Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-25566332-20140115180525/@comment-5918438-20161209054045

OS25 is absolutely correct about these Proms, but I do have to correct some fine points about Music of the Spheres. First off, here's an excerpt from the lead: "...Other versions of the short, such as the one broadcast by BBC One, captured audience reaction. These shots made it clearer that the Doctor was only interacting with the Albert Hall audience. From the perspective of the home audience, the Albert Hall audience was a part of the narrative, and the fourth wall remained intact — if a little battered."

The version of Music of the Spheres that we cover /does/ include the interaction with the Royal Albert Hall; we cover the version broadcast on BBC One, not the version in which the Doctor breaks the fourth wall by addressing the camera the whole time, to silence—as has been explained to me in the past by CzechOut, who I believe was the one who really cemented Music of the Sphres in as a valid source. Not the live event either, per se, but the broadcast version only.

But the later Proms are a totally different "story", so to speak. By which I mean, they are not stories. The Doctor sticks around, or Matt Smith does anyway. Even if there are skits, they're really just that, and as has been said we can't just pick which bits we want to count and which we don't.