User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1272640-20170101103803/@comment-1272640-20170123194823

OncomingStorm12th wrote: Look, it doesn't matter what they wanted to do. If the crossover did not happen, we can't (and most likely, won't) cover it, except on "behind the scenes". Yes, they might have wanted Daleks and the Fourth Doctor on Blake's 7, but the plain truth is: it did not happen. We should not take this "they wanted X thing to happen" as arguments for inclusion any more than deleted scenes of TV episodes or any other unreleased story.

The only thing which seems to "connect" the DWU and B7U is Carnell. However, quoting User:SOTO on Thread:207769, "Usually, when an outside character is used in a work of Doctor Who, we only cover the character's DWU appearances, and give information outside of that only in the 'behind the scenes' and 'external links' sections.". If there are no other, stronger, "connections" between B7 and DWU, I'd say we should just cover Carnell the way we do, and add a link to the characters page at Blake's 7 wiki. It's not just Carnell.

It's that in material promoting Kaldor City, they basically said Blake's 7 and Doctor Who are in the same universe. Who created Kaldor City? Chris Boucher. Who was script editor of Blake's 7? Chris Boucher.

Not only that, but the same person played Carnell in Blake's 7 and in Kaldor City. Paul Darrow plays Avon and "Iago", and in Kaldor City, "Iago" is given a backstory identical to that of Kerr Avon. It's not just that Carnell's there. It's that a main character from Blake's 7 is very heavily implied to be a main character in Kaldor City. With all of this, I don't think there's reason to doubt that Blake's 7 is in the DWU.