Some day, I'm going to map out a theory that connects this, Main Range #49: Master, and Lungbarrow in a single cohesive timeline.

But for right now, I'm just all kinds of fine with this as an addition to the DW universe. The way the Brendan subplot is visualised and rationalised here, it got me thinking about how many TV stories have different tellings (original broadcast, novelisations, recorded readings of said novelisations, telesnap reconstructions, animated reconstructions, audio adaptations); the same story, just looked at through different filters. Shada is one of my favourites, and there are more versions of that than Blade Runner. With how increasingly self-referential the show has become over the decades, I like this example more than most.

Between that and creating a nice big gap in the Doctor's history to fit more stories into (insert Big Finish joke here), it just feels like a fan made this, and I mean that as a positive. I absolutely get why others didn't like this, both in intent and execution, and I wasn't entirely sure if I did either at first. But even more so than when Doctor Who is good, I like Doctor Who when it's interesting, and this certainly captured my interest. Then again, Jodie Whittaker and Sacha Dhawan are in such top form here, I'll also argue that it's quite good.