Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20200517150418/@comment-6032121-20200521231632

@Borisashton, this is a good point, but as all the documentary webcasts on that list were released via the Doctor Who: Lockdown! YouTube channel, I hardly think there's much doubt about them.

@dIsOriEnTeD1, I stand by my rebuttal of the idea that Cook denied the short story being part of Lockdown! and my further pointing out that it was released within the Tweetalong's hashtag by the featured DWU author. On the one side we have no evidence that the short story (as opposed to the unveiling of the TV draft) isn't part of Lockdown!, and on the other we have significant evidence that Harness intended for it to be part of Lockdown!, as shown by the use of the hashtag.

The reason this turns into a question of validity (and thus outside the scope of this thread) is, you understand, that it is because it was released within Lockdown! that we take this story to have been licensed like all the other Lockdown! originals. It is either part of Lockdown! and covered on the Wiki, or it isn't part of Lockdown! and it's fanfic. You can't start questioning whether it's part of Lockdown! without questioning its coverage on the Wiki. And this isn't the thread to question its coverage; only an inclusion debate is allowed to do that.

You write, “the "short story" harness released IS an unproduced story. he literally claimed that it was from a discarded novel”. You're conflating two things again. The full novel, if it had ever existed, would be an unproduced story. But the actual prose story released in 2020, whether or not it started out as part of a larger project, obviously isn't unproduced. Licensed or otherwise, a page of prose fiction about the Monk's fifth incarnation was released in April 2020 on Twitter. It ain't unproduced because it's right there. I've read it, and you've read it.