Сегодня все цитируют и склоняют Ширмена, я тоже возьму вот отсюда на мою любимую тему:

Some people have been very nice and suggested that the events of Day of the Doctor have warped reactions to my own Dalek story for Chris (eight years ago now!). But they were saying the same thing when everyone on Earth was moved across the universe and saw what Daleks were in The Stolen Earth, set three years before the events of my story. Hey, they were saying it during The Parting of the Ways, that introducing an army of Daleks had ruined the impact of my story dealing with a last survivor!

But the truth is, in order for Doctor Who to survive, it has to keep on being bold and building upon the bones of stories from years ago. And the stories still exist, they’ve not been wiped from my DVD shelf - even if they’ve been put into an altered perspective. I know I shall still be moved by Chris’ tears in The End of the World when Jabe regrets the death of his people, or by David telling Freema all about Gallifrey at the end of Gridlock. I may have a more complex reaction. I might actually be *more* moved.

I completely appreciate your reply, mind you, and I see exactly why the special would disappoint you. (I’m sure, as always, we’ll get enough anthology stories coming along that we can turn a blind eye to the implications, if we want to! And I remember the cries of fandom in 1976 when the Time Lords were reinvented as being fussy old bureaucrats rather than divine beings - and I can imagine the cries when they were introduced utterly out of left field in 1969, when the show hadn’t even alluded to them in six years!) I suspect the show will always power itself upon moments that change the fabric of continuity. And yet, for the majority of the stories the series tells, it won’t matter a jot.