Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-2.26.183.189-20170416191252/@comment-4028641-20170424133107

Back in the days of cliff-hangers at the BBC Television Centre, there were plenty of examples of cliffhangers that didn't match up to their respective recaps and that sort of thing.

Essentially, one shot from FftF was re-done for The Pilot. It's the shot of the Doctor and Bill running and turning after a Dalek blast lands in front of them. Certainly it's brief second of discontinuity, but that in no way invalidates the existence of the story.

Moffat's executive intent was that fans would be able to "sleep" knowing where the one story was meant to fit inside the other. That's the basic definition of the authorial intent to have something set inside the Doctor Who Universe. You can't sweep all of that under the rug simply on the basis of a discrepancy between the end of a corridor.