Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1432718-20130507223708/@comment-188432-20130509004600

I've significantly reworked Doctor-lite to include some kinda source for the term, and to include more examples from other media. I've also deleted the list, as it's just not necessary to define the term. Removing the list will also future proof the article — we don't have any obligation to run back to it and change it every time a new episode comes up.

I do think that in terms of the TV series, you have to be able to prove that something funky is going on with the shooting schedule. There has to be some evidence of double-banking, because that's pretty explicitly what Moffat says in DWM 383. It's not sufficient to just have the Doctor absent in the first 10 minutes of a show; that's just a simple restructuring of the plot.

We won't know for sure until we get the full Pixley on The Crimson Horror, so I say we should just leave it out of the category, and not attempt to claim anything about it's "Doctor-lite" status until we get some more behind-the-scenes reporting.