Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-188432-20130514042227/@comment-26975268-20130527160053

If SS,HS had been the pre-titles sequence instead of the (awesome) scene with multiple Doctors, we wouldn't blink to say that it's DWU. If we place it as a little mini-episode after Name, I have no doubt that it's in-universe.

The Prime Computer ads appear to be completely parodic (and not intended to be DWU in the first place), so they go out on that count. The only reason you really don't want ads like that to enter into the DWU is because they're, well, ads. They aren't meant to be in-universe, so we can take them out on that account.

As far as authorial intent for SS,HS, even though it's actually the polar opposite of a "prequel" (released beforehand, takes place after), they call it the longest prequel yet, clearly classing it with the other so-called "prequels."