Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190917111635/@comment-28349479-20190918125956

Chipping in my brief support for this policy change. It's pretty clear that the original reasons for not including trailers simply don't apply to this new wave of narrative teasers, which (as Scrooge pointed out) are much more analogous to the TV prequels we enjoyed for many years.

In my eyes, putting the rules aside for a moment, the only possible reason someone might think Ace Returns! can't be covered as a narrative is the fact that around the 2:09 mark it transitions into third-wall-breaking information addressed to us in the real world. But we already cover The Name of the Doctor, with its third-wall-breaking text-on-screen at the end. (One could argue that text makes Name of the Doctor one long trailer for The Day of the Doctor. But I won't do that lol) So one way or another, there's precedent for ignoring such information and accepting the narrative as valid.

Looking back at Thread:224324 and Thread:255994 -- and I know not to make any judgments about consensus, so that's not what I'm doing -- not a single person was actually against the validity of  Volume Two trailer and Ace Returns!. But both were closed in the negative because of the broad wording of T:VS. So cheers for making this thread, and -- while this isn't me calling for rapid closure or anything like that -- I (personally) hope to see it resolved quickly.