User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190917111635/@comment-6032121-20190922160155

Oh, sure, we can keep Dr Who and the Turgids invalid. I just thought it was one of the things we could revisit if we put an end to the reign of the "a thing that exists to advertise another thing cannot be valid" dogma.

I think the difference with the Prime Computer advertisements is that the PCAs break ludicrously from usual Doctor Who ruleset: the TARDIS interior is completely different, the Doctor gets married to Romana. Whereas Turgids doesn't actually do anything a regular Doctor Who comic couldn't imaginably have done at the same time; note that unlike the Prime Computer in the PCAs, which is just that, a Prime Computer that the Doctor for whatever reason thinks is advanced technology, the TARDIS Tuner employed by the Doctor within the fictional Turgids story is a fictional item "exclusive to Time Lords", which only just happens to resemble the merchandise item from the real world. Not too different a situation from Ace in Ace Returns! conveniently experiencing flashbacks to the very stories whose DVD release is being advertised, though I'll admit it is a step further.

We're drifting, though.

On the other hand, I have found another work whose status could be altered if trailers are valid: Sprout Boy meets a Galaxy of Stars, which, IIRC correctly, was ruled invalid because it was at the end of the day an ad, if only a very vague one advertising "the BBC" in general.