Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-6032121-20181230112657/@comment-24894325-20181230140919

Not that I have two hours to spend on something that by definition is intended to provide a cosy background noise rather than tell a story. But somebody watched it so we don't have to. (Well, we have to to verify his findings, but it makes it easier.) And I did verify the following occurrence. "Three times the Doctor’s sonic screwdriver appears on the table completely on its own, glows a bit, and remains on the table, only to disappear again shortly before the Doctor arrives in the room (43:00, 44:30, 1:38:53)."

- Doctor Who: Yet Another Other Holiday Tradition Fizzles Out by Erin Wilhelm

I am not aware of an established ability of the sonic screwdriver to materialise and dematerialise on its own. If this story is accepted as valid, then we would have to use it to establish such an ability.

Which would be quite unreasonable, given that I have not seen a statement from BBC suggesting they intended it as a story instead of a traditional yule log video. From the further description it appears that various monsters/characters from Series 11 are cameoed to make for some change in the video, without any regard for the continuity. Not that continuity is necessary for validity. But here there does not seem to be any intention of storyfying it. Just random occurrences that do not make much sense together. This is closer to a trailer, which also exhibit many DW things in some sort of order, without pretending to be a story. Like the pre-season trailer where the Doctor was moving with supersonic speed leaving regenerative energy traces in the air and messing up with Team TARDIS.

Fortunately, unlike many other communities that have to wait months and years for the next story, we easily get 10+ stories every month. There is no need to go fishing for more. Just like And Introducing... is and should stay invalid, so should this.

PS. Apparently, last year there was a similar video about the Twelfth Doctor, which was ignored to the extent I couldn't find it on the wiki at all. No reason to treat this one any differently.