Talk:60th Anniversary Idents
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I'm not sure these idents should be valid. They seem a bit too metafictional, and not in a "metafictional but still plausibly in-universe way" like other idents and short scenes. Fourteen uses his sonic screwdriver to conjure up the broadcast date of The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"], for example.
14:01, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
- Oh and this page should have a dab term. 14:01, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
- Or should it? If they each have their own title (…what's the source for these), it strikes me that this should just be a series of page and each of the two idents should have its own page. Handily this demonstrates that the Sonic Ident is completely fourth-wall-breaky and a non-starter for validity, while Impossible seems kosher to me. Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 19:47, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
- I did a quick Google search for the titles and I've found nothing. 21:21, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
- Hi, I'm the one who made the page originally - apologies if it's not quite up to snuff, it's my first one! I included them both in the same page, rather than two seperate ones as they're part of the same campaign - similar to the 2009 Xmas idents - and though you could argue that the Sonic one isn't valid, I consider them both to be so, as they both take place in the same location. The titles aren't official, I made them up for ease of communication. If any of this isn't the correct procedure, please correct, I'm still understanding the rules and policies. User:CompletingWho 09:00, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
- Could they not get their own pages regardless, as "Untitled 1 (60th Anniversary TV story)" and "Untitled 2 (60th Anniversary TV story)", or something similar? Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 22:02, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- But the current titles have been made up. 23:59, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- Also I am not sold on their invalidity. The first references the real world broadcast date, and the second has the Doctor talk about Donna coming back, which makes no sense in-universe as she didn't return, but makes sense from an OOU perspective, as Donna returned to our screens. Some idents do seem to portray in-universe events, but these just seem to promote the 60th Anniversary Specials. 22:07, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
