Talk:Audio Adventures in Time & Space

Capitalisation
Shouldn't time be capitalized in the title? Americanwhofan 19:15, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Perhaps not. See BBV Online BBV's spelling of it is 'Audio Adventures in time and Space'. --Tangerineduel 16:03, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Audio Adventures in time and Space
On BBV's store online they spelt it 'Audio Adventures in time and Space'; see BBV Online (via Internet Archive Wayback Machine). --Tangerineduel 14:16, August 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure, on that page they do. On this page and this page and several other pages, they spell it with a capital-T.  The actual products themselves bear the logo, which is in all caps, meaning that we assume standard capitalisation (title case, except for articles and prepositions).


 * More to the point, the phrase "Adventures in Time and Space" comes from Audio Visuals, not BBV, and their official Facebook page goes with "Adventures in Time and Space". (Incredibly the Audio Visuals community is still active; they just posted two days ago!) Also, the closest thing to an official web page off Facebook is http://www.justyce.org and they use a capital-T.


 * All that said, I'm changin' it. 15:34: Sat 03 Mar 2012

"The Time Travellers" canon?
Should the stories not be judged canon or not on an individual basis? For example: I know that laters stories in "The Time Travellers" have Dominie and Alice so obvioiusly can't be canon earlier stories have enough ambiguity to fit in. Take Republica: While the Doctor is refered to as Professor being introduced by Ace he never calls himself that name so could be the actual Doctor...
 * I'll answer this for the record: it was decided at the deceptively titled thread Forum:BBV and canon policy, a decade ago, that we do not cover the entire Audio Adventures in Time & Space series, so in a sense we did end up litigating these things' status on an individual basis.


 * But in fact you have the criteria backwards. As per T:VS, narrative contradiction isn't a factor in validity, so stories about "the Dominie and Alice" could perfectly well be valid sources in theory. And besides, both Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred have played other roles than the Doctor and Ace in the DWU with the resemblance going unexplained and unmentioned. The Dominie and Alice could be knocking about in N-Space separate from the Seventh Doctor and Ace, for all we know.


 * The thing is, however, that what we care about is licenses. Yes, "The Professor" and "Ace" in the early episodes of The Time Travellers could be interpreted as the Seventh Doctor and Dorothy "Ace" Gale, but BBV didn't have a license from the BBC to use those characters; so either the stories use coincidentally-named characters with no relationship to the originals, in which case there is nothing to tether it legally to the DWU; or we treat them as the Doctor and Ace, but they're being used illegally, and therefore it falls afoul of T:NO FANFIC.


 * Bottom line, no episode of The Time Travellers is covered on the Wiki at all, whether as valid or invalid. Other Audio Adventures, however, are included, on a case-by-case basis boiling down to whether they're exploiting a license to a preexisting DWU concept.


 * …Oh, and this change had yet to go through back when this message was posted, but for the record, we don't deal in "canon". Either something is covered or not; if it's covered, either it's a valid source|| or an invalid one. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck  ☎  18:03, 8 May 2021 (UTC)