User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-31010985-20170128173417/@comment-26845762-20170128183756

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-31010985-20170128173417/@comment-26845762-20170128183756 Amorkuz wrote: It appears that by Rule 1, this episode is definitely not valid because it is not a whole story, it is part of The Daleks' Master Plan. I'd beg to differ. On it's own, The Feast of Steven is a full story. The Doctor and companions land in a new time and place, have a comical misadventure, and then leave in the Tardis. All over the course of one episode!

Before The Savages, Doctor Who was a series of individual half-hour episodes which formed larger stories. Would you say that The Sontaran Stratagem or Before the Flood are "definitely not valid because [they are] not a whole story". It's only retroactively a part of The Dalek's Masterplan.

Oh also, why would breaking the fourth wall matter to a story's validity. What matters is if this story is intended to be set in the DWU, and that is undeniably yes.