User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-95.145.155.227-20171125234745/@comment-31010985-20171213191225
I agree with Nate in the respect that some stories should be valid and some shouldn't. This is because there are several different formats. The ones I could find just flicking through were:
- Non-poem, narrative short stories (e.g. Beforwards and Afterwords)
- Poems which acknowledge invald elements (e.g. Next Episode and Verity)
- Poems told from a first-person perspective, usually by The Doctor or The Master (e.g. Full Stop and The Master's Beard)
- Clearly narrative poems (e.g. The Death List and The Red and the Blue)
- Poems with no or a dodgy narrative (e.g. Ode to a Krynoid)
It is my belief that the short stories and the narrative poems should be considered valid as they clearly tell a story so are narrative. It is also my opinion that stories told from a first-person perspective also be given validity because it portrays one's thoughts (and one's thoughts are rarely narrative) but I have been unable to find a precedent for such an occasion as this.
Obviously the poems that reference real word things like Verity Lambert or cliffhangers should be considered invalid. Each poem with a dodgy narrative should be discussed individually to decide whether each has a suitable level of narrative.
It should also be added that Russell T Davies has stated that at least Harriet Jones, PM is canon. In fact the full quote is "It's a BBC Book that makes it canonical. She is alive." Although I am perfectly aware that this wiki has no canon what it does show he intends that these events did happen. He also states that producer Phil Collinson said on set that Harriet wasn't really dead and T Davies illustrated what he had said in the poem.
