Ah,
the glory of headcanon, or “continuity wrangling” as we used to
call it in the old days, a game that has only been made more fun by
the existence of various expanded universe versions of Doctor Who.
You got the TV series itself, the novels, the comic and the audios to
play with.
So,
the Big Finish canon and the Time War.
As
far as I'm concerned (I know the point is considered debatable by
some) the Rassilon in The End Of Time is the
Rassilon. The Time Lords dragged him out of the Divergent Universe by
means unknown and somewhere in the deep shadows of those council
scenes in The End Of Time is lurking that “complete fraud and
malicious piece of excrement” the Kro'Ka.
As
to the Divergents themselves (who would have been resurrected in the
new cycle started in The Next Life) I suppose that Rassilon probably
used them as cannon fodder against the Daleks. Not in any
particularly tactical way, just opened a portal from their universe
in front of the biggest Dalek army he could find and watched the two
slaughter each other, probably whilst eating popcorn (Big Finish
Rassilon? Not a nice guy. Kind of a genocidal maniac, actually).
I
think Romana's dead. I don't believe bringing Rassilon back from the
Divergent Universe is something she'd have signed off on, I think the
High Council did it after she died. If she died then Leela died too,
probably protecting Romana.
Part
of me wants to speculate on what Braxiatel did during the Time War
but that would mean making some kind of sense out of Braxiatel's Big
Finish timeline and that way madness lies. I think
the version of Braxiatel from the Gallifrey series is the same
Braxiatel from the Legion-era Bernice Summerfield box sets and the
Braxiatel from the Collection-era is an alternate version originating
in the New Adventures timeline. I am almost completely certain
they're meant to be separate people and not the same guy at different
points in his timeline. Maybe. Who knows? Not even Brax, as far as I
can tell, so I've got no hope.
Contrary
to what is going round the internet right now I don't think Big
Finish will be doing the Time War ever. Its a very definite ending to
their side of the continuity and endings aren't really something Big
Finish are in to.
Oh,
and the Visionary is the Pythia resurrected from the ancient
Gallifrey of The New Adventures.
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