Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-25566332-20140616221206/@comment-188432-20140626003436

Well I think we can all agree from long experience of Big Finish that they're not doing their stuff for our categorical needs. They're all about multiple marketing tracks, which makes it hard to categorise some of their stuff as one thing or the other. And they're masters of inventing "ranges" out of thin air.

Still I think this series is profoundly ambiguous, and the best way forward with the original question — where do we put the actors — is simply to create a whole new category for it.

Incidentally, I wouldn't take that interview very seriously in terms of what it's saying about the series. The interviewer's questions were obviously leading in that direction. If the questions were instead Doctor-centric, I'm sure Handcock would be able to characterise the very same stories as "showing a side of the Doctor we've never seen before" and "a series that doesn't require you know anything about the Seventh Doctor's previous adventures in audio". You hit the ball that's bowled to you, man.