Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-95.145.155.227-20171125234745/@comment-31010985-20180101193902

86.152.200.4 wrote: I'd say that he was joking. Do you have a source for that? He spoke to The Fan Show as if she were alive. It might have been something of a joke in 2008 on set but RTD has now made it happen. This sort of situation can be likened to Steven Moffat jokingly stating that Nardole has invisible hair - something which made it onto screen in Twice Upon a Time! At the end of the day RTD's statements about the canonicity of the poem can be put down to him caring about his character and wanting to clarify that she had a happy story in the end. His interview for Radio Times also backs this up, he also echoes the story about Phil Collinson: "Absolutely. She's my character, that's my episode. I say that's true."

- RTD, when explicitly asked about the canonicity of her fate