User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-43908-20150311013943/@comment-2035954-20151211044539

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-43908-20150311013943/@comment-2035954-20151211044539 You know, in-universe, I think they're the same (third) Romana. I really do. In my head, reading the opening to The Shadows of Avalon, I hear Juliet Landau's mostly-English accent.

But I don't think that we should treat them as the same on a non-speculative wiki unless (very unlikely) they are explicitly treated as the same character in and out of universe.

That being said, I'd say either a single Romana page or four separate Romana pages - Romana I / Romana II / Romana (Shadows of Avalon) / Romana (Renaissance) - neither is explicitly called the Third Romana even if both are heavily implied to be, so I think "Romana III" is right out at this point - in fact, for a while I was labouring under the assumption that Trey came later. She says that Romana spent "several lifetimes" rebuilding Gallifrey, after all.

Ultimately, I don't think it's clear enough to state as fact. We can go nuts in the Behind the Scenes sections - so should we.

Personally, my vote would be for four Romana pages, with only Tamm and Ward receiving the Roman numeral treatment. I say this because it seems cleaner and it's less of a massive undertaking. Failing that, a single Romana page seems like a good second choice to me.