers before we can say for sure. Shambala108 ☎ 01:53, June 16, 2014 (UTC)
The Kingmaker... has Richard III living out Shakespeare's life from 1597 onward. This would mean that the "Shakespeare" that the Tenth Doctor and Martha meet in The Shakespeare Code is actually a disguised Richard III installed by the fifth Doctor... but who is somehow driven to great depression by the death of the original Shakespeare's son, who has acquired two perfectly functional arms and doesn't limp. It might be best to assume events in The Kingmaker happened, then the Time War or some other intervention (allowing for Shakespeare's importance to history) reversed them. This would carry the double benefit of not having to rationalise the conflicting fates of Richard III's nephews/nieces in The Kingmaker and Sometime Never.
