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In fact, it is truly the elephant in the room. It is messy. Undeniably so. It has Jimmy Savile inexplicably enter the TARDIS and then the episode just kinda melts into non-fiction where Savile gives Gareth a medal and a [[meson gun]]. Arguably, this isn't even a fourth wall break, as at no point does any character turn to the camera and say "you're watching ''A Fix with Sontarans''!", it's in-universe-ness fades, which is the issue. Six and Tegan don't really break character however, although they also don't really question the inexplicable appearance of Savile either. However, I think it should be said that all of this plausibly ''could'' take place in-universe? It would be very ''strange'', but not ''impossible''. | In fact, it is truly the elephant in the room. It is messy. Undeniably so. It has Jimmy Savile inexplicably enter the TARDIS and then the episode just kinda melts into non-fiction where Savile gives Gareth a medal and a [[meson gun]]. Arguably, this isn't even a fourth wall break, as at no point does any character turn to the camera and say "you're watching ''A Fix with Sontarans''!", it's in-universe-ness fades, which is the issue. Six and Tegan don't really break character however, although they also don't really question the inexplicable appearance of Savile either. However, I think it should be said that all of this plausibly ''could'' take place in-universe? It would be very ''strange'', but not ''impossible''. | ||
So what we're faced with is a very messy ending that dissolved from otherwise a pretty conventional minisode. It doesn't break [[T:VS]], so even by its own merits it should be valid. (And for the record, [[Jimmy Savile]] being in it is not a ''remotely'' justifiable reason for its invalidity. We're not gonna invalidate ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'' for having the [[Third Doctor]] being friends with [[Mao Tse-Tung]] or invalidate the entirety of [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]] and [[Series 2 (Doctor Who)|2]] because of [[John Barrowman]] and [[Noel Clarke]]!) It wouldn't even be impossible to just say "according to one account, the Sixth Doctor presented Gareth Jenkins with the ''[[Jim'll Fix It]]'' medal after [[Jimmy Savile (in-universe)|Jimmy Savile]] presented it to him to be placed on Gareth's bonce." | So what we're faced with is a very messy ending that dissolved from otherwise a pretty conventional minisode. It doesn't break [[T:VS]], so even by its own merits it should be valid. (And for the record, [[Jimmy Savile]] being in it is not a ''remotely'' justifiable reason for its invalidity. We're not gonna invalidate ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'' for having the [[Third Doctor]] being friends with [[Mao Tse-Tung]] or invalidate the entirety of [[Series 1 (Doctor Who 2005)|Series 1]] and [[Series 2 (Doctor Who)|2]] because of [[John Barrowman]] and [[Noel Clarke]]!) It wouldn't even be impossible to just say "according to one account, the Sixth Doctor presented Gareth Jenkins with the ''[[Jim'll Fix It]]'' medal after [[Jimmy Savile (in-universe)|Jimmy Savile]] presented it to him to be placed on Gareth's bonce." | ||
Furthermore, if this isn't good enough reason to validate ''A Fix with Sontarans'', then there is the rule-four-by-proxy angle to validate the minisode from. ''[[Fixing a Hole (short story)|Fixing a Hole]]'' was a short story printed in ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'': ''[[Past Tense]]'', which serves as a direct sequel to ''AFwS''. Heck, even the title of this story is pun about fixing ''A Fix with Sontarans''{{'}}s plot holes; quite ingenius if I say so myself. In this short story — which is mostly a character piece — it follows Tegan and Six after Gareth has been returned to Earth. Interestingly, unlike other cases of stories like ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'' bringing more infamous stories like ''[[Dimensions in Time (TV story)|Dimensions in Time]]'' "into continuity" by recontexualising the latter's events (e.g. "it was all a dream"), ''Fixing a Hole'' just seems to... ignore the ending of ''A Fix with Sontarans''. No mention of Savile or ''Jim'll Fix It'' is ever made, which is contrasted by the rest of ''AFwS'' being recapped. Is this enough evidence for rule-four-by-proxy? I'd say so, even if it doesn't provide a satisfying way for us to Wikify the ending of ''AFwS'', which is something I don't believe is necessary for the rule-four-by-proxy approach. | Furthermore, if this isn't good enough reason to validate ''A Fix with Sontarans'', then there is the rule-four-by-proxy angle to validate the minisode from. ''[[Fixing a Hole (short story)|Fixing a Hole]]'' was a short story printed in ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'': ''[[Past Tense]]'', which serves as a direct sequel to ''AFwS''. Heck, even the title of this story is pun about fixing ''A Fix with Sontarans''{{'}}s plot holes; quite ingenius if I say so myself. In this short story — which is mostly a character piece — it follows Tegan and Six after Gareth has been returned to Earth. Interestingly, unlike other cases of stories like ''[[First Frontier (novel)|First Frontier]]'' bringing more infamous stories like ''[[Dimensions in Time (TV story)|Dimensions in Time]]'' "into continuity" by recontexualising the latter's events (e.g. "it was all a dream"), ''Fixing a Hole'' just seems to... ignore the ending of ''A Fix with Sontarans''. No mention of Savile or ''Jim'll Fix It'' is ever made, which is contrasted by the rest of ''AFwS'' being recapped. Is this enough evidence for rule-four-by-proxy? I'd say so, even if it doesn't provide a satisfying way for us to Wikify the ending of ''AFwS'', which is something I don't believe is necessary for the rule-four-by-proxy approach. |