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Post by thethirddoctor on Apr 8, 2018 15:17:34 GMT
The Doctor being colour blind from 1963 to 1969, as written in the DOTD novel. Actually, makes no sense at all. Does that mean we are all colour blind, cause we watch those episodes in black and white? Why does it make no sense at all? I can't think of anything that definitively says the first and second Doctors weren't colour blind or anything that's contradicted by them being so. Aren't we all colour blind? |
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Apr 8, 2018 17:09:46 GMT
Erm, it's stated in the book! But who said the book is canon? The BBC have never stated as such so why do you assume it so? Do you know an authorative Doctor Who source higher than the BBC? If so, please share. It isn't canon in my eyes, plus I have a good sense of humour so like an odd joke or two. It's nothing to get worked up about... really! Exactly. Everyone approaches canon differently. Moffat made a joke about the black & white years. Period. The end. It takes more energy & time writing & whining about it than it would take to read and then ignore it. |
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Apr 8, 2018 17:21:41 GMT
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Post by thethirddoctor on Apr 8, 2018 17:29:57 GMT
What's the title of this thread, again?
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Apr 8, 2018 17:39:40 GMT
Moffat's Easter Eggs in the novelization aren't additions to the mythos, they are gags. Things to be enjoyed, or not and then moved on from.
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Post by thethirddoctor on Apr 8, 2018 18:01:44 GMT
Moffat's Easter Eggs in the novelization aren't additions to the mythos, they are gags. Things to be enjoyed, or not and then moved on from. How is it NOT an addition to the mythos? |
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Apr 8, 2018 18:23:30 GMT
Because I don't consider anything that happens outside of the TV show or Big Finish audios to be canon. Original novels, novelizations of episodes, comic books & comic strips run parallel to them. And if I did consider the alternative media as canon, I certainly would not be obsessing over things that are clearly meant to be throwaway items, gags or Easter Eggs. And even with the TV series & the audios, canon is something mutable as it should be for any creative venture pushing 60 years. If I don't like something, I don't obsess over it or focus negative energy on it, I just ignore it. It's, you know, fiction. Or if the show keeps doing things I don't like or agree with, I walk away from the series because life is too short to waste time complaining about something I no longer enjoy.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 20:29:16 GMT
Because I don't consider anything that happens outside of the TV show or Big Finish audios to be canon. Because there is no proper authorised BBC Doctor Who canon, I ignore things in the TV show that upset my sensibilities... the sickly colourful New Dalek Paradigm for instance! (Yuk!) So if it doesn't have to count, then for me it doesn't... life is simpler that way.  |
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Post by shutupbanks on Apr 8, 2018 21:00:14 GMT
Moffat's Easter Eggs in the novelization aren't additions to the mythos, they are gags. Things to be enjoyed, or not and then moved on from. How is it NOT an addition to the mythos? Novelisations are retellings of the events in the mythos. They are not the mythos. |
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Post by aztec on Apr 10, 2018 8:43:40 GMT
The only thing I consider 100%canon is Dimensions in Time, everything else may or may not have happened   |
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Post by mrperson on Apr 17, 2018 15:54:13 GMT
Another thread reminded me: the "madman in a box" thing that started getting thrown around with The Eleventh Hour.
No, the character is not a madman. Or at least, he wasn't until Moffat decided that's what he should be. A rebel, a brilliant miscreant, yes, but not a madman.
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