User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1317169-20121202170842/@comment-88790-20130102134925

As CzechOut has requested here is the Continuity section from a story; Dalek. I have only done the Continuity as I don't think I've said anything about modifying the References.

Going through this I think, as MM suggests if we are to go forward we need a criteria for Continuity.


 * 1) This story was adapted by writer Robert Shearman from his Big Finish Audio Drama Jubilee. This was the first time that a licenced Doctor Who story from the "expanded franchise" had been adapted in this way. Later, TV: Boom Town would reference a novel, and TV: Human Nature/The Family of Blood, Blink, and The Lodger would be based upon a previously published novel, a short story, and a comic strip respectively.
 * 2) This is the second story to feature Daleks (on screen) rising up stairs, the first being TV: Remembrance of the Daleks where an Imperial Dalek "climbs" stairs.
 * 3) The Cyberman head displayed in van Statten's museum is of a style from TV: Revenge of the Cybermen. This is the first time a Mondas Cyberman from the old series appeared in the revival series. This is not the first story in which both Cybermen and Daleks have appeared, however; discounting flashbacks, that honour goes to The Five Doctors.
 * 4) Adam Mitchell becomes the first on screen male companion of the Doctor since Vislor Turlough departed in the 1984 story TV: Planet of Fire.
 * 5) The Doctor tries to convince the Dalek that it no longer has any purpose, perhaps trying to use the same tactic as he did in TV: Remembrance of the Daleks, which resulted in a Dalek self-destructing.
 * 6) The Dalek was an unknown creature due to the Battle of the Medusa Cascade being unwritten, or simply "time got rewritten" due to following events.
 * 7) Van Satten says, "In-Tru-Der Window." A similar line would later be said by the Tenth Doctor in TV: The Sontaran Stratagem.
 * 8) This is the first televised Dalek story not to feature Davros since TV: Death to the Daleks in 1974.
 * 9) The Dalek tells Rose, "I feel your fear", to which she responds, "What do you expect?", mirroring a conversation between Victoria Waterfield and a Dalek in TV: The Evil of the Daleks.
 * 10) The Dalek developing emotions is like the ones in TV: The Evil of the Daleks.
 * 11) The Doctor previously visited 2012 on at least one occasion during or prior to his sixth incarnation (AUDIO: The Raincloud Man) as well as during his seventh (AUDIO: Frozen Time) and eighth incarnations (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon). He would later do so again during his tenth (TV: Fear Her) and eleventh incarnations (TV: Good as Gold).
 * 12) Van Statten claims that his scientists discovered the cure from the common cold from alien bacteria in "the Russian crater." This presumably refers to the crater created by the Tunguska Event on 30 June 1908. After her defection from the Soviet Union to the United Kingdom in 1958, the Czech scientist Dr. Nadia Červenka provided the Sen-Gen Facility with a neuro-chemical hallucinogen developed using a yellow fungus which was discovered in the Tunguska crater. It was believed to be extraterrestial in origin. (AUDIO: Artificial Intelligence)

Notes


 * 1) More of an introduction note or for the story notes.
 * 2) Is fine, it's a connection to a previous story.
 * 3) It's a stylistic connection.
 * 4) It is a connection to another story, but it's not a link exactly, there have been other male companions, it just needs clarifying to be TV companions.
 * 5) The use of "perhaps" seems more to be guess work than any actual link.
 * 6) No links present.
 * 7) This is a link that belongs more on The Sontaran Stratagem than this article, it is that story that is linking to this one.
 * 8) It's relevant information, but does it connect these two stories?
 * 9) Is a good connection.
 * 10) As above.
 * 11) If we take continuity as any link between stories then that's fine, they all take place in 2012. But there's nothing in any of these stories aside form the year that links them together. So my question would be; do these stories broaden your understanding of this story in the greater DW universe by knowing which stories take place in that year? For instance The Eleventh Hour's Continuity section does not mention the numerous stories that take place in 2008. The 2008 article does a better job to communicate that information.
 * 12) Like 5. another vague statement this time "presumedly". Information best suited on the common cold page or the Tunguska Event page.