Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-2.26.183.189-20170416191252/@comment-1783865-20170424142519

OttselSpy25 wrote: If Friend from the Future didn't happen, The Pilot doesn't make any sense. The Pilot isn't dependent in Friend from the Future to make sense.

OttselSpy25 wrote: Let us again remind ourselves that there are plot points in The Pilot that only make sense under the context that Friend from the Future also happened:

TheChampionOfTime wrote: Moffat takes the time to set up the fact that the Psychic Paper will alert the Doctor to anything attacking the vault. This never amounts to anything in The Pilot, but Friend from the Future has the Doctor looking at the paper before announcing that they have to go back to 2017. Furthermore, it is mentioned later on in The Pilot that the Doctor received a false alarm on his psychic paper... That's not true. In The Pilot, on their way off-world Nardole asks the Doctor about the vault and the Doctor pulls out his psychic paper and says he will get a message if there's any trouble.

So indeed, it is part of the story and it was meant to "fit in" and "count."