RETCON - RETroactive CONtinuity
The adding of new information or the changing of previously established facts in an existing work of serial fiction.

The change itself is a "retcon" and the act of writing a retcon is called "retconning".

Retconning is the attempt to maintain consistency across the Canon and fix Continuity and other errors in the simplest way possible.

Retcon Reasoning :

The images on WHOPIX are a sort of Visual Retcon; getting rid of question mark collars, giving Colin Baker a blue outfit, colourising B&W Screengrabs etc.
Why?
The main inspiration behind WHOPIX was "What would the Fifth Doctor look like without that stupid stick of celery and those bloody question marks on his shirt collar?" Infinitely better is the answer. Visually the look of JNT`s Doctors is not just naff but more importantly lacks realism. Worse still, Drs 5,6 &7 are completely inconsistent with either their predecessors or succesors. They just don`t look right. And seeing those 2007 Children In Need pix of Davison & Tennant together only reinforces that view. [The Retconned versions at WHOPIX look so much better]

So whereas a lot of WHOPIX is Retconning pictures, DR WHO 2 is all about Retconning words.

Retcon Types :

ADDITION - fills in missing details
ALTERATION - what you saw isn`t really what happened.
SUBTRACTION - treats a story as having never happened

Related Concepts :
BACKSTORY : A character`s history before we first meet him.
PREQUEL : Story that takes place prior to the original story, but written after.
CANON : The original source of a fictional universe. For Dr Who, this means TV.
APOCRYPHA : Stories from other media than the originating one - comics,novels,CDs.
FANFICTION : Fiction written fans of a character or series, not considered Canonical.
FANON : Fanfic considered to be Canon.
FANWANK : Fanfic that is self-indulgent & continuity obsessed
REBOOT : Disregard all previous continuity and start from scratch.
CROSSOVER : Characters from two different fictional universes meet each other.
MULTIVERSE: Different versions of the same fictional universe.
PARALLEL EARTH : Where decisions of history took a different possible course
ALTERNATIVE HISTORY: A world that diverges from real historical events
COUNTERFACTUAL : What if events did not happen or had a different outcome?
CONTINUITY : Consistency which maintains the illusion of realism.

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