Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20200517150418/@comment-6032121-20200518003111

Even if we accepted that premise, and again, I think the evidence that the novelisation project in 2015 ever existed is very thin… they're not the same unproduced story. If Cook is talking about an unproduced story by Harness (and the exchange you quoted uses the singular "story"), she can't be talking about both the TV story and the prose story. The TV story is definitely unproduced whereas there's very serious doubt about the status of the novelisation/short story. Ergo, Cook must logically be commenting on the unproduced TV story, and doesn't say anything one way or the other about the short story.