User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-79.68.246.214-20131114171340/@comment-25566332-20140929021218

Moffat is under no obligation whatsoever to acknowledge Lungbarrow. He didn't sit down to write Listen and think, "I really want to show the Doctor as a boy but there's this novel from the 90s that says Time Lords are born fully mature. Oh well. Can't go contradicting something only a small percentage of the audience knows or cares about." That's not how Doctor Who gets made. Nor should it be. If the production team wants to acknowledge some of the spin-off media, that's fine. But they can't possibly acknowledge all of it. That would stifle creativity.