Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-2.26.183.189-20170416191252/@comment-4028641-20170424133107

Back in the days of cliff-hangers at the BBC Television Centre, there were plenty of examples of pre-credits sequences that didn't match up to their respective recaps and that sort of thing.

Essentially, one shot from FftF was re-done for The Pilot. It's the shot of the Doctor and Bill running and turning after a Dalek blast lands in front of them. Certainly it's brief second of discontinuity, but that in no way invalidates the existence of the story.

Moffat's executive intent was that fans would be able to "sleep" knowing where the one story was meant to fit inside the other. That's the basic definition of the authorial intent to have something set inside the Doctor Who Universe. You can't sweep all of that under the rug simply on the basis of a discrepancy between the end of a corridor.

Danniesen wrote: Alone that fact that specific shots are both in FftF and The Pilot should be a pointer towards that the scene was re-made for the episode, making it clear that FftF is not in itself a scene in The Pilot, but the events were re-made for The Pilot, which makes FftF invalid and not ITSELF a part of the story.

But before you suggested that The Pilot recreated FftF. You can't recreate something and use footage from it as if it happened. And sure, it's not perfect, but that's no reason to call it invalid.

Again, by that logic, Time Crash is a recreation of Last of the Time Lords. Time Crash, in fact, doesn't fit with LotTL, was not meant to be in LotTL, and it has continuity errors.