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:::: Seconded. [[User:BananaClownMan|BananaClownMan]] [[User talk:BananaClownMan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:29, November 3, 2020 (UTC) | :::: Seconded. [[User:BananaClownMan|BananaClownMan]] [[User talk:BananaClownMan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:29, November 3, 2020 (UTC) | ||
::::: To answer [[User:Danochy]]'s question, the reason the "framing narrative", as encompassing the whole book, is invalid, is that per the precedent of [[Thread:213311]], if we called the framing device valid, we'd have to count all the fram''ed'' story as being part of it, and probably dub the whole thing a "(novel)". We can't simply cut apart the little tidbits of framing narration to suit ourselves. | |||
::::: And if we did that, we'd have to acknowledge the technically-"CYOA" stories, like ''[[Colour Chameleon (game)|Colour Chameleon]]'', as part of that narrative. These things cannot be valid under the current policy, therefore "[[The Official Annual 2021 (novel)]]" would be invalid on arrival too. | |||
::::: So all in all, it's much more simple to write off the bits-and-bobs of "framing narration" running through the book in the same way we make light of the introductory panels of ''[[Tales from the TARDIS (comic series)|Tales from the TARDIS]]'' (or, if you will, of the "in-character" [[Introduction to the Night (TV story)|linking material]] of the 1999 ''Doctor Who Nigh''), and treat the individual items of the Table of Contents as individual stories. | |||
::::: That is, anyway, clearly how they were ''written'', at least to a point. There ''can'' be a meta-narrative that ''[[Zellin's Nightmare World (game)|Zellin's Nightmare World]]'' or ''[[The Doctor vs the Master (short story)|The Doctor vs the Master]]'' are just fiction the Doctor wrote, but that's not how they read when you consider them individually at all, any more than the ''Doctor Who Night'' was sincerely asking its viewers to watch [[Doctor Who (TV story)|the TV Movie]] with the understanding that it's a piece of media [[The Doctor (Introduction to the Night)|the Doctor]] owns, rather than actual events in N-Space. Indeed, the games are no fun at all if you're not allowed to pretend, on some level, that "you" are ''indeed'' fighting Zellin. --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:33, November 3, 2020 (UTC) | |||