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:::Did Colin Baker narrate anything in a style approaching Tom Baker's? | :::Did Colin Baker narrate anything in a style approaching Tom Baker's? | ||
:::If we allow Ian's and the Fourth Doctor narration we'll need to be clear ''why'' those narrations are "valid" but not the third person narration of all the others. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] / '''[[User talk:Tangerineduel|talk]]''' 15:32, August 26, 2011 (UTC) | :::If we allow Ian's and the Fourth Doctor narration we'll need to be clear ''why'' those narrations are "valid" but not the third person narration of all the others. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] / '''[[User talk:Tangerineduel|talk]]''' 15:32, August 26, 2011 (UTC) | ||
::::Before their son was a rockstar, he was an aspiring rockstar. Which means he stopped taking money from his stuffy old man once he got a girlfriend to pay for everything (which, on the salary of a stewardess who seems to get fired a lot, couldn't have been easy). | |||
::::Anyway, I think there are two separate questions here. The question with Ian isn't whether it's meant to be in-universe, because it clearly is, but whether linking narration on a videotape is part of the canon. The question with Tom Baker isn't whether it's from a canonical source, because you can't get much more canonical than a broadcast episode, but whether it's in-universe. (Is it Tom Baker, or the 4th Doctor? If the latter, who exactly is he talking to, unless he's breaking the fourth wall, like the 1st Doctor's Christmas message?) There's an even bigger version of that problem in ''The End of Time''. (How would Rassilon know about the 'pagan rite to banish the cold and the dark' practiced by the humans of the west of the north, etc.? And who could he be talking to? And yet, isn't that what establishes that the episode starts off shortly before Christmas?) And then there's the linking narration in the videotape of ''Shada'', which (if I remember it right) has both problems at once. --[[Special:Contributions/173.228.85.35|173.228.85.35]] 03:36, August 27, 2011 (UTC) | |||
