Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-188432-20130514042227/@comment-70.36.140.206-20130527152752

I think the episode answered most of the other points. The prequel probably takes place inside the Doctor's timeline, so it's perfectly reasonable for us to see props the Doctor couldn't possibly possess.

But, even without that… we've already seen that the TARDIS contains things the Doctor can't possess (e.g., the dress Victoria left wearing is nevertheless in the wardrobe), and Idris even told us that she can access rooms that haven't been built yet. And we've seen (in Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, and in novels like Time's Crucible and The Ancestor Cell) that in a dead or dying TARDIS the rules are even madder.

So, I don't think there's anything that prevents SS, HS from fitting into continuity.

The only question is whether there's any actual story that adds anything to continuity. Maybe it gives us a little more background into what Clara and the Doctor think of the events of Name, but I can't think of any substantive facts that anyone would want to add to an encyclopedia.

If that's the case, is there really anything worth debating?