User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-45314928-20200610043202/@comment-45314928-20200610180836

correct me if i am wrong but the only pieces of "evidence" to this having been a framing device are;

other releases have been presented as discarded

Revenge of the Nestene and Dalek alternative script extract were both presented as "discarded". however, we have confirmation from Emily Cook that both stories were written during lockdown and she produced / organised them.

a discarded release saw the light of day

Doctor Who and the Time War was originally discarded but released for the lockdown. however, we have confirmation that RTD was approached by Chris Chibnall himself for this work and it was released on official sites.

Harness would be "incompetent" to pitch the story

apparently Harness would be "incompetent" to pitch the story to the publishers operating at the time - for numerous reasons. however, Target novelisation had just returned after a major break and therefore Harness could have pitched it to them in the hopes that they would stray from the norm and release his unproduced story. also, Harness never said that he pitched it to anyone - just that it was a discarded novelisation, he could have just written it and ultimately stopped short of ever getting it published.

how does any of that outweigh Harness' own comments about the novelisation having existed?