How Ace's Return Could Create A Doctor Who Canon Issue
The return of Ace in Jodie Whittaker’s final Doctor Who adventure may create a canon issue for the show. Ace was last seen walking back to the TARDIS with the Seventh Doctor at the end of “Survival”, the final serial of the show’s original run, in 1989. However, the character has had a full fictional life over the ensuing three decades, creating some potentially complex issues.
Across audio dramas, comic strips, spin-off series, and novels Ace has died, left the Doctor, trained as a Time Lord, and set up a charitable foundation. It remains to be seen just what role Ace will have in the upcoming special, given her confusing timeline in spin-off media. To confuse matters further, the actor that plays her, Sophie Aldred, co-wrote a novel At Childhood’s End, published in 2020, which had Dorothy “Ace” McShane meet the Thirteenth Doctor, Yaz, Ryan, and Graham.
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In the trailer that followed “Legend of the Sea Devils”, Ace says that it’s been over three decades since she last saw the Doctor. Which, given the timey-wimey nature of the Doctor and their companions’ lives could still be true regardless of where or when their journey ended. However, this statement contradicts the events of Aldred’s novel At Childhood’s End in which the Thirteenth Doctor and Ace reconcile their differences after their difficult parting decades prior. Ace’s return to the series in the upcoming special causes a canon headache because it looks like it will ignore the events of the novel, potentially undercutting previous events.
Chris Chibnall’s decision to ignore the events of At Childhood’s End does make sense, however. Ace is a much-loved companion to many, so it’s unlikely that the
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