The classic Doctor Who serial "The Mawdryn Undead," explicitly states that Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart retired from UNIT in the year 1976. However, UNIT hadn't even been formed until shortly before the events of an older serial, "The Invasion," which is set in the year 1979. So we're left with the a timeline claiming that the Brig retired after a long, illustrious career with UNIT 3 years before UNIT even existed.
The TARDIS Wiki says UNIT was formed after the Web of Fear which is in 1968, quoting the tie-in website. It's just that the Doctor learns about it in a story set in 1979 (and then knows about it in stories happening after, but set years earlier), it doesn't mean that UNIT only started existing in 1979. Time travel shenanigans.
Okay, maybe not UNIT itself, but certainly before he was Brigadier. That same wiki actually has a whole page devoted to it. Here's how the problem breaks down:The Web of Fear - Lethbridge-Stewart makes his first appearance as 'Colonel,' not 'Brigadier.' Professor Travers remarks in this serial that it had been 40 years since the last time he saw the Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria, back in "The Abominable Snowmen" which was set firmly in 1935. This dates Web of Fear to around 1975.The Invasion - Lethbridge-Stewart's second appearance, after having been recently promoted to Brigadier. He mentions in this serial that it had been 4 years since the events of Web of Fear, dating Invasion to around 1979.Fast-forward to The Mawdryn Undead, which definitively states that the Brigadier retired from UNIT in 1976, a full 3 years before he was even made Brigadier.I know they retconned it in Nu-Who with the UNIT website and all that, but people have been trying to figure out how to reconcile that mix-up for years.
Oh, the site was an attempted sneak "nothing to see here, everything's normal" retcon, I see. Okay, it's a fuck up.
Someone explain me why jor el put the matrix inside Clark. It was the thing that he thought symbolized everything wrong with their civilization why was he sticking it inside his baby before shooting him into earth.
