Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26845762-20160928013021/@comment-26845762-20160928174545

I agree with almost everything that you are saying and that is exactly why I don't think Iris Wildthyme works on a single page. In my eyes, multiple positions does not equal multiple incarnations. If there were separate pages for each of Iris' faces we wouldn't have to focus on where they are in the timeline, instead we could focus on who they are and what they did. Individual pages for each of Iris' faces would eliminate the need to put them in a chronological order.

And so what if Iris and Panda die in The Shadow of Times Before, it's still features the Katy Manning Iris. What's the difference between including this information on a page for all of Iris versus on a page just for one specific Iris?


 * Also, it seems to me that before she got her own series the Katy Manning Iris was intended to be the Verdigris Iris. In Excelis Rises, she mentions that the last time she met the Doctor was on Marlion with Jenny Winterleaf, an event which is also in her past in Verdigris. Wildthyme on Top is clearly set around the time of Verdigris with the Iris in it described similarly. I feel that although the Manning Iris has since been explicitly stated to be a separate incarnation, it doesn't really affect Wildthyme on Top because nothing in the stories implies that they feature the Manning Iris and The Golden Dodecahedron states that all of Tom's pre-audio adventures took place with the Beryl Reid Iris.