Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20130929202135/@comment-188432-20140109202641

When I said "the whole thing" above I was including the short "story". Sorry for not being clearer. In any case "The Book" fails the first of our four little rules. It's not a story. There is no plot. There is no narrative progression whatsoever. It is a "tone poem", a brief depiction of a character's mood. The "plot" is: "Book thinks about things it wants to say to the Doctor." That's not a story. That's the in-universe characterisation of a non-narrative moment. Let this in and you've gotta let in the Prime Computer ads, the Fourth-Doctor-goes-to-the-cinema Terror of the Zygons ad and a whole host of brief, in-character advertisements.