Talk:The Doctor's ninth incarnation

Alternative events?

this is a alternative version of the doctor why we not put it into alternate version catagory in the book davies said paralel events– The preceding unsigned comment was added by Doctor other (talk • contribs) 14:30, 30 April 2020.

This has kinda been discussed to death at this point, but the quote about "parallel events" has to be balanced with "all stories are true, all Doctors exist" in the same source, and either way is part of a real-world-focused text which is not in itself a valid source. (Authorial intent as given out-of-universe was used to consign The Infinity Doctors and Doctor Who Unbound to parallel universe status, but always at the conclusion of lengthy special-case forum threads.)

Besides, "parallel events" can mean a lot of things, up to and including these events just unfolding in different places at the same time — "in parallel" — as The Day of the Doctor. The Time War is a weird place. It's perfectly conceivable that several pressings-of-the-Moment would happen alongside each other at its height before collapsing back into a single timeline after Gallifrey disappears, or something along those lines.

As for being an "alternative version", so long as he's not treated by a valid narrative as alternative, we on this Wiki don't make statements about which version of events is 'truer'. An oddity like Doctor Who and the Time War is no less valid than the TV series, and no valid Ninth Doctor is superior to another. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 12:41, April 30, 2020 (UTC)