User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190917111635/@comment-6032121-20190917153808

I'm not quite sure… I've seen people argue to keep Dr Who and the Turgids invalid with the reasoning that even if it looks like a DWU story, the characters' behavior isn't "honestly" depicted because commercial concerns now prime over the concerns of telling a proper Doctor Who stories.

It goes without saying that I am unconvinced by this argument. Outside of passion projects like Faction Paradox, writers are almost never at liberty to just write the events they honestly think would take place in the Doctor Who universe, free of commercial concerns. Making a series (or book, or audio drama, or video game, etc.) that will sell, and not only sell for its own sake, but do well by the Doctor Who brand with which it has been entrusted, is always going to be a prime concern on writers' minds.

And heck, if stories written the way they were so that toy replicas of the things in them can then be sold should be ruled invalid… then goodbye Victory of the Daleks, by all accounts.

But refute it though I might, it is definitely a very real opposition to be reckoned with in this thread; there is genuine disagreement here, not just a policy not written to take narrative trailers into account. (Though there is that too.)