User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-4028641-20170306172600/@comment-86.164.12.223-20190528123601

Imamadmad, I’ve read Storm in a Tikka. It was pretty good. But my subjective opinion of it is irrelevant. What matters is, despite reading it before seeing either Dimensions or Space (I’ve sen them now), I still understood and enjoyed it. Somebody lucky enough to have no clue that either exist could enjoy it! It is a very loose sequel, but what is more crucial is that it is a sequel at all. Not a ‘part two’ a sequel. With a beginning, middle and end. In other words, a story. Following on as it does from a story that nearly resolved itself, it’s not like it has to ‘finish the story’. I haven’t read the other stories discussed here, so I can’t comment on them, but Storm in Tikki is a loose sequel, and furthermore I would argue t that it wouldn’t matter even if it were a direct sequel (which it isn’t) or even if it relied on the plot of Dimensions for its own to make sense (which it doesn’t), because more importantly, it tells a story that has a beginning, middle, and an end, and thus is is standalone as far as we’re concerned. Unless we want to make The Gallifrey Chronicles/Vampire Science/The Sirens of Time/All-Consuming Fire/etc. invalid also?