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:: I will defer to consensus if it is felt that, ''taking the text of "TARDIS Tour" on its own terms'', the line still reads more like "the Doctor is making an offhand comment about Yaz but is giving the tour to someone else we don't know" more than "the Doctor is talking to Yaz, who must therefore be who she's giving the tour to". But IMO some sort of guess about authorial intent based on ''Meet the Fam''’s framing device should not, and indeed cannot, enter into it. -[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 02:09, November 3, 2020 (UTC) | :: I will defer to consensus if it is felt that, ''taking the text of "TARDIS Tour" on its own terms'', the line still reads more like "the Doctor is making an offhand comment about Yaz but is giving the tour to someone else we don't know" more than "the Doctor is talking to Yaz, who must therefore be who she's giving the tour to". But IMO some sort of guess about authorial intent based on ''Meet the Fam''’s framing device should not, and indeed cannot, enter into it. -[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 02:09, November 3, 2020 (UTC) | ||
::: As per ''Meet the Fam'', the ''entire'' book is intended to be written and made by the Doctor under the "invalid framework", including the ''TARDIS Tour'' and all its images and references. If the Doctor appears to be in the TARDIS in this story, it's because ''she wrote it that way''. Of course, since the framework is currently not valid, this may be a pointless exercise. I just wanted to point out that it is not speculation to link the book together, and that it could even be deemed speculative to assume that the stories are ''not'' linked by the framing narrative. | |||
::: On that note, could you quickly explain what makes the framing narrative invalid? I gather it's because the book appears to be addressing the audience, but that's speculation in itself. The book could just as easily be addressing any potential in-universe reader and is even framed that way. | |||
::: Anyway, basing my opinion entirely on ''TARDIS Tour'' as you have requested, I do still maintain its status as an "offhanded comment". The comment is something the Doctor could always say, regardless of whether or not Yaz were actually there, so I'd argue it's speculative in this case to to claim either to be true. [[User:Danochy|Danochy]] [[User talk:Danochy|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:21, November 3, 2020 (UTC) | |||