User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-5545417-20150725190725/@comment-1293767-20150726174145

No they're not. Ellerby creates all his comics in the same artistic style, he is not singling out his DW backups as parodic, which they aren't. The show and extended universe are utterly ridiculous, often crossing the line from even soft sci-fi into straight up fantasy. Now I love that the show is sci-fantasy, but are we supposed to disqualify In the Forest of the Night because a lot of people had trouble suspending their disbelief in magic trees? No.

As for the sonic screwdriver: it's been shown to detect and block telepathic signals in Rose, turn ordinary cell phones into super phones that can contact anyone across time and space in multiple stories starting such as The End of the World (so it's pretty silly to argue that that's perfectly acceptable but having Bookface to network companions across time and space is not), deactivate living drawings in Fear Her, increase radiation output in Smith and Jones, make Rose glow in Warfreekz!, increase mesh density in Silence in the Library, tint sunglasses in Planet of the Dead, increase the frequencies of a living creature to the point of human hearing in The Beast Below, force a living creature to vomit in The Beast Below, blow up a Weeping Angel in Good as Gold, send the Boneless back to their own dimension in Flatline, and literally heal human flesh in The Vampires of Venice.

And the Doctor has stated he can add new settings.

So I do not see why we shouldn't add that to the list of things the sonic screwdriver can do.