Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-27280472-20160606210324/@comment-4028641-20161130091814

I believe this is the main chunk of where the thread's conclusion comes from:


 * They actively chose not to involve McGann when it was clear that they had no qualms about asking other, arguably "bigger", actors to participate.
 * They weren't looking to continue this continuity at all, so I think they felt liberated to do whatever they wanted with it.
 * They were looking to produce DW on television at the time, and Freedman seems to be saying he wouldn't have continued this continuity on television.
 * Fountain publicly backed away from definitively calling DCTT "canon" before the whole thing had actually come out.

I'm not paraphrasing, that's literally how Czech spells it out. The main problem as I see it is that he draws a lot of information from some very loopy quotes that otherwise don't seem to have a lot of significance. On that note, I want to tread lightly -- it's traditionally considered a no-no on this site to just question consensus all willy-nilly (for a reason I've never understood).