Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-4028641-20170222073756/@comment-4028641-20170305232130

Thefartydoctor wrote: I never stated I had proof for a LEGO DWU. Nitpick all my responses if you must but you'll find nothing of the sort. Whereas there has been some weird "any DWU is the DWU" frame of mind, which I don't understand. As I said, I may be being thick but that doesn't make sense to me.

Perhaps it would help if I went down the line of things that would make the LEGO DWU not the DWU from an authorial point-of-view.


 * If they took DWU ideas and tried to "re-do" them in a completely different way. For instance, if the Doctor Who level pack had a character be revealed to be Bad Wolf, suggesting that Rose's Bad Wolf doesn't exist in this canon. That would be a conceited effort to make the LEGO universe different from the regular one. A LEGO Harry Potter game would do things like this, as did the LEGO Back to the Future game set. But no DWU media has even tried.
 * If they didn't have so many references to DWU stories which they never try to LEGO-fy. If they didn't recreate specific locations of specific episodes with the intent purpose of making sequel stories instead of rebranded stories. If there wasn't a reference to something like Bad Wolf -- which can only really refer to one specific story from one specific time.
 * If, in the distant future, they tried to make a new non-TV narrative for the Doctor in the films. For instance, if they show 12 dying and regenerating into Hayley Atwell's Thirteenth Doctor in The Lego Movie 2. That would be a deliberate effort to undermine mainstream events.

I'm going to once again say that because the level pack included in the DWU LD game is only invalid because of the "you can play as any lego figures that you have" LD stlke, it's the treatment within the narrative (i.e. the cut-scenes and levels around those cut-scenes) which really matters to precedent and this discussion. So when we see all these recreated sets and all these references to DWU stories with no attempt to change anything significant about the DWU, it starts to seem to me at least that there's no evidence that this DWU isn't the DWU.