Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-188432-20151122185235

Well, as has been said many times, a consensus is not the same thing as a vote. You can't build a consensus around the notion that the moon is made of cheese, no matter how many people vote for the idea.

And I'm quite prepared to rule on one apparently popular aspect of this debate, right now, in light of the events of Raven.


 * Authorship shall have no bearing on whether episodes are part of the same story.

Next week's episode is quite obviously a continuation of this week's, and yet they are going to be credited to different writers. Moreover, what if the next show runner adopts something closer to an American "writers' room", where people are assigned credits, but really everyone is pitching in on each script. A rule on this wiki must have a decent chance of being applicable in the future, and it's reasonable to expect that at some time a more "generalised" approach to writing might be adopted, since it's pretty common in the television industry.

Also, we're not going to strike down a rule without having a viable replacement. The "to be continued rule", for lack of a better term, at least gives us something to hang our hats on. We're not going to strike it down without having something else in its place. And that "something" cannot include a "must be authored by the same writer" clause — not in the light of the very obvious cliffhanger we were delivered this week.

So while it's vaguely interesting that six people have voted against the "TBC rule", it's not actionable.