User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-6032121-20181230112657/@comment-24894325-20181230152245

Some procedural things. No, pre-seasonal teasers/trailers do not need their individual pages. Their proper place is on the season's page, where they are given in context and easier to find.

Yes, there should be a page for the Twelfth Doctor yule's log or maybe, better still, one page for all yule logs, just like Adventure Calendar is sufficient for multiple years of another seasonal promotional trick by BBC.

It is true that validity of one story does not generally impact validity of another. However, we have encountered cases of editorial overreach before. It was well-intentioned, sure. But at some point pages were created for each individual minion that appeared in some clearly invalid story. I would prefer to avoid going down similar rabbit holes in the future.

As for continuity problems, sure, there were bona fide TV stories that made no sense, and we have to live with that. But they at least tried. I see no indication that this was the case here. While discontinuity R Us, there is no reason to bring in utter nonsense. And this looks like one. Delightful and heartwarming but still nonsense. And we should never establish major changes to the DW lore based on secondary suspect sources. When was the last time the Doctor had a house on Gallifrey? When was a single time the Thirteenth Doctor had her own room? Long time ago and never, to the best of my knowledge. Did the Thirteenth Doctor visit Gallifrey after its reemergence? No, to the best of my knowledge. If this is on Gallifrey, why are there Arachinds from the UK crawling on its windows? Why Pting appears but does not eat anything? It does not make sense. More importantly, it does not try to make sense.

As for the original intentions, I believe the name is indicative enough. Yule Log (TV program) defines a yule log TV program as "is a film loop of a yule log burning in a fireplace, with a traditional soundtrack of classic Christmas music playing in the background". The film loop is present, based on the description above. Fireplace too. It is a yule log video, not a Christmas story.