Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-45314928-20200606025128/@comment-45692830-20200607053320

BBC New Series Adventures is not novelizations, and at least two of the BBC Books novelisations in that time I'm not sure if I'd count. I guess the Douglas Adams and Daleks ones. But 4 Novelizations, none of which feature a new series Doctor (getting only up to 6), over only one series, is hardly "so very untrue".

Similarly, you misunderstand. Harness is not incompetent period, he didn't do what you're accusing him of doing. But if he had, he'd be incompetent for pitching a story that he knew would be rejected. Not merely pitching one that was rejected, but pitching one that had no chance of being published. His Zygon two parter was quite well received. Had he pitched that as a novelization to Target they likely would have accepted it. So we're to believe that instead of doing that he pitched them something he knew would be rejected. That's absurd.