Talk:Arthur Candy
Same person?
Infobox suggests that Oh No It Isn't! (novel)/Oh No It Isn't! (audio story) and Let's Kill Hitler are the same person. Given Oh No It Isn't takes place in the 26th century and the epilogue of Let's Kill Hitler takes place in the 51st it's unlikely, though not impossible. However as there's no proof either way I'm disambiguating them. --Tangerineduel / talk 11:45, February 2, 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry, my mistake, should have read the Behind the scenes section more closely. There is enough information to suggest they're the same. --Tangerineduel / talk 11:53, February 2, 2012 (UTC)
- Well, it does need to be disambiguated, because otherwise candy lights up in blue, and people will accidentally link to it, just like they've been doing with bishop, until I moved it to Bishop (The Idiot's Lantern). I don't particularly buy that this is the same guy as in Continuity Errors or Oh No It Isn't, largely because the name doesn't actually appear in the narrative of Let's Kill Hitler. This is a credits-only thing, so any connection between the two is totally out-of-universe. Basically, people are saying, "Moffat wrote both stories, so therefore he intended a connection." Maybe he did; maybe he didn't. Either way, it's a non-narrative connection. If there was even the guy's name on a door in Let's Kill Hitler, I'd feel differently. But it's not.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 05:03: Fri 03 Feb 2012- Plus, Continuity Errors takes place in 2643 and Let's Kill Hitler's end is in 5123. So unless Prof. Candy lives an exceptionally long life or travelled through time... AilaG talk to me 08:19, April 22, 2012 (UTC)
- Well, it does need to be disambiguated, because otherwise candy lights up in blue, and people will accidentally link to it, just like they've been doing with bishop, until I moved it to Bishop (The Idiot's Lantern). I don't particularly buy that this is the same guy as in Continuity Errors or Oh No It Isn't, largely because the name doesn't actually appear in the narrative of Let's Kill Hitler. This is a credits-only thing, so any connection between the two is totally out-of-universe. Basically, people are saying, "Moffat wrote both stories, so therefore he intended a connection." Maybe he did; maybe he didn't. Either way, it's a non-narrative connection. If there was even the guy's name on a door in Let's Kill Hitler, I'd feel differently. But it's not.
Professor Arthur Candy
Professor Candy in "Let's Kill Hitler" is not named Arthur. Arthur Candy is the book character. Artrem Candy is what Moffat gives as his name in "The Eternity Clock", so they are two different people. You may want to change the title to just Professor Candy & note that there was an Arthur Candy in a novel, but Moffat then changed who he was as revealed in TEC. 50.78.57.153talk to me 16:48, October 9, 2013 (UTC) Erin
Afterword by Professor Candy
This article cites a prose story "Afterword by Professor Candy" but there is no link to an article. Googling brings up no other hits whatsoever. Is this a legitimate citation, or ought it to be deleted?86.178.205.84talk to me 16:18, November 15, 2013 (UTC)
