User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-28349479-20180405163637/@comment-26845762-20180407025142

The Time Ring Trilogy of Bernice Summerfield series 1 is I think about as far as one can get on the scale of Doctor Who adaptation faithfulness before reaching Human Nature (TV story). Unlike novelisations or the Novel Adaptations, the main character (Bernice Summerfield) is at a different point in her life in the adaptations than she is in the original stories, meaning that Birthright is currently covered twice on her page in two different places for its two different forms. Novelisations are quite far from that degree of seperation. The whole "same adventures happening twice without Bernice noticing at the time" thing is later acknowledged a couple times and then explained as being one of many anomalies resulting from Braxiatel messing around with Bernice's timeline.

Now, the overall plots and side-characters are fairly faithfully translated onto audio along with some of the dialogue, at least in regards to Birthright (I haven't yet had the pleasure of reading Walking to Babylon or Just War), so I think it's makes most sense to have the same page for characters that appear in the original and the Time Ring Trilogy adaptation (unlike what's happened with Joan Redfern). I just listened to Birthright while flipping through Birthright and updated Ch'tizz according to the "according to one account" method. The page looks just fine in my eyes and demonstrates that conflicting adaptation information can smoothly co-exist. I'd note though that there's probably much more switching between sources here than would happen on pages affected by a novelisation.

But this seems irrelevant. This isn't a thread about the validity of adaptations in general, but the novelisations, none of which alter the original stories to the same degree as the Time Ring Trilogy. Bernice Summerfield is fully valid, unlike this thread's subject. If there are serious grievances with the Time Ring Trilogy's validity, they probably belong on another thread so this one doesn't becomes more complicated than it needs to be.

BTW I'm fully in favour of complete validity for novelisations.