User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-188432-20130514042227/@comment-1871204-20130531023312

This is the way I see it: it's been marketed as a prequel. Which gives at least the intention of it being canon. However, TV stories can over-rule anything and everything about what's canon. So it's the "responsibility" of the "prequel" to be connected somehow to the main episode. And since nothing in the episode is connected to it, that's the essence of The Name of the Doctor, if it were a person, telling us it isn't canon. If this were an actual narrative, with no question of its story status, that might not matter as much, and if it does, it doesn't here. But as there's absolutely nothing in the episode that says it is, then it can't be. That's just my two credits.