User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20200517150418/@comment-45692830-20200517225909

Let me turn this around on you. You want me to find "Lockdown" branding for any of the stories you're saying aren't Lockdown related. How about you find "Lockdown" branding for the Dalek alternative script extract? Or find "Lockdown" branding for Farewell, Sarah Jane and not just the soundtrack or the teaser, etc etc, but the actual webcast. I'll save you time, you won't find it. At best what you'll find is Cook posting the Dalek alt script during the tweetalong with the hashtag metaltron. Or Cook talking about how great Farewell, Sarah Jane is and how happy she is. And you won't find any "Lockdown" branding for any webcast on her twitter. The only way for something to have "Lockdown" branding is to be posted to the youtube account.

But this is straightforwardly impossible for, uh, all but four of the stories you're complaining about. And given the only "prose" story in the lineup you're not complaining about is the script, it's not clear that Lockdown has a place to really put "prose" stories. Since the script is stored on twitter. Which would not be a good medium for the stories you're complaining about. And I'll once again bring up the Shadow Trilogy to point out that the "nonLockdown work" was stored on a BBC site, and it was the only prose work of the three. So once again the problem you're bringing up is illusory upon a little reflection.

As for the four works that you're complaining about that don't meet these criteria, Incoming Message (webcast), United we stand, 2m apart (webcast), and Message from the Doctor (webcast) are all sort of "Public Service Announcements", so it's not obvious that "Lockdown" would want to mirror them. And yes, I do mean mirror, since Farewell, Sarah Jane and Revenge of the Nestene both establish that other places can have priority to host Lockdown stories (Revenge being on Jacob Dudman's youtube), and the Lockdown youtube merely mirrors it or posts like the soundtrack. I'm not sure Castellan is valid, so I have no interest to defend it at this time.

But what you're suggesting we need for these to be "official Lockdown related stories" just isn't something that has ever happened before.