User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20121221223742/@comment-71.80.219.129-20121221225725

David Tennant referring to himself as David Tennant and Matt Smith addressing Dan Starkey, in character as Strax, are not the same things. One is OOC and the other is IC.

The breaking of the fourth wall has been allowed in previous situations, such as Oswin's breaking of the fourth wall at the end of "Asylum of the Daleks" and Ten's direct address of the Prom audience in "Music of the Spheres."