Why does the Doctor behave in such different ways? Why do they alternatively describe themselves as human (Hartnell to early Troughton era), half-human (Paul McGann) and an alien Time Lord from a planet called Gallifrey (most of the rest). The wider universe doesn't help either - there's at least three different versions of Atlantis, for example as well as the UNIT dating controversy or breaking the fourth wall.
It's almost like the creators working on the show make it up as they go along.
And that's without considering the wider Whoinverse of books, audio, fan fic, comics and other media - some of which has been folded into the TV show canon. Some have speculated that some comic versions of Doctor Who represent the "real" Doctor's dreams. Certainly they are bizarre enough.
What if there was a way of making sense of it all, or even just the bits you like the look of? Well, it turns out there is.
An alt-theory of Who
My theory is simply expressed as:
Every story, regardless of media, is set in a slightly different parallel universe.With it, every continuity and consistency problem disappears at the stroke. Between each story, we somehow switch to another universe and rejoin the Doctor and their companions/friends/fam in a subtly different universe.
The Doctor can be male or female, a Timeless Child or a gentlemen adventurer from Earth's future, and have thirteen incarnations or millions.
It works on another level too as no creator working on Who will have exactly the same view of the character and their accoutrements as another. Each new parallel universe is created by a single or team of creators.
