Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130412143615/@comment-88790-20130412164941

You make some good points (and we'll leave Tardis alone).

I always forget about novelisations! It's because of their halfway point with exceptions that they occupied.

DW is all about re-invention so the badly copyedited 20 years later is what becomes the new standard. But a narrative is a narrative and we should use that before we switch to a real world source.

I don't think it's as simple as 'who wrote it knows how to spell it' because of the different people who get in the way between the writer and finished production, namely the script editor / executive producer. Then there's the graphics and other people (and because of them we have Doctor Who and the Silurians).

This is why I don't feel we can trust the "officially released script" as much as we can say the end credits, because at least the credits represents the final production while any released script doesn't show any of the changes that might have been made to it.