Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-88790-20140320133410/@comment-188432-20140322040942

I don't think Tangerineduel or I particularly view ourselves as having more authority. More responsibility, perhaps. But we tend to at least participate in conversations when they arise — and to start quite a few of our own accord.

In this case, I'm honestly not terribly bothered either way. As Geek Mythology has pointed out, this is a very odd occurrence. The Night of the Doctor really doesn't have any sort of clear precedent, although I think The Two Doctors is something kinda close, in that I've never heard anyone assert that either Doctor forgets the adventure. If that be true, then the story is not clearly either a Second or Sixth Doctor story. IT happens to both of them, from differing perspectives.

But Night is quite different. It is the end of the Eighth Doctor's run. Disallowing it would be, it seems to me, like trying to consider the Fourth Doctor's era while ignoring Logopolis. I think we can allow our shortest-changed TV Doctor one more tiny story without breaking.