My Unified Field Theory Of Eighth Doctor Continuity

I return from my (lovely) holiday with an especially esoteric bit of
Doctor Who meta. You can blame down time at work and lokisrose for this. She's the one who told me to post it a while
back, when I explained my crazy idea to her *g*.

To people who don't count the spin-offs in their version of Doctor
Who canon, the Eighth Doctor is a footnote in continuity who was only
around for an hour in 1996. For those of us who are not so fussy about what
medium we get our fix in, he held the title of current Doctor for nearly a
decade, starring in in own ranges of books, audios and comics [1]. The
comics will fit fairly comfortably with either the books or the audios [2],
but the audios and books do not work very well with each other. The Eighth
Doctor's personal continuity is thus even more confused than that of his
predecessors, although Seven runs him a close second in the bewildering
canon stakes.

The most sane response to this is to pick either the books or audios as the
'real' version. However, I never claimed to be of sound mind ...

( General spoilers for various versions of Eighth Doctor continuity. )