Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-188432-20130514042227/@comment-70.36.140.206-20130527152049

SS, HS breaks the fourth wall in exactly the same way that a voiceover narrative does. These are incredibly common in the Moffat era—more than one in three episodes either begins or ends with one. But they happened before, as well. When the Eighth Doctor started the TV movie saying, "It was on the planet Skaro that my old enemy the Master was finally put on trial," who exactly was he speaking to here, if not the audience? There's no way he spoke these words aloud in-universe, and it's pretty unlikely he even thought these sentences to himself—yet they're clearly part of an in-continuity narrative.

And I don't see how seeing Clara and the Doctor speak their soliloquys, instead of just hearing them as a voiceover, makes them substantially different, any more than seeing the Fourth Doctor's in The Deadly Assassin appear on a text scroll did.