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::: Whereas, again, ''Ian Memoriam''… simply isn't a single story. It might be a single… literary work… but there is no sense in which you can write a summary that accounts for both segments without giving the mistaken impression that they exist in the same universe. Even "in another universe" would be misleading, implying that Harry exists in a parallel universe relative to Ian Chesterton, as opposed to in a completely incompatible diegetic framework altogether. You can't mention them in the same fiction-describing sentence without giving readers the wrong idea! That's my issue! --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:33, 19 July 2024 (UTC) | ::: Whereas, again, ''Ian Memoriam''… simply isn't a single story. It might be a single… literary work… but there is no sense in which you can write a summary that accounts for both segments without giving the mistaken impression that they exist in the same universe. Even "in another universe" would be misleading, implying that Harry exists in a parallel universe relative to Ian Chesterton, as opposed to in a completely incompatible diegetic framework altogether. You can't mention them in the same fiction-describing sentence without giving readers the wrong idea! That's my issue! --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:33, 19 July 2024 (UTC) | ||
:::: You are failing to see the bigger picture. Yes, {{cs|Loose Ends 5: Ian Memoriam (short story)}} is an outlier due to its overall theme being an out-of-universe one. But the previous four instalments ''do'' meet the criteria you outline! Instead of changing the coverage of the ''entire series'' to accommodate a single edge-case, why don't we just, y'know, ''treat the edge case as an edge case instead of treating it as a representative of the entire series''? | |||
:::: (But for the record, I don't consider the OOU commonality to be enough of an outlier to change my stance that it is enough of a shared element to befit the overall series.) {{User:Epsilon the Eternal/signature}} 22:56, 19 July 2024 (UTC) | |||
