Board Thread:Tales from the Tardis/@comment-188432-20130325173913/@comment-188432-20130401133142

SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: He's saying that it's centred specifically on Chase, not the Doctor, and not any elements from his life. But, SOTO, for what you say to be true, we'd have to believe that when Richardson says "Doctor Who" he's referring to a character called "Doctor Who". And that, it seems to me is really the very most unlikely reading of the quote possible.

When someone says a thing is not a spin-off of Doctor Who, they mean that it is not a spin-off of the programme Doctor Who. And when they say that it's not in the "Doctor Who world", they mean that it is not set in the world in which the programme, Doctor Who, is set. And in that sense, world is a synonym for universe—that is, what my dictionary gives as one definition of world: "the material universe or all that exists, everything".