Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20130929202135/@comment-188432-20131002005031

Yeah, this is clearly a case like The Brilliant Book 2011, or The Making of Doctor Who. The whole thing's out of bounds, because it's not genuine narrative. It's just got the veneer of narrative that wraps around a big ol' info dump about the history of televised narratives. It's basically like a clip show, where, to the extent there's new narrative, it serves merely to create a frame around which characters can "remember" events that happened on television.

There's no substantive new narrative here, and what's here is a contrivance to allow the retelling of televised narratives.

In the same way that we do not allow the reporting of the in-universe framing device of The Making of Doctor Who, we won't allow the framing elements from this work, either.

The Doctor: His Life and Times is a non-fiction book, it will bear, and it can be used as a primary source only on real world pages. It is not a valid source for the writing of in-universe pages.