Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-188432-20130514042227/@comment-188432-20130515183310

SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: So your objection to the Miracle Day pieces is that you can't place where or when they would take place?

Whatever happened to...


 * "'A story cannot be ruled invalid simply because it is narratively discontinuous with other stories."

Nothing happened to it. Again, this is a rule 1 debate. We're trying to determine if it's a story at all. If it's not a story then it's ruled invalid because it's not a story, not because it's discontinuous.

The question is whether it counts as a story just because it has the trappings of a narrative. In order for a thing to be ruled a narrative you have to be able to answer the basic questions of who, what, when, and where. Just like the Torchwood things, this is problematic because we don't know the when, where and what(-the-hell-is-happening) of this thing. The only thing we think we know is maybe who, and maybe then only in the case of the He Said bit.

Don't mistake the trappings of narrative for narrative itself. Unless Saturday gives us more, this is an advertisement told using the visual language of a story.